Adding a new Rental Property
From Standout Property Manager Wiki Help
Getting Started – Adding a new Rental Property
Standout has been designed to market and manage a property, either with No management whatsoever, rent collection or fully managed.
Guided Mode
Standout by default works in guided mode. Meaning property statuses will be shown in the order of what is expected. For example, when a property is created the only status available would be “Pre Valuation”, in free mode, all properties statues are display.
This part of the help system will describe the following:
- Adding a property on the system including assigning a new Landlord and all the tabs associated with a property (both Sales/Rentals).
- Booking a valuation
- Accepting the valuation
- Making the property available
- Creating an applicant
- Booking a viewing
- Making an offer
- Adding a second tenant
- Creating an agreement
- How Financials work
- Tabs
Displayed above the property details, tab elements will be shown (and hidden) depending on a property contract etc. These tabs will allow different sections to be shown. We recommend that if you’ve amended information in a tab, press Save property before proceeding.
Identification
The first area to be completed should be the property header information, this would be a unique reference (either type your own or allow the system to generate one), select the branch (if applicable), date the property can be marketed and if you’re going to market this property as a “Featured” property on your website and/or Portals, this can be changed at a later date if required.
Address
Next enter the address details of the property, enter the Postcode of the property – if that Postcode exists in our database, either partial details will be populated or a drop down list of all the known addresses will be available for selection. Once selected, the data will be populated into the address fields – if you wish to edit these fields, you can do so at any time. If known/required, the local council can be selected for this property. If for any reason the address is not picked up from the post code then you will need to enter the full address manually.
If you subscribe to the Zoopla portal for Display Address to be recognised by Zoopla, it must have 3 sections, by default this would be the “Road Name, Town, First part of the Postcode” ie “High Street, Town, M26”.
Mapping is an integral part of Standout and property searching, a properties Latitude and Longitude will be returned but, if you wish to move the marker on Google Maps, then use the Set Map button to move the marker to the required spot, clicking Close will then update the Latitude/Longitude accordingly.
As above, the Streetview can also be amended but, please be aware that Google may not have mapped new houses/estates so a close location may have to be chosen until their views have been updated. Once you’re happy with the view of the property, click close to save the amendments. Additionally, you can turn this option off by settings the Include street view to No.
Owners
Current Owners
As this is a new property, No owners selected will be displayed.
Add Owner
When you start typing a name (at least two characters), existing contacts within Standout will be displayed. To add a new contact, click the link “Create a new contact”
Adding a new landlord
Enter the landlords’ details in this new tab. The minimum amount of information needed to complete this task are:
Title
First name
Surname
Contact type – by default Landlord will be ticked (or checked)
Telephone or Mobile number
Email address – we believe this to be the most important as Standout can email contacts important letters, notices, and general emails.
If the Landlord is a Company, enter the company name.
Address – address where the Landlord resides or their business address.
Once you’ve clicked Create contact, you can close this tab and return to the Add owners to enter the name details of your new landlord.
If there are multiple landlords for a property, you will need to repeat this process. Where multiple landlords exist, a primary can be selected.
Basics
Contract
The basic information refers to the contract and property information. Contracts that can be chosen are “For Sale/To Let/Auction”. For this example, we’re choosing “To Let” (each option displays and hides options for that contract.
Managed
Managed options are “No/Rent Collection/Yes”, for this document, “Yes” will be selected.
Class
Classification is the type of property being Let, “Residential/Commercial/Business”, “Residential” will be selected.
New Build
Pertaining to the property itself, is this classed as a New Build Property, either Yes or No.
Tenure
Is the Tenure of the building “Freehold/Leasehold/Commonhold/Share of Freehold/Flying Freehold/Share Transfer”.
Residential type
A list of available residential property types, based upon the rules given by Rightmove.
Property style
The type of property – “Detached/Link Detached/Semi Detached/Terrace”, based upon the rules given by Rightmove.
Year built
The year (if known) the building was built.
Bedrooms
How many bedrooms has the property? This is required!
