The latest update brings significant enhancements to Yardi Breeze, Yardi Breeze Premier and RentCafe. As always, our goal is to make property management more efficient and user friendly. The spring 2024 update brings about some exciting changes as well as new features requested by our clients. If there’s something that you’d like to see in our next update, be sure to use the Feedback feature accessible via the top menu icons bar in Breeze and Breeze Premier.
This article covers some of the major aspects of this update:
- Maintenance labor tracking
- ID verification
- Invoice correspondence letters
- Track expenses by unit
- Community & apartment amenity presets
- Wait unit management
- New York functionality
- StorageCafe integration
Maintenance labor tracking
Available for: Breeze Premier Residential, Commercial, Manufactured Housing, Self Storage
Maintenance technicians can now clock in and out directly on the maintenance request screen, recording the time spent on issues. This information is used to calculate pay totals, and you can create payables for in-house or outsourced maintenance work. The system will also calculate the total hours spent on fixing an issue and transfer this information to the Billing Info tab. You can add the details of all materials bought and pass on these charges when applicable.
ID verification
Available for: Breeze and Breeze Premier Residential, Self Storage
ID Verify, a robust ID verification solution using artificial intelligence and computer vision technology, is now available. This powerful new add-on enhances security by validating applicants’ identities before they can proceed with renting. You can override ID verification decisions and run an ID verification report.
Invoice correspondence letters
Available for: Breeze Premier Residential, Commercial, Self Storage, Manufactured Housing
Invoices can be automatically emailed to tenants, and the delivery schedule can be set up in advance. The new Scheduled Tasks screen allows you to manage these schedules. Additional changes include the ability to CC multiple contacts on emails and setting the user as the sender for correspondence. New tokens have been introduced for email templates, including a “new amount” token and “new beginning date” token.
Track expenses by unit
Available for: Breeze Premier Residential, Commercial, Self Storage, Manufactured Housing
In reports, you can now track expenses by unit by turning on the parameter in Company Settings. This allows you to select the unit an expense pertains to and filter by specific units when running financial reports.
Community & apartment amenity presets
Available for: Breeze Premier Residential, Manufactured Housing
We’ve introduced a list of predefined standard community and apartment amenities, making it easier to set up property data and ensure all amenities are displayed correctly on RentCafe. You can still add custom amenities if needed. This update ensures that all amenities available at your property will display correctly when visitors use the “compare with similar properties” feature on RentCafe.
Wait unit management
Available for: Breeze Premier Residential
You can now advertise wait units on RentCafe. The update allows you to use wait units as placeholders for unit types that are currently unavailable. Prospects can add themselves to the waitlist through a simplified online application workflow. When a real unit becomes available, you can switch the prospect from the wait unit to the vacant unit, execute the lease and move them in.
New York functionality enhancements
Available for: Breeze Premier Residential New York
You can now provide details about any improvements made to individual apartments. These improvements will be factored into rent calculations for vacant units.
The Window Guard and Combined Window Guard and Lead Paint forms have been recently updated. The RA-LR1 and RA-LR1 ETPA forms have also received updates.
You can now use the Correspondence feature to generate the Standard NY Rent Bill and conveniently email it to tenants.
Adjustments have been made to accommodate a different percentage for the second-year rent increase in a two-year lease.
StorageCafe integration
Available for: Self Storage
The integration with StorageCafe allows facilities to be advertised online. Listings are published on both StorageCafe.com and RentCafe.com, providing extensive visibility with over 80 million visits annually. A new “date ready” field has been introduced for units under construction, ensuring they are not rented before they are ready.
For more detailed information on these new features and enhancements, watch the Spring Release 2024 video or read the release notes available in your Breeze or Breeze Premier Help Center.
