Version 11.5 has arrived

Posted on February 15, 2015
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

 

What's New?

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- The expenses report, when printed to a CSV file, is now better formatted.

- When deleting a statement import rule, the list retains its previous sort order.

- Bulk disbursements have been made faster.

Version 11.3 has arrived

Posted on July 5, 2014
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

 

What's New?

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- You can now print reports directly to PDF files (excludes custom reports).

- You can now email reports as PDF files. These files are attached to the email (excludes custom reports).

- When applying import rules, transactions which are already completed or no longer in the red colour will not have the rules applied to those transactions.

- When generating owner based mail merge letters you can now choose to search by property to find the associated owner.

- For owner statements, the option to select a single owner by a combo box is available.

Version 11.2 has arrived

Posted on March 6, 2014
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

 

What's New?

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- You can now mark a bank account as closed.  Closed bank accounts will not be visible in the cashbook screen, however none of the transactions will be deleted.  The account can be un-closed if required.

- Disbursed extra fees have been restricted so they can not be deleted or have their owner changed or their value changed, in order to retain the integrity of the related disbursement.

- The transactions by category report now has an option to group by property.

 

Version 11.1 has arrived

Posted on December 3, 2013
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

 

What's New?

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- A new Tax Invoice 2 report has been created. This new invoice prints the next rent periods rent amount and extra charges (if automatic extra charges have been set up).

- A new Tax Details setting on the company details screen has been created. This should contain a caption something like 'GST Number : 123-456-789' or whatever is relevant in your country.

- Optionally, the Tax Details (mentioned above) can be printed on the top of all invoices and statements.

- Unique invoice and statement numbers are now printed on the top of relevant statement and invoice type reports.

- In the mail merge facility, when generating letters, you can now search for a person by entering part of their name into the new search box.

- The owner transaction summary report now has the option to print the report for all owners, one owner, or a selection of owners.

- When changing a tenants default inspector, any future inspections are also moved to the new inspector.

- The format of reports printed to HTML email has been improved.

- Very large screen resolutions were causing errors to occur. This has been fixed.

Version 11 has arrived

Posted on September 26, 2013
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

 

What's New?

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- You can now send emails from RentMaster without needing to use Outlook with the new SMTP settings found on the Options screen.

- The date range filtering found on the reports and cashbook screen has been extended with the addition of 'Last 12 months'.

- The booking calendar is now sizable to allow up to 3 months of booking to be shown on the screen at one time.

Coming in v11 - Wider booking calendar screen

Posted on September 21, 2013

The booking calendar screen previously showed by default one month at a time.  From version 11 you will be able to resize the window to show up to 3 months at a time instead.

Coming in v11 - Send emails without outlook

Posted on September 21, 2013

RentMaster has had the ability to send emails using outlook for quite a while.  From version 11, for people who dont have outlook, you can now send emails directly to your SMTP email server.

This means the email will be sent automatically without any user interface being shown.  

A default email address is required so that if the receipient does not have an email address, the email will be sent back to you instead so you are aware of the email not being sent.

Version 10.8 has arrived.

Posted on April 2, 2013

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

 

What's New?

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- You can now reprint a receipt from the income entry screen.

- You can now create extra charges in bulk on the extra charges list screen.

- In mail merge, you can now insert a date a specified number of days/weeks/months in advance of the print date e.g. print date + 14 days.

- For people who use pay Watercare water bills in New Zealand, a new special watercare screen has been created for quick extra charge creation.

- The rent status screen can be filtered by inspector.

- Mail merge generated attachments can now be edited and saved from the attachment screen.

- If a tenant has overpaid their account, the NZT41 Rent Summary report now has a small caption to indicate overpayment to avoid confusion.

- In mail merge, a new field for Next Period Start Date has been created.

- When adding a new room to inspections, you now have to option to include or exclude that room from all properties.

Coming in v10.8 - Reprint Receipts

Posted on March 10, 2013

On the income entry screen you can specify that you want to print a receipt at the time of creating the transaction.

In the coming version, you will also be able to print the receipt after the transaction is complete.  On the income entry screen the Print Receipt checkbox will be replaced with a Reprint Receipt button.

Note that on a reprint, the 'Current Balance', 'Paid To Date', and 'Previous Paid To Date' fields will all print as blank.  So if you use any of those fields on your receipt, you should always try to print them the first time instead of going back to a reprint.  The reason is because we do not record those values at the time of the original transaction, so there is no way of accurately reprinting it maybe 6 months later.

Coming in v10.8 - Watercare Bills

Posted on March 7, 2013

This only applies to people who receive bills from Watercare in New Zealand.  This feature can be turned on and off from the maintenance menu by choosing Options/Features.

The new watercare bills menu option opens up a small window which is designed to quickly create extra charges against tenants.

The window is designed to be used with a barcode scanner.  You can scan the barcode on the water bill, and this will extract the watercare account number.  You then associate that with a property, and also get to select the tenant.  The scanned barcode also contains the total bill amount.  All you then need to do is enter the fixed charge amount (the amount not charged to the tenant) and the variable amount is then created as an extra charge.  When you scan another bill from the same address, the property will already be seleted for you because RentMaster will remember the account number/property association from the last time.