What's New

New features & improvements in Buldium's Property Manager Edition

May 10th, 2008

  • Filter your activity log by activity type
  • See when rental owners and other users last logged in
  • Create your own categories for vendors, documents, tasks and more
  • Create recurring payments or credits for tenants and homeowners
  • New unpaid bills report available to rental owners from your owner portal
  • Edit paid bills or checks recorded to pay those bills
  • Add vendors more quickly when entering bills or checks
  • New late fee settings
    • Charge a one-time or daily fee as a percentage of outstanding charges
    • Charge a one-time late fee as a percentage of recurring charges
    • Charge a late fee on outstanding charges for specific accounts
    • Charge a late fee if the balance is more than a specified amount
    • Set a maximum late fee amount charged per month
    • And more

March 5th, 2008

  • Give users read-only access to your data to prevent them from making changes
  • Create recurring checks or bills to avoid having to enter them each month
  • Produce a printer-friendly version of your online rental application
  • Add a custom message to your owner statements to personalize them
  • Generate consolidated trial balance, balance sheet and general ledger reports for owners with multiple properties
  • Queue refund checks for printing directly from the Issue Refund screen
  • Add vendors more quickly when entering bills or checks
  • Organize vendors using vendor categories
  • Associate documents with your vendor records

December 24th, 2007

  • Use the new Activity Log to view all the changes made to financial records and by whom
  • Manage commercial properties including industrial, office, retail, storage facilities and more
  • Allow prospects to search rental listings by rent, size, location, and property type
  • Upload attachments to payment records
  • Run the Budget vs Actuals report for the year, month or quarter
  • Attach notes and documents to properties, units, leases, tenants, homeowners, rental owners and vendors
  • Share documents with tenants, homeowners, rental owners and vendors

October 15th, 2007

  • Save reports as CSV files, Excel or PDFs
  • Use your own email address when sending system generated emails
  • Search bills by reference number or filter by due date
  • View a list of recorded checks with the new check detail transaction report
  • View transactions by account via the new transaction detail by account report
  • Enter multiple notes for properties, units, rental owners, tenants and homeowners
  • Generate mailings using a library of standard form letters or create your own
  • Print mail merge documents yourself or mail them using our EZ MailerTM service
  • Compare year to date figures with the current period on all income statement reports

September 18th, 2007

  • Specify how many days in advance to automatically post recurring ledger charges
  • Print receipts when recording tenant and association owner payments
  • Delete discussion topics and posted replies
  • Customize your online rental application with the addition of several new fields
  • Search by property name to find properties more quickly
  • Automatically apply excess cash from one property to another before paying your owners

June 13th, 2007

  • Print checks on blank laser check stock straight from your computer
  • Mail checks to vendors and rental property owners with the new online bill pay service
  • Send tenant and association owner statements through the mail with the new EZ Mailer™ service
  • Automatically calculate meter charges that include a minimum charge

May 10th, 2007

  • Automatically post recurring charges each week, month, or year
  • Forecast income and expenses for your properties and associations with improved budgeting
  • Automatically calculate and record management fees for all your properties
  • Move out tenants and association owners with the new move out wizard
  • See how much rent you've collected for a given period with the new rent paid report

March 23rd, 2007

  • Keep a complete set of books with full general ledger accounting
  • Use the standard chart of accounts or customize it to suite your needs
  • Run dozens of new reports including the income statement, balance sheet and general ledger
  • Chose either cash or accrual accounting basis when viewing financial reports
  • Save reports using Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) or Microsoft Excel
  • Find transactions quickly and easily via the new, interactive general ledger
  • Make general journal entries to balance any general ledger account
  • Move-in tenants and association owners using the streamlined move in wizard
  • Enter banking transactions and track balances using the new bank account register
  • View balances by account on the improved tenant and association owner ledgers
  • Print professional looking statements directly from each ledger
  • Pay all your rental owners and bills at once via check or electronic funds transfer (EFT)
  • View owner contributions and owner draws on the improved rental owner ledger
  • View vendor bills and payments on the improved vendor ledger

October 20th, 2006

  • View expiring leases and vacant units on your dashboard
  • Learn how to setup late fees via the new calculating late fees tutorial
  • Automatically generate late fees based on your procedures
  • Override your late fee policy for an individual property or lease
  • View your late fee policies for all active leases via the new late fee policy report
  • Generate work orders from maintenance requests submitted by tenants and association owners
  • View all work orders by property via the new work orders report
  • Email tenants, association owners and rental owners directly from Property Manager Edition

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My tenants would say their favorite feature is being able to pay rent online, but my favorite Buildium 'feature' is the fantastic customer service and quick response time.

D. Stevens, CA