Tenant Portal

The tenant portal gives each of your tenants their own secure login, separate from your manager app, where they can see what they owe, pay rent, and handle the everyday requests that would otherwise land in your inbox.

What the tenant portal is

The tenant portal is a self-service area built specifically for the people who rent from you. It is completely separate from the manager app you use to run your business. Your tenants never see your books, your other tenants, or any of your management tools. They simply log in to their own account and see what relates to them.

Giving tenants a portal cuts down on the back-and-forth: instead of emailing you for a copy of an invoice or asking when rent is due, they can find it themselves, pay online, and even put their rent on auto-pay.

What a tenant can do

Once a tenant has access, their portal lets them:

  • See a dashboard showing rent due and the state of their account at a glance.
  • View their lease — the contract terms and any signed documents tied to it.
  • View and download invoices as professional PDFs whenever they need a copy.
  • Make payments online and set up auto-pay so rent is collected automatically each cycle.
  • Manage payment methods — add or update the card or bank account they pay with.
  • Book facilities such as amenity rooms or shared spaces you make available.
  • Submit and track tickets for maintenance requests, watching status as you respond.
  • View property info — details and resources you share for their building.
  • Update their profile — contact details, emergency contacts, vehicles, and more.

Online payments require a connected payment processor

Paying rent and setting up auto-pay work once you've connected Stripe on your management account. Until then, tenants can still see their invoices and balance. They just can't pay through the portal yet.

Giving a tenant access

Access is driven entirely from the manager side, and it hinges on one thing: the tenant having an email address on file. From your perspective:

  1. Open Rentals → Tenants and select the tenant (or add a new one).
  2. Make sure they have an email address. The portal invite is sent to this address, so it must be correct.
  3. Trigger their access: an invite/claim link is sent to that email so the tenant can set their password and sign in.
  4. The tenant follows the link, creates their login, and lands on their portal dashboard.

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The tenant portal dashboard showing rent due, the active lease, recent invoices, and quick actions to pay or submit a ticket.

Because the invite is tied to the tenant's email, keeping that address up to date is the single most important detail for a smooth portal experience. See the Tenants guide for everything you can record on a tenant record.

Encourage auto-pay

Once a tenant is in the portal, the best thing they can do (for both of you) is turn on auto-pay.

Auto-pay means rent collects itself

Encourage tenants to enable auto-pay from the portal. Their rent is then charged automatically each cycle, so payments arrive on time without anyone having to remember. You spend less time chasing late rent, and they never miss a due date. Online payments flow straight into your records. See the Invoice Payments guide.

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