About
Why this application exists
A Sunday in January
The agency's charge settlement arrived in December. Now each tenant's share has to be worked out, pro rata to the days, charging only what the lease provides for. On a spreadsheet, that takes the evening — and it starts again the following year.
What eventually overflowed
Seven properties: in Fribourg, in the canton of Vaud, two in Portugal. Some in personal ownership, others held by a holding company and its subsidiaries. Two banks, UBS and Banque Cantonale de Fribourg, whose statements do not look alike. A spreadsheet that recalculated mortgage interest by hand, a OneDrive folder where leases, settlements and rent-setting notices piled up with no order.
It was the repetition that overflowed the spreadsheet, not its complexity. Twelve QR-bills a month to prepare. A statement to tick off line by line to know who had paid. A reminder to write in proper form, without getting the deadline wrong. Each action was simple; it is doing them over and over that wears you down, and it is in wearing down that a deadline slips by.
Gestorent was written for that portfolio. It runs on it every month, on real settlements, real bank statements, the real mistakes you only find by using it. Then it was opened up to others.
Who it is for
For the landlord who manages between one and twenty properties themselves, and who has another job. Not for an agency: an agency has staff, procedures and a five-figure management software package. The independent manager who runs someone else's portfolio under mandate has their own tier: that is what the Agency plan sells. You have one evening a month and Swiss tenancy law to comply with all the same.
That is what decides everything in the application: what can be calculated is calculated, what can write itself does, and what commits you (a settlement, a formal notice) passes before your eyes before it goes out.
Three differences
Tenancy law is in the code, not in the manual
An item the lease does not provide for is not recharged, even if the agency included it on its settlement. A renovation fund stays with the owner, whatever item it was filed under. That is art. 257a-b CO, and it is better held by the application than by your memory on a Sunday evening.
Nothing is written without you seeing it
A settlement's allocation is shown before it is saved. A payment whose reference is not readable waits to be classified rather than being assigned to the most likely tenant. Two brothers share the same name, two nearby rents come to the same amount: an allocation error is only discovered by a phone call.
Your structures are not a special case
A holding company that owns two subsidiaries, a parking space bought with the flat, a property in euros: the model was written around cases like these because they were its own. The parking space carries its own purchase price when the deed gives it one, and carries none when it is included in the dwelling's — you say which, the application does not assume. A single mortgage can cover both.
Try it on one property
One property, one lease, one QR-bill. You will see within an hour whether it suits you — and the Discovery plan stays free if you only have one.
Request accessBy e-mail, directly
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