This update features a new and improved Help Center. Help is now context sensitive -- when you click the link for help, it opens at an article that describes the Breeze page you are currently using. We can also link one Help article to another and place videos on help pages. (In the coming weeks, you will find more links and more videos in the Help Center.)
Management fees can now be set up on the Property screen, allowing you to set different percentages at different properties. Also, the Summary Charge and Summary Receipt features now have new, more descriptive names: Batch Charge and Batch Receipt.
We have added a function that allows you to change the Post Month on transactions, and a default email message that is sent along with the Tenant Statement or Invoice. There is also a new function that allows you to send text messages to tenants; for example, you could alert all the tenants at a property about upcoming maintenance.
On the Property screen, we now show the date of the last monthly posting. If you need to rerun the monthly posting, you can set the date back a month and run the function again. For online payment processing, we have added a Dashboard that shows any problems that occurred.
And, based on feedback from clients, you now have the option of applying prepayments manually to charges. Previously, they were applied automatically, and there was no way to opt out.
For more information about these features, see the following Help Center articles:
How do I set up management fees?
How do I create multiple charges at the same time?
How do I enter multiple receipts at the same time?
How do I change the post month on transactions?
How do I customize the email message that is sent with tenant statements?
How do I send text messages to tenants and prospects?
How do I post monthly charges to tenants?
What is the Payment Dashboard?
How do I apply prepayments manually?
In this release, we have addressed the following bugs:
When a tenant is deleted, the unit’s status is now changed to Vacant.
Prorated rent is now charged for the last day of the month and for the move-in day.
The payable created by the Pay Management Fees function now uses the primary bank account.
Under development and coming soon:
The ability to exclude a unit or mark it as Ready.
We mention this feature here in case you come across it in the application.
Finally, questions about rent amounts shown on RENTCafé are answered here.