Doorkeep is Live 🎉 10 reasons anyone managing properties will love Doorkeep

Written By Andy Peters (Founder)

Team inbox

Designed from the ground up so you can manage communications with other people, Doorkeep is a team inbox. You can call it a shared inbox too if you prefer.

Cloud based phone number that works just like a cell phone.

You can stop giving out your personal or work cell phone number with Doorkeep. Keep everything in one place, so you'll never forget to respond and never loose that communication. Doorkeep works just like your cell phone does, just a lot more powerful and designed to be shared with others on your team.

Choose your Doorkeep phone number.

Your phone number gives a signal to your tenants, vendors, and owners where you are located. We wanted to ensure you had the choice of phone number. So when you signup for Doorkeep, you get to choose the phone number as part of the onboarding process. Pick a phone number that most closely represents where your properties are located. Or perhaps, you'd like a phone number in location where you are located. No matter the reason, you can choose the location of your phone number.

Followup text or call reminders.

We've all been there, forgot to respond to a text message. Your residents just want to send you a text message. When you have a lot of residents, it can be hard to remember to followup with everyone who has texted you in a day or hour or week. Doorkeep helps you keep on top of replies so you can't forget who to reply to by sending you timely reminders and leaving conversations as a task that needs completing. Maybe someone else on the team could respond to that resident? You'll know about it.

Assign a property manager to each property you have.

Properties have managers in Doorkeep. What does that mean? The user assigned to the property as the property manager will be the person to receive the phone call from a tenant or their text message. If they miss the call or text, they will be reminded about it. Every user on the account can still see the outstanding responses to text messages and phone calls to keep everyone accountable.

Text messaging only communications for a property.

Residents are more commonly wanting to communicate with you via text messaging. If this is your preferred method set your property to be "text messaging" only. Property managers like this because it helps eliminate yet another notification and distraction. When this is enable and a tenant calls your Doorkeep phone number, the automated answering service will notify them that this property is text message only. Then Doorkeep will send them a text message automatically to get the conversation going with them for you.

This may not be a good choice for all of your properties. This is why its an option you can turn on when you want to.

Send one text message to a property, let Doorkeep route text messages to each tenant.

Ever need to send a message to everyone at the property? Maybe you have used a group message and found out how bad of an idea that was. Maybe you copy and pasted many many different contacts the same message? Well, we solved that. When you select your property you can click "Send a message to all tenants". When you send this message we route a message individually to each tenant. This way everyone's phone number isn't revealed to the property and when someone replies to the message its kept in one conversation. This is great for announcements such as property wide maintenance or updates.

Property specific voicemail boxes.

Its so difficult for a resident to remember the property management company they are calling or the name of the manager. What they do remember, is the name of the apartment complex, or property name or location. This happens to me all the time while renting, even when I got to know the property manager really well. Confirming with the tenant that they are calling the place they live, is real nice touch in personalization and making the residence experience excellent.

Daily and weekly emails about communications sent to you and your team.

Keep yourself and everyone else in the team up-to-date with property wide communications through regular email digests. Doorkeep summarizes what communication has taken place and what needs to be followed up on and send that email to everyone on the team. Help you team with transparency or keep a birds eye view on the team communications through emails.

Shared replies and responses.

Do you currently send the same text message response to tenants about rent or the maintenance procedures but worded differently everytime? Maybe you are organized enough to put these common responses in a spreadsheet? Well get them out and into your inbox for your entire team to see and use immediately as they respond to text messages at the property.