What's New

Work out a shared Meralco or water bill right on the bill splitting page.

• Added**Utility bill splitting calculator.** The **Utility bill splitting** page now has a calculator anyone can use, no account needed. Type the bill total and each room's last and this month's meter readings to see each room's share, the total used, and the cost per kWh or cubic meter. No submeters? Choose **No, split equally**. The shares always add up to the bill, to the centavo, using the same calculation MyRentals bills with.
• Fixed**A unit whose meter didn't move is never charged below zero.** When a utility bill is split by meter reading, the centavos left over from rounding used to all go to the last unit in the list, which could leave it at -₱0.01. They now go to the units closest to rounding up, so every share is within a centavo of exact and the total still matches the bill. The amounts on **Review** are now exactly the amounts that get saved. Saved readings aren't recalculated, unless you delete a reading from the same bill or edit the bill, which splits it again. If a bill can't be split again, the record isn't deleted, and you're told if the other records couldn't be updated. Invoiced amounts never change.
• Improved**The homepage says who built MyRentals.** The badge at the top now reads **Built by Filipino Landlords, for Filipino Landlords**, and it fits neatly on a phone screen. On the Tagalog homepage, plan prices now read per **tenant** per month, so the price line no longer runs off the edge of a small phone.

A calmer Needs Attention list, kept on the Dashboard.

• Improved**Bills that aren't due yet no longer need your attention.** They stay on the Payments page as usual. If one is still unpaid the day after its due date, it shows up as **Overdue**. The number on the bell now counts only things you can do something about.
• Improved**Needs Attention lives on the Dashboard.** It starts folded, showing only how many things need you. Tap it to see one line per kind of item, like **Overdue Payments (3)**. Tap a line to see each one, with **What should I do?** and the button to fix it. The bell's **View all** opens it for you.
• Improved**Tenancies opens on your tenancies.** Its **Needs Attention** section now lists only contracts, move-ins, move-outs, checks, bills to start and tenants with repeated late fees, and stays folded when there are more than two.
• Improved**Billing not generated is always amber.** It used to turn red five days after the rent due day, so two properties needing the same **Run Monthly Billing** could show in different colours. Red is now only for things already late, like overdue payments and expired contracts.
• Improved**Needs Attention looks the same everywhere.** The Dashboard, Tenancies and Billing use the same **NEEDS ATTENTION** heading with its count, near the top of the page, and open and fold the same way.
• Fixed**Recent Payments shows money you received.** The Dashboard card listed bills that had just turned overdue, as if they were payments. It now lists the last five amounts tenants actually paid, newest recorded first, with the date paid. **Paid** means that payment settled the bill; **Partial** means part was still owed after it.

A new guide on raising rent in 2027, with a calculator and a notice you can copy.

• Added**New blog post: Can You Raise Rent in January 2027?** Rent control ends on December 31, 2026 unless it's extended. The post explains who is covered now, what your contract still decides, and has a **Rent increase notice** you can copy in English or Tagalog.
• Added**Rent increase calculator.** It answers **Can you raise the rent?** with Yes, No, or Yes, but verify first. Enter the current rent, the increase and the start date to see the new rent, the extra per month and per year, the last day to send notice, and which rent control rule applies. It asks whether the rent is for your **Current tenant** or a **New tenant**, and whether the place is rented to students, because the rules differ.

Clearer Tagalog on the refund question and in Help.

• Improved**The refund question reads more naturally in Tagalog.** When a full refund asks **Bill these charges again?**, the Tagalog "yes" answer now says in everyday words that you can use the bill's charges again.
• Fixed**Tagalog Help uses the words you see in the app.** The guides now name the **Kanselahin** button and the statuses (**Nakabinbin**, **Bahagi**, **Lagpas na**, **Bayad**, **Kinansela**, **Nai-refund**, **Palugit**) as the Tagalog screens show them, not in English.

