The Daily Close screen in SiteLink is meant as a way to verify the payment information SiteLink has matches the actual cash, checks, credit cards, and other transactions you have received for the period. This allows you to catch discrepancies (like a missing payment, or a duplicate) and correct them before it’s too late. It also offers protection against some potentially abusive activities like deleting payment receipts by locking payments and charges out from the ability to be deleted.
How often you should opt to do a Daily Close report depends on the frequency of payments for your facility. Most facilities find doing a close once at the very beginning or very end of the business day to be sufficient. Many sites do not have payment activity on a daily basis and do a close once a week or even once a month. Some facilities (especially ones that accept online payments 24 hours a day) need to do multiple closes in a day to help track all of their payment activity. There is no requirement to perform a Daily Close at any specific point in SiteLink and also no penalty for doing multiple closes per day.
Discounts and Credits are considered two different types of concessions given to charges in SiteLink.
Discounts are always applied before tax (which affects the amount of tax that is calculated for the charge) and can only be applied at the same time a charge is created. Common examples of discounts include applying a special during a Move-In or giving a percentage discount for a prepayment of several months.
Credits are always applied after tax and can only be applied to existing charges. Common examples of issuing a credit include waiving a Late Fee and writing off charges as Bad Debt.
Discounts can be tracked in reports by the Discounts and Discount Summary reports.
Credits are tracked through the Credits Issued report.
This means the Facility Location information in the Company Information section of SiteLink needs to be updated.
From the Company screen, choose Setup.
Click on Company Information.
Verify that the street address and postal code information in the Contact Information section is correct.
Click the “Update Latitude and Longitude from Address” button on the right.
Click OK to save.
Exit Survey marketing information can be viewed as part of the Marketing Summary report.
The Walk Thru Order is meant to represent the way that units are encountered as you move through the actual physical layout of your facility. This is so that reports such as the Walk Thru can be used by managers at the site to physically inspect units.
To edit the Walk Thru list choose Setup from the Company screen.
Click on Units & Tenants on the upper left.
Click on WalkThur Order.
You can move units one at a time by dragging them or highlighting them and using the Move Up and Move Down arrows on the right. You can also select groups of units to be moved by using the Shift key when selecting units.
You can run most of SiteLink’s reports in real time from a web browser on any device, even if it does not have SiteLink installed, by going to the URL http://webreports.sitelinksoftware.com.au
Log in using your SiteLink Corporate Code as well as a valid Corporate username and password.
Choose the location(s) you wish to run reports for, then click Next.
You can run any report directly by clicking on the name of the report. Alternatively, you can choose a list of reports to save as files to be viewed later by checking the box to the left of the report names and using the “Export” menu to the right of the report listings.
The Multi-Site Reports & Management option on the Reports screen opens the Corporate Control Center program for SiteLink. Corporate Control Center (or CCC for short) allows you to run many useful reports (such as Management Summary) as consolidated versions for multiple SiteLink locations. This can give useful details for all your SiteLink locations, including total summaries for all sites or direct comparisons between sites (depending on the report).
Some reports in SiteLink are designed to be viewed explicitly for a certain type of period and cannot be generated for other periods in a way that makes sense.
For example, the Occupied History report is designed to give occupancy details month-by-month for a 1 year period, starting backward from the chosen month. Daily and Weekly period options cannot be extrapolated from this, and annual-related options would be redundant.
As another example, Unpaid Charges is designed to show a list of ALL tenants with *currently* unpaid charges and the age of those charges. Choosing a date for Unpaid Charges would invalidate the intent of the report. If you require information about unpaid balances for a specific period you can try using other reports like Accounts Receivable or Aged Receivables which allow for date selection.
Each document signed with eSignTM is part of an audit trail to help protect against tampering. The audit trail contains IP addresses, timestamps and history of touches and each user. This certificate is the last page of the eSignTM document.
Yes, but the document is outside of eSignTM.
