Coming in v8.7 - Rent status screen refresh

Posted on February 21, 2009

The rent status screen shows the rent arrears balance for tenants.

Some people tend to leave this window open while they are entering transactions.  But to update the balance they had to close the window and reopen it again.  But now this has been made a while lot easier in a number of ways.

1. When transactions are entered either manually, via a statement import or automatic income transactions, this screen will now automatically refresh itself if it is open in the background.

2. A refresh button has also been added in case you want to manually refresh it, although there should be little need for this.

3. The events screen also has a arrears tab which is very similar to the rent status screen.  This tab will also automatically refresh itself if the screen is open on that tab during data entry.  The events screen can be refreshed manually by changing tabs.

Note - if the rent status screen has more than 100 tenants on it, the automatic refresh will not happen.  This is because it could be detrimental to the speed of data entry if it has to refresh a large number of tenants.  The manual refresh button will still work though.