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New Features and Enhancements
General
Enhanced the collection and tracking of management fees. Now there is a new option to switch to a “Bill” management fee mode: (bill management fees vs ledger management fees). In "Bill" management fee mode, the collection of management fees creates a bill instead of posting the fees directly to a manager ledger. Other enhancements include the ability to easily see a breakdown of all management fees paid to the property management company (Vendor Payment Report), easily track fees per unit on a monthly period basis (I.e. minimums vs rent collected and payment returns are automatically calculated) All customers that went live on or after June 2022 are currently set on the new "Bill" management fee mode. Any customers that went live prior to June 2022 and are interested in switching or finding out more about "Bill" management fee mode please contact support so we can get you switched. We are currently working on a video to explain this new feature.
Rebuilt recurring charges and how Actual Rent amount is determined on a lease. Actual rent is now automatically calculated based on the recurring rent charges on the lease. The rent amount column found on many reports (Lease, Lease Balances, Rent Roll) is based on the actual rent amount on a lease.
Rebuilt Rentvine authentication and authorization in order to enhance the user experience. One of the many benefits is not being signed out when opening up multiple tabs.
Tenant information is no longer shown on work orders that are attached to owner statements
Added a new notification type, Electronic Check Returned to Tenant. This will notify a tenant when an electronic payment is returned (NSF). It is disabled by default. To turn it on go to the Notifications section in settings under the tenant tab.
Removed the “start date” when editing recurring bills, work orders, management fees, journal entries, ledger transfers, scheduled reports. Replaced it with “next date” instead.
Added a tag to all files that lets you know which portal it was uploaded from. I.e., Manager, Resident, Owner or Vendor.
Enhanced custom fields toggle from a two way toggle to a three way toggle (No, N/A, Yes)
Properties
Added additional preview information to show when editing the management fee setting of a property.
Marketing
Added ShowMojo as an additional showing provider integration with Rentvine.
Added ability to view property images as a slideshow on the property / images tab.
Documents on the marketing tab are now available on your PMW website listing.
Screening and Applications
Added income verification using Plaid integration. Allows applicants to authenticate with their bank and provide transactions so the PM is able to verify their income.
Added feature that allows the submission of a “generic application” that is not linked to a unit.
Enhanced header on rentvine public application for better mobile responsiveness.
Removed the validation of select fields when a PM is updating/modifying an application.
Leases
Created lease and recurring charges import tools (Onboarding purposes).
Accounting
Added a new transaction type, Vendor Credits. If an Owner/Portfolio overpaid a vendor, you can now enter a vendor credit. (Actions button in the Money Out section)
Added option to “select all” when manually posting late fees.
Added payee name to description column on money out section of reconciliation page.
Added ability to edit the date on settlements.
Added a management fee earned card to the lease tenant payment details view page.
Deactivated units are no longer shown in the “units without management fees to collect” card in the post management fees page.
Communication
Added additional property and work order information to “work order accepted by vendor” notifications.
Added links to the footer section of emails originating out of Rentvine. Allows you to click on the link to take you directly to the portfolio, property, tenant, work order, etc..associated with the email.
Added the “Send” button to the top of the compose email modal.
Added ability to generate mass letters for leases, portfolios and vendors. Once the mass letters are generated you have the option to download all of them or email them as attachments.
Added applicant name, email and address hotfields to email and letter templates.
Added additional information to the “text message received” notification message.
Maintenance
Added property maintenance notes to work order PDF.
After adding work order to an open project, the landing page now goes back to the open project.
Moved tenant field on property details section of a work order to make more room for the maintenance notes.
Added ability to associate existing work order templates to work order project templates.
Added additional enhancements to work order project templates and work order templates.
Added “recently used vendors” list to edit view of a work order.
Reports
Added Rent Roll report
Added Application / Screening reports
Applicants
Applications
Screening Payments
Screening Payouts
Screening Refunds
Added tags and custom fields as filter options to portfolio balances report.
Added owner contact information (address, phone, email) as filters and columns on Owner Unit report.
Added ability to only show past due rent on Aged Receivables report. Choose the “Show Only Rent” filter.
Added “prevent consolidated payments” filter/column to owners and vendors reports.
Added “MultiUnit” filter to property report.
Added “County” field to the property and units reports
Added “Is Additional Management Fee” filter and column to lease charges report.
Resident Portal
Added an itemized list of monthly recurring charges to the dashboard of the resident portal.
Owner Portal
Added an option to hide tenant names when viewing the details of a lease. You can do this by going to the Global Settings area of your Rentvine account under the Owner Settings in the Portals section.
Vendor Portal
Added property maintenance notes to work order details view page in the additional information area.
Added files tab to work order details view.
Added ability to allow vendors to upload files to work orders.