Manage eSignTM leases from the Sitelink eSignTM Console.
For instructions and videos on this feature:
eSignTM does not track when recipients receive or read email.
The “SiteLink eSign Console” is available in the SiteLink Client on the Company screen: in the Corporate Control Center under Electronic Signature: and in any internet browser. In the eSign Console, you can manage leases sent and voided, signing notifications and other housekeeping tasks.
Signing notifications supported are:
- Unsigned Leases outstanding, awaiting Tenant Signature.
- Awaiting Manager Approval
- Documents Nearing Expiration
- Completed Documents
In the console, you can view total leases sent and leases sent this month under billing.
Filtering is available in the top right hand corner. Select the period you want to review using this filter.
Use this console to monitor the document through the approval process and to manage the signing process.
From the main navigator screen, go to Setup: Email: eSign. Click ‘edit’ on the right of screen, edit the subject and body to your preference and click ok.
eSignTM is integrated with SiteLink Web Edition to ensure all documents are stored securely, with reliable fast access anytime. Completed leases are kept for seven years after tenant vacates and voided documents are kept for 3 years. After archive periods expire, the documents are deleted.
No, the law recognizes electronic signatures will not be the same as handwritten. It does not matter what the signature looks like. You can use the mouse to draw the signature, a pre-defined font, any tablet, or a smartphone.
Yes, as we understand, electronic signatures are legally binding in the U.S. and many countries. Two compliance acts passed by congress, Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (ESIGN) and Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA), establish that electronic records and signature have the same effect as paper and handwritten signatures.
Tenants can sign with a mouse.
They can sign using a tablet or smartphone at the store, or, eSign’s pre-defined font.
If you emailed the tenant a link to the lease or tenants rent online, we recommend the computer mouse or tablet/smartphone for signing the lease.
To learn more about signing a lease:
Setup requires a few simple steps.
Please click the link below for instructions and videos.
SiteLink eSignTM helps to rent units online. eSignTM provides lease auditing and a legally binding electronic signature for SiteLink Web Edition, websites, and call centers.
Expedite your signing process to
- Perform a full online rental.
- Rent from a call center by emailing a lease.
- Receive signature in minutes.
- Reduce managers’ time to print, fax, scan and email.
- Audit leases using the SiteLink eSignTM Console and reports.
- Create legally binding documents with a certificate and forensic audit trail.
- Execute documents from anywhere.
- Archive documents reliably using cloud storage.
SiteLink will send an email notification to your site’s primary contact email address any time a tenant creates an account or makes an online payment. You will also see a notification on the Bulletin section of SiteLink’s Calendar screen.
You can change these options to only receive emails, only receive bulletin notifications, or to not receive any notification at all if you wish. You can do this from the Web Template Configuration section of the Corporate Control Center program.
SiteLink has partnered with several highly-skilled web development specialists that can help you create and customize your online website, including Automatit and The Storage Group.
You can find a full list of our web development partners here: http://www.sitelinksoftware.com.au/technology-partners/
SiteLink tracks unit rates separately from the rates the tenants are charged. These are referred to as the Standard Rate and the Tenant Rate, respectively.
When a unit is rented in SiteLink the Standard Rate is used to create a default price for that unit. That price can be modified during the move-in or anytime after the move-in by changing the Tenant Rate. This will not affect the Standard Rate. The next time the unit is rented it will default to the same Standard Rate.
If the Standard Rate is modified for a rented unit it does *not* affect the Tenant Rate for the tenant currently renting the unit. Modifying the Standard Rate for a rented unit only affects the default rate for the next time that unit is rented.
You’ll need to contact SiteLink Support to discuss increasing the unit limit for your SiteLink Web Edition license.
SiteLink supports unit names up to 6 characters, which can be any combination of numbers and letters. SiteLink does not support hyphens “-” or slash “/” characters in unit names.
