What's New

June 13th, 2007
  • Print Checks on blank laser check stock straight from your computer
  • Automatically Mail Checks to vendors and rental property owners with Buildium's Online Bill Payment service
  • Send Tenant and Homeowner Statements through the mail automatically with Buildium's new EZ MailerTM service
  • Ability to calculate Meter Charges that include a minimum charge
May 10th, 2007
  • Support for tenant and HOA owner Recurring Charges that automatically post each week, month, or year
  • New and improved Budgeting that lets you forecast income and expenses for each of your rental properties and homeowner associations
  • Streamlined process for automatically calculating and recording Management Fees
  • New and improved Move Out Wizard for moving out tenants and HOA owners
  • New Rent Paid report showing how much rent you’ve collected for a given period
March 23rd, 2007
  • Keep a complete set of books with our professional-grade double-entry Accounting Center
  • Use our Chart of Accounts or tailor it to suite your needs by creating your own asset, income, expense, liability and equity accounts
  • Chose from over 12 new financial reports via the improved Reports Center including the income statement, general ledger and trial balance
  • Chose either Cash or Accrual accounting basis when viewing financial reports
  • Save reports using Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) or Microsoft Excel
  • Find transactions quickly and easily via the new, interactive General Ledger
  • Make General Journal Entries to balance any general ledger account
  • Move tenants and homeowners in using our streamlined Move In Wizard
  • Enter banking transactions and track balances using the new Bank Account Register
  • View balances by account or choose a consolidated view on our improved Lease/Homeowner Ledgers
  • Print professional looking Statements directly from the lease/homeowner ledger
  • Pay all your Rental Owners and Bills at once via check or electronic funds transfer (EFT)
  • View Owner Contributions and Owner Draws on the improved Rental Owner Ledger
  • View Vendor Bills and Vendor Payments on the improved Vendor Ledger
October 20th, 2006
  • View Expiring Leases and Vacant Units on your Dashboard
  • Learn how to setup late fees via the new Calculating Late Fees tutorial
  • Automatically generate Late Fees based on your late fee policies
  • Override your Late Fee policy for an individual property or lease
  • View your late fee policies for all active leases via the new Late Fee Policy report
  • Generate Work Orders from maintenance requests and other tasks
  • View all work orders by property via the new Work Orders report
  • Email Residents and Owners directly from Buildium
October 4th, 2006
  • New Calculate Management Fees tutorial
  • Create Budgets per property and compare against actual expenses
  • Allow residents to choose the day of the month for Recurring Payments
  • Exclude Revenue Accounts from the calculation of management fees while including them on owner statements
  • Pay Vendors Online by entering their banking information for them
  • View Pending and Funded Electronic Payments to Vendors and Owners
August 31st, 2006
  • Improved Owner Statement that lets you create one statement across multiple properties
  • Ability to calculate Management Fees quickly using a flat fee or a percentage of revenue collected
  • Ability to exclude Revenue Accounts from owner statements and the calculation of management fees
  • Ability to search for your Residents by name across multiple properties
  • Ability to tie Condo Residents to multiple units
  • Ability to delete Important Numbers that you no longer use
June 30th, 2006
  • Full support for Mozilla Firefox on Windows and Mac platforms
  • Quickly see and maintain Notes with resident records
  • New Income Statement that lets you see detailed information for each category
  • New Consolidated Income Statement that shows your financial picture across multiple properties
  • Ability to Integrate with your Existing Website from your Buildium resident website by changing the Home link
May 30th, 2006
  • Customize the Rental Application by choosing from more than 30 fields or define you own
  • Fine tune your Notification Settings with more options for resident and prospect requests
  • Review Notification Settings for all users in one place via the Reports Center
  • Customize your Email Signature on emails sent from your account via the Admin Center
  • Enter Starting Balances and Target Reserves for each property
  • Record Owner Contributions and Owner Draws; create timely, accurate Owner Statements online
April 19th, 2006
  • Share documents with your property owners
  • Track unpaid bills and other Accounts Payables via the Financial Center
  • Access a number of New Reports via the Reports Center
  • Use the new Maintenance Worker role to make sure maintenance personnel see only what's assigned to them
  • Charge residents more equitably by Sub-Metering their utility usage
  • Keep track of Meter Readings and generate Utility Charges across multiple ledgers, quickly and easily
  • Save time by generating other Charges across Multiple Ledgers fast with our new charge item wizard
March 20th, 2006
  • Manage all your website settings in one place under the Admin Center
  • Customize your Rental Application to fit the way you do business
  • Collect a rental Application Fee online from prospective tenants
  • See what your Property Owners see when they login to your website
  • Access all of your reports quickly and easily via the Report Center
February 6th, 2006
  • Work the way you want to with a new and improved UI
  • Give Property Owners online access to information about their properties, like income and expenses, payment history, and maintenance history
  • Pay Vendors and Property Owners online, reliably and securely
December 15th, 2005
  • Add multi-unit properties quickly and easily with the Add Property Wizard
  • Track Income and Expenses by property using recognized IRS categories
  • Track monthly transaction volume for each of your Merchant Accounts
September 20th, 2005
  • Frame your Buildium-enabled Resident Portal within your existing marketing website
  • Allow residents to participate in private community Discussion Boards
  • Have rent from each of your properties go to a separate Merchant Account
  • Selectively enable Online Payments for each of your properties
July 18th, 2005
  • Track Property Owners and Vendors in one centralized location
  • Setup recurring charge items using Scheduled Transactions
  • Restrict Property Managers to specific properties
  • Hide Resident Ledgers for specific properties
  • Share Documents with visitors by posting them directly to your public website
April 4th, 2005
  • Track Payments received by unit and then rolled up by property
  • Monitor Outstanding Balances by property and by unit
  • Automatically Send Past Due Notices to overdue accounts by email
  • Assess Late Fees to delinquent accounts, quickly and easily
  • See at a glance how often residents pay late
January 10th, 2005
  • Allow residents to View Account and Escrow Balances online
  • Upload larger Documents to your website (up to 12 MB)
  • Use Categories to group and organize your documents
  • Share Documents with your residents by property
  • Track Month-to-Month tenancies in addition to fixed-term
  • Export your Data to Excel
September 20th, 2004
  • Allow residents to Make Payments online and View Payment History
  • View My Tasks and incoming Rental Applications on your dashboard
  • Set Email Notification Preferences to determine when to be notified
  • Fill Vacancies online by listing available rental units
  • Upload additional Pictures for each of your properties
  • Customize your Website by uploading your own logo