All Forum Posts by: Nikki Kofkin

Hey! Did you find the person?

 Thanks Justin! Yes I definitely took the user experience into account with my decision based on your thoughts and others anecdotes on the thread. And very interesting point about indicating who has made the payment!

Originally posted by @Joe Splitrock:

Originally posted by @Nikki Kofkin:

I made a quick features comparison. These weren't all-encompassing features but enough for me to make a decision. After seeing that TurboTenant and Zillow can't take separate roommate payments, those two were out. I was really leaning towards Tellus and Rentler. The Tellus app interface is really cool and I like that it has a lot of extra features (like move in and move out reports you can share with tenants with photos in the app). I think I am going to give Rentler a try for now as it has the most features that I am interested in...for some reason am not as keen on Cozy at the moment. Happy to add any other rows and update this, or allow anyone to contribute to the Google Sheet and add another comparison/spice it up here: https://docs.google.com/spread...

 Just FYI, Cozy did not have a mobile app, but Apartments does have a mobile app. I would also consider adding other criteria to your selection process. Digital lease signing is amazing and within that feature you want ability to load your own lease. Usually with that feature comes digital document storage, so the tenant can download their lease at any time. That is just one less thing for them to ask you for. I would also consider advertising capabilities for vacancies. Zillow and Apartments are the only services that drive vacancy traffic. Some of the other services may syndicate out to other platforms. The nice thing about having advertising integrated is someone can apply on the same platform that they found your property. 

Ah you're right! I just logged into my Apartments.com app and yes, I can look at rental manager view. I did have to re-log into apartments.com, it seems like I'm not on the app anymore though and looking at it on mobile friendly deskop that I clicked through the app...I think the main reason I didn't want to do Cozy/Apartments was because of the recent integration. But maybe I'll do a split test and try it out too.

And yes that's a good point about uploading my own lease and digital doc storage! I would still advertise on Zillow and Apartments. Easy to re-activate my listing so it's not much work so I didn't add that row because I didn't care much about that. But yes a good point for others considering. I probably would want to use a different application so I didn't add that row either (I generally use mysmartmove, haven't compared that to Zillow or Apartments.com applications yet). All good points though.

I made a quick features comparison. These weren't all-encompassing features but enough for me to make a decision. After seeing that TurboTenant and Zillow can't take separate roommate payments, those two were out. I was really leaning towards Tellus and Rentler. The Tellus app interface is really cool and I like that it has a lot of extra features (like move in and move out reports you can share with tenants with photos in the app). I think I am going to give Rentler a try for now as it has the most features that I am interested in...for some reason am not as keen on Cozy at the moment. Happy to add any other rows and update this, or allow anyone to contribute to the Google Sheet and add another comparison/spice it up here: https://docs.google.com/spread...

I made a quick features comparison. These weren't all-encompassing features but enough for me to make a decision. After seeing that TurboTenant and Zillow can't take separate roommate payments, those two were out. I was really leaning towards Tellus and Rentler. The Tellus app interface is really cool and I like that it has a lot of extra features (like move in and move out reports you can share with tenants with photos in the app). I think I am going to give Rentler a try for now as it has the most features that I am interested in...for some reason am not as keen on Cozy at the moment. Happy to add any other rows and update this, or allow anyone to contribute to the Google Sheet and add another comparison/spice it up here: https://docs.google.com/spread...

Currently looking into payment processing options myself and have narrowed it down to Cozy, Rentler, TurboTenant, or Zillow at the moment because all are free for landlords and offer free ACH payments for tenants. Will be curious to see if you add TurboTenant to your tests! @Joe Splitrock you made a good point about feature comparison. Would be good to compare the features of each in addition to user experience. This would make a good article.

@Carolyn Fuller Thank you SO much. I'm glad I could read through that thread. I'm going to continue researching. I'll update here what platform I choose.

Hey Tony, thanks for your reply! We will see if anyone else replies. but based on Carolyn's post above I might give Rentler a spin. I'll post an update.

Carolyn thanks so much for your reply. Do you happen to have that post handy by chance? Good to hear about Rentler. I might give that a shot. Glad your experience with Cozy has also been positive.

Hi all! I am looking into getting a new rent payment processing platform. I want one that's free for both landlords and free ACH payments for tenants. From my research, my top 4 picks are Cozy (via Apartments.com), Rentler, TurboTenant, or Zillow. Wondering if anyone was deciding between any of these options, and why you picked what you did? 

A little backstory, I have one condo rental and will soon have two more units in the same building (house hacking it and living in the third). I have the two properties under one LLC per my tax advisor's direction. I opened two checking accounts for the business and was planning to have tenants use Zelle into the respective checking account but then found out this: "Unfortunately each business entity can only be associated to one checking account. At this time you can not set up another email for the same entity and have it directed to another account under that business. This could change in the future as we are continuously making enhancements to our online platform." So, I believe I need to find a payment processing platform so I can collect rents to deposit into my separate accounts.