What changed, month by month

At the start of each month we post the new features, improvements, and fixes that shipped. Every dated entry is live for all accounts, and finished work that is not live yet is marked On the way. The history goes back to the first portal in 2017.

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New or improvedFixes and smaller changes

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Fewer clicks for every role, and vendor quotes

This work is finished and goes out with the next release.

  • Today leads with the one item that needs action. Property and tenant records gather units, tenants, repairs, documents, and photos into tabs, and messages move to a two-pane inbox.
  • Change a repair's status and vendor straight from the list. Reporting a problem or adding a tenant fits on one page.
  • Tenants get a home page with their rent, repairs, documents, and property team, plus a Get help page that sends each kind of problem to the right place.
  • Vendors can accept or decline a job, set a visit time, and submit or revise a quote. You review quotes in the work queue. A quote decision does not authorize work or send payment on its own.
  • Work queue recommendations can be given an owner, and proposed actions such as marking a repair complete wait for an administrator's approval.
  • Rent arrears, finance review, reports, repairs, and the tenants list load faster.
  • Fix or smaller change: Editing a property no longer clears its notes, repair list filters and summary counts agree, and support replies are no longer lost while the page refreshes.
v1.8.0

Latest

Property messages, pricing by active tenant, and repair photos from any phone

  • Landlords and tenants can message each other about a property from a new Messages inbox. New messages also arrive by email, so conversations no longer end up spread across texts.
  • Pricing now follows active tenants. Core is $19.99/month and includes the first 5 active tenants, then $1.50 each for tenants 6-20 and $0.75 each after that. Past and inactive tenant records no longer count. Annual billing is 20% off.
  • Repair photos work from any phone, including iPhone HEIC photos, Live Photos, and bursts. Photos upload while the form is filled in, a request holds up to 30, and large phone photos no longer fail to upload.
  • Reporting a repair takes fewer steps. The AI suggestion fills in the category and priority, the tenant list narrows to the property you picked, and landlords can log a general repair for a property without choosing a tenant.
  • You choose which repair events reach each role, company-wide or per property: push and inbox, inbox only, or off. Residents no longer see repair comments unless you turn on Read repair comments.
  • Optional AI helpers can read inspection photos, draft a turnover scope, read a vendor's compliance documents, and compare move-in and move-out condition reports. Vendors can receive an optional job packet. Every result is a suggestion you review.
  • The work queue now recommends follow-ups on open repairs, compliance, documents, finance review, and onboarding. Act on each one or dismiss it.
  • Overdue rent you bill in QuickBooks now appears in the Delinquency Worklist and Financial Copilot. The worklist switches between late balances and everything still open.
  • Email Sync imports only mail from tenants by default, and you can widen that. You also choose who is notified when a request is created from an email.
  • The tenant home page opens with a Next up list. Vendors see their assigned jobs grouped, with search and history. Adding a vendor is now a step-by-step form.
  • Fix or smaller change: You get an email alert when your phone denies a sign-in you did not start. The two-factor "don't ask again" choice is remembered for each account, and support tickets are visible only to the person who filed them.
  • Fix or smaller change: Welcome, new-request, new-tenant, and rent-increase emails no longer show raw HTML tags, and new-request emails include the request details. Sign-in pages scroll on phones, narrow screens no longer scroll sideways, single notifications can be dismissed, and settings pages link back to the main menu.
v1.7.0

An assistant in support chat, email replies on tickets, and a new brand blue

  • Support chat is now an assistant called Maya. It answers questions about your own account and points you to the page you need. It never files a ticket on its own; it prepares one and waits for you to press the button.
  • What the assistant tells you follows your role. Company owners can ask about billing and subscription, managers cannot. Vendors see only the work assigned to them, and tenants only their own tenancy.
  • Chat history is kept per person, so you can look back at what you asked. Long or idle conversations now continue in a fresh thread, where before they dead-ended.
  • Reply to a ticket email from your own inbox and the reply lands on the ticket as a comment. Tenant replies do the same, so the whole thread stays in one place.
  • AI writing help for landlords drafts and tidies repair notes and email replies, and triages new maintenance requests as they arrive. Anything it drafts waits for your review before it goes anywhere.
  • Repair requests widened into resident issues. Categories are grouped by kind, and the form now asks only what needs deciding.
  • Connected mailboxes are sorted for you, with a review queue for anything the system is unsure about and a live countdown to the next sync.
  • QuickBooks invoices for a tenant now sit on the tenant's own record instead of a separate screen.
  • The property page leads with what is pressing and shows rent payment status at a glance.
  • The marketing site, the app, and the interface guide use a new brand blue. We chose it for contrast: it meets AA as a button fill and as link text, which the previous accent did not.
  • Fix or smaller change: Notification settings moved into System Options, and that page now saves as you change it instead of waiting for a Save button.
  • Fix or smaller change: The sign-in page fits the screen without scrolling, and phones no longer download the large dashboard image they were never shown.
v1.6.0