A Help Center you can search, messages to MyRentals Support from the app, a setup checklist, voiding a payment recorded by mistake, and refunded bills that show as Refunded.

• Added**Help is now a Help Center you can search.** Tap **Help** at the top of any screen for short step-by-step guides on properties, tenants, bills, payments, your team and your plan. Search in English, Tagalog or a mix, like *paano mag record ng bayad*. Each guide has a button that opens the screen it's about.
• Added**You can message MyRentals Support from inside the app.** Open **Message support** in the menu and write to us. Our replies come back in the same conversation, and the menu shows a count when there's one you haven't read. Your team can use it too.
• Added**A setup checklist takes you from sign-up to your first monthly bills.** Your dashboard lists six steps: business profile, property, tenant, tenancy, signed contract and first monthly bills. Each one opens the form you need, and after you save one, the next one opens. Lost? Tap **Help**, then **Show me the next step**. The checklist stays until your first monthly bills are made.
• Added**You can void a payment you recorded by mistake.** Open **Details** on the payment, tap **Void** on the wrong entry and give a reason. The entry stays in the history, crossed out, with your reason. The bill goes back to what the tenant still owes, so you can record the right amount.
• Improved**A refunded bill now shows as Refunded, and you decide what happens next.** It used to show as Cancelled, and you couldn't bill those charges again. When a refund covers the whole bill, you're asked **Bill these charges again?** Say yes to free the charges so you can create the right bill, or no if the tenant doesn't owe them. You can still cancel a Refunded bill later.
• Added**There's an Enterprise plan for large portfolios.** It has no limit on tenants, properties or team, comes with dedicated support, and its price is worked out with you. Tap **Contact us** on the pricing page or in **Settings** to ask about it. Elite now has a tenant limit, shown on the pricing page. Above it, Enterprise is the plan to move to.
• Improved**Over your plan's tenant limit, Record Payment tells you why.** For a tenant who is read-only on your plan, **Record Payment** and the late tag are greyed out with the reason shown. Before, you filled in the whole form and only then got an error.
• Fixed**A bill can't get two late fees.** If the daily late-fee run and the late-fee button ran at the same moment, a tenant could be charged twice. Now a bill gets one late fee at most, and a fee you waived is never charged again.
• Fixed**Tenant credit stays right when two things happen at once.** A tenant's overpayment credit could be counted twice, or lost, if two changes landed at the same moment, such as recording a payment while monthly bills were being made. Cancelling a bill also can no longer cancel a payment recorded at that same moment.
• Fixed**When a bill or payment can't be cancelled, you're told what to do instead.** Void it if it was recorded by mistake, refund it if you gave the money back, or email support@myrentals.ph and we'll sort it out.

Late fees now apply to unpaid rent only, rent starts once a tenant has moved in and the contract is marked signed, and you can see when an email to a tenant didn't go through.

