Rent · Leases · Mobile money
Rental Management
Properties, leases and tenants in one place, with rent paid by mobile money and passed on to the owner — for landlords and agencies in Rwanda and Malawi.
Building this now. Nobody is using it for real yet. First customers help shape it and get founding pricing.
The problem
What this is actually for
Rent arrives on several different phones, and working out who has paid this month means scrolling back through SMS.
A tenant says they paid. The owner says they did not. Nobody can produce the record.
An agency collects for several owners and pays each of them by hand, late, at the end of the month.
A leaking roof is reported in a phone call on Tuesday and forgotten by Friday.
Who it is for
- Landlords with a handful of units
- Letting and property agencies
- Compound and estate managers
- Tenants, who get an app of their own
- Built for
- Rwanda and Malawi
- Runs on
- Web, Android, iOS
See it
Shown running, on test data
A rent system without real payments behind it is just a form, so there is no demo on this page. On a call we show you the system itself, connected to a mobile money test account.
What we would show you
- The landlord side: properties, units, leases, tenants, maintenance and invoices
- The tenant app on a phone: the tenancy, which months are paid, and paying rent
- A test rent payment by mobile money, confirmed, and the owner’s share paid on
- One property in Kigali and one in Blantyre, each in its own currency
Test data throughout. Nothing we show you is a real customer’s record.
Where it stands
What is built, and what is not
The left column exists and we can show it to you running. The right does not exist yet.
Built
- Web app for landlords and agencies: properties, units, leases, tenants, maintenance requests, invoices and reports
- Tenant phone app: the tenancy, which months have a payment on record, paying rent and payment history
- Rent by mobile money through pawaPay — MTN and Airtel Money in Rwanda, Airtel Money and TNM Mpamba in Malawi — working against pawaPay’s test environment
- Rent passed on to the owner once the payment is confirmed, minus a commission the agency sets (or none)
- Each property in its own currency, RWF or MWK, and totals that never add one to the other
- Rent charged only on active leases
Not built yet
- Real money: production onboarding with pawaPay is not finished
- Regulatory confirmation for collecting rent and paying it on, in Rwanda and in Malawi
- The tenant app in the Play Store and the App Store
- Each agency’s records walled off from every other at the database level — being built now
- An arrears ledger: who owes what, and since when
- A live deployment. Nothing runs for a real landlord yet
The order these get built in is not fixed. It is one of the things a first customer gets a say in.
Be one of the first to use it
Rental Management is not finished, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What early customers get is real influence over what gets built and in what order, founding pricing that we will not raise on you, and us on the end of a phone. What we get is someone telling us where it is wrong.
Not this one? The other six — or tell us what you actually need.