Release Notes for HERO Harmony
Release Notes for HERO Harmony
Following are the notes of new/added features in each major release. This list is a summary of features only, not a comprehensive version log with minor changes and bug fixes. New releases are automatically installed for all users, at no charge.
Release 13 (September 1st, 2024)
General/System-Wide
- Introduced additional MFA by authenticator app
- Introduced new template and letter editor with streamlined features
- Added ability to scroll through lists with mousewheel
- Expanded use of AI in help search with standardized dictionary
- Improved UI through consistency of view/edit vs status/option
- Improved structure to allow localization of normally non-local API functions
Places
- Added printable datasheet
- Added Application Qualification Screening Level to residential, storage, and commercial units
- Improved display of tapechart for short-term units
- Improved printing of report graphs
Accounting
- Added option to have separate settings for invoice approvals for owners and associations
- Added option for admin to unapprove a previously approved invoice before paying
- Added option for admin to modify the date of a pay out before processing
- Added warning on future charges being paid by preapproved payment
- Improved persistence of booking deposit amount for advanced functions
- Improved warnings when setting convenience fees outside of accepted limits by locale
- Improved display of preapproved payment concerns lists
- Improved warnings when processing the last preapproved payment(s) on an occupant agreement and simultaneously holding prepaid rent
- Enforced invoice approval override on recurring invoices
CRM
- Introduced new email editor
- Improved view of in/out messages, and read/unread messages at a glance
- Improved view of setting message actions for task management
Websites
- Introduced compiled frameworks for additional speed and security
- Improved Intro view to provide a better summary of website status, content, and options
- Modified webgadget structure to compile webgadgets and report errors upon editing
- Adjusted form pages to default to rate control on, to reduce form spam
Management
People
- Added quick menu to jump to a specific function from a person without first opening profile
- Added option to import a list without IDs and have IDs automatically generated
- Added routine to clean non-standard phone number formats on import
- Added more predefined special committee purposes for association committees (Social/Events, Communications, Maintenance) to expand automatic portal authorizations for committee members
- Improved import cleansing from messy import source data
- Improved messaging when attempting to complete an import in excess of package limits
- Improved detection of domestic/foreign non-primary addresses and expanded ISO 3166 lists
- Improved notifications of suggested autogeneration of IDs
Agreements
- Introduced new template editor
- Added option to discard an agreement (instead of fixing) when post check fails
- Added option to directly email agreement dossier
- Added current balances to agreement dossier
- Added new options related to recurring charges when renewing leases
- Added option to include merged block of all selected agreement extras in forms, addendums, and notices
- Simplified ability for admins to change agreement names
- Improved function for clearing signatures on eSigned agreements with multiple signatories
- Improved visibility of errors on account posting rules when creating occupant agreements
Maintenance
- Added zoom on hover for place thumbnail images on maintenance lists
- Added indicator to show when a work order file/photo/video was added by the vendor instead of requestor or property manager
- Added function to check for optional agreement extras related to maintenance in work requests, like pest control, filter replacements, or other service extras
- Improved display of work order fingerprints for work order actions taken by owner/association/vendor
Reports
- Improved display of occupants in collections on aging reports
- Improved display of accounts with held payments on aging reports
Documents
- Introduced new letter editor
- Added option to assign a document to an association's committee
- Improved dynamic display of document metadata when editing
- Expanded ability to create documents for groups of multiple unrelated people
Applications
- Introduced App Score with thresholds
- Added new consumer screening report options
- Added indicators for clarity on application items used as components in consumer reports
- Added intuitive quick editor to compose application item rulesets
- Added Screen Score summary for numeric screening score/grade totals
- Added configuration option to send company-specific control codes to integrated screening report providers with applicant data
- Added real-time screening status update item summary as results are returned from integrated providers
- Added mismoXML parsing for consumer reports
- Added function to modify screening process based on unit's Application Qualification Level
- Improved discrete contacts for applications on commercial and storage units
- Improved display of links for candidate applications
- Improved differentiation between preview mode applications and deleted applications
- Improved display of screening scorecard for better at-a-glance assessment of consumer report results
- Improved process of dynamically loading external consumer reports
- Improved detection of domestic/foreign non-primary addresses and expanded ISO 3166 lists
Portals
- Added option to include invoices recorded in Harmony to owner/association portals (in addition to invoices uploaded)
- Added function for owner/association invoice approval (in addition to loginless)
- Added display of association board/committee involvement on portal login status
- Added option to resend portal setup message when portal is already set up, when authorization is enabled
- Added ability for association maintenance committee to view all work requests/approve unapproved work orders in community, in addition to board
- Added ability for association board to see summary of all membership agreements in community
- Improved load/display of portal connections for ancient portal accounts (created 15+ years prior)
Release 12 (April 1st, 2024)
General/System-Wide
- Introduced candidate application system and screening for vendors, sources, employees, and independent contractors
- Introduced agreement timelines
- Introduced agreement dossiers
- Introduced ideas screensaver option
- Introduced smart deep search as option
- Upgraded underlying database for improved speed
- Added option to archive terminated users
- Added flexible privacy policies for different components
- Added viewable change logs of settings
- Expanded agent transfer wizard to cover improper/invalid imported items
- Improved display of agent on lists to more easily see improper/invalid imported items
- Improved handling of background updates
- Improved dynamical calculation of item counts in alert icons
- Improved display when running a memorized search
- Improved preview of visual themes to view all colors before changing theme
- Improved search algorithms, speed, and accuracy
Places
- Introduced new double opt-in structure for NotifyMe registrations
- Added additional listing photo format behind the scenes for improved clarity when reprocessing photos
- Added option for a registered prospective tenant to adjust their NotifyMe preferences
- Added algorithm to detect contact information in listing photo watermarks, which is prohibited by many partners
- Improved formatting of unit listings merged into emails and manual exports
- Improved searchability of units within a property
- Corrected calculation of marketing effectiveness score when a default application fee is used in place of a per-unit fee
Accounting
- Introduced option to attach a document to an invoice from email attachments recently received from the vendor
- Expanded flexibility of online payment transaction and convenience fees, including minimums and maximums
- Added option to set ACH convenience fees as a percent in addition to flat amount
- Added pay in status of "processing" to identify if a transaction is being retried by the processor
- Added guidance on setting processing fees for integrated partners that offer standard pricing
- Added direct query of payment status for integrated Stripe payments
- Added one-click transfer reversals
- Added warning when collecting on management bills if entire date range is not selected
- Added warnings for users changing bill codes, charge codes, and posting rules willy-nilly
- Added option to send a template email when an online payment is submitted, before it is received
- Added display of Stripe early fraud warnings on pay ins
