Rent collection
Rent that arrives on schedule, without the follow-up.
Set the schedule once and Houzito runs it: invoices generate themselves, tenants pay online, reminders go out before anything is late, and late fees apply on their own when a payment window closes unpaid. The rent that lands in your account is the rent written on the lease.
Schedules
Any cadence a real lease runs on.
Set the rent, the start date and the frequency once when the lease is created. From then on, invoices generate themselves from the next due date, without anyone re-entering the amount every cycle.
- 01
Weekly
Rent generates every seven days from the lease's start date. Common for by-the-room and short-term arrangements.
- 02
Every two weeks
Every two weeks, on the cycle the lease was set up on. Invoices keep pace on their own, cycle after cycle.
- 03
Monthly
The default for most leases. One invoice a month, generated ahead of the due date so tenants see it coming.
Autopay or manual
The tenant picks how rent gets paid.
Billing mode is set per lease. Some tenants want to set it and forget it, others want to approve every payment. Houzito supports both without changing how you see the lease.
Manual
An invoice, then a payment link.
Autopay
A saved payment method, charged on schedule.
Payment windows and late fees
A due date, a window, then a late fee if it closes unpaid.
Every lease has a due date and a payment window you set in Settings: how many days a tenant has after rent is due before it counts as late. Houzito works the window on its own:
- A reminder goes out the day rent is due, before anything is overdue.
- If the window is longer than a day, a second reminder goes out the day before it closes.
- When the window closes still unpaid, the invoice is marked overdue and the late fee applies automatically: the lease's own late fee if it has one, otherwise your organization's default policy.
- A late fee is priced the same way rent is, so you still receive rent plus the exact late fee, in full.
- Every step checks again whether the invoice was already paid, so a tenant who pays in the middle of the window never gets a reminder or a late fee after the fact.
- A bank payment that is still clearing counts as on its way: the invoice shows as processing, and no late fee applies while it clears.
Receipts
A record of every payment, for both sides.
Every payment that clears is archived as a receipt the tenant can find in their portal and you can find against the lease. Neither side has to dig through a bank statement to prove rent was paid, or when.
Who pays the processing fee
Processing at cost. No Houzito fee, on any plan.
Rent runs through Stripe, straight into your own Stripe account (how the money moves). Houzito adds no fee of its own on any plan: the tenant pays only what the processor charges, and you can choose to cover the bank fee so paying by bank costs the tenant nothing extra. Your payout is the number written on the lease.
Stripe's own rates, passed through at cost: bank 0.8% capped at $5.00, card 2.9% + $0.30. If you cover the bank fee, the tenant pays $1,500.00 by bank and you receive $1,495.00. Run your own rent through the fee calculator.
Get started
Put the next rent cycle on a schedule.
Add a lease, pick the cadence, invite the tenant. The first invoice generates itself.