Bathrooms
How many bathrooms has the property? This is required!
Reception rooms
How many reception rooms as the property? This is required!
Price
Should your Landlord already have prices for their property, this section will allow you to enter those figures. However, this section can be left blank until you’ve visited the property and completed a valuation.
Currency
If you’ve configured Standout for multiple currencies, then you will have the option to choose, otherwise, it will be the standard (£ GBP).
Flash
A message displayed on your website, generally on the main photograph of the property.
Let price
The amount of the rental
Price qualifier
Choose from the list of available qualifiers
Post price message
A free text box to enter a message after the price on your website
Let period
When will the rent be due – Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly/Annually/Per 4 Weeks/Per Person Per Week
Bond price
Known to some as a deposit – the bond should be paid by the tenant prior to their agreement start and held in your deposit scheme provider.
Fees
Contractual arrangement
The options available are Joint Agency/Multiple Agency/Sole Agency” and are set whether the Landlord has the property marketed by yourselves and/or other agencies.
Contractual fee split
When not a Sole agency, you can select how the fees will be split between the agencies.
Management Fee
How much will be charged to the Landlord for your services, either a percentage of the rent or a fixed fee.
Finders Fee
If you charge a Landlord for finding a tenant(s), then enter the fee.
Other agency name/Contractual details
These fields will be displayed when not a sole agency for you to enter the information.
Once the above has been completed, click the Save property. Any errors will be shown at the top of the display and will need to be resolved before a successful save.
Book Valuation
When editing your recently entered property, you can click the button, located at the lower right of the screen OR in the More actions menu.
When clicked, you will be shown the Diary view, normally showing the current working week, choose the day/time when you will visit the property and double click the time slot – e.g. Wednesday at 6pm.
The appointment form will be displayed, showing pre-populated information, including a small google map showing the property location. Should you wish to change anything, you can at this point.
If you are NOT visiting but a colleague, you can choose their details in the drop down select for “For” otherwise, your name will be displayed. If you've logged into Office 365, this appointment will be created in the Outlook Calendar for the attendee.
You can then choose whether to email the owner, if you do, click so a tick appears, they will receive an email confirming your visit.
Letter selection
As you’ve booked a valuation, Standout has master letters available for you to create and either email or download/print. They are:
- Potential Listing Sheet
- Rental Take On/Valuation Checklist
- Valuation Appointment
All the above can be duplicated and personalised in the Administration/Letter Templates section.
If none are required, click “Back to property without creating letter” at the bottom.
Property Status Update
As you’ve booked a valuation appointment, the property now has a status of “Awaiting Decision”. The only other status available is “Cancelled” should a Landlord wish not to use your services.
Confirm/reschedule valuation
Once you’ve valued the property, you can then use this option to either:
- Confirm the information
- Reschedule a new valuation appointment
Confirming the valuation
Edit the property and choose either “Confirm/Reschedule valuation” at the bottom of the screen, or the matching button on the “More actions” menu.
Contractual Agreement
Confirm the agreement – Sole Agency/Joint Agency/Multiple Agency.
Managed
Taken from the previous screen, this should match your previous choice – for this document, Yes is chosen.
Let period
Taken from the previous screen, this should match your previous choice – for this document, Monthly is chosen.
Initial Market Price
Enter the valuation price that you feel is the market value, the minimum and maximum that you feel your agency would accept.
Fee
The period fee your agency charges, which will be either a fixed fee or a percentage.
Finders fee
The fee you charge to the landlord for finding a tenant
Bond price
The amount required to hold in the deposit scheme until the end of the tenancy.
Valuation Advice
A text box to allow you to enter any additional information that you feel the landlord should be aware of.
Cancel
If you want to stop doing this and return to the property
Reschedule valuation appointment
Ignore all the above if the appointment did not occur and you wish to reschedule.
Confirm valuation
Save the information provided and return to the property.
Letter Production
You will be offered the option to create a letter stating your valuation details, which allows you to amend, along with your agency terms and conditions.
