Great site - apart from this tiny little glitch

“Cloud computing” is the buzzword for user software hosted on internet servers. Property Hawk’s Landlord software is part of that cloud, letting landlords load their rental data from any computer on the net, safe in the knowledge that they can access it later from any other computer.

The Guardian newspaper’s IT Editor, Jack Schofield, described cloud computing in August 2008. After mentioning simple to-do lists he talks about “specialised business services such as accounting” which is exactly what our software, Property Manager, does for landlords. Your property and tenant details, full tenancy and rent information, inventory, loans and cashflow. It’s all there.

And it’s free. Google is free, and they’re doing well. We’re following in their footsteps. Landlords aren’t necessarily cash rich, particularly at the moment, so free landlord software is definitely the way to go. It’s pleasing when a landlord emails us, saying “great site,” even if that’s followed by reporting “a tiny little glitch.”

That glitch was a problem with the expiry date of the tenancy – we will soon make the software save a blank date rather than 00-00-0000 which we’ve seen more than once. Like the majority of problems reported, this one was resolved in under 24 hours.

We’re always adding to the site and improving it. The inventory software we released recently brings in a better, clean look and has drag-and-drop for a quick and user-friendly way of working. These changes will be spreading through the rest of the system in the next few weeks.

Interested? Register on our site and computerise your rental business for free.