Put the lease into Abodient, either from the contract or by hand.
A tenancy is the lease behind a property — the tenant, the dates, the rent and the deposit. Recording it is what makes rent tracking, arrears and renewal reminders work, which is why a property with no tenancy shows dashes rather than zeros.
Open the property's Tenancy tab. If you have the signed contract, drop it into the box that says Got a tenancy contract? Upload it and we'll do the rest. It is read for the tenant, the dates and the rent, and you see what was found before anything saves.
To type it in instead, select + New tenancy. Only Tenant — the name — is required. You can also fill in:
Select Create tenancy to save. A tenancy that starts today or earlier ends the current one. If its dates overlap a running tenancy, we ask whether to replace it or archive it and start new.
A tenancy with no start date or no rent is marked Draft, on its card and in View full details. Add the missing facts there and it becomes Active once it has started. Until then rent tracking has nothing to count. Entering a first rent is not a rent rise, so it saves without asking for a Section 13 notice.
Every tenancy you record here gets a move-in checklist. If you gave a start date, it opens when you save. Otherwise a banner asks you to Add the start date. The move-in checklist article covers it.
Joint tenants share one tenancy, one rent and one deposit. On a joint tenancy, + Add guarantor on each tenant's line records who stands behind them. We keep the details for you and never contact a guarantor.
A property let by the room has a Rooms & contracts table instead. Each room has its own tenant, rent and deposit, and Add lease records one. A room holds one tenant, so there is no + Add tenant.
