Run your rental like a professional.
Rent, agreements, bonds, inspections, records and compliance, in software that knows the dates and notice periods NZ tenancy law holds you to.
- No credit card
- No per-property fees
- Built for NZ landlords
Property manager, or you?
Set your numbers and see the gap for yourself.
Charged at 9.20% of rent once GST is added.
Estimate only, and conservative. Agencies quote management fees both ways, so tell the calculator which yours is and it will apply GST or not to match. RentGuide's own prices already include any GST, and RentGuide is not GST registered, so nothing is added on that side. Typical fees run 6 to 12 percent, and most managers also charge letting fees, inspection fees, advertising, tribunal attendance and monthly admin on top. None of that is counted here, so your real gap is usually wider.
The paperwork a property manager does, minus the fee
Self-managing means you've taken on the property manager's job. RentGuide handles the paperwork side of it: tenancy agreements, rent tracking, bond deadlines, inspections and compliance, so nothing slips through the cracks.
A full agreement in minutes
A guided wizard builds an agreement covering everything the official Tenancy Services template requires, structured the same way, issued as a PDF. Tenants and guarantors sign it on your device while you're together, each signature timestamped, IP-logged and tied to that exact PDFPro.
The wizard's final step, with every section ready to review before the PDF is generated.
Nothing slips through the cracks
Rent Ledger tracks paid-to dates, partial payments and arrears automatically, weekly or fortnightly. Bond tracking counts your general bond's lodgement deadline against the 23 working-day window, holds your Bond Hub reference, and works out top-ups for both general and pet bonds after a rent rise.
The rent ledger on a property, showing the paid-to date and how a payment is recorded.
A paper trail that holds up
Tenancy Log keeps an append-only evidence trail of notices, inspections and payments, ready for the Tribunal. Document Vault organises agreements, bond receipts, inspection reports and insurance by category. Healthy Homes keeps the figures for all five standards and lays out the official compliance statement for you to sign. The declaration is yours: RentGuide does not inspect properties or certify compliance.
The Tenancy Log, where notices, inspections, payments and documents record themselves as you go.
Ready for your accountant
Income and expense tracking, synced to Xero as you go. Export an IR3R-ready summary at tax time, covering total rents, deductible expenses and net rents by tax year.
The IR3R summary, with income and expenses already sorted into the form's own boxes.
Advertise it yourself, for nothing extra
When a property comes up empty, build a listing page with your own photos, set whether the street address or just the suburb shows, and share the link wherever you like. Enquiries can come through RentGuide instead of putting your phone number on the internet, and you can see how much interest the listing is getting. Included with Solo and Pro at no extra cost.
A listing is never published until you say so, and only for a property with no current tenancy.
- Multiple photos, with the main one your choice
- Full address or suburb only, up to you
- Your number stays private unless you show it
- Views and enquiries counted, nothing about who
- Its own shareable link, off when you unpublish
Ten minutes, not a weekend
Add a property, fill in the wizard, and you're covered, not buried in paperwork for a weekend.
This is the actual dashboard
Not a mockup. This is a real screenshot of RentGuide running, with sample properties in it. You can open the same thing yourself, without signing in.
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What needs doing, first
Bond deadlines, inspections, expiring fixed terms and end-of-tenancy jobs, worked out from the dates you've already entered.
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Your whole portfolio at a glance
Properties, how many are tenanted, what they bring in a week, and gross yield if you've recorded what they're worth.
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Straight to the job
Start a tenancy, log rent, import a bank statement, run a P and L, open the tax pack, or advertise a vacancy.
Eight free tools, no email wall
Use these whether you ever sign up or not. They're the same tools we use ourselves.
Interest-Only Mortgage Calculator
Loan balance and rate in, weekly, monthly and annual interest out.
Open →Rent Increase Calculator
Last increase date in, your next eligible date and notice deadline out.
Open →Notice Period Table
Every ground for ending a tenancy, with the notice each one needs, side by side.
Open →Healthy Homes Checklist
Walk through all five standards, see what's compliant before you pay for the official statement.
Open →Property Manager Cost Comparison
Properties, rent and management fee in, the dollar gap against RentGuide out.
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Written against NZ law
Notice periods, the 23 working day bond window, rent increase rules and the five Healthy Homes standards, each checked against tenancy.govt.nz rather than guessed at.
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Your data, and only yours
Held in an encrypted database, with billing handled by Stripe so we never see your card number. Nothing is sold, and nothing goes to anyone outside the providers named in our Privacy Policy.
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Honest about the limits
RentGuide isn't a lawyer or an accountant, and it can't lodge a bond for you. Where something needs a professional or a government service, the site says so instead of implying otherwise.
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No lock-in
Monthly, cancel whenever. Your data exports to CSV on any plan, including free, so leaving is a download rather than a negotiation.
Flat monthly pricing. No per-property fees, ever.
Most property managers charge 6 to 12% of rent, per property, plus letting and inspection fees. RentGuide charges one monthly fee: Solo covers a single property, and Pro is the same $14.99 whether you have two properties or twenty.
