1. Rent Stabilization Rider: Added revised ETPA Rent Stabilization Rider dated October 2024. After the Riders are installed, you must turn duplex printing on if you choose to use duplex printing. The screen names are RS RIDR ETPA OCT24 T and RS RIDR ETPA OCT24 A.
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Version 24.0062 October 29, 2024
1. Patch: For our cloud customers, created a separate procedure to install patches and we added a 50 second delay during the installation for the program to close. More information can be found in our help web.
2. Rent Stabilization Rider: Yes,
another revised Rent Stabilization Rider dated October 2024. After the Riders
are installed, you must turn duplex printing on if you choose to use duplex
printing. The screen names are RS RIDER OCT24 TENANT and RS RIDER OCT24 APPLIC.
3. Renewal Lease Form - NYC: Added
new form to RIS.
4. Renewal Lease Form - ETPA: Added
new form to RIS.
5. Batch Sending Renewal Leases: The batch process for emailing renewal leases was enhanced
to allow emailing directly without first reviewing. The selection to send
without reviewing is in More Utilities – Email Settings Button. Select Yes or
No to “View Email Renewal before send.”
6. Payment Portal Checkbook Interface: For customers with a company with
multiple properties and multiple checkbooks within the company, we moved and
reworked the process for importing tenant payment portal payments into assigned
checkbooks. More information can be found in our help web.
7. Restricted OverPayment Program: Fixed issues with the program.
8. Excel: Removed
restriction exporting to Excel when Excel is already open.
9. Recurring Charge Bring Forward from Prior Year: Revised this program and moved it
from the property level to the tenant level.
10. Work Vendor: Added
a feature for credit card payments where a work vendor is selected, the program
will prompt you to change the general ledger code. First select the work vendor
and confirm to change the general ledger code.
11. Legal Balance Reports: Fixed
an issue with the Legal Balance Column 1 Report.
12. Viewing Vendor Invoices: When
you select a vendor in the Company Menu and you select to view invoices, we fixed
an issue with viewing prior year invoices imported from AvidXchange.
13. Email Client: In
preparation for issues with Gmail (and other email providers) that will
restrict access to external email clients, we added the Thunderbird email
client as an option.
14. Risdesk Work Order Import: We
grayed out (disabled) the Risdesk work order import during other open processes
to prevent program errors.
15. Invoice Report: We
made a change to the reports Invoices-All and Invoices-All-Plus to move the
invoice total to the ribbon. We also added a new report in the Checkbook
Accounts Payable Form to run the Invoices Report for one selected invoice.
16. Encryption: For
security purposes, we added encryption to all tenant social security numbers
and tenant bank routing information. Restricted access is in Security – “Access
Encrypted Data.” Uncheck the check box to restrict access.
17. Annual Registrations: Restored
SCRIE and DRIE into the registration form.
18. Graphic Service Bill: Added
the tenant number to the excel export. The feature can be turned on or off in
More Utilities – Bill Addressing/Account button.
Version 24.0017 May 17, 2024
1. New Field Code: Added a new filed code for letters RNNR9R which is 12 times the monthly rent for the renewal lease.
2. Rent Bill Email Text in Body: Added a feature to suppress printing lock box information on
an email rent bill – text in body.
3. Work Orders: Fixed
an issue sending a work order as a text message to a cell phone.
4. Letters: Added
a screen sort by date up (newest first) and down (oldest first).
5. Renewal Update Wizard: Fixed
an issue where a 2 year renewal for a rent stabilized (guidelines) tenant with
a Sr. Citizen credit (feature: Apply Subsidy Credit by Renewal Wizard) was not
increasing the credit for the first year.
6. RIS Cloud Customers: Numerous
changes were made to accommodate this new format. Running an update patch
requires all users to be out of RIS and the patch is run using the “Azure Patch”
icon on the main tenant form. If you are unsure how to run the patch, contact
RIS and we will run the patch for you.
Version 24.004 February 21, 2023
1. NY Renewal Riders: Added new pdf files to Tenant System Template Letters –
RS RIDER 2024
APPLIC, RS RIDER 2024 TENANT, RS RIDER ETPA 2024 APPLIC, and RS RIDER ETPA 2024
TENANT.
2. Person Report: Fixed
an issue with the report.
Version 23.0084 December 20, 2023
1. Recurring Charges: Added an option to sort the View Screen for Recurring Charges newewst date and code to oldest.
2. Late Charge Bill Comment: Added
an option to shorten the comment on the rent bill for late charges to accommodate
certain bill forms.
3. Purchase Orders: Fixed
an issue with Purchase Orders attaching to more than one invoice.
