Moving someone in

Moving a tenant into a room records their name, their messenger handle and, if you want them, the lease dates. The room's meters carry on from wherever they were — a new tenancy does not reset the counter, because the meter on the wall did not reset either.

Lease dates and the expiry warning

Lease start and end dates are optional, and Doorbook does not need them to bill anybody. Enter an end date and the home screen starts warning you a month before it arrives, which is roughly when you want to be having the conversation.

Photographing the lease

You can attach photographs of the signed lease and any other document to the room. They are stored in the app's own folder on your device — never uploaded to us, because there is no us to upload them to. Pro subscribers' iCloud backups include them.

Moving someone out

Moving a tenant out empties the room and marks it vacant, so it drops out of metering and billing until the next tenant arrives. Nothing is thrown away:

• The tenancy is filed — name, contact, rent, lease dates and final meter readings.
• Their document scans stay on disk and stay attached to the archived tenancy.
• The room keeps its own billing history, right through the change of tenant.
• The room's meter baselines are kept, so the next tenant's first bill measures from the right place.

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