• Improved**Late fees are now charged on unpaid rent only.** A late fee used to be worked out on the whole overdue bill, electricity and water included, and could even land on a deposit or a one-off charge. Now only the rent counts. If a tenant paid part of a bill, the unpaid rent is worked out in proportion to what they paid. Utilities, deposits, advance payments and one-off bills never get a late fee. If you want to charge a penalty for unpaid utilities, add it as a one-off bill.
• Improved**Rent starts when the tenant has moved in and the contract is marked signed.** Rent is no longer billed for a month before the tenant's move-in month, or to a tenant whose contract isn't marked signed yet, even if they were billed before. Tap **Contract Signed** on the tenant's card to start their rent. Rent billed before the contract was signed never gets a late fee, even after you mark it signed. Utilities still follow the move-in month, signed or not. When you generate bills and some months are held back, MyRentals now tells you which months and why, instead of just saying 0 bills.
• Added**You can now see when an email to a tenant didn't go through.** If an invoice, receipt, reminder or contract email fails to send, an entry appears on your **Activity** page saying which email it was, so you can reach your tenant another way. Entries the scheduler makes for you, such as late fees, auto-billing and reminders, are now marked **Scheduled job** and read *Automatic, on behalf of* you, so you can tell them from what you did yourself.
• Fixed**Tenant accounts you create are safer.** A tenant you add now gets a private password nobody knows, and sets their own with **Forgot password**. A tenant you add without an email address is never sent any email. Email addresses are matched whatever capital letters were used, so a tenant who types theirs differently can still sign in and reset their password.
• Added**You can subscribe to Starter, and activating it costs nothing up front.** Choosing Starter on the pricing page now carries through sign-up to your plan. Activating a paid plan doesn't raise an invoice straight away: your first charge comes at the end of your first full month, based on the tenants you have by then. You pay by bank transfer and enter the reference in the app, and your plan stays active while we check it.
• Improved**Addresses cover every city and municipality in the Philippines.** The city list used to have 52 cities. It now comes from the official PSA list, so you can enter any property's address, wherever it is.
• Fixed**One-off bills split exactly and fairly.** A bill shared between tenants now adds up to the exact amount, to the centavo. A tenant who hasn't moved in or signed yet isn't charged their share, and that share is never moved onto the other tenants.
• Fixed**Every property shows up when you pick one.** The **One-Time Bill** list left out units inside a building, and anything after your newest 20 properties, so a boarding-house owner could see an empty list. It now shows every property and unit.

Changing your password now signs you out everywhere, and there is a button to do the same without changing it, so a lost phone can be cut off.

• Fixed**Changing your password now signs you out on every device.** It used to change only the password. Anyone already signed in on another phone or computer stayed signed in, which is the opposite of what most people expect when they change a password because they are worried someone else is in the account. Now a password change ends every session at once, including the one you are using, and you sign back in with the new password. The same happens when you reset a forgotten password from the email link.
• Added**You can sign out on all devices without changing your password.** There is a new button in **Settings**, under **Security**, below the password form. Use it if you have lost a phone, or signed in on a computer at an internet shop and are not sure you signed out. It ends your session everywhere, including the device you press it on, and your password stays the same.

Reports now show what you spent and what you actually kept, not just money in, and Remember me decides both how long you stay signed in and how long a session lasts once you stop using it.

• Added**Reports now show cost and what you kept, not just money in.** The page used to report only what was billed and collected, so a building where you recharge electricity and water read as pure profit, even though you had paid those bills yourself. Reports now reads as two sums you can check: **Billed minus Expenses equals Net**, and **Collected minus Paid Out equals Net**. The first is what you earned on paper, the second is cash that actually moved. Tap the dot beside any figure to see what is in it. If an expense has no month recorded, it is counted separately and flagged rather than quietly left out, so the totals are never short without telling you.
• Fixed**A refund is now counted as a cost in the month you issued it.** Refunding a payment used to remove it from what was billed and collected, which rewrote a month that had already closed. The bill was really issued and the tenant really paid, so both now stay where they were, and the refund appears as money out in the month you actually sent it. Your earlier months stop changing behind you.
• Improved**Remember me now does more than it used to.** Before, your session ended a fixed time after you signed in: one day normally, 30 days if you ticked the box. That signed you out in the middle of a working afternoon, and it also left a session open on a borrowed phone until that same deadline, however long ago you had walked away. Now two things end a session, whichever comes first. If you leave **Remember me** clear, you stay signed in as long as you open MyRentals at least once a day, up to a week. If you tick it, you stay signed in for up to 30 days as before, and a phone you have not opened in two weeks signs itself out rather than waiting. You will be asked to sign in once after this update.

You can now give each team member only the access they need, late fees follow the grace period set on the tenancy, and a sign-in problem that left you looking logged in while every page sent you back to the login screen is fixed.

