Introduction

FaidaGrow is a rental-business platform for East Africa. It tracks the things you rent out (properties, vehicles, equipment, land), the customers who rent them, the leases between them and the money that moves, and then tells you what each asset is really earning.

Most rental tools stop at bookings and rent collection. FaidaGrow also shows profitability: revenue, expenses, maintenance cost and return on investment for every asset, and for the business as a whole.

Who uses it

• Landlords and property managers who run apartments, houses, shops and rooms.
• Vehicle and equipment rental businesses, including daily-remittance models such as boda-boda and bajaj.
• Land and plot owners who lease out land.
• Staff and tenants. Owners invite staff with limited permissions, and tenants can follow their own lease and report payments in a portal.

The shape of the product

The product follows the way a rental business actually works:

1. Assets: what you own and rent out.
2. Customers: who rents from you.
3. Leases: the agreement between an asset and a customer, with its rate, deposit and dates.
4. Payments and invoices: money in, recorded against the lease.
5. Expenses and maintenance: money out.
6. Reports: profitability, occupancy, collections and health scores.

What you can do

• Track assets, units inside a building, categories and documents.
• Create leases with daily, weekly or monthly rates, deposits, scheduled rate increases and late fees.
• Record cash, mobile money and bank payments, and confirm payments that tenants report with a reference or screenshot.
• See who has paid today on daily-paid rentals, and give every lease a running account statement.
• Issue receipts as a PDF or on a small receipt printer.
• Send SMS receipts and overdue reminders automatically, and text all your tenants or one building at once.
• Run maintenance requests from report to completion, with cost tracking.
• Record move-in and move-out inspections with photos.
• See profitability, occupancy, renewals, collections ageing, landlord statements and a business health score, and export reports to PDF or Excel.
• Install it on your phone from the browser.
• Work in English or Swahili, in TZS, KES, UGX, RWF or USD.

How this documentation is organised

The sidebar groups pages by the order you will meet them. If you are new, start with the Quickstart. Every page is short on purpose and links to the next step.

Next steps

• Quickstart: set up your first asset, customer and lease.
• Assets: how to model what you rent out.