- Added option to exclude occupants and/or accounts from notifications of late fees when message setting is set to always send
- Expanded download options for financial settings
- Improved display of payments made from a person's portal wallet
- Improved speed of loading bank balances
- Improved handling of receipts that pay off dozens of charges
- Improved checking of cleared status for Stripe payments to capture status at first available opportunity
- Improved display of pay ins to improve clarity on pending transactions
- Improved display of past charges and bills when a charge/bill code was used and subsequently changed
- Improved ability to print help articles from within dashboard
- Improved process when voiding pay ins from a transfer
- Improved warnings when paying invoices by ACH when incomplete ACH information is set in payee's profile
- Improved process of setting new posting rules when defaults had been overridden/removed
CRM
- Added common power search options when selecting people for group messages
- Added option to send a template email when a payment is submitted, before it is received
- Improved attachments when sending messages to a group
- Improved queueing rules for messages designated to send in the future
- Improved display of links vs attachments in messages, most relevant to text messages
- Improved matching of inbound email messages when sender has an unusual or non-standard email address format
- Improved display of sender unusual or non-standard email address formats
- Improved text message sending by truncating, rather than rejecting messages over size limit
Management
People
- Introduced new class of candidate for vendors and sources
- Introduced new category of workers for employee and independent contractor candidates
- Improved load speed of checking a person's profile status when viewing lists
- Improved display of matches when searching groups across different people types
- Improved categorization of foreclosed association members
- Improved search speed for all people searches
- Adjusted profile input structure to reduce likelihood of browser attempting to add a person's address as one of your addresses
Agreements
- Introduced agreement timelines to view all agreement events on a timeline
- Introduced agreement dossiers to compile everything related to an agreement into a single file to send to attorney
- Added option to set charge dates that differ from current date for future agreements
- Added option to set charge dates that differ from current date on agreement changes
- Added option to send any email/text to all parties to an agreement as a group (was previously limited to only agreement forms, violations, and notices)
- Improved load speed of reservations where booking deposit status and amount are displayed
Maintenance
- Added warning when there are an excessive number of requests awaiting assignment as work orders
- Improved search speed when searching for content in work requests, work orders, work permits, quote requests, and architectural requests
- Improved display and warnings when dealing with work orders that have a do not start before date or are on hold
- Improved print format when bulk printing work orders
Reports
- Introduced new group/constituent report type for collated individual financial reports
- Expanded payee statements with more detail
- Expanded aging reports with more detail
- Improved handling of very large reports
Documents
- Introduced EXIF data as searchable and viewable content for images uploaded as documents
- Automated assignment of Dublin Core source for system generated documents
- Added option to associate any letter created for an individual to their agreement (was previously limited to only agreement violations and notices)
- Added option to share an occupant's document for portal viewing by their account
- Improved searchability of document content when created letter is converted to PDF
- Improved formatting when capturing initials in an e-signed document
Applications
- Added option for user deletion of application data to more easily comply with "right to erasure" laws
- Added option to delete full application PDFs and application files across all servers
- Added template emails for requesting screening information, such as from previous employers or landlords
- Added configuration options to eliminate screening categories you don't use
- Added option to set default policy and procedure rules for each screening category
- Added option to set a specific privacy policy for applications
- Added indicator in settings for applicant data used in establishing their tenant profile
- Added unprocessed applications to dashboard actions, in addition to existing new applications in alerts
- Improved formatting when printing applications
- Improved dynamic layout when rotating mobile device
Portals
- Introduced new enhanced default format for mobile portals
- Added option to set a specific privacy policy for portals
- Added display of a person's preferred messaging settings when sending portal setup messages
- Added list of charges with dates and amounts when hovering on balance box on portal money summaries
- Added option for accounts (owners/associations) to see documents belonging to and shared by their occupants
- Improved process for sending association, board, and member portal setup
- Improved display of portal setting options when related options were not enabled
Release 11 (October 1st, 2023)
General/System-Wide
- Introduced integrated extras providers with provisioning
- Introduced Stripe as an integrated payment system
- Introduced PIN-based authorizations for users without global authorization
- Added and expanded import options
- Added phone number sanity checking for standard parsing algorithms
- Added HERO Hank AI-based chat help
- Added option to split portfolios in bulk across active agents with agent transfer wizard
- Added options for improved visiblity of actions on tablets and small screens
- Added restricted mode login
- Expanded help functions for improved tracking of support incidents as conversations
- Improved UI styles and animations
- Improved indicators and alerts for e-sign status on agreements and notices
- Improved display of pending status changes on items due to action taken in portals and loginess functions
- Improved display of fingerprint summaries from loginless and portal functions
Places
- Introduced property marketing
- Introduced flexible unit import
- Introduced universal tracking API with expanded tracking and reporting functionality
- Introduced marketing export to PDF
- Introduced configurable owner marketing report for active units
- Added violations history to units and properties
- Added options to deal with recyclable codes when inactivating a unit
- Expanded text marketing system and added text marketing showing option
- Restructured NotifyMe matching for improved speed and clarity
- Improved tracking of invalid agents on imported and transferred places
- Improved messaging when adding multiple units to a floor plan that does not have a template
- Improved view and distribution graphs and history displays
Accounting
- Introduced Stripe as an integrated payment system
- Introduced configurable invoice approval system
- Introduced configurable check number reuse functions for destroyed checks
- Added banking function library to more quickly implement custom solutions for smaller/non-standard banks and credit unions
- Added option for one-time purge of all accounting transactions on newly upgraded accounts
- Expanded journal structure for more flexible archiving
- Improved display of no results messages when search parameters were overly narrow
- Improved warnings when performing non-standard configuration changes
- Improved clarity of configuration based on selection of integrated payment system
CRM
- Added showings integration to text marketing
- Added email open rate consolidated statistics to report on who is and is not opening the emails you send
- Improved NotifyMe matching
Management
People
- Introduced flexible people import
- Improved tracking of invalid agents on imported and transferred people
- Added display of occupant-account relationships on each occupant profile
- Expanded ability to see reports in aggregate for all occupants under an account
- Expanded people concerns report to include open credits and prepaid rent mismatch
Agreements
- Introduced custom extras and integrated extras on all lease and reservation agreements
- Added extras provisioning for partner-provided extras on a per-product basis
- Added third party guarantee as a lease addendum condition
- Added RTO lease option and RTO lease purchase as lease considerations for all lease types
- Added occupant violation review/response as a loginless function
- Added groupings of open and closed violations for clarity in reporting
Maintenance
- Expanded options for who receives appointment confirmations on work orders
