What is a property management system?
A property management system is the single system of record for a rental portfolio: the properties and units, the residents and leases, the maintenance requests and work orders, the rent and invoicing, and the accounting all of it produces. In Scaalr the word system is literal: the lease, the work order, the invoice, and the journal entry are one connected set of records, with an AI agent, Alex, staffing resident email, SMS, and calls on top of the same records.
What's the difference between property management software and Scaalr?
Most property management software organizes the work and waits for people to do it. Scaalr covers that part (properties, leases, work orders, rent, invoicing, and a full double-entry ledger) and then staffs the communication itself: Alex reads every resident email, text, and call as it lands, writes the summary, flags the urgent ones, and can answer in the resident's own language, across 30+ languages. The decisions that cost money stay with you.
Does it work for small rental portfolios?
Yes. Scaalr is free for your first 5 units with up to 3 internal users, on the same records and the same double-entry accounting the bigger tiers run, then US$0.99 per unit per month as you grow. Start with one building, run a month of real activity through it, and move to Growth when you want Alex, invoicing, and the advanced front desk.
What currency will I be billed in?
US dollars, the same as every other market. Growth is US$99 a month, roughly C$135 at the rate on 26 July 2026, and your card is charged in USD so your bank's conversion applies. Scaalr does not bill in CAD today, and we would rather put that on the page than in a statement later. Your accounting inside Scaalr is a separate matter and is genuinely multi-currency: the ledger, invoices, and reports run in the currencies you configure, CAD included.
Does Scaalr work in Canada?
Yes. Scaalr is sold and used in Canada, and the rent-increase engine carries market profiles for all 13 provinces and territories.
What does the AI actually do?
Alex works resident email, SMS, and calls. When a resident writes or calls in, Alex writes a plain-language summary on the case, flags urgent issues and notifies the recipients you designate for urgent alerts, and can draft and send the reply in the resident's own language, across 30+ languages provisioned through a connected language service. Alex also writes and updates work-order summaries as messages arrive, and reads photographed shipping labels at the front desk to log a package against the right resident. Email and SMS are Growth and up, with AI enabled; the voice answering service is part of Scale. Chat channels are not covered today.
Is the accounting real double-entry accounting?
Yes. Chart of accounts, manual and automatic journal entries, recurring entries, fiscal-period locking, year-end close, bank reconciliation, and the full financial statement suite run inside Scaalr, in multiple currencies. Invoices, rent charges, and payments post their own balanced entries, so month end is closer to review than to re-entry. Manual journal entries are still there when you need them.
Does Scaalr fill the official rent increase form?
Where the market prescribes one, yes: the notice is prepared on exactly that form. Where no form is prescribed, Scaalr composes the notice from the market's rules. Either way it is signed before it serves, and automated notices begin in a market only after a property manager on your team reviews and acknowledges that market's current rules. Scaalr validates against the market profile it catalogues; it does not give legal advice.
Can residents pay online?
Yes, through an invoice. Every invoice is emailed with a secure Pay Now link the payer opens without an account, and pays by card, with Apple Pay where available. Money settles into your own connected Stripe account, and Scaalr adds no platform fees; standard card-processing fees still apply and are yours. There is no resident login, no autopay, and no bank-debit collection today.
How do we get our data in?
A guided getting-started checklist walks you through setup, and journal entries and bank statements import from CSV. There is no bulk portfolio import: properties, units, residents, and leases are entered in the app. Start with one building rather than the whole portfolio; that is the shape the US$99 Growth plan is sized for.
What still needs a person?
Every dispatch and every dollar. You assign the contractor, approve the spend, set the rent and every increase, and sign what gets served. Alex reads, summarizes, flags, and answers resident email, and the background services handle the recurring work: nightly rent charges, recurring journal entries, overdue notices, and scheduled rent-increase notices. The judgment calls stay yours.