Accounting for booth rent has always been a feature in Quail… but it’s only really worked well for about half of stores. If you deduct rent from what you payout to vendors, we had you covered, but what about stores that collect the full rent they’re owed and paid vendors their full payout ever month? Those stores were stuck tracking rent by hand outside of Quail, and forced to break out the calculator every month to do so. That’s never sat right with us, and now we’re pleased to announce that Quail finally has a way for those stores who don’t take rent out of payouts to automatically invoice your vendors, track in-store payments — even let vendors pay their rent online.

We’re calling it Rent Robin, and we think it could be a huge time-saver for store owners — it certainly has been for the stores who’ve been using it so far! We know how busy store owners are — you’ve got staff to manage, vendors to wrangle, bills to pay, and auctions to haunt. Who has the time to be a landlord and debt collector on top of all that? We’ve spoken to hundreds of antique store & vendor mall owners, and we know that rent is where most stores make their profit; it sure isn’t off that 10% commission!

(On that note, did you know that the average commission for antique stores is around 10%? It’s true — we did the math!)

If you want to put your rent collection on autopilot, check it out. Rent Robin will help you streamline collecting rent from your vendors, and free you up to spend more time with your customers, your family, your dog — and less with your accounting software trying to figure out who’s already paid this month and who needs chasing up. Take a look at https://rentrobinhq.com!

Here’s how it works:

1. Create your Rent Robin account at https://rentrobinhq.com
2. Enter in your bank details (so you can get paid) and some basic information about your business
3. Configure your rent settings, like how often you want to reminder vendors about due payments and when to apply late fees
4. Hop back over to Quail, open up Store > Linked Apps, and follow the prompts to link your Quail & Rent Robin accounts
5. Once you’ve got your vendors all synced to Rent Robin, head back there to set the payment schedule (amount, date due, etc.) for each vendor
6. Sit back, collect your rent, and stop worrying about overdue payments or reminding vendors to pay

It’s easy, and — since Rent Robin lets you pass card processing fees onto your vendors — it can be completely free to stores using Quail. Give it a try, or email us at support@quailhq.com if you want to talk to us about whether Rent Robin will work for your store.