Overview
Vendors are an important part of property management. They handle maintenance and contract work for your properties, and get attached to Expenses and Bills. If you want to attach vendors to Work Orders or Tenant Requests, you'll need to create them in DoorLoop first. As a property manager, you can also set yourself up as a vendor so you can pay yourself management fees.
This article gives you an overview of what you can do with vendors in DoorLoop.
Create Vendors
If you have many vendors to add when you start using DoorLoop, these steps will walk you through how to create your list of vendors.
If you want to organize your vendors into classifications for searching purposes, you can create and use vendor classifications.
You can also create vendors at the same time you create expenses or add bills.
Using Vendors
Once your vendors are created, you can attach them to various items in DoorLoop, such as bills, expenses, management fees, tasks, and work orders.
Create and Pay Bills and Expenses
When you create expenses and add bills, you'll be asked to connect them to a vendor.
The same is true for your recurring bills and recurring expenses.
Create Management Fees
If you charge management fees to manage properties, DoorLoop can calculate the fees automatically and create bills on your behalf. You can either configure the same management fee settings for all of your properties, or give a property unique fee settings.
Create Work Orders
A Work Order is a task or job for a customer, which can be scheduled and assigned to a vendor. For example, you might create a work order for something reported through a tenant request, or create one internally within your property management company.
There are multiple places you can create work orders in DoorLoop. Properties, units, leases, tenants, owners, prospects, and vendors all have their own Tasks tab where you can create and view work orders.
Vendors connect to nearly every financial and maintenance record in DoorLoop, from bills and expenses to work orders and management fees.