Instead of Rented
Outgrown Rented? Own a property management system built around your agency.
We shape your version to how your property managers already chase rent, book inspections and report to owners, move your Rented records across, and look after it from then on. The database is registered to your agency, not to a vendor.
Rented charges NZ$15 + GST a month for the first property, NZ$5 + GST for each one up to 50 with the total capped at NZ$110 + GST a month, then NZ$1 + GST per property beyond that.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What the subscription buys
A low price for screens built for everybody
Rented is priced low for a New Zealand rent roll, and it says all features are included. What the monthly fee buys is the same set of screens every other agency on it gets. The tenancies, ledgers and inspection notes inside are your work.
A fee that tracks the rent roll
NZ$15 + GST for the first property, NZ$5 + GST for each one after that, held to NZ$110 + GST a month up to 50 properties, then NZ$1 + GST for every extra door. At the cap that is NZ$1,320 + GST a year. Modest, but it is rent on software, and it never ends.
One layout for every agency
Arrears, inspections and owner reports appear the way Rented designed them. When your process differs from theirs, say a second arrears check for a particular owner or a different inspection cycle for student flats, the screens do not follow you.
Questions the screens were not drawn for
Which owners take the most repair coordination for the fee they pay? Which tenancies slip into arrears every winter? If the report does not exist, the answer is an evening in Excel.
Owner updates in someone else's shape
Statements and compliance PDFs come out in the vendor's format. Your agency's voice, the notes you add for a nervous first-time landlord, live in a separate email you write by hand.
One vendor holding your history
Years of tenancies, inspection findings and owner correspondence sit on a platform run by one company. If it is sold, changes direction or closes, your records go where it goes.
No public guide to leaving
Rented describes import tools for agencies arriving from spreadsheets or other systems. We could not find a published guide to exporting your records on the way out. Ask for one before you need it.
What your agency gets
Property management you ask, not click through
Rent
Overdue rent, with the Act's next step spelled out
Ask who is behind this morning. You get the amount, how late it is in calendar days and in working days, every notice already on file, and what the Residential Tenancies Act expects you to do next.
- check Notice of overdue rent at five working days, notice to remedy at fourteen days, the Tenancy Tribunal at twenty one
- check The notices already served, dated, so a missing step shows before the hearing
- check Tenancies that keep falling behind, with the pattern in the dates
- check A letter to the tenant written from the ledger, left as a draft for a person to send
Healthy homes
Compliance read from your records, not filled in once
Every rental carries its healthy homes items, smoke alarms and insulation statement, each with a status, a date and the rule it comes from. The check runs against the data whenever you ask.
- check Heating, insulation, ventilation, moisture and draught stopping tracked standard by standard
- check Bonds not lodged with Tenancy Services within 23 working days
- check Rent increases inside twelve months, or with less than sixty days written notice
- check Old tenant records kept past the point the Privacy Act 2020 allows
Rentals
Inspections and repairs, sorted by what is holding them up
Routine inspections measured against the cycle you set. Repairs grouped by who has the ball: the owner deciding, the contractor, or an invoice that never came.
- check Inspections past due, and any booked with under 48 hours written notice
- check Habitability repairs first, then jobs an owner has sat on for over a week
- check Approved work no contractor was sent, and finished work nobody billed
- check An inspection report in your colours built from the room-by-room notes
Yours
Records that stay with the agency
The database belongs to you. Owner updates and letters come out on your letterhead, and a new report is a sentence you type, not a feature request.
- check Month-end owner updates and arrears letters from one brand file
- check Simple read-only pages for the week ahead and the whole portfolio
- check How far each rent sits below the market figure on file, and which reviews the law allows today
- check Any question about your rent roll answered from your own records
Make it yours
Design your own Rented replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Rented. 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 Rented data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Rented
A move usually involves getting the records Rented can provide, mapping them to the new system, checking the import and running both systems side by side before you switch.
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Ask Rented for your records
Rented has no published export guide, so check with its support team about what your account can provide. Ask for records for your owners, properties and tenancies, plus any history you want to bring across. Confirm which records and history are included before you start mapping them.