As with all letters created in Standout, Document will download a Word document, Email will email it to your landlord (subject to an email address in the landlords’ details) or Both.
If you do not wish to create the letter, choose “<- Back to property without creating letters”.
Property Status Update
As you have now completed the above, the property status should now be set to “Valuation Confirmed”. Available statuses from this dropdown are “On hold/Available/Withdrawn/Valuation Confirmed”.
Additional information prior to placing a property on the market
Before placing a property on the market, the more information provided regarding the property, the more likely a property will either be sold or let.
Secondary details
Various fields that are self-explanatory but to help:
Agency specific features
You can select entries from the drop-down list (items such as Children considered, Cul-de-sac, Double Glazed etc). This list is editable in the Administration part of the system.
Additional features
Floors select from the list provided
Usual entrance floor select from the list provided
Parking select from the list provided
Assigned parking space(s) enter the details regarding the space(s)
Heating enter the details
Accessibility enter the details
Outside space enter the details
Burglar alarm Yes/No
Dishwasher Yes/No
Smoke Alarm Yes/No
Carbon monoxide alarm Yes/No
Inside Area/Land area
Enter the areas and Standout can convert between feet/Yards/Meter squared/Acres/Hectares
Running costs
Rates information enter the details
Council tax band select from the list provided
Utilities
Average gas cost enter the amount (if known)
Average electricity cost enter the amount (if known)
Average water rates enter the amount (if known)
Annual fees
Ground rent fee if applicable
Estate management fee if applicable
Insurance fees if applicable
Descriptions
Brief description It's important to include a brief description, as this is often what is shown on your own website—and on portals—before someone clicks to view more details.
Full description It may be thought that the full description will be used to enter a complete and thorough description of the property, rooms, outside and any other information pertinent to the property. And whilst this is true, we recommend using the Floors & rooms (see below for further information) to fully describe these rooms.
Bullet points Add up to 20 bullet points regarding the property
Floors & rooms You can detail the property using floors and rooms, this will allow you to enter a floor or room name, the dimensions, a detailed description, up to four photographs and if required, for that room to be excluded from a brochure.
Please note: photographs should be uploaded prior, in the Media tab.
Default rooms & floors can be created in “Administration/Branch/Default rooms” – such as Agency notes etc.
An example would be:
- Ground floor
- Front Garden (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Entrance hall (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Reception (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Dining room (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Kitchen (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Conservatory (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- First floor
- Hallway (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Bedroom One (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- En-suite (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Bedroom Two (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Bedroom Three (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Bathroom (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Rear Garden (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Garden studio (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Garage (giving a description/photo/dimensions)
- Agency Notes (place your notes in the description)
Additional descriptions
Directions By clicking the Directions button, Standout will calculate the
directions from your branch office to property.
Location Enter any additional information regarding the property location, not entered in either the descriptions or rooms & floors.
Vendor View/Opinion Enter additional information provided by the landlord/vendor regarding the property.
Media
General media
Photographs upload all the property photos and order them how you’d like them to be viewed online
Brochure Media order the photos if different from above
Floor plans upload floorplans into this section
Floorplan URL If the floorplan is hosted by a 3rd party
Video URL If you’ve a video on YouTube etc, paste the URL here
Rental
Rental options
Shared Property this document does not go into HMO properties, see our document “Marketing HMO properties”
Rental Features
Let type select from the drop-down list
Furnished select from the drop-down list
Minimum Term enter the minimum length the landlord is prepared to accept
Contract length enter the contract length
Pets allowed Yes/No
Smokers considered Yes/No
Benefits considered Yes/No
Sharers considered Yes/No
Rent includes Up to 1000 characters describing any additional inclusions
Bills included Self-explanatory Yes/No options included within the rental amount
Property finance information
Mortgaged property Yes/No
If the landlord wishes for you to know this information, you can record Mortgage Provider, term, price, date, monthly repayment.
