What you get
- Every tenant’s bills, receipts and balance on one ledger
- Rent and service charges billed every month without retyping
- Deposits held and settled against the lease, on record
Shops · Offices · Flats · Pakistan
Rental and property management software for malls, plazas and buildings in Pakistan
Keep every lease, monthly rent and service charge bill, receipt and security deposit in one place, so you know which tenant owes what without opening a register.
- Daily work on every plan
- Published PKR pricing
- Onboarding by our team
Overview
Rentals & property management for construction businesses in Pakistan
A mall, plaza or apartment building earns its money every month, one tenant at a time. Rent is due, service charges for maintenance and upkeep are due, some tenants pay on the first, some on the twentieth, and a few need reminding every single month.
In most Pakistani buildings this runs on a register and a calculator. Bills are written or copied from last month, receipts are entered when someone has time, late charges are mentioned but rarely applied, and the security deposit is a number someone remembers when the tenant leaves. Service charges for owners who bought their unit are often in a different book altogether.
Rental and property management software keeps each lease, its bills, receipts and deposit on one record. Rent and service charge bills are created on time every month, late charges follow the rule on the lease, and every tenant’s balance is always current, so the office knows who owes what before the month is out.
Core capabilities
- Leases per unit: tenant, rent, increase, term and deposit
- Monthly rent bills, created on time
- Service charge rates for maintenance and upkeep
- Receipts against bills, with a printed receipt
- Late-payment charges from the date a bill is issued
- Security deposits held, and settled after the lease ends
- Bills, receipts and statements as PDFs and Excel
How it works
How the work runs, step by step
The same sequence your office and sites already follow, in one system instead of registers, spreadsheets, and WhatsApp threads.
Mark the units you let
Shops, offices and flats marked for rent on the same inventory as the units you sell.
Record the lease
Tenant, monthly rent, the increase every year or every few years, term, security deposit and the date billing starts.
Set service charges
Maintenance and upkeep rates, from the date they take effect, for tenants and for owners after possession.
Bill every month
Rent and service charge bills are created each month, and late charges run from the date a bill was issued.
Receive and receipt
Payments posted against bills, with a printed receipt, and every tenant’s balance always current.
End the lease
When a tenant leaves, the deposit is settled against what is still owed, and the record of the lease stays.
Capabilities
What it helps your team do
The daily work below is on every plan; some advanced controls start on Growth or Scale. The pricing page shows what each plan includes.
One lease, one record
Each lease names the unit, the tenant, the monthly rent, the increase every year or every few years, the term, the security deposit and the day rent falls due. Everything billed and received on that lease stays with it.
Rent and service charges billed on time
Bills are created each month from the lease and from the service charge rates in force, so nobody retypes amounts and an increase takes effect on the date it should.
Service charges for tenants and owners
Maintenance and upkeep rates apply from the date they take effect, monthly or yearly, and can be charged to the tenant or to an owner after possession, so the whole building is billed from one place.
Late charges from the bill date
After the grace days on the lease, the late charge follows the rule set on it, a fixed amount or a percentage, counted from the date the bill was issued.
Deposits held and settled properly
The security deposit is held against the lease and can only be settled once the lease has ended, against whatever the tenant still owes, with the remainder refunded on record.
Papers your tenants and accountant can use
Bills, receipts and tenant statements come out as PDFs on your letterhead, and the rent roll and balances export to Excel.
Before and after
What changes in practice
The same work, run the way most contractors run it today and the way it runs on the platform.
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Bills copied from last month
- On Smart Construction: Bills created from the lease each month
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Increases applied when someone remembers
- On Smart Construction: Increases applied from the right month
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Late charges in the lease, never charged
- On Smart Construction: Late charges from the bill date
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Owners’ upkeep in a separate book
- On Smart Construction: Service charges for every unit in one place
- Spreadsheets and WhatsApp threads: Deposits settled from memory
- On Smart Construction: Deposits held and settled against the lease
Side by side
Smart Construction vs a spreadsheet vs general accounting software
What most contractors in Pakistan use for this today, and where each one stops.
| What you need | Smart Construction | Excel or a register | General accounting software |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly rent bills | Created every month from the lease | Copied from last month and edited | Recurring invoices without the lease |
| Service charges | Rates per unit from an effective date | A separate sheet per building | A manual invoice line |
| Tenant balance | Bills and receipts on one ledger | Summed by hand | A customer account |
| Late charges | Worked out from the bill date | Rarely charged, never consistent | Not available |
| Security deposits | Held against the lease, settled at the end | Remembered, or not | A liability account without the lease |
Use cases
Situations this is built for
Recognisable scenarios from construction businesses operating in Pakistan.