- Improved display of stages and pending stage changes based on portal and loginless actions
- Improved display of stages and descriptions on summaries
Reports
- Added extras tracking and provisioning reports
- Added open and closed violations report options
- Added violations time and billing report
- Added work order time and billing report
- Improved standard aged payables and aged receivables reports
- Modified vacant units on reports to show vacancy fee only when configured
- Expanded people concerns reports with open credits and prepaid rent mismatch
- Expanded people communications reports with email open rate calculations
Activities
- Added integration of text marketing with showing activities
- Improved display of status and pending status changes based on portal and loginless actions
Applications
- Added Stripe as optional payment method for integrated application payments
Portals
- Added loginless functions for violations review/response and invoice approval
- Added Stripe payment options
- Improved font flexibility
- Expanded functions to display properties for an owner or association
API
- Introduced universal tracking API for units and properties
- Added option to set a custom key ID for an API key
- Expanded IP address API
- Added API functions for work permits, quote requests, architectural requests, key logs, and job logs
Release 10 (May 1st, 2023)
General/System-Wide
- Introduced new Checklists system
- Introduced new Voting/Polling system
- Introduced assignable resources on owners/associations for occupants
- Added new themes and backgrounds
- Added more quick launch processes
- Improved recovery process for lost logins
- Improved localization of foreign addresses relative to account address
- Improved display of user authorizations enabled
- Improved agreement configuration settings to more easily identify which agreement types a setting applies to
Places
- Introduced unit mandatory disclosure documents system for items like mandatory tenants bill of rights
- Added services agreements list to service providers section of units and properties
- Added experience ratings to units to better monitor the outcome of experiences between a prospect or occupant and their unit
- Added unit rent comparisons for residential units including 2023 HUD Median and HUD FMR rents, and market position
- Segmented unit data so that unit notes, documents, and experiences stay with the property manager under which they occurred when the unit is transferred
- Restructured season and rate tape chart for more compact view, map view, and display by name
- Improved season and rate tape chart display of units unable to have reservations created
- Improved rate check lookup for unit changes (to use same parameters for multiple units)
- Improved inventory map so properties display property name with unit count
Accounting
- Added 1042 tax statements as preview export and export files (forms and FIRE exports are not in valid 1042 format and contain warning)
- Improved bulk processing of non-integrated pay ins (checks, cash, money orders, etc.) for receipts
- Improved alerts on amounts that should never go negative, but can if payment was reversed and replacement was never collected
- Improved formatting to avoid user-created issues not compliant with IRS preferences
- Improved flow when paying invoices individually
CRM
- Added option to drag and drop a message onto a custom folder
- Added warning when a template merge field requires its own block of space, rather than merging inline
- Added more calculation merge fields to calculate dollar values in message templates for agreements
- Enabled option to send occupant agreement forms and notices to the account
- Enabled NotifyMe for commercial and storage units
- Added wizard to mark stale place communications in bulk
Management
People
- Introduced assignable resources, so an owner or association can hold resources that can be allocated, rented/reserved, or loaned to occupants
- Added letter dividers to lists when sorted alphabetically
- Added robust committee structure to associations
- Added ability to quickly email or text all board members or committee members from association
- Added upcoming and overdue board meetings to dashboard people issues
- Added consent authorization for inclusion in public/published directories
- Added notifications when certain reports should be run based on intervals
- Expanded searches to include custom fields
- Improved and expanded summary of people issues on dashboard
- Improved consent authorizations to better indicate and warn when system user is overriding person's opt-in
Agreements
- Added ability to fully exclude unused components from agreements
- Added option to customize and recur other fees on agreements
- Added option for recurring damage insurance/protection waivers on residential, storage, and commercial leases
- Added services agreements list to service providers section of units and properties
- Added configuration options to exclude unused components from all agreement types
- Added minimum insurance requirement to all lease types to more easily identify out-of-compliance tenants
- Added options for non-integrated insurance providers, and self-provided damage protection waivers
- Added coloring of agreement form icons on summary to indicate those awaiting e-signature or e-signed, and additional information on agreements structured for e-signing
- Added summary indicator when an agreement has an e-signed document that the signer converted to wet-ink signable
- Added member architectural standards to community agreement
- Added agreement merge field to calculate all overdue bills/charges (for delinquent notices)
- Added agreement merge fields to display total taxes on agreement by tax type and sum of all taxes due on agreement
- Added ability to merge account (owner/association) information into occupant messages
- Added ability to search agreements by the date they were created, regardless of agreement dates
- Expanded options and reports for trip/travel, renters, and damage insurance/protection waivers to provision insurance along with agreements
- Implemented automatic foreign address reformat on agreement contact/forwarding address
- Improved help on understanding entity domicile for legal agreements
- Improved display of suggested charges for termination fees, cleaning fees, and missing keys and access devices when ending agreements
- Improved guidance on paying security deposit interest when ending an agreement
- Improved flow of adding violations from an agreement or notice
Maintenance
- Introduced architectural requests for association members
- Added charts and graphs to maintenance reports for improved visualizations
- Added configuration options to determine which items appear in maintenance lists
- Added indicator to show the number of items attached to a maintenance issue
- Added indicator to show when there is an unresolved work request where all work orders are finished
- Added additional warnings when a work order has outstanding permits
- Added ability to record special notes for requester notification in work requests, automatically updated when changed from a work order
- Added ability to see company work orders on an owner's unit when viewing maintenance reports for a single owner
- Improved flow of adding maintenance to end back where you started when adding/editing maintenance from special lists
- Improved counting of outstanding work permits in cases where item requiring permit was dropped
Reports
- Added terminated agreements report with tracking of termination reasons
- Added reports for all types of insurance on all agreement types where insurance can be provided
- Added reports for all tax remittances on all agreement types that can be taxable
- Added toggle on agreement account-occupant reports to switch between all units, vacant units, and occupied units
- Added monthly communication rate to contact report to optimize touch points
- Added warnings on security deposit report when security deposit held does not match agreement security deposit (e.g. deposit was increased but not collected)
- Improved progress meter when updating large reports while previous report is still compiling
- Changed name of Completed Maintenance reports to Finished Maintenance to better reflect both maintenance completed, and resolved without work
- Changed date status labels on an upcoming agreement from Future to Upcoming to better differentiate agreement status from date status
- Adjusted profile report to allow company owner, accountant, auditor, and attorney to download full TIN
- Improved work order stage timeline on maintenance reports
Documents
- Introduced unit mandatory disclosure documents system
- Added coloring of agreement form icons on summary to indicate those awaiting e-signature or e-signed
- Added restrictions and warnings when attempting to change or delete an official record