The Daily Close screen in SiteLink is meant as a way to verify the payment information SiteLink has matches the actual cash, checks, credit cards, and other transactions you have received for the period. This allows you to catch discrepancies (like a missing payment, or a duplicate) and correct them before it’s too late. It also offers protection against some potentially abusive activities like deleting payment receipts by locking payments and charges out from the ability to be deleted.
How often you should opt to do a Daily Close report depends on the frequency of payments for your facility. Most facilities find doing a close once at the very beginning or very end of the business day to be sufficient. Many sites do not have payment activity on a daily basis and do a close once a week or even once a month. Some facilities (especially ones that accept online payments 24 hours a day) need to do multiple closes in a day to help track all of their payment activity. There is no requirement to perform a Daily Close at any specific point in SiteLink and also no penalty for doing multiple closes per day.
Yes. In SiteLink you can delete tenant accounts on the same day you create them. An easy way to rectify mistakes for new move ins is to delete the account and perform the move in again.
From the Adjustments screen, choose “Ledger Adjustments”
Choose the tenant account to be deleted, then click Next
Click “Delete Account” on the bottom right. Any payment receipts showing on the account will be deleted at the same time as the rest of the account. (note: deleting a credit card payment does NOT automatically issue a refund through your credit card processor)
Click Yes to accept the confirmation prompt
Yes, Moved Out accounts in SiteLink can be reversed for up to 5 days after the move out is performed. You can even reverse move outs after a Daily Close has been done. It’s always preferable to reverse a move out instead of doing a new move in whenever possible.
From the Adjustments screen, choose Moved Out Accounts
Highlight the account that needs to have the move out reversed
Click Undo Move Out
Click Yes to accept the confirmation prompt
Discounts and Credits are considered two different types of concessions given to charges in SiteLink.
Discounts are always applied before tax (which affects the amount of tax that is calculated for the charge) and can only be applied at the same time a charge is created. Common examples of discounts include applying a special during a Move-In or giving a percentage discount for a prepayment of several months.
Credits are always applied after tax and can only be applied to existing charges. Common examples of issuing a credit include waiving a Late Fee and writing off charges as Bad Debt.
Discounts can be tracked in reports by the Discounts and Discount Summary reports.
Credits are tracked through the Credits Issued report.
When deleting and re-entering a payment in SiteLink that was entered as a Credit Card payment it’s important not to charge the customer’s card a second time (deleting a payment in SiteLink does not reverse the charges through your credit card processor automatically). This is done in SiteLink with an “Offline” credit card transaction, which is very similar to entering a normal credit card payment.
From the Operations screen, choose Payments
Choose the Tenant account you need to re-enter the payment for and click Next
Fill in the amount of the original payment
Choose the credit card type for “Method”
Fill in at least a partial credit card number (SiteLink can accept the last 4 digits of the card number by preceding the number with an asterisk, e.g. *1234)
Fill in an expiration date (if the actual expiration date is unknown then the current month can be substituted)
Fill in the authorization number from the original receipt in the Authorization Code (offline transactions only) field. If the original authorization code is unknown then the word “offline” can be substituted
Click OK and accept the prompts warning that the credit card will not be charged through SiteLink.
SiteLink tracks unit rates separately from the rates the tenants are charged. These are referred to as the Standard Rate and the Tenant Rate, respectively.
When a unit is rented in SiteLink the Standard Rate is used to create a default price for that unit. That price can be modified during the move-in or anytime after the move-in by changing the Tenant Rate. This will not affect the Standard Rate. The next time the unit is rented it will default to the same Standard Rate.
If the Standard Rate is modified for a rented unit it does *not* affect the Tenant Rate for the tenant currently renting the unit. Modifying the Standard Rate for a rented unit only affects the default rate for the next time that unit is rented.
You can create a list for the contents of a unit in SiteLink to be used later in Auction letters and other printed or emailed forms.
From the Operations screen, choose “Payments”
Choose the tenant record for the unit in which you wish to create a contents list.
