Instead of Inspection Express
Stop renting Inspection Express. Own your condition reports.
We build your version around your routine cycle, your entry and exit reports and the layout your owners expect, bring your property list and tenancies across, and run it for you. Inspections and the rest of the rent roll end up in one database your agency owns.
Inspection Express charges A$0.83, A$1.47 or A$2.07 per property per month ex GST depending on the tier, with Paperless Office at A$0.65 per property on top.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
How the invoice is built
A unit price on records you already keep elsewhere
Every property on the rent roll is already in your property management system. Inspection Express prices its app by the same count, so the bill tracks the size of the portfolio, not how many inspections your team actually does.
Priced by the door, not by the visit
Basic is A$0.83 per property per month ex GST, which is A$83 a month at up to 100 units, or A$996 a year. A property inspected twice a year costs the same every month as one inspected four times.
The better tools sit on a dearer unit price
360 virtual tours, smart reminders, downloadable and web-linked reports and entry and exit comparison reports start on Lightning at A$1.47 per property. At up to 100 units that is A$147 a month, or A$1,764 a year.
Single sign-on is a tier of its own
Google SSO, cross-account access and enterprise support arrive on Enterprise at A$2.07 per property, which is A$207 a month at up to 100 units, or A$2,484 a year.
Leases and forms are another per-property line
Leases, NSW and VIC authorities, owner instructions and forms come in the Paperless Office add-on at A$0.65 per property per month ex GST, charged on top of the inspection tier.
Kept in step with your main system by a connector
Inspection Express syncs with Property Tree, Console, Re-Leased, Tapi and others. Your rent roll lives in one place and the inspection copy in another, and the two only agree for as long as the sync does.
The report ends where the work starts
A condition report records a cracked tile. Whether the owner approved the fix, which tradesperson went and whether they invoiced is tracked somewhere else.
What you get instead
The inspection, the tenancy and the repair in one set of records
Due
Every property against your own routine cycle
Ask what is due before the end of the month and get each property with its last visit, its tenant and the date the next one falls due, overdue ones first.
- check A property that has never been inspected shows as never, not as fine
- check Each property is checked against your own routine cycle
- check Vacates sit in the same records
- check No unit count: a hundred doors or a thousand cost the same to ask about
Entry
Notice to the tenant, checked when the visit is booked
The entry notice period is a rule you can change. A visit booked inside it is flagged before anyone drives out, and the date notice went out is kept on the visit.
- check The free version ships with New Zealand's 48 hour entry notice (RTA 1986 s 48(3))
- check Set your state's period once and every booking is checked against it
- check The notice date stays on the file for the day a tenant disputes it
Repairs
From a finding in the bathroom to a paid invoice
Findings are recorded room by room. Anything that needs work becomes a maintenance job that points back to the inspection that found it.
- check Habitability jobs first, then anything waiting on an owner for more than a week
- check Approved work nobody has sent a tradesperson to, listed without a spreadsheet
- check Finished work no tradesperson has invoiced, listed the same way
- check Healthy homes and smoke alarm items checked on the same property record
Owners
A report in your agency's colours, from your own data
The owner report is rendered from the findings with your logo and colours, and it is only marked sent once it really has gone.
- check One brand file sets your name, logo and colours on every document
- check Monthly owner summaries and arrears letters made from the same records
- check Every past visit kept with the property
- check Your trust account stays in the system your auditor already checks
Make it yours
Design your own Inspection Express replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Inspection Express. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your Inspection Express data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Inspection Express
The move involves exporting your property list and tenancies, testing the import, checking what maps, and deciding which past reports to keep.
- 1
Export your records
Ask Inspection Express how to export your account, then export what it allows. Start with your property list and tenancies, which are the core records the new system imports. Include owner details where they are available in the export. Keep past condition reports in your own file store so they are available for later reference.
- 2
Run a test import
Have the Inspection Express export mapped into the new system, either by Enterprise DNA during setup or by asking Claude Code to do it. Start with the import's test run. It shows what the import would create and skip, so you can review the result before adding records to the database.
- 3
Check skipped records
Review the test result and check each record it would skip, along with any fields that still need mapping. Confirm that the property and tenancy information is going into the right places before running the import for real. Choose which past condition reports to retain in your own file store, since those reports may be part of a later bond conversation.
- 4
Run both side by side
For a short period, keep Inspection Express available while you check the imported records and use the new database alongside it. The free version has no camera app, 360 capture or offline mode, so keep using your existing tool for the on-site walk-through. Check that the information you need after each visit is available in the new records before relying on them.
- 5
Switch off Inspection Express
Once you have checked the imported property and tenancy records and retained the past reports you need, switch off Inspection Express. Make the new database your working record for the information you have moved. The move does not give the free version a camera app or offline mode, so keep a separate tool for the on-site walk-through if you need one.
Where the real effort goes
The main work is mapping Inspection Express fields to the new records, deciding how your agency's own rules should work, and choosing how much inspection history to bring across. Past condition reports stay in your own file store. Enterprise DNA does this mapping and setup work when you have them install and run your version.
Not ready for a call?
Get your Inspection Express switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Inspection Express, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
Sent. Check your inbox.
Your Inspection Express switch plan is on its way.
Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardTwo ways to start
Try it free, or have Enterprise DNA build yours
Open source
Do it yourself
Free
- 1 Clone the repo from GitHub
- 2 Run npm run demo and open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Ask which routine inspections are due this month
- 4 Import your property list, then map your Inspection Express records across
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We bring across your properties, tenancies and past condition reports, and check the counts match
- check We set the entry notice rules to your state or country and the routine cycle to your agreements
- check We add a phone app for the walk-through with photos and offline mode, if your team wants one
- check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Center, beside your mail and your accounting
Questions
Instead of Inspection Express, answered
We walk through with a 360 camera and a tablet. Do we lose that? expand_more
The free version has no camera app, no 360 capture and no offline mode, so keep the tool you use on site for now. Everything after the walk-through is covered: whether the visit was due, whether notice went out in time, the findings, the repairs and the owner report. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, we add a phone app for the visit so photos and findings land straight in your own records.
Can our entry and exit reports come across? expand_more
Your property list and tenancies come across in one import, with a test run first that shows what it would create and skip. The free version reads the export formats of the property management systems it was built against, so mapping your Inspection Express records is either part of what Enterprise DNA does when we set yours up, or something you ask Claude Code to do. Past condition reports stay in your own file store, ready for the bond conversation.
We use Paperless Office for leases and authorities. What happens there? expand_more
The free version does not draft leases or state authority forms. It does hold the tenancy those documents belong to, and it produces the owner summaries, inspection reports and arrears letters from your own records in your own brand. If your agency wants its lease and authority paperwork rendered the same way, that is something Enterprise DNA can build into your version.
Is it only for inspections? expand_more
No. The same records hold owners, tenancies, arrears with the next notice due, maintenance, the compliance register and monthly owner summaries. Inspections stop being a separate subscription synced to your main system and become part of the tenancy they are about.
What does it cost when we take on another 50 properties? expand_more
Nothing extra in the free version: there is no unit count, because the records sit in a database you own. If Enterprise DNA builds and runs yours, you pay a setup fee and then a monthly retainer for the work we do, not a price per door.
Bring your last Inspection Express invoice and an exit report
30 minutes with Sam. We look at how many properties you are billed for, how many inspections your team really does in a month, and what happens to a finding after the report goes to the owner. If it fits, we build your version and run it. If not, the free version is yours to keep.
Property Management for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
Done paying for Inspection Express?
Get your version built