Property management software at a one-time price
Property management software at a one-time price: rent posting, late fees and a tenant portal, with the limits stated plainly.
property management software one-time price is the one category search on this store that has actually produced a click, which is a small fact worth taking seriously: somebody typed it, read the page, and it was the right page. This is its sibling, and it goes at the question from the other side -- not what the arithmetic looks like, but what a one-time-price property tool does on a Tuesday, and where it stops.
There is already a page here on the arithmetic: property management software at a one-time price sets the rented figures against the owned one. This page assumes you have read that and want to know whether the software does the job.
The four jobs a small landlord actually has
Posting the rent. Every lease, every month, on the right day, at the right amount, without somebody remembering. Rentara posts rent automatically and applies late fees by the rule you set rather than by whoever is in the mood to enforce it.
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Knowing the arrears position. The rent roll and the arrears list are the two screens a portfolio owner actually opens. Rentara computes arrears when you look at them rather than in a nightly job, which means the figure is current by construction and there is no scheduler to fail quietly.
Answering the tenant. Most tenant contact is three questions: what do I owe, did you get my payment, and what is happening about the leak. The tenant portal is a per-lease link -- no account, no password -- which is the difference between a tenant using it and a tenant emailing you instead.
Producing the owner statement. If you manage for somebody else, the statement is the deliverable and everything else is preparation.
What owning the copy changes
Per-unit monthly pricing is the normal shape in this category, which means the software's cost rises with the portfolio while the work per unit falls. A one-time price inverts that: the licence covers the installation, so the tenth unit costs nothing and the twentieth costs nothing again.
The second change is the record. A lease history, a payment history and a maintenance history are the documents that matter in a dispute, and years three and four are when they earn their keep. In your own database they are a query; in a lapsed subscription they are an export you hope you took.
What to look for
Automatic posting with a rule you can read. Rent posting and late fees as configured rules rather than a batch somebody triggers.
Arrears computed, not stored. A stored balance is a number that can be wrong; a derived one cannot drift.
A tenant route that needs no account. A magic link per lease, with receipts when a payment is recorded and a status notice when maintenance moves.
Maintenance tracked against the unit. Because the leak is about the property, not about the tenant who happens to live there now.
An honest position on taking money. Rentara records payments; it does not take them, and nothing it sends a tenant asks them to pay. That is a real boundary and it is better stated than discovered.
The limits, stated plainly
Single-operator, single-tenant: one portfolio per installation. It is not for finding or marketing to new tenants, and it is not a general ledger -- rent, fees, arrears and statements, not bookkeeping. There is no online rent payment processing at all: payments are recorded once they land, by whatever route you already use. The tenant portal is a per-lease link with no accounts, no passwords and no payment page. Email goes through your own SMTP server and every tenant-facing message ships switched off. There are no background jobs, so arrears are computed on view and tenant notices fire on an event rather than on a schedule. A portfolio in the hundreds of units wants a setup conversation rather than a download.
Questions people ask
Does it collect the rent? No. It posts what is due, applies the late-fee rule and records the payment when it arrives. Moving money stays with your bank or your payment provider, and nothing the product sends a tenant asks them to pay.
Does the price rise with the number of units? No. The licence covers the installation, not the doors, which is the whole point of the one-time shape.
Do tenants have to create accounts? No. Each lease gets its own link. That is deliberate: an account nobody creates is a portal nobody uses.
Where to look next
The product page is Rentara, with the feature record and the limits in the product's own words, and the Property Suite holds it alongside the other property tool. The alternatives page covers one of the hosted services people arrive from, another covers a second, and the side-by-side sets them next to each other. For what the hosted services charge per unit per month, read the observatory: each figure is quoted verbatim beside the date it was read and a link to the page it came from. Prices are on the observatory; read them on the date shown there.