Utility providers
Gas/Electricity/Water Select from a list of providers (if known)
Inventory Add inventory items that will be in the property at the start of the tenancy recording - room, item name, condition, quantity, value, additional notes and a photograph
Repairs Once a tenancy in active, you can report a repair and allocate a contractor. Selecting contractor type, contractor, date reported, report to, date passed to contractor, date to be fixed, date fixed, contact method (how the tenant reported the repair), details of the problem, additional staff notes (internal only), quoted cost, fixed cost, signed off by agent/tenant.
Recurring payments These payments generate a payment request to the tenant, and are intended to be used for things like extra car parking space, gardening services, window cleaning etc, automatically applied to active agreements and can be seen in the Financials
tab
Service appointments These are appointments for services that are booked for this property.
Rent reviews These are rent review appointments that are booked for this property.
Certificates
EPC If the EPC is required, you can upload a certificate, otherwise, choose the EEC and EEP values to then Generate EPC certificate for the property. Also, when you place the expiry date into Standout, a diary appointment will be created on that date reminding you about its expiry.
Additional Certificates enter the Certificate reference, expiry date and if you hold a copy, select copy held. As above, an expiry date reminder will be created.
** Whilst there are other tabs, this guide will now skip them as they are covered in the property help guide **
Placing the property on the Market
When your landlord confirms your valuation, you will need to edit the property to place the property online to start promoting:
Important fields
Let price set the let price to what has been agreed
Status change to Available
Click the Save Property button
Letter production a letter named “Property On Market” can be created, if
Required, and downloaded, emailed or both.
Depending on the date you have specified in “Date available” the property will either go live as of that date or, if the date is in the future, the property will not be uploaded to any website or portal until that date.
Money Laundering
If you’ve configured Money Laundering (Administration/Branch/Money Laundering provider) you will have 30 days to obtain relevant documentation (see Contact/Money Laundering to record identification).
Booking a viewing
When a potential tenant contacts your agency regarding the property, you will need to input their details onto Standout. Ensure that you choose “Applicant/Tenant”, enter their email and current address. This will ensure you can select them when booking the viewing.
How to book a viewing
Contact click More Actions / Book viewing / Quick search property / Choose the appointment date/time and whether to email Owner/Tenant and if the Landlord confirmed.
Contact list click Edit / Book viewing / Quick search property / Choose the appointment date/time and whether to email Owner/Tenant and if the Landlord confirmed.
Property list click Edit / Book viewing / Quick search property / Choose the appointment date/time and whether to email Owner/Tenant and if the Landlord confirmed.
Property click the button “Book viewing“ or “More actions / Book viewing” – you can choose to either book a tenant viewing appointment or a staff viewing appointment (for yourself or another member of staff). Choose the tenant and the appointment date/time and whether to email Owner/Tenant and if the Landlord confirmed.
Viewings/Offers
Once a viewing has occurred, you can update viewing details. To do this, edit the property, choose tab “Viewing / offers”. For simplicity, we will continue with the tenant making an offer to progress the property to a Let state and creating a tenancy agreement.
Options available when updating a past viewing are:
Book viewing book a subsequent viewing (if required)
Add viewer feedback if the viewer has given feedback, enter it here
Send feedback request email send an email to a viewer asking for feedback
Make offer enter offer details given by viewer
Making an offer
Enter the offer made by the viewer (for rentals this is usually the asking price), you can select their financial position, if there are any additional parties (their partners), offer conditions, our advice and then click Make offer.
Letter selection
Due to the Make Offer being the same for Rental and Sales, Standout has two master letters aimed at Make Rental and Make Sales. Each one can be customised. Select Make Rental. Choose your letter format (Document/Email/Both).
Accepting an offer
Depending on what your landlord says, you can Reject an offer, however, for this document we will be accepting the offer to proceed further.
Click the “Accept” text and then click Ok to the popup confirmation.
Letter Production
Letter production uses the “Offer Accepted” letter and will allow you to create a letter to all tenants and landlords, with the standard options to Document/Email/Both.
