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Residents → /residents A resident is a person the platform knows about in relation to a unit: a tenant, a unit owner, a next of kin, or another contact. Residents are the identity layer under billing, communications and the tenant portal — a wrong phone number here means a reminder that never arrives, and a missing link to a lease means an invoice with nobody to send it to.

What a resident record holds

Role is the resident’s relationship to the unit — tenant or owner are the two roles that carry paying responsibility; other roles (such as next of kin) are contacts only. Status reflects whether the association is current. Start date and end date bound it, so a resident who moved out remains on the record with a closed period rather than being deleted.
A person and their tenancy are separate ideas. The same individual can be the tenant of one unit and the owner of another; each association carries its own role, unit, status and dates.

The residents list

The list is a full grid: filter, sort, group, choose columns, and export. Columns available include Id, Company, Property, Block, Unit, First/Last/Full name, Email, Phone, Other emails, Other phones, Company, Vehicles, Licence plates, Occupation, National Id, Birthday, Address, Comments, Role, Status, Start date, End date, and the audit columns (Created by / at, Updated by / at).
Use the Block and Unit columns with a filter to answer “who is in this building right now” in one step — faster than opening leases one at a time.

Adding a resident

1

Open the form

From Residents, click Add.
2

Capture identity

Name and national ID are what other staff will search on. Capture the ID at onboarding — it is much harder to collect later.
3

Capture contact details

Phone and email drive every notification the platform sends. Enter the phone in the format your organisation uses consistently, and use the secondary fields for alternates rather than overwriting the primary.
4

Set the association

Choose the block and unit, set the role (tenant, owner, contact), and set the start date.
5

Save

The resident is now selectable when you create or edit a lease.

Importing many residents at once

Use Import residents from the list, or Admin → Bulk Upload with the Residents type. The importer maps your spreadsheet columns to resident fields, validates before committing, and records the run in the upload history with a per-row outcome (created / skipped / failed and why). See Bulk upload.

Viewing and editing a resident

Open a resident to see their profile: contact information, address, birthday, occupation, company, licence plates, comments, notes and documents. From the profile you can:
  • Edit identity and contact details.
  • Manage documents — attach IDs, signed agreements, KYC files.
  • See linked leases and units — current and historical.
  • Open the tenant’s statement to see what they have been billed and what they have paid.
Editing a resident’s phone or email changes where future communications go; it does not retrospectively change messages already sent. Check the Delivery Tracker if a resident says they never received something.

Residents and leases

  • A lease names the resident who is responsible for it. Billing, statements and collections all resolve the person through the lease.
  • A resident can be linked to several leases — a current one and historical ones, or several units at once.
  • Ending a tenancy does not delete the resident. Set the end date and status; the history stays intact so statements and audits remain correct.
See Managing leases for the lease side of this relationship.

Residents and the tenant portal

Residents with a valid email can be given access to the tenant portal, where they see their own bills and statements, pay, raise service requests, and book amenities. Portal access is per person, and it inherits the units they are associated with — so a resident who holds two units sees both.

Screening

Where enabled, the resident record carries a screening section used during onboarding to record background and reference checks before a lease is signed. It sits alongside lease applications, which handle the wider intake workflow.

Common problems

Next steps

Managing leases

Attach residents to units under a contract with rent and charges.

Lease applications

Intake, checklists and approval before a resident becomes a tenant.

Communications

What was sent to whom, and whether it was delivered.

Tenant portal

What residents can do for themselves.