Winter '09 Sneak Preview

Desktop

Enhanced Appointments
Propertyware Winter '09 introduces the ability to associate calendar appointments with Portfolios, Buildings, Units, Leases, Work Orders and Prospects. In addition, you are able to filter your calendar by those appointments associated with any one of these objects. This great new feature allows you to create calendars for various aspects of your business such as showing calendars for prospective tenants.

View Other User's Calendars
Get on the same page with your team with this new feature that allows to view all non-private events on all your user's accounts. 

Homepage Dashlets (Community Feature Request)
This new feature automatically cycles two dashlets from the designated default dashboard onto your Propertyware homepage.

Dashboards

Mini-Table Dashlet (Community Feature Request)
This new dashlet style allows you to insert a mini-table style dashlet into any of your dashboards. This mini-table style dashlet allows you to choose up to 5 columns from your report with optional totals.

Custom Fields Included in Chart Options (Community Feature Request)
Dashlets have been enhanced to allow for the inclusion of custom fields in the available options for the chart axes.

Properties

Add New Portfolio to QuickBooks Sync Groups
Now you can add new Portfolios to an existing QuickBooks sync group from the new Portfolio edit screen. This new feature also allows you to create a new QuickBooks sync group from this screen on the fly.

Market Your Properties The Building / Unit Edit Screens
Subscribers to our Marketing module will now have the option of publishing their vacancies online from the Building and Unit edit screens.

Portals

Owner Portal
Give your owners real-time access to the performance of their investment properties with a self-service portal. Your owners can do the following from your branded Propertyware owner portal:

·         Update their contact information

·         Communicate with your management team using the Conversations feature

·         View/Print Owner Statements

·         View a history of all owner draws

·         Make contributions to their portfolio balance via electronic payments 
     (ACH/Credit Card)

·         View published reports

·         View a history of all bills, including any attached documents

·         View, approve or reject work orders submitted by tenants or created by the 
      management team. These work orders include attached documents too.

·         View/Print any documents attached to the owner's portfolio

Customizable Tenant Application Form (Community Feature Request)
Choose which fields you would like to have included in your online tenant application.

Prepayment Handling in the Tenant Portal (Community Feature Request)
This new feature allows you to determine how payments will be handled when a tenant makes an ePayment before any charges are due on the tenant ledger.

Give Notice Option in Tenant Portal
You can now disable the feature that allows tenants to give notice to vacate through the tenant portal.

Google Webmaster Tools Support (Community Feature Request)
Google Webmaster Tools provides detailed reports about your Propertyware Portals visibility on Google. Propertyware now allows you to use Google's free webmaster tools to get Google's view of your Portal, see how Google crawls and indexes your site and learn about specific problems the search engine might have accessing it. Google webmaster tools even tell you which search queries drive traffic to your Portal, and see exactly how users arrive there.

Rental Listing Page Enhancements
Rental listings have been paginated (similar to Propertyware Reports) to improve the performance and usability of your Propertyware Portal.

Rental Listing's Printable Brochure
Prospective tenants can now print the details of their desired listing online.

Banking

Propertyware Winter 2009 introduces a new Banking module that contains bank deposits (formerly in Money In), Reconciliation and Bank Ledger.

Bank Ledger
This new feature allows you to see a ledger of all transactions that have gone through any of your bank accounts for any customizable timeframe.

Bank Reconciliation
Reconcile your accounts with this powerful new feature that allows you to clear money in and out of each bank account.

Administrator's Settings

Accounting Preferences
This new section of Propertyware's Administration Setup allows you to configure various accounting features including the following:

 Check Type. Select the type of blank check stock that your company prefers to use. Propertyware supports two types of Deluxe check types. Advanced users can now edit these check templates to achieve precise results with their printer.

 Post Auto Charges. Control the number of days prior to your auto charges due date, that you would like them to post to various tenant ledgers.

Auto Apply Prepayments. An optional toggle that will automatically apply prepayments on your leases to unpaid charges.

Deposit Direct to Bank Account. An optional toggle that allows you to deposit payments received from your customers directly to the bank account, rather than using bank deposits. This option is set to disabled by default.

 Enforce Default Bank Account. An optional toggle that allows you to enforce that users only deposit money into and pay bills from the default bank account set on the Portfolio.

NSF Recharge Date. This option allows you to designate the method for which NSFs are handled in Propertyware. You can choose to that the NSF recharge date to coincide with the date of the original charge vs. when the NSF was recorded in Propertyware.

Alerts Enhancements
Propertyware Winter 2009 gives you more control over which users should receive certain types of alerts. View descriptions or the various alert types and send yourself a test alert to experience them on-demand.

Management Settings

Portfolio Overdraft Protection (Community Feature Request)
This option allows you to prohibit users from taking any portfolio's balance negative.

Withhold Unpaid Bills From Owner Draws (Community Feature Request)
This option allows you to withhold any amounts in unpaid bills from the owner draw calculation.

Reports

Bank Balance Breakdown Report
This new report breaks down the bank account balance that belongs to each portfolio and a summary of the reconciliations for the selected account.

Enhanced Rent Roll Report (Community Feature Request)
This new version of the Rent Roll report summarizes all the auto charges in separate columns with other information about the tenant and the unit.

NACHA File Export (Community Feature Request)
Now you can export your owner draws to a NACHA file format compatible with many banks for initiating an ACH credit.

Generate Owner 1099s
Create owner 1099 reports from the Related Activities menu of the Management module.

Register for our upcoming sneak preview webinar on Wednesday December 10th at 9 AM PT. Space is limited, so register today!

Webinar: Propertyware Winter 2009 Sneak Preview