Rent chasing is a part-time job
Following up with 20–40 tenants every month across WhatsApp chats, calls and two phones — and still not knowing by the 15th who has actually paid.
Why Ele8
Excel and WhatsApp workuntil they don’t.
Most PG owners run their business on spreadsheets, chat groups and memory. It holds up at 5 tenants. Somewhere past 15, it quietly starts costing you money, sleep, or both.
The Reality
Five problems every PG ownerrecognises.
None of these are people problems. They are system problems — and systems can be replaced.
No single source of truth
Payments live in bank statements, UPI screenshots and a notebook. One partial payment or mid-month move-in and the whole ledger stops adding up.
Deposit disputes at move-out
The deposit was collected months ago, but it is written nowhere. When the tenant leaves, a conflict is almost guaranteed.
Billing that never simplifies
Bed-wise rents, shared rooms, mid-month check-ins and deposits — a billing cycle that repeats every month and eats hours each time.
Compliance slips through
GST invoices for your CA, tenant records and document trails — easy to forget when you are managing 30+ people from memory.
Sound familiar?
See exactly how each one gets solved below.
See the fixSide by Side
The same jobs,without the grind.
| The job | Excel + WhatsApp | With Ele8 |
|---|---|---|
| Knowing who has paid this month | Scroll WhatsApp, check bank app, ask the warden | Dues and defaulter list on the dashboard, updated with every payment |
| Rent reminders | You type them, tenant by tenant | Sent automatically — 7 days before, 1 day before, on the due date and when overdue |
| Receipts & GST invoices | Handwritten or made in Word when someone asks | Generated on every payment, GST breakdown included, downloadable by the tenant |
| Tenant questions | "What is my due?" calls at any hour | Tenants log into their own portal for dues, receipts and complaints |
| Expense tracking | Receipts in a drawer, totals guessed at year-end | Every expense logged as it happens, with an exportable expense report |
| Month-end review | Build an Excel sheet from memory | Six ready reports — revenue, occupancy, defaulters, expenses, enquiries, tenants — exportable to CSV |
A Worked Example
One month at a 60-bed PG on Ele8.
An illustrative walkthrough of how the product behaves across a rent cycle — this is what the software does, step by step.
- 01
1st
Rent cycle opens
Dues are generated for every occupied bed. Tenants can already see what they owe in their portal.
- 02
~25th (7 days before due)
First reminder goes out
Every tenant with an upcoming due gets notified automatically. No typing, no follow-up lists.
- 03
Due date & after
Reminders escalate on their own
A day-before nudge, a due-date notice and an overdue follow-up — the defaulter report shows exactly who to call, and no one else.
- 04
All month
Operations run in the background
Complaints arrive through the portal instead of your phone. Visitors, notices, staff attendance and expenses are logged as they happen.
- 05
Month-end
Close the books in minutes
Revenue, occupancy and expense reports are ready to export for your CA — GST invoices already numbered and filed.
Most PG software hides its pricing behind a sales call.
Ours is public: free up to 99 beds, paid plans from ₹799/month — and every new account gets 30 days of the Growth plan free, no card required.