• Added**Team members can be given only the access they need.** When you invite someone you now pick a preset. A **Meter Reader** can enter meter readings and nothing else. **Billing Staff** can work on invoices and payments. You can change someone's preset later from **Settings**, **Team**, and it takes effect on their very next action without them signing out and back in. Owners and co-managers are unchanged, and a staff member who was added before this still works exactly as they did.
• Fixed**Late fees now use the grace period set on the tenancy, not the one on the property.** An invoice could promise one grace period while the nightly job charged against another, so a tenant could be charged a late fee during days the invoice said were still free. The invoice, the reminder email and the fee itself now all read the same number, and the fee amount works the same way. Existing tenancies were aligned to whichever grace period was longer, so nobody is charged sooner than they were before.
• Added**An overdue bill now tells you whether a late fee is actually coming.** An amber **Grace 3d** badge sits next to the status on Invoices, Payments, the Tenants list and the tenant's own portal, counting the days left before a fee applies. It uses the same comparison the nightly job uses, so it cannot offer time the job will ignore. Where one row covers several tenancies, the badge appears only when every unpaid item is still inside its grace period.
• Fixed**Signing in no longer takes several tries, and you are no longer shown as logged in when you are not.** If you did not tick **Remember me**, your session was meant to end after a day. Instead it left a half-dead session behind: your name still showed at the top of the screen, but opening Dashboard or any other page sent you to the login form, and signing in often took two or three attempts before it held. Sessions now end cleanly when they expire, you are shown as signed out when you are signed out, and one tap on Login is enough. Logging in from a link also takes you to the page you were trying to open instead of always landing on Dashboard. If you were stuck in the old state, it clears itself the next time you open the app.
• Fixed**The Tenants link in the sidebar works again.** Tapping **Tenants** quietly sent you back to Dashboard, because the app was treating that page as part of the tenant portal rather than your own list of tenants. It opens the list properly now.

MyRentals is out of beta, and this is version 1.0. The site now says the product is available to everyone — and nothing about your account, your data or your Free plan changes.

• ImprovedThe homepage, the sign-up buttons and the badge on this page no longer call MyRentals a beta. It is open to every landlord in the Philippines, with no waitlist and no invite code. Your plan, your properties and your history are exactly as you left them.
• AddedA new blog post, **MyRentals.ph is Now Available**, explains what leaving beta changes and what it does not — including that the Free plan has no trial clock and never asks for a card.
• ImprovedThe contact form used to ask whether you were interested in joining our beta. There is no beta to join now, so it asks whether you are interested in trying MyRentals.
• FixedThe homepage listed **Digital Lease Agreements** as Coming Soon. It has been available for a while — you can write a contract, email it to your tenant for signature, and see on their card when they have signed — so the homepage now says Available Now, in case the old label kept you from looking.
• ImprovedThis release is numbered **v1.0.0**, up from v0.3.2. A version starting with 0 is the usual way of saying "still finding its shape", and that stopped being true a while ago — MyRentals has been running real tenancies and real money for months. From here the first digit changes only when something asks you to relearn or redo something, so a jump from 1 to 2 is a signal worth reading, and everything in between is safe to ignore.
• ImprovedThe bar at the top of the site now has a **Contact Us** link where What's New used to be — if something on the site is unclear or wrong, we would rather you could tell us than read about it. What's New has not gone anywhere: every page on the site now ends with the same footer carrying it, next to the version you are running, so it is one scroll away wherever you are.

A tenant can no longer be charged for electricity or water used before they moved in, and the buttons on the Not Yet Invoiced reminders now work.

• FixedOn the Billing screen, the **Review Charge** and **Record as Expense** buttons in the reminder list did nothing when tapped — they pointed at the page you were already on. Review Charge now opens the charge so you can check the amount and mark it Ready, and Record as Expense opens the confirmation. The vacant-property reminder also now tells you what happens: the cost is added to Expenses as unpaid, and the charge leaves the list. Recording an expense was also unavailable on a vacant property's Draft charge, even though it should have been.
• FixedIf a unit was empty for a while before a new tenant arrived, the electricity and water used during that time could end up on that tenant's very first bill. Monthly billing now skips any charge used before the tenant moved in, and the reminder for it offers **Record as Expense** instead — because that cost was yours while the unit stood empty. No tenant had been charged this way; this stops it from happening.