In the contact information section on the left of the Payments screen choose the “Contents” tab, then click the edit button icon to the right of the Contents field. If the tenant has multiple units, first you’ll need to choose the specific unit you are entering the contents for from the “Apply To” list at the top left of the screen.
Use the <Tenant.UnitContents> keyword to display the list you create on forms and letters in SiteLink.
To search for a specific check number:
Click Adjustments
Click NSF Payment Reversal
Click on any tenant
Type the check number on the right hand side and Search.
A complimentary unit is a unit rented at $0.
First the unit must be currently rented.
Secondly change the tenant rate to $0 in Payments, Ledger Settings.
You will be prompted to enter a reason for marking a unit as complimentary.
View current complimentary units in Reports, Complimentary Units.
From the Tenant Payment screen:
Click Edit Address(the notepad button next to the tenant name and address)
Check mark the box ‘Do Not Accept Checks’
Facilities handle the auction process differently.
Some facilities will Auction the unit before move out while other Auction the unit after move out.
In order to handle both scenarios, units that were scheduled for Auction and moved out will still be displayed.
Once the move out unit has a balance of zero the unit will automatically be removed from Auction.
The unit can be credited or write off bad debt from Company, Moved Out Tenants.
Another option is to process the unit from the Auction event in Task and Letters.
Click Operations
Click Task & Letters
Click Reverse: Scheduled Auction
Click the tenant
Click Process
Click Scheduled Auction
Click the same tenant
Click Process
Follow the prompts to enter Auction Date and Times accordingly.
When the same tenant rents multiple units in SiteLink they will be linked together by default. These units should show together in a “Batch” version of the Payments screen. When a unit does not show up on the Payments screen with other units the tenant has rented it means it was moved in under a “new” tenant record (with a same or similar name).
The “split” unit must be manually linked to the other unit(s).
Users can link units to the same tenant by following the steps below.
Click Company
Click Utilities
Press CTRL + SHIFT + T(all 3 keys at the same time). This reveals the “Move Ledger to Another Tenant” button.
Click Move Ledger to Another Tenant
Select the unit on the left.
Select the correct tenant on the right. (Note: If the tenant names are the same use the Gate Code column to choose the correct name).
Click Transfer and verify the information in the prompt is correct before clicking “OK”
Click Close to exit the Transfer Lease screen.
Verify linking the units together was successful by confirming that the units show together on the Payments screen.
Overlock is a status that can be placed on a unit to signify that a second lock has manually been placed on the tenant’s past due unit to prevent them from opening the unit. Overlock status must be applied and removed manually by a site manager by processing the Overlock and Reverse: Overlock events in SiteLink.
Gate Lockout is an automatic event that marks a tenant’s gate access code as delinquent. SiteLink will automatically update your gate software to reflect that the tenant’s access code should no longer allow them through the gate. Once the tenant has paid and is no longer past due SiteLink will automatically update the access code status to allow the tenant through the gate again.
This means the Facility Location information in the Company Information section of SiteLink needs to be updated.
From the Company screen, choose Setup.
Click on Company Information.
Verify that the street address and postal code information in the Contact Information section is correct.
Click the “Update Latitude and Longitude from Address” button on the right.
Click OK to save.
The Walk Thru Order is meant to represent the way that units are encountered as you move through the actual physical layout of your facility. This is so that reports such as the Walk Thru can be used by managers at the site to physically inspect units.
To edit the Walk Thru list choose Setup from the Company screen.
Click on Units & Tenants on the upper left.
Click on WalkThur Order.
You can move units one at a time by dragging them or highlighting them and using the Move Up and Move Down arrows on the right. You can also select groups of units to be moved by using the Shift key when selecting units.
Overlock is a status that can be placed on a unit to signify that a second lock has manually been placed on the tenant’s past due unit to prevent them from opening the unit. Overlock status must be applied and removed manually by a site manager by processing the Overlock and Reverse: Overlock events in SiteLink.
