The booking calendar screen previously showed by default one month at a time.  From version 11 you will be able to resize the window to show up to 3 months at a time instead.

RentMaster has had the ability to send emails using outlook for quite a while.  From version 11, for people who dont have outlook, you can now send emails directly to your SMTP email server.

This means the email will be sent automatically without any user interface being shown.  

A default email address is required so that if the receipient does not have an email address, the email will be sent back to you instead so you are aware of the email not being sent.

You can download this update by going to the help menu inside RentMaster and choose Download RentMaster Update. If you have any problems downloading the update automatically, you can also download it manually from http://www.rentmaster.co.nz/update.aspx

What's New?

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- You can now reprint a receipt from the income entry screen.

- You can now create extra charges in bulk on the extra charges list screen.

- In mail merge, you can now insert a date a specified number of days/weeks/months in advance of the print date e.g. print date + 14 days.

- For people who use pay Watercare water bills in New Zealand, a new special watercare screen has been created for quick extra charge creation.

- The rent status screen can be filtered by inspector.

- Mail merge generated attachments can now be edited and saved from the attachment screen.

- If a tenant has overpaid their account, the NZT41 Rent Summary report now has a small caption to indicate overpayment to avoid confusion.

- In mail merge, a new field for Next Period Start Date has been created.

- When adding a new room to inspections, you now have to option to include or exclude that room from all properties.

On the income entry screen you can specify that you want to print a receipt at the time of creating the transaction.

In the coming version, you will also be able to print the receipt after the transaction is complete.  On the income entry screen the Print Receipt checkbox will be replaced with a Reprint Receipt button.

Note that on a reprint, the 'Current Balance', 'Paid To Date', and 'Previous Paid To Date' fields will all print as blank.  So if you use any of those fields on your receipt, you should always try to print them the first time instead of going back to a reprint.  The reason is because we do not record those values at the time of the original transaction, so there is no way of accurately reprinting it maybe 6 months later.

This only applies to people who receive bills from Watercare in New Zealand.  This feature can be turned on and off from the maintenance menu by choosing Options/Features.

The new watercare bills menu option opens up a small window which is designed to quickly create extra charges against tenants.

The window is designed to be used with a barcode scanner.  You can scan the barcode on the water bill, and this will extract the watercare account number.  You then associate that with a property, and also get to select the tenant.  The scanned barcode also contains the total bill amount.  All you then need to do is enter the fixed charge amount (the amount not charged to the tenant) and the variable amount is then created as an extra charge.  When you scan another bill from the same address, the property will already be seleted for you because RentMaster will remember the account number/property association from the last time.