Version 10.4 has arrived.

You can download this update by going to the help menu inside RentMaster and choose Download RentMaster Update. If you have any problems downloading the update automatically, you can also download it manually from http://www.rentmaster.co.nz/update.aspx

Whats New?

- There is now an option to print photos on the bottom of the inspection result report.

- The 'Link To' button on the owner details screen now links to work orders for just that owner.

- The work orders list screen now has the option to filter by owner.

- A new report called the Rent Roll report has been added. This is a simple report listing tenants and their current rent and balance.

- The Last Disbursement report now has a 'From Date' selection, so you can exclude owners whose last disbursement is prior to the date specified.

- On the report screen, where you can select a predefined date range, you can now choose to print a date range which is just Today.

- On the item association screen, you can now choose to exclude closed tenants and owners.

- The budget print report now excludes items which are zero actual and zero budget.

- If the bank reconciliation report is printed, and a single owner is selected, that owners name is printed at the top of the report.

- When doing a bulk disbursement, any owner with a zero value disbursement is now included, as long as the income or expenses or fees are not zero. Negative disbursements or an owner with no activity are still excluded.

Version 10.3 has arrived.

You can download this update by going to the help menu inside RentMaster and choose Download RentMaster Update. If you have any problems downloading the update automatically, you can also download it manually from http://www.rentmaster.co.nz/update.aspx

Whats New?

- You can now attach multiple files at once on the attachment screen.  Optionally these files can also be copied to a central server location.  This means you may be able to copy files off a camera and into RentMaster with one action.

- Attachments can now be added to work orders.

- A new Transaction List report has been created.  This is the same format as pressing the Print button on the cashbook screen.

- On the tenant and property details screen, if you click the Link To button, you can now link to a list of inspections associated with that property or tenant.

- If you delete a rule from the statement rules screen, the cursor no longer jumps up to the top again.

- The rules window resize is now remembered when it is opened again.

- When an import rule was edited, and the notes or payee was changed, a new rules was being created.  This will no longer happen.

In the next version 10.3 of RentMaster, from both the Property and Tenant screens, the Link To button will have a new option called Inspections.  

This menu will open a list of all inspections related to that tenant or property.  From there you can edit or delete the inspection, just as if you were on the inspection schedule screen.  This creates a short cut to finding previous or next inspections.

In the next version 10.3 of RentMaster, a new report has been created called the Transaction List report. 

This report is exactly the same as the one created by pressing the Print button on the cashbook screen.  The difference is this one is not printed for a single bank account.  This report will allow you to specify a date range, and all transactions across all bank accounts will be printed.

A series of small changes have been added to the next release.

- If a rule is deleted from the import rules screen, the cursor will attempt to remain on the same row it was on instead of moving back up to the top.

- If the import rules window is resized, it will now remember that size when it is reopened again.

- When editing a rule, if you change the payee of notes, it would create a new rule instead of changing the old one.  This has been fixed.

- On the budget print report, the budget name is not printed in the report title.

Currently attachment files are added to RentMaster one at a time.

With version 10.3 of RentMaster, you will be able to select multiple files from any location, and attach them all at once.  You could select a range of files from your camera if you camera is attached.

Prior to importing the files, you can enter a description of what each file is.  To assist with this, selecting one of the files will shows its picture on the screen, or you can open the file if it is a Word Document or a PDF file etc.

There is also the option of automatically copying the files to another folder prior to attaching it to the tenant or property.  This is useful if you want to select multiple files on your camera, and have them copied to the local computer or a network server so the files can still be referenced after the camera has been disconnected.  This is a task you would probably already perform manually when attaching files one at a time using the old system.

In the coming version 10.3 of RentMaster, you will be able to attach files to work orders, just like you can attach files to tenants and properties etc.

Version 10.2 has arrived.

You can download this update by going to the help menu inside RentMaster and choose Download RentMaster Update. If you have any problems downloading the update automatically, you can also download it manually from http://www.rentmaster.co.nz/update.aspx

Whats New?

- Tenants can now make inline rent payments via credit card throught the RentRecall.com web site.

- When importing bank statements, you can now choose to hide items which don't need attention.

- The import rules screen is now sizable so you can make it bigger to display more information.

- Custom fields can now have their display sort order changed.

- Description values have been added to the Automatic Extra Fees and Automatic Extra Charges screens.

- The rent status report sometimes displayed an incorrect last paid date and amount.

- Future rent changes are removed from the Future Rent Changes report for closed tenants.

- The inspection checklist report now handles larger attribute names.

Custom fields allows you to add extra information to a tenant, property, owner or contractor.  This comes in the form or a list of additional fields added to the respective details screens.

In the coming version 10.2 of RentMaster, you will be able to sort these fields, so the most important ones can come to the top.

The owner transaction summary report prints the tenants name and payment details at the top of the report.  If tenants are created with very long names, the payment details or part of the name may get truncated.

In version 10.2, the name and payment details will wrap into the following line if required.

Online rent payments allows tenants to pay their rent using a credit card online.  More and more tenants are asking for this option as a fast and convenient way of paying their rent.  Which is also good for the property manager or landlord.

This is available now to all RentRecall.com web site subscribers.  

The payment processing will all be handled by paypal.com.  At no point do you get to see the tenant's credit card details.  After the payment is made, an email will be sent to you with the details of the payment.  The tenant gets to see their current balance due, and can choose how much to pay, prior to the transaction taking place.

To enable this feature, which is disabled by default, you need to log into the managers login at rentrecall.com, and choose the Setup option in the top right corner.  You need to have already set up a paypal.com account to receive payments.  Enter you paypal.com account email address.  You can also optionally choose to charge the tenant a credit card fee, which can be a percentage of the amount paid, or a fixed amount, or both.  Paypal.com will charge you a fee for their service, so this enabled you to cover some or all of those costs.

In version 10.2, the inspection checklist report will allow much longer attribute names to be printed.  Currently when they are printed if they are long they will overwrite the condition values.  Now it will wrap it onto the next line down.

RentMaster has the ability to import your bank statement.  Bank statements can sometimes contain a very large number of transactions, especially if you dont import it very often.

In the coming version 10.2, you will have the ability to hide transactions on the import screen which are complete and do not require any further attention.  This will filter the list down to just those ones which need fixing prior to importing.  You will also have the option to show all, which will unhide them again.

A range of small changes are coming to the next release

- When importing bank statements, the rules screen is now fully sizable so the grid at the bottom of the rules screen can be made bigger.

- The Automatic Extra Fees and Automatic Extra Charges list screens both now include the descrption.

- On the Future Rent Changes report, any tenant who is closed is excluded automatically.

- When editing a transaction in the cashbook, the first control to have focus has been changes to the amount field.  This is to avoid people inadvertently opening the screen and then using the scroll wheel on their mouse and changing the property.  This does not affect new transactions.

- On the owner list report, if the data is too long to fit in the field, then instead of overlapping other information, it will be truncated.