Convenient and secure online payments with AppFolio Property Manager
Send and receive payments all on one online platform, with the controls and visibility you need to maximize cash flow and scale your business.
See how AppFolio’s robust online payments solutions can help save your team time and provide a better customer experience
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Create more efficient teams and happier customers with online payments
Handling your finances and accounting shouldn’t be a hassle. Online payments let you run your business with confidence. A fully automated platform increases your accuracy and significantly reduces error-prone, manual processes. Paying your vendors and owners can be done securely and accurately, and collecting online rent payments from residents makes everyone's lives easier.
An online payments platform should provide the controls and visibility you need to send and receive payments, and scale your business — all with a fully digital system. With all of your payments on one platform, you and your team can:
Ways online payments can benefit your business
Automation
Reduce risk
Efficiency
Secure
Convenient
Flexible
The state of online payments in the property management industry
As younger, tech-savvy consumers continue to enter the rental market, they expect technology to keep up with them. Providing this convenient, modern, and secure service to your customers builds a community of happier residents and homeowners that can easily pay rent or dues online, from anywhere.
In fact, according to a 2021 Zillow Consumer Housing Trends Report, 52% of renters shared that they typically pay their rent online, while 65% said that they would pay their rent online if it was offered.
It’s clear that they expect to easily pay their rent through an online portal from anywhere, on any device. They also expect to be able to use a variety of convenient online payment options — such as credit or debit cards, and electronic cash payments. These payments can be made quickly and securely, using bank-grade security to make sure their data is protected when making payments.
Additionally, having the ability to pay owners and vendors on time and accurately is just as important. With convenient payment options to help automate the manual process of accounts payable, an online payments platform frees you to spend less time and money on manual processes.
8 benefits of online payments
Why you should take advantage of online payments?
Online payments allow you to streamline manual processes, reduce human error, and provide a great experience to residents and vendors. By embracing technology, you are providing a service that is mutually beneficial to your residents and business.
Eliminate outdated, time-consuming processes and free your team to focus on providing higher levels of service to your customers.
How accounts receivable works
“AppFolio Online Payments is a central structural pillar to the operation of our company. Through their continuous innovation we have improved customer experience, reduced the use of paper, and improved the efficiency of our team.”
Essential online payment features in AppFolio Property Manager
Accounts Payable
Save your business time and money by streamlining your accounts payable:
Accounts Receivable
Build a community of happier residents and homeowners that can easily pay rent or dues online, from anywhere:
Accounting & Reporting
Our fully digital platform allows you to have instant visibility in your accounting and funds:
How accounts payable works
“Sending payments in AppFolio is a highlight of our partnership. It allows me to quickly pay my clients, which would take me days or even weeks to do manually. Having the entire process integrated within a single platform saves my team and I countless hours.”
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