- Improved ease of customizing document names when uploading multiple documents at once
Activities
- Added new event types correlated with workflow actions
- Added full display of unit on activities that are unit-related (showings, move-in/move-out, check-in/check-out, maintenance follow-ups)
Applications
- Added option to submit files, such as copies of pay stubs or bank statements, in an application
- Added option to destroy uploaded applications files after verifying
Portals
- Added option for custom fields to be completed in portal work requests, architectural requests, and violation reports
- Added new structure for association board members
- Improved speed loading messages list
- Increased number of allowed preapproved payments on perpetual agreements to 60
Release 9 (December 1st, 2022)
General/System-Wide
- Introduced smart sort and tag filtering for people lists
- Improved UI for add, filter, search, show, and mode functions
- Improved power searches
- Improved internal management of dialog expansion
- Added quarterly and semiannually recurring activities, invoices, charges, bills, and agreement intervals
- Expanded options for creating users without pre-determined authorizations
- Added all people and agreement types to import wizards, agent transfer wizard, and batch updates
Places
- Added guidance for adding a property when it contains multiple physical addresses
- Improved calculation of Average Daily Rate (ADR) on short-term rentals with incomplete base rates
- Improved address matching for added units/properties
- Removed option for active or inactive association unit, replaced with occupied
- Restricted preferred vendors on a unit/property to only established vendors or system profiles
- Modified units/properties hidden from public to permit private marketing functions
- Adjusted unit summary to display actual rent instead of market rent after unit is made inactive (rented)
- Added fusion process to allow adding unlimited identical (or very similar) units to a property in a single step
Accounting
- Added configuration option for manual (non-integrated) payment processing
- Added manual pay in options to dynamically calculate configured fees
- Added quarterly and semiannually recurring invoices, charges, and bills
- Added ability for management company to write themselves a $0.00 check
- Added option to set an ACH convenience fee for owner and association payments
- Added configuration option to allow account receipts to be posted to income (in addition to equity)
- Added date filter for bank deposits list
- Added warning before bulk paying invoice if any vendor/source is set to prefer ACH but their ACH is not properly configured
- Added auto-detection of ACH payment method when one-time payee has ACH configured
- Added display on consolidated pay out when a consolidated child pay out is reversed
- Added dynamic source query of pay in details for supported integrated payment systems
- Added fusion process to reverse a transfer on management bills paid to management company by transfer
- Added dozens of warnings for unusual transactions, like trusted transfers out of non-trust account, or vendor payments out of security deposit account
- Added configuration option to exclude occupants' prepaid rent from calculation of current balance due
- Changed default when payee payments are on hold so they are not consolidated
- Improved detection of transactions changed in another window or by another user while viewing a transaction
- Improved detection of occupant equity changed in another window or by another user while performing a process that uses occupant equity
- Improved balance bar for improved display of aggregate values and auto-update when values are changed in another window or by another user
- Improved and expanded date calculations of recurring money events
- Improved display and processing for single payment of all outstanding invoices for a vendor or source
- Improved display of overpayments on receipts
- Expanded pay in processing options to allow separate processing of fees where posted payment was previously processed without processing fees
- Expanded reversal options for transfers and invoice discounts not yet paid out
- Improved display of payments where payee did not pay on a specific charge or agreement
- Grouped all occupant receipts to management company under master configuration setting with help
- Restructured occupant dispositions to require selection of deposit or credit type to accommodate keeping different types of deposits and credits in different bank accounts
- Modified send payments to always default to person's preferred method when set, and fallback from ACH to check if ACH is not properly configured
CRM
- Added configuration option to include application link in prospect replies
- Added routine to create message groups that include additional sub-groups
- Added option to include board members or all members when selecting an association from a people select list
- Imnproved view of prospect communications on a unit
Management
People
- Added override option on a person's profile to temporarily prohibit all portal payments, even when payments are enabled
- Added function to set portal payment prohibition when putting an occupant in collections or requiring certified funds
- Added ACH settings to occupant profiles to allow disposition by ACH
- Added warning when viewing/editing a person's profile when they are set to ACH but ACH is not properly set up
- Added indicator when a person's consent authorizations are set by them, and not by you
- Added option to sync changes on a person's profile to their related profile
- Added display of a person's related profile contacts and animals
- Added integrated option to generate random codes for a person's profile authorization
- Improved display of change log
- Improved visibility of warnings when a search includes results that cannot be displayed
Agreements
- Added agreement move-ins, renewals, and expirations to Updates & Alerts (in addition to action boxes)
- Added indicator on reservations missing cleaning work orders when configuration is set to automatically create
- Added fusion process to change the management on a lease (e.g. your owner sells unit to another of your owners with tenant in place)
- Added option to eliminate missing template popup when user does not plan to create a template
- Added bill/statement fee option to leases
- Added status of "Converted" for e-sign documents converted to wet ink signed before all e-signatures are received
- Added configuration option to exclude all assocation elements from agreements, when none of your managed units are in an association
- Added configuration option to automatically add new units to their property's management agreement
- Improved instructions for insurance rate calcuation configuration
- Simplified and improved help for e-signing with an authorized signature
- Improved calculations and processing of automatic month-to-month renewals in 31 day months
Maintenance
- Added indicator on maintenance items that are viewed for a person but are not on that person's agreement (e.g. work done for previous tenant)
- Added warnings when adding maintenance on a unit/property that does not have a current agreement
- Added option to automatically clear the completed date when changing the status of a completed work order (e.g. vendor reported complete, but it is not)
- Improved processing and instructions for key management on occupant agreements
- Expanded to allow key management from unit/property with primary but not current agreement, with warnings
Reports
- Added commercial and storage lease issues to tenant concerns report
- Added occupant violations to concerns report
- Added option to set text size and continous display on vacancy reports
- Added standard payee reports for vendor and source invoices/payments
- Adjusted overdue charges and bills on concerns report to elevate to priority A when overdue amount exceeds $100
- Changed standard occupant statement to show statement balance as final balance, rather than ending balance
Documents
- Added configuration option to merge images preferring either inline images or links to images
Activities
- Improved process and validation for configuring campaigns and projects
Applications
- Added option to filter received applications by unit type
- Added website integration so applications can be fully integrated into a HERO website
- Added configuration of screening elements required by unit type
- Added option to use configured tenant rate instead of application rate for convenience fees
- Added option to automatically sync new tenant's animals from their application
- Added indicator in application configuration for fields that will be used for payee settings
Portals
- Added report filtering and viewing
- Improved processing when a single tenant has multiple lease types (residential, storage, and/or commercial)
