Stelor’s Integration with Rent Manager

In the world of condo and strata management, there are a lot of moving parts. Between financial reporting, capital planning, owner communication, and everyday operations, property managers often find themselves juggling multiple systems and spreadsheets just to keep everything running smoothly.

At Stelor, our goal is to simplify this process. That's why our recent integration with Rent Manager is such a big step forward. In Episode #12 of Coffee Chat with Steve, we dive into what Rent Manager is, how the integration works, and what it means for property managers, boards, and service providers using the Stelor platform.

What is Rent Manager?

Rent Manager is a comprehensive condo and property management platform. It provides tools for bookkeeping, accounting, owner and tenant communication, service bookings, document sharing, and general operations. Think of it as the day-to-day system that many property managers rely on to run their buildings.

It is widely used across North America, particularly by condo managers who need a centralized way to keep track of finances, manage resident communications, and streamline reporting. But while Rent Manager covers a lot of the operational side, it was never built to handle long-term capital planning. That's where Stelor comes in.

How Stelor complements Rent Manager

Stelor is designed to help with strategic planning and long-term financial health. It allows condo boards and property managers to understand what major building components will need replacement, forecast future costs over a 30-year horizon, compare funding models, generate reserve fund reports and capital plans, and track real-time budget vs. actual performance.

The missing piece was the ability to easily pull in accurate, up-to-date actuals from day-to-day accounting platforms like Rent Manager. Without integration, this meant someone had to manually enter financial data from one system into another, which is time-consuming and prone to error. The new integration solves this.

What the Rent Manager integration does

With this integration, Stelor can now directly access the general ledger data stored in Rent Manager. This means:

• Actual spending on capital projects and reserve items can be automatically pulled into Stelor
• Stelor's financial planning tools can use that real data to update funding projections
• Reports can be generated with up-to-date numbers, without manual data entry
• Annual updates become faster and more accurate
• Property managers and boards gain visibility into how real-world performance compares to their reserve plan

In short, the integration turns Stelor into a live planning tool, not just a one-time reserve fund report generator.

Why this matters for property managers and boards

This integration is a major time-saver for property managers, who no longer need to manually input historical financials or dig through spreadsheets to complete a one-year or five-year lookback.

For condo boards, it adds transparency. They can now see, in real time, how closely their building is sticking to the original financial plan. If there are deviations, they can act faster, ask the right questions, or adjust the plan accordingly. For Reserve Plus clients, this also means your reserve fund studies and updates become easier to maintain, since the integration feeds into the StelorBLD system.

What's next for Stelor integrations

Rent Manager is just the beginning. As Steve shared in the episode, the Stelor team is already exploring integrations with other major property management platforms like Buildium and Yardi. These platforms are widely used across Canada and the United States and offer similar bookkeeping and operational features.

The goal is to make Stelor compatible with the systems that property managers are already using. This reduces friction, eliminates duplicate work, and makes reserve planning more accessible for everyone involved. Once fully integrated, users of platforms like Buildium or Yardi would enjoy the same benefits: direct syncing of actual financial data into Stelor, seamless updates, and smarter capital planning.

Final thoughts

The integration between Rent Manager and Stelor marks a significant step toward creating a truly connected ecosystem for condo and strata management. Instead of operating in silos, financial and operational systems can now talk to each other. For condo boards and property managers, that means better data, less admin work, and more confidence in long-term planning.