What to set up first

You do not need to configure everything before the product is useful. This is the order that gets you to something working fastest, and everything else can wait until you need it.

1. 1
   Add a property and at least one unit

   Nothing else attaches to anything until a unit exists.

2. 2
   Set your rent rules

   Grace period, late fee and which payment methods you accept. Five minutes, and it stops you having to remember the policy later.

3. 3
   Connect payments

   This is what turns a ledger into money arriving. See “Connecting payments”.

4. 4
   Add a resident and a lease

   The lease sets the rent and the dates, and starts the ledger.

5. 5
   Invite the resident

   They set their own password and can pay from that moment.

What can wait

Documents, listings, accounting, vendors, your team, the community site. None of it blocks collecting rent, and all of it is easier to set up once there is real data to hang it on.