Rent, bond deadlines, notices, inspections and tax records for New Zealand landlords who manage their own tenancies. You make the decisions; RentGuide shows you what is due and keeps the record.
In testing: not ready for real tenancies yet. The demo uses invented properties.
RentGuide is not a property manager and does not act for you.
Three cards from the demo, cropped to the part that matters. Every figure in them is invented.
Each property lists what is coming up, from the dates you have already entered: rent that is overdue, and the day the bond must be lodged with Tenancy Services, 23 working days from when you received it. Lodging it is still yours to do, through Bond Hub.
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RentGuide drafts the notice. The record keeps the two apart: preparing or copying a notice is not service, and once it has been delivered, the record shows how, when it counts as received, and when any notice period starts.
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The rent ledger keeps the paid-to date and any arrears, weekly or fortnightly, and each payment you record goes into the tenancy's dated log.
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Calculators, a checklist and printable forms. Use them whether you ever sign up or not.
Price and weekly rent in, gross and net yield out.
Rent, mortgage and outgoings in, weekly cashflow out.
Value and mortgage balance in, equity and LVR out.
Loan and rate in, weekly, monthly and annual interest out.
Last increase in, next eligible date and notice deadline out.
Every ground for ending a tenancy, with the notice each needs.
Walk through all five standards before the official statement.
Compare a manager's fees with RentGuide's planned price.
Blank ingoing, outgoing and routine forms to print.
When a property is empty, you can build a listing page with your own photos, choose whether the street address or only the suburb shows, and share the link wherever you advertise. RentGuide does not post it anywhere for you. Enquiries can come through RentGuide, so your phone number stays private unless you choose to show it.
Nothing can be bought while RentGuide is in testing. These are the prices planned for launch.
No card, no property limit
1 property · No GST to add
$119.88 a year
Unlimited properties · No GST to add
$179.88 a year, however many properties you own
Set your numbers to compare what each would charge. Fees only.
Charged at 9.20% of rent once GST is added.
An estimate that compares fees only. It does not count your own time, or the work a property manager does in person, such as viewings, inspections, organising tradespeople and attending the Tribunal; if you manage the property yourself, that work is yours. Agencies quote fees with or without GST, so choose which yours is. RentGuide is not GST registered, so nothing is added to its planned prices. Letting, inspection, advertising and admin fees are not counted either.
Nothing yet: RentGuide is in testing, so there is nothing to buy. The planned prices are $9.99 a month for Solo, for one property, and $14.99 a month for Pro, for any number of 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 planned pricing above for what each includes.
Not for the paperwork. RentGuide helps with the tenancy agreement, rent tracking, notices, bond deadlines, inspection records 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.
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. No lawyer has reviewed them. RentGuide isn't a lawyer or an accountant, and says so rather than pretending otherwise, so for anything unusual, talk to one.
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, inspections coming up or overdue, and pet requests waiting on a reply. You still lodge the bond yourself with Tenancy Services, through Bond Hub.
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 or bills you choose to send your tenants, which means Resend handles those tenants' names, email addresses and what you send them. Xero only ever sees anything if you connect it yourself, and Anthropic only sees inspection photographs if you switch on AI photo comparison. Nobody else gets it, and we don't sell it. Full detail in our Privacy Policy.
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.
Yes. Each one is a card from the real RentGuide app, cropped from the demo, which runs the actual dashboard with the same calculations a landlord's account uses. The properties, tenants and figures in the demo are invented, so no real tenancy is shown. A few things you do in the demo, such as recording a rent payment, 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. Look around the demo.
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. If you'd rather keep tracking the dates yourself, the free tools do the maths and cost nothing.
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.
Want to help test RentGuide? Email hello@rentguide.co.nz.