Tenant management

Keep track of tenants without the spreadsheet

One record per tenant and lease — balance, payment history, documents, renewals, and messages. Answer who owes what in seconds instead of rebuilding a spreadsheet every month.

1
record per tenant
0
spreadsheets needed
$29
starting price / mo
1 day
to import & switch
Feature
R Rentwelly
A spreadsheet
One record per tenant and lease
Yes
Rows across tabs
Balance you can trust
From the ledger
Manually updated
Lease expiry and renewal alerts
Automatic
Calendar reminders
Tenant self-service portal
Included
None
Partial payments and late fees
Applied by rule
By hand
Documents and message history
On the tenant record
Email and texts
Who owes what, right now
A/R aging report
You add it up

Reflects Rentwelly's positioning and the way most landlords describe tracking tenants by hand.

The three questions a spreadsheet cannot answer fast

Who owes me money right now? In a spreadsheet this is a column someone has to keep current. The moment a partial payment or a late fee lands, it is stale. Here it is an A/R aging report drawn from the ledger.

Whose lease is up next? Renewal dates are the single most commonly missed item in self-managed rentals, and the cost of missing one is an unplanned month-to-month tenancy.

What did I actually agree with this tenant? If the answer lives in a text thread from eight months ago, it is not really recorded. Documents and messages belong on the tenant record.

What you get

Every tenant in one record

Lease terms, balance, payment history, documents, and messages live on the tenant — not spread across a spreadsheet, your inbox, and your phone.

Balances that come from the books

A tenant balance is a ledger figure here, not a number you maintain. It cannot drift out of step with your accounting, because it is the same data.

Leases that tell you before they lapse

Start and end dates, renewals, and reminders, so an expiring lease surfaces while you can still do something about it.

One answer to who owes what

A/R aging shows arrears by tenant and by property, so chasing rent stops being a memory exercise.

Related: tenant portal, rent collection software, and software for small landlords.

Retire the tenant spreadsheet

Free for 14 days, no credit card. Import your tenants and leases and see every balance in one place.

FAQ

Tenant management — FAQ

What does tenant management software actually do?+

It keeps one record per tenant and lease instead of scattering the same information across a spreadsheet, your phone, and a folder of PDFs. That record holds the lease dates and rent amount, the running balance, every payment and charge, maintenance requests, documents, and the message history — so when a question comes up you look in one place.

How do I keep track of tenants without a spreadsheet?+

The practical test is whether you can answer three questions in under a minute: who owes what right now, whose lease expires next, and what was agreed with a specific tenant. Rentwelly answers all three from one screen, because balances come from the ledger rather than from a column you maintain by hand.

Can tenants see their own balance and history?+

Yes. Each tenant gets a portal login where they can pay rent, see the running balance and every past payment, submit maintenance requests, and message you. That single change removes most of the where-is-my-receipt traffic.

Does it handle lease renewals and expiring leases?+

Yes. Leases carry start and end dates with renewal tracking and reminders, so an expiry surfaces before it becomes an accidental month-to-month you did not choose.

What happens to partial and late payments?+

They are applied to the right charges automatically, with late fees by rule rather than by memory. Because everything posts to a real double-entry ledger, the tenant balance and your books never disagree.

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