Delinquency worklist, a faster way to sign up, and clearer integrations

  • Landlords have a new Delinquency Worklist. It totals what is overdue across your portfolio and lists the tenants behind it, so chasing rent starts from one screen.
  • Signing up is quicker. Guest pricing now offers an express start on the core plan at $19.99/mo that goes straight to the account step.
  • Package cards now show what you save against buying the same add-ons separately: $6.00/mo on Essentials, $9.99/mo on Pro, and $19.99/mo on Scale. Annual billing shows its extra saving on the same card.
  • The Command Center now has its own place in the menu, right after Today. Before, you could only reach it by typing the address.
  • QuickBooks and Email Sync now show their connection and sync state where you manage them, so you can see at a glance whether a connection is working.
  • QuickBooks tenant matching is cached and shows when it last refreshed, so opening the match screen no longer waits on a fresh lookup every time.
  • Fix or smaller change: Removed a duplicate Subscription link from the Money menu. Company billing lives in your account menu, and that is now the only place it appears.
  • Fix or smaller change: Fixed Getting Started appearing twice in the account menu.
v1.5.0

Owner portal, rent ledger, field inspections, and phone sign-in

  • Property owners get their own portal: a read-only sign-in limited to the properties assigned to them, with monthly rent, maintenance, and net cash summaries. They can download a monthly summary (CSV) that leaves out tenant contact details.
  • Each tenant has a rent ledger covering charges, payments, and late fees, with a printable receipt for any recorded payment and a shared balance tenants can see.
  • Rental units became records of their own. You can group units, assign residents to them, and convert older free-text units into structured ones.
  • Added field inspections with offline-safe drafts and photo capture, plus unit turnover and work-order tracking for the gap between tenants.
  • Added lease renewal tracking and a tenant onboarding checklist, so upcoming renewals and half-finished move-ins stop living in your head.
  • Added compliance reminders for landlords, with per-item controls over what tenants and owners can see.
  • Added optional DocuSign e-signature, applicant screening handoff, and read-only API access with tokens for connecting your own tools.
  • Added the mobile API behind the Rentals369 app, including one-tap phone approval sign-in.
  • Card payments for your own subscription now run through Stripe in-app.
  • Fix or smaller change: Moved browser assets onto our own servers and pinned their versions, so pages no longer depend on an outside CDN staying up.
Earlier history: June 2026 back to 2017
v1.4.0

QuickBooks Sync, Email Sync, the vendor portal, and the Command Center

  • QuickBooks Sync arrived as an optional add-on: tenant invoices, a tenant ledger view, accounting controls, and webhooks that keep finalized charges and payments moving without re-keying.
  • Email Sync now connects a company inbox, Gmail included, so maintenance email lands on the request it belongs to.
  • Vendors now work in their own portal: accept a repair, set an ETA, and close it out, with vendor records and compliance documents kept alongside the job.
  • The new Command Center puts the day's work on one screen, with a Morning Brief, a work queue, and a move-readiness board.
  • Added a monthly or annual billing toggle. Annual billing applies a flat 10% discount, taking the base plan from $19.99 to $17.99/mo, and pricing and feature details now share one page.
  • Added an onboarding tutorial and a role-aware user guide for new accounts.
  • Added trusted device support for two-factor sign-in, so you are not challenged on every visit from a device you already confirmed.
v1.3.2

Two-factor sign-in, Google sign-in, and encrypted contact details

  • Added authenticator-based two-factor sign-in, required before normal access on production accounts.
  • Added Google sign-in as an alternative to a password.
  • Contact details are now encrypted in the database, and production traffic is pinned to a secure connection.
  • Improved tenant document uploads with sensible document-type defaults and a clearer upload screen.
  • Added an in-house error monitor so we see problems before you have to report them.
  • Fix or smaller change: Fixed several billing issues: discounts are kept when a subscription changes, checkout no longer reuses a deleted Stripe customer, and billing previews refresh correctly on inactive accounts.
  • Fix or smaller change: Support can now reach an account that has lapsed, so a billing problem no longer locks you out of getting help.
v1.3.0