4. Vendor Letters: If
the user changes the property filter for that letter, the vendor letter will be
moved to the new property folder.
5. Tenant Prefixes: Fixed
an issue with the tenant prefixes added an unnecessary ~.
Version 23.0077 November 3, 2023
1. Parking Renewal Letter: Added a Parking Renewal Letter for Rent Stabilzed tenants.
2. Renewal Lease Code: Added
a code - RNCD2R - to determine
the starting date of the 2nd year of a 2 year renewal lease.
3. AvidXchange: Exporting
checks now in check number order.
Version 23.0067 October 4, 2023
1. Letters Program: Added a new feature to all letters. You can now establish a link to a folder on your computer. One use of this feature is to save numerous photos in a folder on your computer and to create a link to the folder instead of injecting individual photos. Please make sure your backup includes this folder as it is a link and not injected into Risdoc.
2. Risdesk: Added a Manager Login and added additional information for the manager to view.
3. Renewal Lease Printing: Added
an option to print PDF Renewal Leases directly using Adobe without having to
preview and then print. This should be used ONLY if the default
option is not working. To switch on this feature: More Utilities – PDF
Settings.
4. Charge Codes Report: Added
new report.
Version 23.0063 September 18, 2023
1. Tenant Statement: Fixed an issue where the report was giving an incorrect balance due under limited circumstances where deposits were entered as of January 1st.
Version 23.0062 September 8, 2023
1. Utility Pull Down Menu: Revised the wording of the pull-down menu to clarify the choices. Added a link to the new RIS Support Ticket platform.
2. Utility: Added
a utility to reload the codes to all template pdf’s at one time.
3. System Email Setting: Fixed
an issue with the email – user/system email choice.
4. Tenant Applied Statement: Fixed
an issue with Tenant Applied Statement inside letters when there is a zero
balance.
5. Renewal Update Wizard: Fixed
an issue for the 2-year renewal guideline increases for 10/01/23 to 09/30/25
where there is a tenant portion and a subsidy portion or a tenant portion and a
second billing with feature “Apply Increase by Renewal Wizard.”
Version 23.0047 July 24, 2023
1. Tenant Statement: Fixed an issue when the new feature (include deposit comment) is selected.
2. Avid Exchange : Fixed
the message on the “do not export” report.
3. Graphic Service Bill: Fixed
an issue where the tenant bill was not exporting in certain circumstances.
4. Renewal Update Wizard: Changed
the input screen for No Guidelines 2 year renewal choice.
Version 23.0042 July 6, 2023
Rent Stabilzation New Guidelines and Renewal Lease Forms: RIS fixed an error in calculating the security deposit for the second year.
Version 23.0036 June 28, 2023
1. Rent Stabilization New Guidelines: RIS added a new 2-tier successive rent increase selection to the Property Renewal Percentage program. Please follow the instructions on our help website for details [Tenant Information – Renewal Percentages].
2. Rent Stabilization Renewal Leases and Riders: There are new Renewal Leases and
Riders dated March 2023. Please use the new files that are included in your
templates. For the NYC and ETPA Renewal Leases, you should change the Lease
Type selection in Property-Renewal Lease Percentages. Replace the 2022 form
with the 2023 form.
3. Data Encryption: Added
encryption of tenant Social Security Numbers and tenant ACH information. This
was done to secure this information from hackers gaining access to your
computer. For more information, visit our help website [Utilities – Security].
4. Tenant Bills: Added
a bill type named Applied Summary. This bill type will list all open invoices
and the balances due. You must check the box “Eliminate Zero Balances” on the
Tenant Applied Summary Report form once. To print the bills, proceed like
printing other bills but you must use new Plain Paper Extended rent bill form.
5. RPIE Export: A
new commercial spreadsheet was added to replace the former spreadsheet. Also
please note that the Residential spreadsheet requires a number in the months
vacant. The RIS program enters a zero.
6. Email Program: Added
a feature to use BCC to batch notices to enable email blasts to residents in 1
selected property using one email instead of multiple emails.
7. Payment Portal Import Screen: Added a new selection for importing from Zego/Paylease and
Clickpay. You can restrict viewing open invoices to only those cases where
there is an open invoice for billing codes you select. For more information,
visit our help website [Other Services – Clickpay/Paylease ...].
Version 23.0019 February 17, 2023
1. Letter Field Codes: Added
another Field Code: Tenant One Month Statement
(R2MSCR)
2. Vendor 1099-NEC: Added
an export to excel for use with efile4biz.com.
3. Work Orders & Repairs: Added
filters, sorts/selections and searches to the various screens.
