Rent Demands
The Rent Demand function is accessed via the Produce Rent Demands icon from the Financial tab in the Lettings group of the ribbon menu.
The Rent Demand functions produces a list of unpaid Rent Duetransactions due up to a Due Date with the following information:
- Due Date - the due date of the Rent
- Rent Due - the amount of Rent due
- Contact- name of Tenant
- Property - address of Property
Producing Rent Demand
- Under the Step 1 tab select the Due Date
- The Site/Branch defaults to the current branch but can be changed if required.
- Specify the Minimum Amount of the demands you are collecting for.
- Select the rents you wish to include using the Include check box.
- In Step 2 - if the Use Contacts Preferred Delivery Method i.e. Email/Post/Both is selected then the Rent Demands will be produced in the format that the Landlord has set in their preferred delivery method in the More Details screen. If the Use Contacts Preferred Delivery Method is unselected then once you have clicked the Run button you can chose the delivery method.
- Click the Run button.
- The Due Date is defaulted to 7 days in the future.
- Once a Rent has been included on a Rent Demand it will be excluded from future Rent Demands unless the Only Include Rent Demands checkbox is un-checked. However producing a Rent Demand for a new Rent will automatically include any Rent Arrears.
- If emailing Rent Demands, the email template can be modified via Email Templates. The Rent Demand will be added to the email as a PDF attachment.
- The preferred delivery method for Rent Demands is set for each Tenant on the More Details tab of the Contact screen. This can be set to Email, Post, Email & Post, and Not Required.