No card, no property limit
- Add as many properties as you like
- Deadlines, reminders and alerts
- Bond tracking and Bond Hub deadlines
- All eight free tools, unlimited use
- Paid features are visible but locked until you upgrade
1 property · No GST to add
$119.88 a year
- Tenancy agreement wizard + PDF
- Rent ledger, bond tracking, Tenancy Log
- Document Vault & Healthy Homes
- Notice templates, auto-tracked
- Listings for vacant properties
Unlimited properties · No GST to add
$179.88 a year, however many properties you own
- Everything in Solo, no property cap
- Income & expense tracking
- Xero sync & IR3R tax export
- Mileage tracking & e-signatures
Questions landlords ask us
Solo is $9.99 a month for one property, Pro is $14.99 a month for unlimited properties. RentGuide isn't GST registered, so there's no GST on top and none to claim back. No per-property fee, no percentage of rent, no setup fee. See the pricing above for what's included at each tier.
Not for the paperwork. RentGuide handles the tenancy agreement, rent tracking, notices, bond deadlines, inspections and tax reporting. It deliberately stays out of the hands-on side: it won't visit a property, deal with a difficult tenant face to face, or organise tradespeople, because that work needs a person on the ground. If you want someone to take that on, a property manager still makes sense.
Either, and you choose each time. On Solo and Pro, RentGuide can email a notice for you. It goes from notices@rentguide.co.nz under your name, replies come straight to your own email, and RentGuide records it as served by email at the moment it was sent, applying the 5pm rule for you. Email only counts as serving a notice on a tenant who has agreed to it in writing, so RentGuide only emails tenants you've marked that way, and lists anyone else so you can serve them in person, in the letterbox or by post. For those, you record how and when you delivered it, and RentGuide works out when it counts as received. RentGuide can confirm an email was accepted for delivery, not that your tenant opened it. On the free plan, you copy the notice and send it yourself.
Not as an in-app chat, and that's deliberate. Notices go out as a normal email under your name, and replies come straight back to your own email address, so your tenant can just hit reply the way they already do with everyone else, with no new app to log into. Every notice you send or copy through RentGuide on Solo or Pro is recorded in your Tenancy Log, so you've still got the paper trail without managing a second inbox.
Real. The demo runs the actual RentGuide dashboard, every page of it, with the same calculations a paying landlord's account uses: rent received, who owes rent, bond deadlines and alerts are all worked out as you look at it. The three properties in it are invented, so no real tenancy is shown. A few things you do there, such as recording a rent payment, do take effect so you can watch the figures move, but they are kept in your own browser, never in an account, and Start over clears them. The product screenshots on this page come from the real app too, using sample data. Try the demo.
The tenancy agreement wizard, notice templates and Healthy Homes tracking are built against the current Residential Tenancies Act and Healthy Homes Standards, and checked against tenancy.govt.nz. When RentGuide emails a notice, it only sends to tenants who've agreed in writing to be served by email, and works out the 5pm cutoff from the time it actually went. RentGuide isn't a lawyer or an accountant, and says so rather than pretending otherwise, so for anything unusual, talk to one.
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A spreadsheet records what you type into it. It doesn't know the Residential Tenancies Act. It won't count the 23 working days you have to lodge a bond, tell you the earliest date you can raise the rent or the notice that goes with it, build an agreement on the Tenancy Services template, or sort a year of income into IR3R boxes. That's the difference you're paying for. If you'd rather keep tracking the dates yourself, the free tools do the maths and cost nothing.
Not directly, and that's by design. Bonds go through Bond Hub, Tenancy Services' own online service, so RentGuide doesn't try to stand in for it. Instead it keeps the parts that are easy to lose track of: your lodgement deadline, your Bond Hub reference number and any top-ups, with the deadline flagged on your dashboard before the 23-working-day window closes. That flag is on the dashboard rather than in an email: the daily reminder emails cover rent reviews, fixed terms ending and overdue inspections. You still lodge the bond yourself with Tenancy Services, through Bond Hub.
On Pro, yes. Sync rent and expenses to Xero as you go, or export an IR3R-ready PDF and CSV summary covering total rents, deductible expenses and net rents by tax year. Your accountant still finalises the return, so this just means they're not starting from a shoebox of receipts.
Solo is capped at one property by design. Add a second and you'll be prompted to move to Pro, which is unlimited. Your data carries across, nothing needs re-entering.
Adding a property and its tenant details takes a couple of minutes. The tenancy agreement wizard takes about ten. There's no onboarding call and no setup fee.
In a Supabase database in Tokyo, encrypted in transit and at rest. Supabase stores it on our behalf and we stay responsible for it under the Privacy Act 2020. Vercel hosts the app itself, Stripe handles billing so we never see your card number, and Resend sends email: your reminder emails, and any notices you choose to send your tenants, which means Resend handles those tenants' names, email addresses and the notice text. Xero only ever sees anything if you connect it yourself. Nobody else gets it, and we don't sell it. Full detail in our Privacy Policy.
Take control of your rental
Manage it yourself. Keep more of your rent. Stay on top of the paperwork. Free tools need no account, and Solo starts at $9.99 a month with no per-property fees, ever.