These AppFolio checklists are Process Street workflows for property management teams that use AppFolio to run leasing, rent collection, maintenance, inspections, accounting, and resident communication.
AppFolio is one of the most popular property management software tools currently on offer, supporting all kinds of properties including apartments residences, and commercial real estate.
The way customers see it, your software release cycle looks like this: take ages developing the software, beta test it, add a few features, fix a few bugs, and ship. That is not real life. Beta testing is only one type of software testing your product needs before customers trust it.
Software testing works best as a layered system. Unit tests catch flaws inside small pieces of code. Integration tests catch broken handoffs. System tests check the whole product. User acceptance testing confirms real users can do the job the software was built for.
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This article was originally contributed by Shayla Price.
SaaS customer experience is the full path a customer takes from the first promise to the renewal decision. It includes the content they read, the support they receive, the community they trust, and the operational follow through that proves your product is worth keeping.
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One big thing startups do differently from big companies is experimentation. Startups are less like finely tuned money machines and more like laboratories. They have less to lose from a wrong test and everything to gain from one that works.
At Process Street, we have had our share of surprisingly strong marketing experiments, plus a few that went nowhere. The useful part is not copying the exact winner. It is seeing how the test was framed, what changed, and how the result was tracked.
Process Street and Buildium work well together because they solve different parts of the same property management problem. Buildium keeps property, resident, owner, accounting, leasing, and maintenance data organized. Process Street turns the recurring work around that data into auditable workflow runs your team can follow every time.
These 5 Buildium checklists help property managers run core rental processes with less guesswork: late rent, lease renewal, tenant move-in, tenant move-out, and upcoming lease expiration. For superior management of core rental processes, the useful pattern is simple: keep Buildium as the property management system of record, then run each repeatable action in a workflow your team can see and trust.
Linux server security starts with hardening the basics: patching packages, reducing exposed services, tightening SSH, enforcing sane account controls, and monitoring for suspicious changes.
This Linux server hardening checklist pairs hands-on sysadmin commands with current context for cloud and VPS environments where a small missed setting can become a production incident.
Salesforce is strongest when the CRM record is not the end of the workflow. The Salesforce AppExchange ecosystem can add quoting, proposals, financial services controls, nonprofit fundraising, gamification, admin governance, forms, inventory, calling, analytics, and workflow automation around the same account, contact, and opportunity data.
The best Salesforce apps are the ones that make sales operations easier to run: cleaner records, faster approvals, better handoffs, and clearer reporting. Process Street helps teams connect that app stack to repeatable work through its Compliance Operations Platform: Docs for procedures, Ops for workflow execution, Cora for AI-assisted process work, and integrations across Salesforce and thousands of other tools. For teams standardizing Salesforce-connected work, workflow automation matters as much as the app list itself.
Big Data freaks me out. Chalk it up to being spoonfed George Orwell at an early age or adolescent heroes like Fox Mulder and Neo, but I still do not trust institutions that want my information.
On the other hand, I use Google for everything, Alexa lives in more rooms than I care to admit, and I still expect Netflix to remember what I watched years ago. We live inside this dichotomy of acceptable spying and unacceptable spying.
AOL and Time Warner. Daimler Chrysler. Sprint and Nextel. Quaker Oats and Snapple.
You see where this is going, right? These are the major pitfalls to avoid during post-merger integrations, plus a free template you can use to turn the plan into a practical PMI checklist.
If you’re using less than half the buttons in your Microsoft Outlook inbox, you’re doing it wrong. These three vital Microsoft Outlook tips will not make you an expert overnight, but they will change how your inbox behaves.
You probably use Outlook for email because it comes with Microsoft 365. But Outlook is more than just an email service. It’s productivity and organization software built into the tools you use every day: emails, to-do lists, calendars, templates, and repeatable actions.