Gate Lockout is an automatic event that marks a tenant’s gate access code as delinquent. SiteLink will automatically update your gate software to reflect that the tenant’s access code should no longer allow them through the gate. Once the tenant has paid and is no longer past due SiteLink will automatically update the access code status to allow the tenant through the gate again.
From the Company screen, choose “Utilities”
Click on “Edit Anniversary Billing Date”
Choose the unit you want to change by checking the box to the left, then click “Edit” on the right.
In the “Billing Anniversary” section choose the “Anniversary Billing” option if it is not already checked, then change the “New Anniversary Day” setting.
*Important* Click “Save” before clicking “OK” to close the screen.
Secondary Tenants or “Other Authorized Users” in SiteLink are tenant records that are associated with a rented unit, and can gain access through the gate system with a unique access code.
From the Operations screen, choose “Access” in the “Customers” section on the right.
Choose the account you wish to add secondary tenants to and click Next.
Using the list on the bottom left, choose tenant records to add as Other Authorized Users and click the “Add ->” button on the right to grant them access through the selected unit. You can add new tenant records (and give them a specific access code) using the “+Add” button at the bottom of the list.
After you’ve clicked the “Add->” button to assign the secondary tenant to the list on the right you can use the “Edit” button above to makes changes to the access code or time zone settings.
Some gate update systems do not support Other Authorized Users.
Bad debt is money owed by a moved out tenant.
Bad debt can be written off or adjusted from:
Click Adjustments
Click Move Out Accounts
Click the Tenant or Unit
Check the box to write off bad debt or click Edit Charges and Payments to credit charges.
Bad Debt can be written off in Corporate Control Center as well.
By default bad debt cannot be written off in the same month of the move out.
To change this setting:
Click Setup
Click Program Defaults
Click Move Out
Check the box “Allow Writing Off Bad Debts at Move Out.
Click Adjustments
Click Returns & Inventory Adjustments
Step #1
Click Return
Enter the receipt number or search
Step #2
Enter the Reason
Step #3
Click on the item to be returned
Click on the Green + sign to add
In Return Selected Items, enter the quantity to be returned.
Repeat Step #3 for all returned items
Step #4
Choose either:
a. Leave Refund on Account-This option will allow applying the Returned Refund Amount to the tenants account. If a Walk In POS you must Return to Customer
b. Return to Customer
Complete transaction
Click Adjustments
Click Refunds(The list is sorted to show all tenants with a refund due to show at the top)
Click the Tenant or Unit
On the refund screen there are several options
Step #1
a. Return to Customer
b. Apply to Another Unit Leased by This Tenant-If the tenant is renting other units the refund can be transferred and then applied to that unit.
c. Dismiss Refund as Unowed-Use this option to clear the refund
d. Apply to This Unit’s Charges-To use this option please access Adjustments, Moved out Accounts, Click the Unit, Check the box to apply refund to charges.
Choose one of the options
Step #2
Check the Amounts to Return
Step #3
If you chose Return to Customer enter the retunr method.
Otherwise Click OK to complete transaction
Once the daily close has been performed all payments are locked and cannot be deleted.
If the daily close has not been performed since the payment:
Click Adjustments
Click Ledger Adjustments
Click the Tenant or Unit
Click on the payment/receipt
Click Void Receipt
You will be prompted to process a refund.
Only click yes to give refund if you are refunding the money back to a credit card through Sitelink.
Otherwise click No and void the credit card payment using your processor.
For Cash and Check payments click No.
Follow the prompts to complete.
Click Adjustments
Click NSF Payment Reversal
Click/Search the Unit or Tenant
Click on the receipt or check number
Choose your options on the right.
Note if late fee is not check Sitelink will add the late fee automatically if the tenant meets the late criteria.
Only choose add late fee if you wish to add a additional late fee.
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