Reading reminders now clear once you have entered the reading, and a charge is called a Draft everywhere instead of sometimes Pending.

• FixedA reminder to enter a meter reading would sometimes stay on your list even after you had entered it — and tapping it led to an error saying the reading already exists. The reminder now checks the same month you actually entered, so once a reading is in, the reminder goes away. It also names that month, for example "2026-08 reading not entered", so you can see at a glance which month it is asking for.
• ImprovedA charge you have just written down is called a **Draft** on every screen now. It used to be called Draft in the charges list but Pending in the billing steps, which made it look like two different things. The reminder list also says **Not Yet Invoiced** instead of Pending Billing, and a Draft charge now tells you to check it and tap Mark Ready — because monthly billing only picks up charges marked Ready.

Utilities and Bills are now one Billing section — enter charges, run monthly billing, and track invoices in a single place.

• AddedThe menu now has one item, Billing, with two tabs: Charges is where you write down utility bills and meter readings as they arrive during the month, and Invoices is where you run the monthly billing and follow who has paid. A counter on the Charges tab shows how many charges are waiting, and after you run billing you land on the invoice you just created — so you can see exactly how a charge you entered becomes part of a tenant's bill.
• ImprovedCreating a one-off bill — a repair, parking, or any other single charge — is now three short steps instead of five. Electricity, water and internet have exactly one home: the Charges tab. Before, there were two different ways to bill a utility and no way to tell which one to use.
• ImprovedThe old Utilities and Bills links still work — they simply take you to the right tab of the new Billing section, so old bookmarks and notification links don't break.

The Pricing and FAQ links in the menu now work from every page, not just the home page.

• FixedIf you were on What's New, Blog, About Us or Tutorials and tapped Pricing or FAQ in the menu, nothing happened — the page just sat there. Those links now take you back to the home page and land you straight on the section you asked for, with its heading in full view instead of tucked under the menu bar.

Clearer names for utility record statuses, so "Pending" no longer means two different things.

• ImprovedUtility records are now labeled Draft, Ready, and Invoiced. Before, a utility record and an unpaid bill were both called "Pending" even though they meant different things — now each word means exactly one thing.

Your tenants' invoices now show the meter readings behind each utility charge, and whether they used more or less than the month before.

• AddedEvery electricity, water or other metered charge on an invoice now shows the two readings behind it — last month's and this month's — and how much was used. Your tenant can check the charge against their own meter without having to ask you.
• AddedNext to the usage is a small arrow: down if they used less than the month before, up if they used more. It compares the same meter one month back. The first invoice for a meter has no arrow, because there is nothing yet to compare it to.
• ImprovedWhen one meter is shared — a boarding house where the electricity is split between beds — the invoice says so and shows that tenant's share, so nobody mistakes the whole building's reading for their own.
• ImprovedYou see the same readings and arrows yourself: in the monthly billing wizard before you generate anything, and in the bill breakdown afterwards.

The copyright year at the bottom of the site is right again, and keeps itself right from now on.

• FixedThe footer said 2024. It now shows the current year in Philippine time, and rolls over on its own each New Year instead of waiting for someone to notice.

You can now see what changed in MyRentals, and exactly which version you are running.

• AddedThis page. Every update to MyRentals is listed here, newest first, written in plain language — so you can tell what moved and why, without asking anyone.
• AddedThe card at the top shows the exact version running on your screen right now and when it went live. If you ever need to report a problem, that is the number to send us.
• AddedThe version also sits in the footer of the website, and What's New is now its own item in your dashboard menu, just under Settings — so you can open these notes without hunting for them.
• ImprovedThe website now knows when you are signed in. Its menu shows Dashboard where it used to show Log in, and the MyRentals logo in your dashboard takes you to the home page without signing you out — so you can look around and come straight back.