Property Status
When accepting the above, the property Status will change to “Application Made”, options available are “On Hold/Available/Application Made/Let/Withdrawn”.
Creating an Agreement
Once you’ve completed your due diligence (credit checking, money laundering etc) and are ready to create the agreement, edit the property and choose the Rental Agreements button.
For a new property, there will be no agreements, but as you let and re-let a property, a history of agreements will be displayed at the top.
By default the agreement will be created for the tenant that you accepted with their offer.
You will then be able to create the Agreement details:
Agreement date The date of the agreement (usual todays date)
Reference The reference you give to your agreement for this Property/tenant/landlord
Let period How often is rent due
Initial period (Monthly) How long will the agreement be in place (12 = one year)
Start date When will the tenant move in
End date Usually calculated using Start date and Initial period
Rolling contract Will the tenancy agreement stay in place after the End date
Auto Update Tenancy Address Do you want Standout to replace the address held on the tenant details with this property address
Let price How much rent for each period
Bond price How much is required for bond (deposit)
Finders Fee How much is the landlord paying for your agency for finding a new tenant
First Payment Due When is the first payment due (then occurs on that day each period
Payment Terms Zero by default, meaning if a payment is not received on the day specified, it’s overdue
Days to pay landlord 2 by default. How many days after receiving payment, will the landlord expect payment from your agency
Send a reminder How many days prior to rent being due, Standout can send an email and/or sms reminding the tenant
Send reminder by Disabled by default, select from the options available.
Note: SMS requires your account to be in credit, see Adminstration/SMS
Tenancy Deposit Scheme Which TDS provider you use
Deposit Scheme Reference The reference number for this agreement
Additional Clauses Any additional clauses to this agreement, that differ from your standard agreement
Initial Inspection visit If someone from your agency is to visit the property, choose a date and staff member
Guarantor If the tenant provides a guarantor, choose them
Fee details The fee is taken from the previous settings but if you wish to change, then enter a new fee, select the type and when the fee is due.
Letter production
Standout will now create the Agreement Tenancy, populated with all the information entered in your agreement. You may amend this document prior to creating a Document/Emailing or Both.
You will be returned to the property agreement screen, now a new tab will be displayed called “Financials”.
How to recover from creating an incorrect agreement
Should you make an error with an agreement, you can perform one of two actions, End Agreement will end the agreement, leaving the agreement in your property/agreements history. Alternatively, if this agreement is no longer required or you do not wish for it to display, click “Delete Agreement” to remove it completely.
Meter readings
Standout can store the meter readings for the start and end of the tenancy, these can either be obtained by a staff member visit or the tenant relaying them to you, along with the providers.
Financials
This tab will display three additional tabs:
Figures in a spreadsheet type format, all the transactions associated with this agreement.
Breakdown This breakdown counts and sums the various payment types. Note that any discrepancy shown may be due to a pending landlord payment, and will disappear when financials are up to date.
Graph This graph will allow you to more easily see any irregularities with the transactions for this agreement.
Figures
The first section shows an overview of the following information:
Tenant owes you
Landlord owes you
Total agency earnings (excludes bank charges and VAT)
Total landlord payments
Generating a statement for your landlord
When your landlord requests a statement, you can quickly and easily create one from here. Choose the Start date, End date or choose one of the Date helpers from the drop-down list and click Generate Statement.
Report details
You will be shown the following columns:
Date
Description
Reference
Status
Fee
Amount
Output options
Two options are then available to you are:
Download Statement downloads a copy for you in PDF format
Email PDF to contact emails a copy to the landlord (subject to an email address being stored)
Record payment
When you either send or receive a payment, you record that payment in this section. Standout where relevant, will automatically assign the payment to any partial or unpaid items.
The entry details are:
Direction is the payment From or To
Party who is the payment from/to
Payment method how did they pay?
Payment type Is the payment Rent/Other/Bond
Amount How much is the payment
Date What date is on your bank statement
Reference What is the reference on your bank statement
Description Any additional information you wish to record
Click the Save button to confirm the above details.