4. Rent Stabilization Rider: Added
new 2022 Rent Stabilization Riders in pdf format. There are separate Riders for
Applicants with new leases and Tenants renewing leases. We named them: RS RIDER
2022 APPLIC (use in applicant menu); RS RIDER 2022 TENANT (use in tenant menu
after you enter new lease dates); RS RIDR EPTA 2022 AP (use in applicant menu);
RS RIDR EPTA 2022 T/ (use in tenant menu after you enter new lease dates); RSRIDR
NYC 2022RENW (use in renewal menu); RSRIDR
ETPA 2022RENW (use in renewal menu).
5. Ebalance Program: Added
additional import to accommodate Orange Bank and Signature Bank csv files.
Instructions for the ebalance program are on www.risassist.com.
6. Balance Sheet Report: Modified
Balance Sheet Report to add net balances to each title account subtotal and add
total assets/liabilities+capital at end.
7. Bilcode Balance Due: Added
to the button on the Tenant Ledger Page an option to display overpayments as
well as balances due.
8. Lock Box Import: Added
importation of check numbers if the check numbers are included in the
importation file.
9. Rent Roll Report: Fixed
an error in subreport “Additional Room/Status Code Analysis.”
10. Bank Reconciliation: Added
a password to protect accidentally deleting a bank statement date. Also added a
choice to include/exclude documents attached to the bank statement when
exporting the bank reconciliation report to pdf.
11. Tenant Statement: Add
an option to include deposit comment to the report.
12. Renewal Lease Information: Added
a utility to bring forward renewal lease information from the prior year to the
current year when users inadvertently updated the prior year’s data for a
tenant after creating the next year’s data. (Only brings forward lease start
and end dates, and recurring charges if the lease start and end dates in the
prior year are later than the lease start and end dates in the current year.)
Version 22.0092 November 28, 2022
1. Error Messages: Revised Error Message Screen.
2. Letter Field Codes: Added
new Field Codes: Tenant One Month Statement (R1MSCR); Tenant Last Payment Amount
(RLPAMR); Tenant Last Payment Date (RLPDTR); Company Next Month Name (RCRMXR); and
Recurring Charges – Next Month Rent (RBINMR). All of the above fields
automatically use the current date on your computer as the reference date.
3. Deposit Reports: Added
the comment field from a tenant deposit to two reports: Deposit Detail
Report-Month and Selected Deposit Plain Paper.
4. Paylease/Zego Payment Portal: Changed the logo and name from Paylease to Zego.
Version 22.0083 October 31, 2022
1. Clickpay Upload: Added an internal program to compare Rental files received by Clickpay to Rental files sent to Clickpay immediately after sending the file. If there is a size comparison error, a message will appear on the screen to contact RIS techsupport.
2. Apartment Comments: Added
a browse for the apartment comments.
3. Tenant Applied Summary/Tenant Report: A subreport was added to total
billed amounts and payments by billing code.
4. Field Codes: Added
3 new codes to facilite separate lines for the tenant address where the special
address is used. If you need to use the special address/property address as
separate lines (e.g. lease renewal forms), then use codes RPSA1R, RPSA2R and
RPAS3R instead of RPAD1R, RPAD2R and RPAD3R.
5. Lease Expiration Spreadsheet: Added Renewal Stop Notes to the spreadsheet.
Version 22.0075 September 19, 2022
1. NYC 2022 Renewal Form: Corrected
a formatting error on official RTP8 (7/22) form.
2. Batch Processing-Batch Notices: The choice for “Display before sending” or “Send without
displaying” will be saved as the default on that station until changed.
3. Lease Expiring Spreadsheet: Added
Rooms to the spreadsheet.
4. Email Rent Bills: Added
the property billing comments to the body of the email. This will facilitate
adding a payment portal URL to the email bill.
5. Property Management Fee: Added
an option to add a fixed amount over and above the percentage fee.
6. Risdesk Program: Adjusted the tenant statement display to show
the entire billing and payment information.
7. Template Letters Field List: Added
a field name for Applicant Tenant Number.
8. PDF Settings: We added the ability for signatures
to appear on pdf documents. See RIS Web – Tenant Letters pages 4-5 – for
detailed explanation.
9. Emailing Scanned Documents: Added the ability to directly
email scanned/saved documents from all areas of the program with the Scan/View
program button. Also included is directly emailing purchase orders.
10. Company Charge Codes: Added a sort by description
and a search description to locate an existing charge code.
11. Disability Notice: Added a disability notice to
the template letters pdf forms. Embedded fields are: RPOWPR and RPU02R. You can
use the sort function to locate the information for these fields.
