Owners and landlords

The owner workspace — owners, contracts, statements, disbursements and schedules for managed property.

Owners → /owners Beta

When you manage property on someone else's behalf, the owner is a party you owe money and a report to. The owner workspace holds everything about that relationship in one place.

The owner workspace

A single navigation strip runs across the whole module:

DestinationRoutePurpose
Overview/owner-overviewPortfolio-level position across all owners.
Owners/ownersThe owner directory.
Contracts/owner-contractsManagement agreements and their commercial terms.
Statements/owner-statementsPeriodic statements of income, costs and net payable.
Disbursements/owner-disbursementsMoney actually paid out.
Schedules/owner-statement-schedulesAutomated statement and payout cadence.

All owner detail pages are addressed by UUID, so a link you copy from the address bar opens the same record for a colleague.

The owner record

Opening an owner gives you tabs for:

TabContents
OverviewSummary of the owner's position.
ContractsTheir management agreements.
Units in scopeWhat you manage for them.
StatementsStatement history, with Download latest PDF.
DisbursementsPayout history.
LedgerThe owner's account movements.
AllocationsHow receipts were attributed.
Bank accountsPayout accounts.
ContactsPeople to deal with.
DocumentsAgreements and correspondence.
ActivityAudit timeline.

Payout accounts

An owner's bank accounts are managed on the owner record, with one marked default. The default account is what disbursements pay to unless overridden on a specific payout.

Adding an owner

  1. Create the owner

    Owners → Add. Name, contact details, tax identifier, and address.

  2. Add a payout bank account

    Mark one default. Without it, disbursements cannot be paid.

  3. Attach the units

    Link the units you manage for them — this is what drives their statement.

  4. Create a management contract

    The commercial terms: commission, cadence, thresholds. See Owner contracts.

How the money flows

Tenant pays rent
   → allocated to invoices on the owner's units
      → owner statement: gross income − management commission − attributed expenses
         → net payable
            → disbursement paid to the owner's bank account

Two things determine whether this works:

  1. Units must be attached to the right owner — otherwise income never reaches their statement.
  2. Expenses must be attributed to the right unit or block — otherwise costs are never recovered. See Expenses.

Owner overview

/owner-overview shows the position across all owners: what has been collected, what is owed out, what has been disbursed, and which statements are outstanding. It is the page to open before a payout run.

Reporting

ReportAnswers
Owner statementWhat does this owner earn and owe for the period?
Landlord report / statementLegacy landlord reporting surfaces.
Expense reportWhat was spent on the owner's units.

See Reports.

Common problems

SymptomCause and fix
Owner statement shows no incomeUnits are not attached to the owner, or the lease income is against a different unit.
Costs missing from a statementExpenses were recorded without unit or block attribution.
Commission looks wrongCheck the contract's commission terms and their effective dates — terms are versioned.
Disbursement cannot be paidNo default payout account on the owner.
Owner balance shows zero despite activityCheck the statement period and that statements have actually been generated for it.

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