- Improved UI to match recent updates in Harmony UI
- Improved formatting of individual message view to better accommodate unusual message structures
- Improved UI for searches and filters
- Changed default to hide occupants' PII when owner is viewing their agreements
- Removed payee wallet options when logged in as property manager
API
- Expanded reports API to include statements for all people types
Beta Release 8 (July 1st, 2022)
General/System-Wide
- Introduced full association/community management system
- Introduced commercial property management system
- Introduced storage property management system
- Added Global Payments as integrated payment provider
- Added metrics for company workload and efficiency, including per-user contributed hours
- Improved loading/speed of dashboard action boxes
Places
- Added inquiry check phrase to filter bot/inattentive inquiries
- Added option for marketing highlights
- Added public license/registration number for required public disclosures
- Added unit analysis charts to properties
- Added number of units, floors, and buildings in a property
- Added dynamic sort to properties
- Added ability to directly put a unit on the market when processing occupancy move-out
- Added unit and property document repository for registration and compliance documents
- Improved unit charts to display rent and sizes by scatter chart
- Added display of units in property not assigned to property's management agreement, with one-click assignment
- Added display of units in property not assigned to a property floorplan
- Added property search to universal search
- Added function to import from another HERO account, including Legacy
Accounting
- Added option to manually create pay ins
- Restructured pay ins to provide more summary information
- Modified pay in void/destroy to optionally automatically refund payer
- Improved processing on preapproved payment plans
- Improved processing/automation for clearing pay ins, and option to treat pending as cleared (for non-trust accounting)
- Added summary indicator when a person responsible for an unpaid charge has a preauthorized payment method
- Added automated drop of preapproved and preauthorized payment methods when a card is canceled
- Improved handling of merged currency fields
- Added configuration option to enable or disable taxes by unit type
- Added help for understanding bank account roles in chart of accounts
- Added optional merge field on receipt messages to show remaining charges outstanding
- Added optional merge field on charge messages for loginless one time payment
CRM
- Added direct option to add an unit inquiry prospect to a campaign
- Added additional smart merge fields for money messages
- Added match analysis of inquiry check phrase
Management
People
- Added types and stats for residential, storage, and commercial tenants
- Added consent authorizations for people to receive official, tax, and financial records by email, where required
- Added DNA registration information to occupant animals
- Added board management/configuration to associations
- Added non-occupant class to occupant profiles for authorized party that does not occupy the unit (to protect from implied tenancy)
- Added option for tenant as association member for ROCs
- Added function to import from another HERO account, including Legacy
Agreements
- Added storage and commercial as allowed occupancy on management
- Added third party guaranty to lease considerations
- Added inline quantity/value reduction tracking in changing agreement fees
- Added option for manager to terminate a preapproved payment plan
Maintenance
- Added automatic fallback to company maintenance for places without an active account agreement
- Added inheritance of work request location to work order
Documents
- Added Official Record designation and indicator to documents
- Added option to share account documents with corresponding occupants
Calendar
- Added violation impact dates to calendar
Applications
- Added separate application configuration for residential, storage, and commercial
- Improved display of advanced options on question configuration
- Added option to accept application payments by different methods
Portals
- Improved display of portal payments
- Added loginless pay one time charge
Beta Release 7 (March 1st, 2022)
General/System-Wide
- Introduced key/access log system
- Introduced violations system
- Introduced RFQ system
- Introduced work permit system
- Added ability to predefine multiple regions under a single account
- Added search caching to advanced searches
- Improved time zone management for users who don't select a time zone
- Improved navigation from action boxes and global searches
- Standardized multiple data sets to ISO format
Places
- Restructured system with places, which contain properties and units
- Added ability to have a blanket management agreement on a property and all its units
- Added ability to register and check out unit and property keys
- Added ability to perform maintenance on a property not related to a unit
- Added properties to agent transfer wizard
- Add ability to track non-appliance unique equipment with warranties
- Improved places map to show all units in their property as a single location
- Improved NotifyMe zip code matching and state filtering
- Improved places search when manually recording prospect inquiries
- Modified agreement connection on a place to include non-current agreement
Accounting
- Added tax configuration and processing to residential leases
- Added ability to automatically recur split invoices
- Added one-click resolution to refunded disbursements (failed ACH, lost checks, etc.)
- Added optional automated messaging for bulk payments
- Added optional automated messaging for charges and bills overdue
- Added option on global charge/bill lists to toggle unpaid
- Added default charge codes and posting rules for separate lease and reservation rent
- Added default charge codes and posting rules for separate lease and reservation insurance
- Added display of charges/balances/credits to reservation insurance report
- Added automatic calculation for increasing residential lease deposits on renewal
- Added generic payment methods of Credit Card and Digital Wallet
- Added additional warnings when trying to use a bank account that is missing information
- Added additional warning when paying a high dollar invoice to a one-time payee
- Added inline view of a pay in creating a receipt
- Added option to select management funds expense posting rule inline on receipts
- Added currency flexibility
- Improved messaging when a financial admin changes unlocked reconciled transaction resulting in unreconciling
- Improved display and messaging on disbursements with a destroyed pay out
- Improved automated releases on residential lease move-out
- Improved processing of transfer funds and trusted transfer
- Improved handling of asset and liability balances transferred between bank accounts
- Improved loading of bank balances
- Improved process of unlocking transactions
- Improved 1099 handling to allow for generating up to 17k 1099s in each category at once
CRM
- Added ability to configure custom message folders and default group
- Added option to configure default filters
- Added inline task management selection for inbound messages
- Added delegation option to inbound messages
- Added option to set a preferred header/footer for messages apart from documents and reports
- Added rollup/down function when creating messages from a template
- Added standard message templates for overdue charges and bills
- Added per-company template image library
- Added ability to create custom template groups
- Improved compatibility of messages with dynamic style classes
- Modified system default templates to be more generic to cover all lines of business
Management
People
- Added custom tagging for each profile type
- Added default profile photo/logo of person's intials in absence of a photo
- Added additional missing taxpayer items to source concerns report
- Added expired foreign taxpayer status to concerns report for owners, associations, vendors, and sources
- Added individual name on all profiles, where profile name and contact name are different from inidividual name
- Added indicator on owner anniversary where they have an annual performance bonus in their agreement
- Added profile summary to top of maintenance, messages, documents, and activities to allow preview of person's full profile while processing item
- Added configuration setting to disallow certain relationships (owner as guest, association member as tenant, etc.)
- Modified display of experience rating to show Undetermined if no experience surveys have been recorded
- Modified profile switch function where same person has multiple roles (association members as tenants, owners in guest rental pool, etc.)
