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Getting started
Set up your portfolio and invite your first tenant.
3 articles
Rent collection
How money comes in — cards, ACH autopay, and failures.
5 articles
Leases & e-signatures
Generate, sign, and renew leases in-app.
4 articles
Tenants & messaging
Threaded chat, private notes, and difficult situations.
3 articles
The AI agent
What it does, when it acts, and how to audit it.
3 articles
Security & compliance
Data protection, 2FA, and privacy requests.
4 articles
Billing
Plans, invoices, payment methods, and unit counts.
3 articles
Getting started
How do I add my first property?
How do I invite a tenant?
What's the difference between Starter and Pro?
Rent collection
How is rent collected?
Can rent be paid automatically?
My tenant paid in cash. How do I record it?
A late fee shouldn't have applied. Can I waive it?
What happens when a Stripe payment fails?
Leases & e-signatures
How are leases generated?
Can the tenant decline a lease?
Is a typed signature valid?
How do I send a renewal offer?
Tenants & messaging
Guides
Inviting a tenant
How do tenants reach me?
Can I keep private notes about a tenant?
What if I want to evict a tenant?
The AI agent
What does the agent actually do?
Can the agent act without my approval?
How do I see what the agent did?
Security & compliance
Guides
Security and your data
How do you protect tenant data?
Can I enable two-factor authentication?
Are you GDPR / CCPA compliant?
Where is data stored?
Billing
Guides
Billing and subscription
How do I upgrade my plan?
How do I change my payment method?
I was charged for too many units. What gives?
All reviewed help guides
38 step-by-step product guides, grouped by the job you are trying to complete.
Accounting & payouts
Connecting QuickBooks or your accountant
How to get your Aptoria books to your accountant — a read-only login, or an export of the ledger and tax figures for QuickBooks.
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Exporting your Schedule E
How Aptoria builds your Schedule E from the ledger, what the package includes, and how to export it for your return.
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Understanding owner statements
What an owner statement shows, how it is built from your ledger, and how to read income, expenses, and your net for a period.
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Understanding your financial reports
The reports hub in one tour: pick a date range, load the report you need — rent roll to Schedule E — and export any of them to CSV or print.
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Getting started
Adding your first property
Create a property and its units, set the state that drives your legal rules, and get to a unit you can invite a tenant to.
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Getting started: your first property
The first-run path: add a property and unit, connect payments, invite your first tenant, and turn on the agent.
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Importing existing tenants
Bring a whole portfolio in at once with a CSV: the columns you need, the dry run that catches problems before any invite goes out, and how open balances carry over.
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Importing from another property manager
How to preserve a source export, normalize supported records into review staging, reconcile the ledger and deposit liabilities, and keep cutover separate from approval.
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Setting up your account
The one-time account setup: your profile, how tenant-facing messages are signed, notifications, security, and the settings that unlock rent collection.
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Leases & tenants
Collecting a security deposit
How Aptoria collects a deposit, tracks it as money you hold rather than income, and keeps any deduction a decision you make.
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Creating and sending a lease
How to build a lease from a unit's terms, send it for e-signature, and what the agent handles versus what stays your decision.
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Renewal conversations and tenant retention
How to open a renewal conversation early, present clear choices, document the tenant’s response, and keep the final rent or term decision with a person.
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Screening an applicant
How Aptoria screens a rental applicant, why an approval can be automatic within your limits, and why a denial is always yours.
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Sending a rent-increase notice
How Aptoria drafts a rent-increase notice with the right terms, why it is never sent automatically, and how you approve and send it.
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Maintenance
Adding and vetting a vendor
How to add a maintenance vendor, keep a vetted list the agent can route through, and use scorecards to see who does good work.
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Setting a maintenance spend cap
How to set the cost cap that decides when the agent can stage a repair route through policy checks and when it has to ask you first.
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Submitting and triaging a work order
How a tenant submits a maintenance request, how the agent triages it, and how it reaches a vendor within the limits you set.
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Rent collection
Connecting your bank and payouts
Connect Stripe so tenants can pay rent in-app and payouts settle to your bank — and how payout timing works.
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Handling a failed or returned payment
What happens when a rent payment is declined or returned: how Aptoria retries, notifies the tenant, surfaces the NSF fee for your approval, and stops autopay after a hard reversal.
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How autopay works
How a tenant turns on autopay, when rent is pulled, and what happens if a payment fails.
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How late fees are calculated
Your late-fee policy sets the fee, then Aptoria clamps it to your state's grace period and cap so an automated fee is never larger or sooner than the law allows.
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How rent reminders work
Aptoria nudges tenants before and after the due date so you never chase anyone, with quiet hours, frequency caps, and an automatic stop so no one is hounded.
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Setting up a payment plan
How a tenant who is behind can spread a balance across installments, how you approve or decline the plan, and how paying an installment reduces the rent they owe.
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Starting rent and sending a move-in billing notice
How to give a new tenant one clear, factual move-in payment message: what is due, when it is due, where to pay, and what to verify before the first charge.
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Security & compliance
Adding staff and roles
Invite teammates to your workspace with a role that fits their job — from full admin to read-only viewer — and remove access in one tap when it should end.
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Connecting your CPA (view-only access)
Give your accountant read-only access for tax season, control exactly what they can see, and revoke it in one tap when the return is filed.
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Exporting your data
Every way to get your data out of Aptoria: the full personal-data download, per-report CSV and print, and the audit-log export.
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Reading your audit trail
Every autonomous action is logged, explained, and — where possible — reversible. How to read the timeline, export it, and why it matters for disputes and compliance.
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Security and your data
Turn on two-factor authentication, manage sessions and backup codes, export your data, and review the audit trail.
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Tenants & messaging
Inviting a tenant
Send a single tenant invite, add a renter who's already in place, or bring in many at once with a CSV.
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What your tenant sees
A tour of the tenant portal: the lease overview, paying rent and autopay, submitting maintenance, and messaging — all scoped to their one unit.
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The AI agent
Reviewing the agent activity log
The activity log shows every autonomous action the agent took, the plain-language reason behind it, whether it can be undone, and the exact policy it was operating under.
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Setting autonomy thresholds
Spend caps, approval thresholds, and the actions that can never be automated no matter how you set the dials.
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Understanding the cancellable window
Irreversible autonomous actions wait in a short cancellable window before they run. Where to see them, how to stop one — even from a phone notification — and what happens after.
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Using the approval queue
How proposed actions reach you to approve or deny, and how the soft-commit window lets you intercept an automatic action before it lands.
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Using the emergency stop
The kill switch pauses all agent autonomy at once and voids anything sitting in its safety window, without touching your configuration. How to use it and how to resume.
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Your autonomy policy history
Every change to the agent's limits is recorded — what changed, who changed it, and why — and every past action carries the policy that was in force when it ran.
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