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Run a test import
The new system reads a standard property management export, but Rented’s columns will not match it exactly. Have the records mapped before loading them. Start with a test run, which shows every record the import would create and anything it would skip. Enterprise DNA can do the mapping, or you can ask Claude Code to map the records yourself.
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Review the import results
Check the test results before loading the records for real. Review the records marked for creation and anything the import would skip. Look into missing or mismatched information and decide what you need to correct or map before continuing. If the results do not reflect the records you intend to bring across, adjust the mapping and test again.
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Load records and compare
Once the test results look right, load the records into the new system. Keep Rented running alongside it for a short period, and have your team compare the records and day-to-day work they rely on in both systems. Pay attention to any differences that could affect the team’s work before treating the new system as the source of truth.
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Switch off Rented
When your team is comfortable with the records and work in the new system, stop using Rented for the work it has replaced. Keep rent receipting, owner payments and trust accounting in the system you use for them today. Property Management for Claude Code does not handle trust accounting, so switching off Rented does not mean moving those processes into it.
Where the real effort goes
The real work is usually mapping Rented’s columns to the new system, deciding which available history to bring across, and checking your own fields and rules. Rented’s columns will not match the standard export exactly. Enterprise DNA handles this mapping when you have them install and run it. If you use the free version, you can ask Claude Code to map the records yourself.
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Get your Rented switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Rented, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Set it up yourself, or have it set up and run for you
Open source
Set it up yourself
Free
- 1 Clone the repo
- 2 npm run demo, then open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Type /arrears to see the demo agency's overdue rent
- 4 Map your Rented export to the import and point it at your own database
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA build and run it
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We bring your Rented owners, properties, tenancies and tenants across
- check We connect it to your email, your accounting system and the trust account you already run
- check We set the rules, notice periods and owner reports to match your management agreement
- check Inspection photos and offline capture on a phone, built in if you want them
- check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Center, beside the rest of your business
Questions
Instead of Rented, answered
Rented is already inexpensive. Why would we change? expand_more
Not to save on the subscription. At the cap Rented is NZ$110 + GST a month, and the setup work on your own version costs more than that. You change because you want the system to fit your agency rather than the other way round: your arrears steps, your owner reports, your inspection cycle, and every record in a database your agency owns outright. If Rented already does exactly what you need, stay on it.
Rented does trust accounting. Does this? expand_more
No, on purpose. This system never receipts rent into a bank or pays an owner. It keeps a rent ledger so the arrears figures are right, but trust accounting carries audit obligations under the Real Estate Agents Act and belongs in a system built for that. Keep the trust account where it is today, and this takes over the tenancies, arrears, inspections, repairs, healthy homes and owner reporting around it.
How do our records get out of Rented? expand_more
We could not find a published export guide from Rented, so start by asking their support what they can give you, such as your owners, properties and tenancies. The free version reads a standard property management export, and Rented's columns will not match it exactly. Mapping them is part of what Enterprise DNA does for you, or you can ask Claude Code to map the file yourself. Do a test run first and it shows every record it would create and anything it would skip.
We use Rented's inspection templates on site. What happens to those? expand_more
The free version has no camera or offline mode today, so the visit itself still needs a phone app. What it covers is everything around the visit: whether the inspection is overdue, whether the 48 hour notice went out, the findings room by room, the repairs that come out of them, and a branded report. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, photos and offline capture can be added so it all lives in one place.
Nobody here writes code. Can our property managers use it? expand_more
Yes. They ask in plain words, like "which tenants are behind and what notice is due", and Claude Code runs the right shortcut and answers from your records. If an address matches two properties it lists both and asks which one, rather than guessing. If someone can write a clear email, they can run this.
Keep the rent roll. Make the system fit the agency.
30 minutes with Sam. We look at how your team runs arrears, inspections and owner reporting today, what Rented does well for you and where it gets in the way, and what your own version would look like. If it is a fit, we build it and move your records across. If not, take the free version and try it yourself.
Property Management for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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