Vendor portal improvements

  • Vendors can set an ETA date and time when they accept a repair job. The landlord and tenant can both see it.
  • Added uploads for vendor compliance documents, including insurance certificates and licenses.
  • Vendors can attach job photos to repair completion notes from their portal.
  • Vendor assignment history now lists accepted, declined, and completed jobs in one timeline.
v1.2.0

Email Sync add-on launch

  • Launched Email Sync as an optional add-on for supported inboxes, with routing, logging, and repair-timeline links for configured tenant email workflows.
  • Added three per-inbox tiers: Basic ($15.99/mo), Pro ($29.99/mo), and Scale ($79.99/mo).
  • Supported inbound attachments can be stored in the relevant tenant's document folder.
v1.1.0

Tenant portal improvements

  • Tenants can view a status timeline for each repair request, from submission through vendor assignment and completion.
  • Landlords can send notices directly to the Recent Notices feed in a tenant's portal.
  • Redesigned tenant invite emails with clearer first-time instructions and a mobile-friendly layout.
v1.0.0

Launch

The rebuilt platform

In 2026 we rebuilt Rentals369 from the ground up, without carrying the 2017 code forward. The entries below cover the original portal, which shipped in June 2017 and ran for real landlords into 2020.

  • Landlord dashboard with property, unit, and tenant records.
  • Rent tracking, charge creation, payment recording, and late-fee workflow.
  • Maintenance and repair request management with vendor dispatch.
  • Document, notice, photo, and file storage organized by property and tenant.
  • Dedicated tenant and vendor portals, included with every plan at no extra cost.
  • Graduated per-tenant pricing starting at $19.99/mo, with all core features included.
v0.9

Notices, deposits, and configurable options

  • Reworked tenant notices so a notice was recorded against the tenant it concerned.
  • Reworked the security deposit calculator used at move-in and move-out.
  • Site options moved into the database, so an administrator could reconfigure the portal without a code change.
  • Rebuilt tenant records and the routing behind them, and refreshed the shared page layout.
v0.8

Dashboard, email notifications, and photo albums

  • Added a landlord dashboard as the landing screen after sign-in.
  • Reworked the outgoing email templates behind portal notifications.
  • Photos gained albums, so pictures were grouped by property instead of sitting in one flat list.
v0.7

Framework upgrade and the move to live hosting

  • Consolidated and upgraded the portal onto a newer framework release.
  • The portal moved off a local development machine onto live hosting, where it served landlords until 2020.
v0.6

Site administration and billing work

  • Added a site administrator role, separating platform administration from an ordinary landlord account.
  • Continued work on subscriptions, purchase history, and the account settings screens.
v0.5

Tenant and property records, administration screens

  • Continued work on creating and editing tenants, the busiest screens in the portal.
  • Built out the administration area and the property detail view.
  • Refined the subscription and purchase history screens.
v0.4

Photos, plans, and paid subscriptions

  • Added property and repair photos.
  • Added subscription plans and billing, which turned a private tool into a paid product.
  • Added a site options table for configuration.
v0.3

Dashboard, audit log, and security deposits

  • Added a dashboard summarizing portfolio activity.
  • Added an audit log recording account activity.
  • Added comments, so notes could be attached to the record they belonged to.
  • Added a security deposit calculator.
  • Added a feedback channel, and moved slow work such as email onto a background queue.
v0.2

Tenant notices

  • Added notices, so landlords had a record of what was served to a tenant and when.
v0.1

Properties, tenants, and repair requests

  • The first three records of the product: properties, tenants, and repair requests.
  • Repairs tracked status, cost, who was responsible, who did the work, and who paid.
  • Every record was scoped to a company from the first schema, the same multi-tenant model the platform uses today.

Each report covers the month before. A quiet month gets a short note.

Ask about a change

Recent changes that give you time back.

Most updates take a step out of a job you already do.

  • Overdue rent on one screenThe Delinquency Worklist totals what is overdue and lists the tenants behind it, so chasing rent starts on one screen.
  • Repairs in fewer stepsPhotos upload from any phone while the form is filled in, and the AI suggestion fills in the category and priority.
  • Conversations in one placeTenants message you about a property from one inbox, and email replies to a ticket land on the ticket.

Every dated change here is already live.

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