Tenants pay from their portal by bank transfer (ACH) or turn on autopay. Zenant sends the reminders, tracks every charge on one Payments page, applies your grace period and late-fee rules, and posts settled rent to your ledger.
Checks in the mail, app-to-app transfers with no record, and a spreadsheet that is right until the day it is not. The work is not collecting rent. It is knowing, on the 3rd, who has paid and who has not.
Every lease generates its monthly rent charge. The tenant pays it from their portal, or autopay does. Everything that happens to that charge is visible to you in one place.
Tenants link a bank account once and pay each month by bank transfer (ACH) from the Zenant tenant portal on their phone. On your landlord Payments page, payments show as Processing until the tenant debit settles, then as Paid. The tenant portal can show Paid earlier, once the payment provider accepts the payment.
A tenant turns on autopay once and their scheduled monthly rent is collected automatically on each cycle. Autopay covers scheduled rent only; it does not pull arrears, deposits or late fees without the tenant paying those themselves.
Zenant emails or texts a reminder before rent is due (three days by default). You set the grace period (five days by default) and an optional flat or percentage late fee, and Zenant applies them to overdue charges.
Filter by status (Paid, Processing, Due, Late) or by property, search a tenant, record an offline check or a partial payment, and export the month to CSV for your accountant.
Each row is one charge for one tenant. You can see when it was initiated, when it was paid, and what still needs a nudge, without opening a bank app.
Five steps, most of them done once. After setup, the monthly cycle runs on its own.
Add the bank account rent should land in. Payments cannot be collected until this is done, and the app tells you so on the Get Started checklist.
When a lease is active, Zenant generates the rent charges for each month, with the due date and amount from the lease terms.
The tenant gets an email (or, where enabled, a text) with a link to the portal, where they link their bank account.
They pay this month from the portal and can enable autopay so the next months are collected automatically.
Your Payments page shows Processing while the tenant debit clears, then Paid. Settled rent posts to your ledger and rolls into the P&L and the accountant export. The payout to your bank is tracked separately.
Less of your month spent asking about rent, and a record you can hand to an accountant.
The pre-due reminder goes out on your schedule, to every tenant, without you writing it.
The portal shows what is due, when, and lets them pay or set autopay from their phone.
Settled rent posts to the ledger by property, so the P&L and the accountant package are ready for any date range.
The software is priced per plan. The bank-transfer fee is a flat amount per payment, and it is paid by the tenant at checkout.
Paid by the tenant when they pay. Rent arrives in full: the landlord share of the bank-transfer fee is $0 today.
The tenant portal and bank-transfer rent payments are included. No card is needed to start, and there is no setup fee.
Adds tenant autopay, rent reminders, late fees and the grace-period rules on this page. Billed monthly or annually, cancel from Settings.
Fee policy 2026-08-11-v3. Bank transfers can take a few business days to settle; your landlord Payments page shows Processing until the tenant debit settles. Bank payout timing is separate.
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