Agreements
- Introduced violations
- Added configurable agreement summary block
- Added option blocks to e-signing
- Added numbering in addition to naming on agreement addendums when merging
- Added prepaid rent required to residential lease agreements
- Added post check routine for additional validation of newly created agreements
- Added field pointer to agreements wizard for easier navigation
- Added per-company template image library
- Added ability to have a blanket management agreement on a property and all its units
- Added custom merge rules for additional flexibility in creating conditional merge data
- Added option to show/hide reservations without booking deposit due on reservation advanced search
- Added option to turn off physical keys on leases for company who exclusively issue virtual keys
- Improved agreement e-signing on mobile devices
Maintenance
- Introduced key/access logs
- Introduced quote requests (RFQs)
- Introduced work permits
- Added smart functionality to check out then in keys on work orders
- Added time tracking to work orders to track minutes spent without job log entries
- Improved work order stage visualizations including out of order dates
- Improved process of adding work orders from work requests
- Improved bulk print of work orders to allow up to 10k work orders per-print
- Improved tracking for CAM work and invoices
Documents
- Added per-company template image library
- Added option to set a preferred header/footer for documents apart from messages and reports
- Added ability to create custom template groups
Websites
- Expanded system webgadgets, especially for those doing business internationally
- Added configurable option to set email accounts to auto-purge oldest messages
- Added option to always prefer form mail as HTML
- Added thumbnail display of internally linked pages
- Improved visual elements
- Improved management of per-page meta descriptions
- Improved email account warnings when approaching capacity
- Improved security of default .htaccess
- Improved ADA compliance in default settings and templates
Portals
- Added loginless quote request (RFQ) functionality for vendor participation
API
- Introduced API versioning to allow users to lock in to previous versions
- Improved JSON results on complex result sets to match XML sets
Beta Release 6 (July 1st, 2021)
General/System-Wide
- Modified UI:
- Improved visual appearance
- Improved display of items loading
- Improved color indicator on custom colored items
- Unified display of each person and agreement's type prefix, status, special type, and manager on all related items
- Improved load time of all lists and action boxes
- Improved print format for all printable items
- Improved viewing of fingerprint data to verify identity when someone takes action outside of a login
- Added demo set to start new accounts with demo people, listings, agreements, maintenance, and activities
- Added ability to give names to custom header/cover and footer/final page templates
- Changed alert icon count bubbles to show when alert count exceeds 99 items
Listings
- Added batch update for certain listing fields
- Added dwelling/property type composition to overview report
- Added ability to create a new reservation directly from listing's calendar
- Improved view of unit information and status in summary views of related items
- Improved activity reports in short-term rentals to better display monthly averages and delta
- Improved display of maintenance information and history on a listing
- Added option to archive a property, or delete if it has no floorplans
Accounting
- Introduced drafting pay ins on pre-approved payment arrangements
- Added option to expand trusted agreements beyond those that share a common person
- Resolved issues with viewing transactions performed as trusted transfers
- Improved the Money View for vendors/sources
- Added option to directly record a refund (overpayment/mistaken payment/inventory return) from any vendor or source
- Added display of management fee notes and management bill calculation basis when adding management bills from occupancy agreement
- Added nudge slider for check/deposit slip printing for non-standard printers
- Modified account statements to display description and memo on detail format
- Modified account statements to more clearly identify bills already paid
- Modified account statements to include overdue bills greater than balance in header alert
- Added configuration options in bill codes to exclude a specific bill code on statements
- Added agreement status indicator to balance reports
- Added option to include an unlimited number of work orders on a single invoice
- Added option to calculate invoice due dates based on payee's default payment terms or company standards
- Added warning icon when paying an invoice (from global invoice list) to a payee that does not have a preferred disbursement method set
- Added warning on paying invoices to taxing authorities when account does not hold a sufficient balance of remitted taxes
- Modified invoice voids to do one-pass void of all bills and detachment of all work orders
- Improved load time on overdue invoice analysis
- Added a recur day calculator for help determining recur intervals
- Expanded commission payment reports to include actual fees billed compared to agreement fees to cover special exceptions
- Expanded tax remittance reports to include property registration information
- Improved warning when payer duplicates a check number in receipt
- Improved messaging on NSFing/reversing a receipt that created related transactions
- Added option to skip time-consuming balance recalculation on large reports
CRM
- Introduced two-way 10DLC texting for text conversations sourced from any system actions or free-form text messages
- Improved ability to see when a queued message is delivered while viewing summary list
- Added configuration option to exclude specified email addresses and domains from matching when receiving messages from unmatched senders
- Improved load time on message summary lists
- Improved management of deleted message purge/restore
- Removed option to cc/bcc group messages to prevent one address/phone number from getting a copy of each message sent
Management
People
- Improved display of statistical delta for calculating company growth
- Improved messaging on experience ratings and direction (increasing/decreasing experience ratings)
- Improved display of people with expiring/expired items (like workers comp, foreign taxpayer W8, etc.) to more clearly indicate status on dashboard
- Added default payment terms to vendor/source profiles
- Added IRS-compliant filter to taxpayer name to avoid potential errors on 1099s
Agreements
- Automated removal of system profile when initiating an agreement on a system profile and transitioning to a person
- Modified reservation extensions to automatically calculate new taxes due
- Added option to directly add new fees after extending a reservation
- Added options to simplify reverting reservations checked-out in error
- Improved explanation of process when adding loginless fields into merged data (see Portals)
- Added loginless guest arrival/departure function, with option to queue arrival/departure reminders (see Portals)
- Added option to email a rate check/quote to a prospect, and ability to easily retrieve saved quotes and proceed to reservation
- Improved agreement searches when a unit's address/ID changes after agreement is established
- Added option for admin to change agreement source after creation
- Added option to select a non-standard status for a related person when processing an agreement change
Maintenance
- Added indicator icons in summary list for financial details on work orders (limits, estimates, totals, and withhold starting date)
- Added loginless work order complete function (see Portals)
- Added option to view recent clean status history and override automated clean status on cleaning work orders
- Added option to resolve work order without editing it in applicable conditions
- Added warnings if Do Not Start Before date is set to be later than the date work is expected to start
- Added warning bar on work orders created from an agreement when the agreement has an unexpected status relative to the work order
- Added admin option to unassign or remove a work order from an invoice
- Improved layout of open maintenance and closed maintenance reports
Documents
- Improved management of deleted document purge/restore
- Switched default internal view of PDFs to direct from preview
Activities
- Added warning bar on activities created from an agreement when the agreement has an unexpected status relative to the activity
Calendar
- Improved loading time of calendar
- Added option to directly add a new activity during any time slot on calendar
- Added option to dock or float calendar date/busyness header
Websites
- Improved messaging for accessing website administration when domain is pending provisioning of secure certificate
- Added view of website in action box to edit website
Portals
- Added new loginless function for work order completion, allowing vendor to update work order status without logging into portal
- Added new loginless function for guest arrival/departure, allowing guest to report arrival/departure without logging into portal
- Added full GPS data tracking/fingerprint reporting for all applicable loginless functions
- Added option to set custom information on loginless functions
Beta Release 5 (March 1st, 2021)
General/System-Wide
- Introduced financial transaction strings
- Introduced memo transactions
- Expanded ability to more easily track and interact with sources (the people, companies, and campaigns that bring you business) and commissions.