Example:
An agreement created on the 13/10/2021, tenancy starting 15/10/2021, Bond of £495.00, Monthly rent of £595.00 with a Finder’s fee of £125.00 (plus VAT – if applicable) and monthly management fees of £60.00 (plus VAT – if applicable).
How to allocate the first month’s payments from the tenant and paying the landlord on the next working day.
Entering payments
At the start of a tenancy, subject to a reliable tenant, you should enter the following details of payments from the tenant and payment to your landlord:
| Direction | From | Method | Type | Amount | Date | Ref | Description |
| From | Tenant | Bacs | Bond | 495.00 | 14/10/2021 | ABC123 | Payment from Tenant |
| From | Tenant | Bacs | Rent | 595.00 | 15/10/2021 | ABC123 | Payment from Tenant |
| To | Landlord | Bacs | Rent | 373.00 | 18/10/2021 | LL-001 | Payment to Landlord – Rent minus fees |
When you enter the first months rent payment, Standout will allocate the Rent Due transaction paid, it will also mark the Invoice to landlord paid, if there is an Invoice to landlord for the Finders fee, it will take that into account, therefore, prior to your final entry above, the transactions should display as:-
| Date | Description | Status | Fee | Amount | Tenant Balance |
| 15/10/21 | Payment from Tenant | OK | £0.00 | £595.00 | £0.00 |
| 15/10/21 | Invoice to landlord
Management Fee |
Paid | £60.00
plus VAT of £12.00 |
£0.00 | £595.00 |
| 15/10/21 | Rent Due | Paid | £0.00 | £595.00 | -£595.00 |
| 14/10/21 | Payment for Bond | OK | £0.00 | £495.00 | £0.00 |
| 13/10/21 | Bond request | Paid | £0.00 | £495.00 | -£495.00 |
| 13/10/21 | Invoice to landlord
Finder’s fee |
Unpaid | £125.00
plus VAT of £25.00 |
£0.00 | £0.00 |
On Monday 18th, you pay your landlord the above amount, record it with:
| Direction | From | Method | Type | Amount | Date | Ref | Description |
| To | Landlord | Bacs | Rent | 373.00 | 18/10/2021 | LL-001 | Payment to Landlord – Rent minus fees |
As of the 18-10-2021, the balances would be:
Tenant owes £0.00
Landlord is owed £0.00
Total agency fees £185.00 (excluding bank charges and VAT)
Total Landlord payments = £373.00
Manually marking payments
If you have a transaction that has not been automatically allocated AND all the balances are £0.00, choose the Actions button, then select “Mark as paid”. This will mark this transaction as paid.
Viewing options
You can choose to either display or not display the following transactions:
Landlord / Tenant
From
To
Charges
Rent
All or None
Transactions list
All the transactions listed with the following information:
Date Transaction date
Description A description of the transaction
Status Payment status
Fee If the transaction is a fee, with a description (if any) displayed below.
Amount Amount of the transaction (if not a fee)
Tenant Balance Rolling figure of the amount owed by a Tenant
Actions
Mark Paid If the transaction has been paid but showing unpaid, use this.
Dispute Mark the transaction in dispute
Print invoice Only shown on Invoices, creates a Letter based on Landlord
Invoice or Tenant Invoice
Delete Delete the transaction if it is an error
Breakdown
This breakdown counts and sums the various payment types. Note that any discrepancy shown may be due to a pending landlord payment and will disappear when financials are up to date.
The information show is:
Type The transaction type
Count How many of these transactions
Sum A total of these transactions
Expected What is expected (if anything)
Difference What the difference is (if shown)
Graph
The graph is designed to allow you to see any irregularities more easily with the transactions for this agreement.
Diary – Rent reminders
Once an agreement is in place and started, Standout will automatically place an all day event reminder in your diary, on the day rents are due. If you open the appointment, you can quickly jump to property/contact/agreement as these will be displayed.
Standout creates these reminders monthly on the last day of a month/first day of the month, for that month.