12. Tenant Email Consent: Added a form called Tenant Email consent to the template letters pdf forms. In New York State, this consent form is required to be signed by the tenant in advance if you want to use electronic signatures on leases, renewals, etc. for that tenant. RIS does not encourage or discourage electronic signature use.
Version 22.0060 July 8, 2022
1. NYC 2022 Renewal Form: Added
the official RTP8 (7/22) form released by the DHCR.
2. PDF Settings: Set
all pdf default settings to Lock off. User must check the box to turn on the
lock.
3. Cash Disbursements Report: Added
html links into the pdf export for Avid Exchange invoices.
4. DHCR Export: Removed
the requirement for an address suffix and made it optional.
5. Vendor Search: Fixed
an issue with the vendor search during the add a check program.
6. Reports Menu - Tenant Statement Report: Added to the Reports Menu - Tenant
Statement Report – additional tenant statement types.
7. Template Letters Field List: Added
a sort function for description or field name.
8. Return Check Letter: Added
a template letter selection, by property, for this letter. The selector in on
the Property Menu – Return Check Letter. The default template letter is named
Return Check. You can modify the existing template or add new templates.
Version 22.0055 June 13, 2022
1. Renewal Update: Fixed an error in the Renewal Update (a/k/a Renewal Wizard) program for Guideline renewals with 1 year renewals starting July 1, 2022.
2. Lease Expiring Spreadsheet: Added
Renewal Templates to the document list.
3. Combined Menu: Added
a flashing color option to the combined menu button on the reports menu. Color
settings access is in More Utilities – Main Form Colors.
4. Batch Notice PDF attachments: Fixed an issue with attachments not saving in Tenant
letters.
5. Management Menu Work Order Tab: Fixed an issue with the Location selection button.
6. Avid Exchange: Added
the ability to view URL invoices across vendors and years.
7. Journal Entries: Added
the ability to have comments to documents attached to journal entries.
Version 22.0045 May 11, 2022
1. Annual Registration: Revised the diagnostic report to account for the changes to the renewal guidelines.
2. Applicant Registration Info: Updated
this area of the program to reflect changes in the New York Rent Stabilization
Law. Using this data you can create the Rent Stabilization Rider from the pdf
template. This template was also updated.
3. Floor Plans: Added
additional features to Apartment Letters. A floor plan filter was added so that
you have the option to include a link to the floor plan letters on the main
tenant screen. To enable the link on the tenant screen, go to more utilities –
floor plans.
4. Letters: Added
the option for a letter to access a web address. Currently, letters can only access
documents on your computer. To enter a web address link, use the
Scan/Link/Inject a file button, select the WEB selector, enter a screen name
and then enter (or copy/paste) the web address. If your letter is an email
link, then sending an email from RIS will send the link to the email addressee.
5. Sales Tax Program: Added
a feature to automatically add a sales tax charge when posting rents. This must
be initialized in the Charge Code setup as well as in the property setup.
6. Tenant Statements: Fixed issue with start/end
date in tenant statements.
7. RPIE: Replace
the residential spreadsheet export with the changes required by the Department
of Finance. Also added an option to export a commercial rent roll spreadsheet.
8. Vendor Information: Added
additional fields to select when copying vendor update information across
companies.
9. Letters Path Issue: Added
a search feature to locate misplaced linked letters, especially needed when the
path contains a link to a changed drive letter.
Version 22.0026 March 1, 2022
1. Renewal Lease Printing: Major improvements were made to all of the Renewal Lease printing functions, including for one tenant, batch processing and the new spreadsheet processing program to supplement the January 12, 2022 enhancements.
2. RPIE Excel Worksheet: Added
an export for the commercial worksheet.
3. Chase Positive Pay: Added
a combined file export for customer that set up with Chase multiple accounts
with one login.
4. Avid Exchange: Added
vendor insurance reminders to Avid invoices.
5. Billed Amounts Comparison Report: Added a new report to compare billed amounts for every
tenant between two selected months.
6. Payroll Import: Added
a payroll import from an Excel® worksheet.
7. Tenant Applied Summary Report: Fixed an issue with a delay in the calculations.
8. Click Pay Import: Fixed
a capitalization issue during importing.
9. Paylease/Zego Import: Added
a feature to split deposit information in the checkbook by type of payment
(ACH, Credit Card, etc.) to match the deposits appearing in the checking
account. Fixed an issue with the Clickpay import splitting the deposit.
10. Tenant Ledger: Added
additional information to the Expanded View screen to show deposit comments. If
Paylease sends check number data for scanned deposits, the check number will
show here.
11. Post Office Proof of Mailing: Added the Post Office Proof of Mailing Tenant Form to the
Combined Menu.