- Expanded process logging with improved AI to handle potentially duplicated processes
- Improved dynamic processing status details on processes that take time
- Improved login state when using multiple concurrent/duplicated windows/tabs
- Improved selection/view of context-aware options on an item
- Improved view of action boxes with priority coloring
- Added system-wide prefixes on people and agreement IDs
- Improved search and filter functions and speed
Listings
- Improved listing views prior to editing
- Added bedroom arrangements to short-term listings
- Added manual distributions/exports to distribution history (for Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist, etc. exports)
- Improved range-based filters on listing communications and reports
- Added option to include current primary agreement details in listing inventory reports
- Improved ability to preview a unit throughout the system
Accounting
- Restructured transaction status limits views based on transaction strings
- Added alerts when adding a transaction to a person with multiple agreement (ledger) options
- Added preview report download of pending tax remittances
- Improved issue notification and alerts on tax remittances
- Expanded details displayed on customized allocation of tax remittances
- Added option to set context-aware per-user filter preferences on transaction lists
- Added configurable option to set preferred bank account default on company transactions
- Improved messaging on prompts to apply open credits when open credits were held on non-default accounts
- Improved partial deposit releases from different accounts
- Added configurable option for items to include in statement balance bar
- Improved view of maintenance withholds to include uninvoiced items with present, future, and excluded withholds
- Added configurable option for default inclusion of positive, negative, and zero distributions
- Added account type to ACH disbursements for non-demand destination bank accounts
- Improved security deposit reporting to more easily reconcile partially released security deposits during open agreement
- Improved handling of restricted characters in configurable account names
CRM
- Added configurable option for a user's email "from" name to allow better marketing/positioning in sent emails
Management
People
- Added money view to sources to track invoices from sources and payments to sources
- Added configurable option on sources to designate if the source has been authorized to provide tenants or guests as external provider
- Added agreements view to sources to view all agreements where a source is the external provider
- Added pay to name separate from common name, default bill code, priority to pay, and consolidate limit exemption on source profiles
- Expanded profile icon managing agent color throughout functions and reports
Agreements
- Added discrete sources section to all agreements to better track various sources
- Added quick add function to add a new source while adding an agreement
- Added lease external application source for third-party tenant provisioning
- Added agreement source and commissions as default report
- Streamlined routine for adding multiple units to an agreement
- Improved context-aware default sorts
- Added loginless portal function for guests to add names to a reservation
- Added loginless portal function for guests to accept, decline, or inquire about trip/travel insurance and damage waivers
- Improved selections and displays to more efficiently manage trip/travel insurance and damage waivers
- Added prompt to clear previous tax remittance complete status when extending a reservation to ensure tax difference is properly remitted
- Added check of management bills when finalizing termination of reservation agreements
- Improved allocation tracking to more accurately report on income when allocations are changed frequently
- Added discrete revocable and irrevocable trust entity types on management agreements
- Added option to adjust distribution and withhold settings while preparing management agreement ending/terminating
- Added merge conditions for occupant agreement addendums/articles when management agreement either does or does not have power of attorney
- Added display in summary when a lease has switched to a month-to-month renewal
- Improved view of canceling/terminating/evicting agreements in insurance reports
- Improved report layout of account-occupant agreements report to more easily charge vacancy/occupancy dependent fees
- Added agreement manager (leasing, reservation, services/maintenance) to eligible merge fields
Maintenance
- Added ability to begin withholding work order estimate or total on a future date
- Improved ability for cleaning work orders to set unit status when unit has had no status history
- Added work order external link as eligible merge field for emailed work orders (for links to procedures, instructions, checklists, product manuals, or warranties)
Beta Release 4 (December 1st, 2020)
General/System-Wide
- Introduces tax management for accommodation, sales, and equipment taxes (non-excise taxes)
- Added more search, sort, and filter options throughout the system
- Added specific print format to items and lists for improved printing
- Added configuration option to automatically assign managing agent of an agreement to either the manager of the person or the manager of the place, for cases where they differ
- Expanded icon coloring by managing agent to more easily distinguish the managers of people, places, and agreements
- Expanded and increased speed of global time and geography related components
Listings
- Improved management and display for units with no bedrooms or bathrooms (campsites, RV sites, boat slips, etc.)
- Added option to set missing key fee and access device fee per unit to override account setting
- Added option to bulk re-process all listing photos with current logo stamp, watermark, and compression algorithms
- Improved speed and filter options for schedule and rates
- Expanded options for units that require multiple governmental/community registrations on a single address
Accounting
- Added unavailable funds balance display for accounts, optional on statements
- Added warning on recording duplicate invoice numbers from same vendor
- Added configurable option to exclude booking deposits from balances
- Added option to always allow trusted transfers when agreements share a common person
- Added option for trusted transfers from company to management agreement
- Added option to directly release partial deposits from occupant's Money view
- Added option to reallocate taxes due to taxing authorities for agreements where partial taxes are collected and remitted externally
- Added option to pay an occupant's charge or account's bill from management funds, rather than transferring funds
- Added more filter options to global money views
- Improved management/formatting of foreign/international addresses on printed checks, including for one-time payees
- Added balance of management funds in trust to trust bank account balances summary
- Added option to select source as an invoice payee for commission/co-broke payments
- Improved display of warnings and alerts when paying owner distributions to more accurately reflect minor and major issues
- Improved processing options of overpayments to equity
- Improved visibilty of receipts that include charges posted to account and to management company
- Improved configuration flexibility for non-trust accounting when advance payments, deposits, and taxes are released to account upon receipt
- Enabled invoice discounts for both shared and individual invoices
- Added option to exempt a specific vendor from global setting for consolidated items limit
- Added option to change vendor default Money view
- Added configurable options for display of zero balances
- Added configurable option to automatically select zero distribution owners to receive a statement
- Added configurable option to post transaction fees to trust account when batch processing credit card and online pay ins
- Added deposit slip style of unlimited continuous for non-presented (electronic) deposits
- Added configurable option for which money balances are displayed/hidden in user's portals
- Added administrator option to reverse a reconciliation in same session
- Added option to set individual bank accounts to use reconciliation format matching bank statement
Management
People
- Added separate pay to name for vendors in cases where the vendor is referenced by a name other than who payments are issued to
- Improved options to set domestic person as foreign taxpayer or foreign person as domestic taxpayer including tracking expirations of foreign taxpayer docs like W-8 ECI
- Added option to pay a source directly, rather than requiring them to be entered as a vendor
Agreements
- Added prompts and ability to directly adjust management bills when changing reservation dates and canceling reservations
- Added ability to offer insurance and damage waivers with option to later accept and charge
- Added configurable option to auto-calculate insurance commissions/net rates
- Expanded insurance reporting and added provider-specific reports
- Added ability to override configured calculations for calculated total rent and commissionable value
- Added option to automatically include security, cleaning, and pet deposits in booking deposit calculation
- Added advanced search for agreements by status, dates, etc.
