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.

Version 10.1 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?

- A Google Maps button has been added to all addresses in RentMaster.  This will automatically show the address on an online map.

- A new report called the Future Rent Changes report has been created.

- Owner attachments now automatically include generated mail merge letters.

- Item associations is now available for inclusion in the toolbar

- Transaction import rules are now sortable on all columns for easily finding previous rules.

- For the owner profit and loss report, if a single owner is selected, the owners name is printed at the top.

- The owner transaction summary report now wraps the automatic fees transactions if the description is too long to fit in the space provided

The existing Owner Profit and Loss report is a version of the Profit and Loss report designed from the owners perspective.  Therefore management fees are shown as an expense.  This report is suitable to giving to owners.

In the next version, if the report is printed for a specific owner, the owners name is printed at the top of the report in a caption which says something like 'Prepared For Joe Bloggs'

In the new version 10.1 of RentMaster, there is going to be a new report called the Future Rent Changes report.

This report will list the contents of the Rent Changes, as found on the tenant details screen for all changes in the future.

Google has created a great mapping facility (http://maps.google.com)

In the next version 10.1 of RentMaster, we are going to take advantage of this free service.  A new map button will be added to each address, which when clicked, will open a new browser window where you can view the map of the specified address online.  This applies to both owner addresses, the property address, the tenants forwarding address and the 2 contractors addresses.

Extra fees can be automatically generated as a result of creating an expense, whose expense group has a fee percentage or fee value set against it.

When these fees are printed on the owner transaction summary report, they include the expense group code and the property code as part of the description.  If the property code and/or expense group has a long code, and if tax is also printed on the statement, the amount of room on the report is sometimes not enough and the descriptions overlap each other.  From version 10.1 the description will now wrap onto the next line below if there is not enough space.