A plaza with forty shops and one register
- The situation
- A plaza owner writes forty rent bills by hand each month and finds out who has not paid by asking the guard.
- How Smart Construction handles it
- Leases are entered once, bills are created each month and receipts are posted against them.
- What changes
- Unpaid rent is visible on the first day it is late, and billing takes minutes instead of days.
Rent increases nobody applied
- The situation
- Leases say rent rises 10% every year, but the increase depends on someone remembering the anniversary.
- How Smart Construction handles it
- The increase is part of the lease and bills follow it from the right month.
- What changes
- Every increase is applied on time, and none has to be chased back later.
Upkeep charges for sold units
- The situation
- A mall developer sold half the shops and lets the rest. Owners owe monthly maintenance, but those charges sit in a separate book and are rarely collected in full.
- How Smart Construction handles it
- Service charge rates apply to every unit after possession, owned or rented, and bills go to whoever pays.
- What changes
- Maintenance is billed for the whole building from one record, and collections cover the upkeep they are meant to.
Benefits
What improves, and why it matters
Rent billed on time
Bills are created every month from the lease, with increases applied when due.
Every tenant’s balance
Bills and receipts on one ledger per tenant.
Late charges that are charged
The rule on the lease is applied consistently from the bill date.
Deposits on record
Held against the lease and settled only after it ends.
Owners and tenants together
Service charges for the whole building from one place.
Sell and let together
Rentals beside installment sales on one inventory.
Price in PKR
Which plan you need for this
Published prices, no foreign-currency billing. Plans start at PKR 10,000 a month, or PKR 9,000 a month on annual billing, plus a one-time setup fee.
- Real estate installment salesCustompriced after a call
- Client billing and receiptsStarterfrom PKR 10,000/month
Every plan includes daily site and office work, the mobile app, and WhatsApp alerts. Compare all plans.
Terminology
The vocabulary on this page, explained
Plain definitions of the terms Pakistani contractors and consultants use day to day.
- Lease
- The agreement letting a unit to a tenant: rent, term, increase, deposit and due day.
- Service charges
- Charges for the upkeep of a building, such as maintenance, security, lifts and common electricity, billed monthly or yearly.
- Security deposit
- An amount held by the landlord for the term of a lease and settled against anything owed when it ends.
- Rent escalation
- The agreed increase in rent, usually a percentage every year or every few years.
- Grace days
- The days after a due date before a late charge applies.
- Rent roll
- The list of every let unit with its tenant, rent and balance.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Still have a question?
Ask our team during Pakistan business hours, in English or Urdu.
+92 333 2466662Chat on WhatsAppCan we charge service charges to owners as well as tenants?
Yes. Service charge rates apply to units after possession, so owners who live in or let their own unit are billed for upkeep alongside your rented units.
Will it bill old leases for months that already passed?
No. Each lease and each rate has a date from which billing starts, so a lease or rate added today is not billed backwards.
Can we sell units and rent others in the same building?
Yes. Rentals sit beside installment sales, so a mall or plaza can sell some shops on installments and let others, on one inventory.
Which plan includes rentals?
Rentals are part of the real estate module on the Custom plan, priced for the size of your property. Book a demo and we will set it up with your own units and leases.
Can a lease be renewed with a new rent?
Yes. A renewal starts a new lease linked to the old one, with its own rent and term, and the history of both stays on the unit.
Does it handle advance rent?
Yes. Advance months paid at the start of a lease are recorded on it and settle the bills they cover.
Can we bill service charges yearly instead of monthly?
Yes. Each service charge rate is monthly or yearly, from the date it takes effect.
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