Version 10.2

Released 18 December 2012

- Tenants can now make inline rent payments via credit card throught the RentRecall.com web site.

- When importing bank statements, you can now choose to hide items which don't need attention.

- The import rules screen is now sizable so you can make it bigger to display more information.

- Custom fields can now have their display sort order changed.

- Description values have been added to the Automatic Extra Fees and Automatic Extra Charges screens.

- The rent status report sometimes displayed an incorrect last paid date and amount.

- Future rent changes are removed from the Future Rent Changes report for closed tenants.

- The inspection checklist report now handles larger attribute names.

Version 10.1

Released 8 October 2011

- A Google Maps button has been added to all addresses in RentMaster

- A new report called the Future Rent Changes report has been created.

- Owner attachments now automatically include generated mail merge letters.

- Item associations is now available for inclusion in the toolbar

- Transaction import rules are now sortable on all columns for easily finding previous rules.

- For the owner profit and loss report, if a single owner is selected, the owners name is printed at the top.

- The owner transaction summary report now wraps the automatic fees transactions if the description is too long to fit in the space provided

Version 10.0

Released 24 July 2011

- You can now add attachments to owners as well as tenants.

- A new option has been added to the owner details screen called 'This owner is disbursement tax exempt'.

- When using bulk disbursements, you can now add a reference and notes using the edit button prior to committing the bulk disbursements.

- On the tenant details screen, you can press the Link To button to go directly to the Tenant History report.

- On the Overview screen, closed tenants are again excluded from the arrears tab.

- When adding new tenants, closed properties are now excluded from the list of available properties.

- The rent paid report now works off a specific tenant, if one is selected, and not the property and date range which can overlap other tenants in the same property.

- The Exit window now has a cancel button in case people change their mind and no longer want to exit RentMaster.

Version 9.9

Released 25 April 2011

- On the cashbook screen, you can now choose to open the screen showing only a date limited number of transactions such as the current month or current financial year etc. This is set up by going to the maintenance menu and choose Options/Features

- A new Add Building function has been added to the property list screen. This creates a building and associated units automatically.

- The Rent Status screen and Overview screen are now a lot faster, particularly for people with a lot of tenants.

- The Monthly Arrears and Cumulative Arrears graphs now have a 6 month average line added.

- On the NZ T41 rent summary report, extra charge payments now show the name of the income group used to record the payment.

- A new version of the rent status report has been created. This one only prints closed tenants who are open for additional transactions.

- On the expense group screen, the management fee percentage has been changed from 2 decimal places to 3 decimal places.

- When using the print button on the tenant details screen, contact details were not all fitting on the page. The text now wraps around if it does not fit.

- On the owner details screen, the management fee percentage can now be entered either as a tax inclusive or tax exclusive percentage.

Version 9.8

Released 7 February 2011

- A new report has been created called the Move Out Balance Owing report. This report shows the total balance owing, including projected rent due up to the tenants end date.

- 3 new graphs have been created. 'Rent Paid vs. Due', 'Monthly Arrears' and 'Cumulative Arrears'. These reports can show interesting trends with your arrears problems.

- New print objects have been added to the mail merge facility. For tenant letters you can now print the rent review date. For owner letters you can print the fee value.

- The previous '10 days notice' mail merge templates have been replaced with the new '14 days notice' templates. This only applies to New Zealand customers. These can be downloaded separately.

- On the building transactions report, the building column has been made wider to fit longer building codes.

- The owner profit and loss report now ignores property selections. This is because disbursements are done per owner, not per property, so they cannot be split.

Version 9.7

Released 26 November 2010

- The Trust Account Audit Report and REINZ Trust Audit Report were both excluding disbursements as unpresented cheques if there were any. This is fixed.

- The OFX file import method of detecting duplicates has been enhanced to also check for duplicate dates.

- An error occurred in the Inspection Schedule screen if you filtered by inspectors name. This is fixed.

- When importing files, if a payees name includes a single quote character such as O'Connor, it would cause an error when creating rules. This is fixed.

- A few small report error messages have been found and fixed.

Version 9.6

Released 11 August 2010

- Mail merge letters which are viewed via the Attachments tab can now be emailed or printed without needing to go back into the mail merge facility.

- If Microsoft Outlook is not installed, the Send Email button on the contact details screen will now open the default email program on the computer. However you will still not be able to send mail merge or reports via email without having Microsoft Outlook installed.

Version 9.5

Released 11 July 2010

- Mail merge letters are now automatically added to the attachments tab for each tenant. Existing mail merge letters prior to updating are automatically included. The date of the letter is also shown.

- The Bond/deposit held report now has the Include Closed Tenants checkbox enabled. Closed tenants with a zero balance will not be shown.

- The bond/deposit held report now shows the bond amount required if the Detailed Report option is turned on.

- When generating automatic income and expense transactions, the transaction code is now shown as a separate column

- The contractors fax number has been added to the contractors work order print.

- Automatic income and expense transactions were automatically changing their bank account to the properties default bank account each time the automatic transaction was edited. This has been fixed.

Version 9.4

Released 8 May 2010

- The Pictures tab on the tenant and property screen has been renamed the Attachment tab, and now allows any file to be attached, and not just pictures.

- The contacts list which was added to the tenant screen last release has now also been added to the owners screen.

