With AppFolio’s tenant ACH offering as cheap as it is (it’s free!) and easy to use, many of our customers ask us how they can get even more of their tenants to pay rent online.
Here is a list of 5 ways you can encourage your tenants to pay online:
- Make it a policy. Yes, forcing people is not always possible, but sometimes even suggesting it is a policy can work.
- Give everyone a $5 Starbucks gift card if they sign up for recurring online rent payments.
- Enter every tenant that signs up for online payments into a raffle to get a $50 Walmart gift card.
- Put reminder messages on how to sign up for online payments in your office, in e-mails to tenants, on your website, on flyers in their unit, the laundry room, etc. Anywhere that they will see it!
- Tell them! Every time you talk to tenant, make sure to mention it.
With these tips hopefully you can motivate most of your tenants to pay rent online and start enjoying all the extra time you will have during rent week.
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