- Added function to show details when booking over top of a canceled reservation
- Added indicator in reservation summary to show full/partial booking deposits collected
- Added alert indicator in summary for reservations where guest checked themselves in or out, but property manager has not processed
- Added display of vacancy fee established, for units with no occupancy during searched dates in account-occupant agreement report
- Added custom configurable agreement report downloads
Maintenance
- Improved management of unit status when completing and resolving work orders
- Added batch processing for work order printing, re-assignment, and stage changes
- Added advanced search for work orders by status, category, type, all work order dates, primary/secondary stage, etc.
- Added display of next arrival/last departure to departure/arrival work orders
- Added work coming due as an action box with configurable interval
- Added configuration option to include/exclude uninvoiced work orders from distributions based on vendor estimates/totals
Beta Release 3 (July 5th, 2020)
General/System-Wide
- Introduces vacation rental marketing, management, and reservations
- Option to view/search items (maintenance, activities, documents, etc.) by serial number
Listings
- Added property registration expiration date for units that require recurring registration with a government authority
- Added insurance contact/policy and expiration date on individual units, allowing tracking of policies at the unit level where owners have multiple units
- Added ability to view full agreement history on a listing
- Added function to restore archived listings
Accounting
- Automated posting account selection when paying management bills by transfer to management company from multiple owners with different posting rules
- Added library of standard bank logos to select from in bank account configuration
- Created default unique posting rules for charges for storage units, parking fees, and memberships
CRM
- Added address checking and verification to prospect entry
- Added option to hide entire containers in merged messages where merge field has no value
Management
People
- Added option to set tenant's address as unit address during move-in process
Agreements
- Made full agreement history viewable by non-admin users with edit privilege
- Added option to specify a third-party leasing and reservation agent on occupant agreements
- Added option to discard agreement in agreement creation wizard, removing all dependencies and assignments
- Added inline option to upload power of attorney on agreements with limited or general POA
- Added option to upload third-party/previously created agreement form as designated agreement form
- Added bills, charges, and deposits as eligible merge fields on agreement forms to automatically include amounts due at set up on the signable agreement form
- Added new reports for account-occupant agreement relationships, agreements open during period, agreements starting during period, and agreements ending during period
- Added option for account agreement to select and indicate occupant agreement types allowed
- Added configuration option to show/hide key agreement dates on calendar
- Added action boxes for key agreement dates (like move-in, move-out, renewal, termination, etc.) on agreement list view
- Added utlities cap, mandatory re-key fee, and allowed vehicles to lease agreements
- Added "Quick Add" function to create new account and occupant profiles mid-stream during agreement creation
- Added configurable termination codes to track the reasons for agreement ending (eviction, termination, non-renewal) by your own internal codes, as well as existing free form reason
- Added background routine to force agreements to others mode when created in self-managed mode and global mode is subsequently changed
Maintenance
- Added Code Compliance and Improvement categories to work orders
- Added "Do not begin before" date to work orders
Beta Release 2 (March 26th, 2020)
General/System-Wide
- Improved version caching for consistency in pushed updates
- Improved time zone functions for users in regions with obscure time zone rules
- Updated security algorithm for passwords and TINs
- Added indicator in dashboard alerts to more easily differentiate items done by a user and done by AI
- Improved response code clarity for failing API requests in open API
Listings
- Improved photo processing for large batches of uploaded listing photos
- Improved algorithm for determining photo order on listing distribution when batches of photos are deleted
- Added routine maintenance items to automatically create work requests when routine maintenance comes due (filter replacement, fire extinguisher inspection, lawn service, pest control, etc.)
- Added advanced recording/tracking of appliance warranties with inclusion in work order
- Added tiny house options
Applications
- Added automatic SSN formatting compliance checking per SSA parameters
- Modified message on applications for pending listings to reflect regional variability in elegibility for a refund of application fees
- Added option to send agent an email when application is started (and finished)
Inspections
- Improved authorized user switching between Harmony reports and Harmony Inspections
Accounting
- Added option to skip late fees on weekend or halt late fees temporarily
- Improved cache timing and wait message when printing a large number of checks at a time
- Modified funds transfer rules to more easily distribute security deposits on management cancelation
- Added configuration setting of pre-defined algorithms for the different types of monthly rent proration
- Added configuration setting for invoice markups
- Converted back-end processing of multi-pay functions to allow a virtually unlimited number of transactions to be payed in a single process (previous limit was ~300-600 transactions per process)
- Added indicator to show when a charge/bill was added to a person on the agrement other than the person you are viewing
- Improved indication of owners who have not selected a preferred statement format when processing owner distributions
- Provided additional clarification on alerts when holding pre-paid advance rent for a tenant
- Improved display of original work order when charging tenant maintenance co-pay on invoice
CRM
- Added retry option on failed messages
- Implemented updated inbound message processor
- Added option to delete messages as spam when they are sent from someone other than a known profile
- Added appointment confirmation messaging for scheduled items, with indicators to show confirmed appointments and reschedule requests on the scheduled item (workorder, activity, etc.) and calendar
- Added experience survey messaging to send to a person after an interaction
- Added ability to re-sort component elements in a campaign template
Management
People
- Added function to copy existing profile contact to a new profile
- Added optional auto-sort to custom vendor industry types and source types lists
- Added configuration option to hide birthday/anniversary alerts (for those who don't like to celebrate)
- Added experience score to each person to indicate their level of satisfaction with all experiences/interactions with you
- Included vendor rating from experience surveys into vendor suitability score
- Improved alert when vendor is foreign and will not be issued 1099
- Added company IRS TCC for electronic filing
- Added animal profiles to occupants to record and report on all animal information for pets and non-pets
- Added vendor service zip codes, service area, and service conditions, restrictions, and terms, with automated comparison during work order assignment
Agreements
- Added services agreement dates to calendar (auto/liability insurance expiration, certification expiration, license expiration, etc.)
- Added highlighting to all expired agreement dates
- Added tenant animals summary (from animal profiles) to lease on initial creation and subsequent view
- Added merge for witness block on agreements requiring witness signature
- Added self-managed mode where there is only one owner and all units are automatically added to a single management agreement
- Expanded options for selecting third-party agreement templates from template libary
Activities
- Improved view of showings so viewing any showing for a prospect from a unit shows all showings for that prospect, on all units
- Added ability to re-sort component elements in a project template
- Added ability to automatically recur appointments, events, and tasks
- Added configurable custom fields
Maintenance
- Added display of the account a unit is on for each work order
- Added work order approval messaging and functionality for vendors to accept, decline, or request a change to assigned work orders
- Added ability for owner to request a change to work when work order is set to client authorization required
- Added validation/tracking to owner/vendor work order approval/acceptance or change requests to verify identity
- Added display of routine maintenance items on a work order created from an automated routine maintenance request
- Added configurable custom fields to work orders and work requests
- Automated statistical calculation of vendor on-time and on-budget performance and corresponding suitability score
- Added alternative processing for after-hours maintenance requests, with advanced schedule configuration