- The owners screen has been redesigned. The management fee has been moved to the first tab, a new contacts tab added, and the disbursement history has been added to the disbursements tab.

- When adding tenants or owners, it is now possible to enter the contact details for the primary contact without first needing to save them.

- The company details now allows more room to enter more information. However if the information is entered too long, it may not fit on the reports which cant be avoided.

- A new Trust Account Report has been added, which is the same as the REINZ Audit Report without the REINZ specific details.

- The daily late fee on the tenant screen is now hidden unless late fees have been enabled.

Version 9.3

Released 6 March 2010

- The tenant details screen now allows multiple contact names, each with their own phone and email details. A primary contact can be specified. During the upgrade, the currency tenant details will be entered as the primary contact.

- Automatic extra fees associated with an expense group can now be defined as a fixed value. The option to enter a percentage is still available. You can't specify both.

- A new Disbursement Preview report has been created which lists all the undisbursed transactions associated with an owner and show how a disbursement would be calculated if one was to be done right now. This can be used to diagnose a disbursement value which looks to be incorrect.

- The phone book and print button on the tenant details screen will print or show each contact as entered on the tenant details screen.

- A new feature has been added which enabled you to turn off functionality you don't use. This includes holiday homes, depreciation, disbursements, inspections and mortgages. During the upgrade, all options are turned on by default. Features can be turned on and off from the Maintenance/Options menu.

- Automatic fees and automatic extra charges will no longer generate for closed owners or tenants.

- The Rent Status report now has an option to filter by owner.

- The Trial Balance report now excludes closed owners who have a zero balance.

- During the last release, a change to the way the cashbook screen was updated means the running total was not being updated. This has been fixed.

Version 9.2

Released 4 January 2010

- The landlord login at www.RentRecall.com has had a major makeover. The new facility allows the landlord to download their transactions in a CSV file, contains a payment timeline graph, and is faster to update.

- The tenant login at www.RentRecall.com has also had a major makeover. Tenants now get inspection results and inspection pictures, as well as the payment timeline graph that the landlords have got.

- After adding or editing transactions via the cashbook screen, the transaction list is no longer reloading, making it faster. Edited transactions are updated in place, and new transactions are added to the end of the list.

- The Trial Balance report now includes owners with a zero or a positive balance, although they are listed separately from the owners who money is owed to.

- The Events screen has been renamed the Overview screen, and has been added to the toolbar by default, although it can be removed.

- Future generated rent periods are now excluded from the rent periods screen and balance due. This only applies is people have changed the date on their computer to a future date and back again.

- The database compaction option has been disabled for people running Windows Vista in non-administrator mode.

- The property count is included on the Help/About screen, even for people who have an unlimited property license.

- The Quick Start utility has had a help file added.

Version 9.1

Released 1 November 2009

- A new 'Missed Rent' report has been added. This lists tenants who have not paid their last rent amount.

- Closed tenants previous letters can now be seen in mail merge. They are hidden by default, but are available at the bottom of the list of tenants.

- If there is a very large list of tenant names in the mail merge program, the scroll bar does not go down far enough to reach the last names.

- Extra charges can now be made to tenants who are closed but marked as open for further transactions.

- The new custom date range added to the previous versions report screen, has also been added to the cashbook screen when you press the Filter button.

- The actual location of your database file is now shown in the Maintenance/Options screen on the network tab.

- With Windows Vista users who are not running as an administrator, the database backup may have been backing up the wrong file.

- On the options screen, you can now specify both a from and to number of days range for showing expiring tenants

Version 9.0

Released 5 September 2009

- A print button has been added to the tenant details screen which will print all tenant details including notes.

- In the report screen, the date range selection has been enhanced with a list of predefined date ranges e.g. this month, last month etc.

- On the options screen, the user can define the number of days prior to lease expiry that the notification will appear on the events screen. The same applied to rent review dates and vacant property days.

- When creating a tenant with a weekly rent period, you can specify what day of the week the rent is paid. This will potentially create a short first week.

- A new Quick Start Wizard has been created and can be downloaded from http://www.rentmaster.co.nz/FAQ/QuickStart.aspx . This should only be used by new customers as it will delete or overwrite existing data.

- Last 10 backup failures in Vista have been addressed.

- On the owner list report, the space allocated for the email address has been made a bit bigger.

Version 8.9

Released 11 July 2009

- You can now enter a rent review date on the tenant details screen. You can also specify on the Maintenance/Options screen to create automatic rent reviews every X number of days. The event screen lists upcoming rent reviews.

- Property inspection pictures can now be loaded onto the RentRecall.com web site for property owners to see.

- A new Rent Review Dates report has been created.

- The TXT/SMS screen now displays tenants/owners etc in alphabetical order.

- The phone book screen has been made larger to fit visible entries at a time.

- The phone book edit button also now goes directly to the tenant, owner or contractors screen for quick modification.

- The associations screen now has hyperlink fields for quick editing of associated items.

- The mail merge letter generation facility now has the option to include or exclude closed owners.

- Automatic statement import rules are now visible on the rules screen for edit or deletion.

- The owner management fee can be entered as 4dp.

- Marketing handout report was printing the wrong logo.

- Mail merge was deleting line breaks when converting to email.