Which is best for your team?

Ailo vs. PropertyMe

On this page, we compare Ailo to legacy systems like PropertyMe to help you decide which property management platform is best for you.
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TRANSPARENCY

What's with the comparison to other software?

At Ailo, one of our values is transparency – and we've heard a lot of questions lately about who we are and what we stand for.
So we wanted to set the record straight on who we are and how we are different from the other property management software. We hope this page provides more clarify, and if you notice any inaccuracies please let us know!
And no, we are not owned by Ray White or any other real estate franchise for that matter – contrary to what some legacy systems are saying.👇
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Legacy system

[LEH-guh-see SI-stm]
Cloud property management software that primarily focuses on helping property managers be more efficient administrators and bookkeepers, often requiring multiple third-party applications and workarounds to manage daily workflows.
The systems typically do not support relationship management, making it difficult to foster strong connections with clients and suppliers. They also lack built-in collaboration tools, preventing team members from working together seamlessly to solve problems, improve processes, and achieve better outcomes—ultimately making their jobs more difficult and less rewarding.

Top reasons businesses choose the Ailo platform

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Unique data proves your better
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Growth in properties under management
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Ongoing platform innovation
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1. Cut the cost and complexity with a single, powerful platform

Legacy property management platforms are built on old technology and haven’t truly innovated in years. As a result, property managers need to use a jumble of third-party apps that don’t talk to each other to get through their day. Ailo centralises all customer data, payments, communication, and workflows into a single, intuitive interface, streamlining operations for property managers, property investors, and renters.
Our industry-first Projects framework brings clarity to everyday workflows, streamlines best practices and tasks saving hours of work, and gives team leads unprecedented visibility into workloads and performance. It features built-in inspections, repairs and maintenance, and other workflow tools, so you don’t need third-party integrations like Maintenance Manager or Inspections Express. And, Ailo is the only platform that natively integrates with Gmail and Outlook (instead of forwarding emails between systems) and offers an embedded messaging platform so you’re not slugged with SMS fees.

2. Advanced payment & accounting solutions save 10+ hours a week

With a fully-embedded payment system, Ailo has everything you need to effortlessly manage rent, bills, bonds, and disbursements. Disbursements are fully automated, so you don’t need to download files into your internet banking. The majority of renters choose to pay rent through the Ailo app instead of through your trust account because it gives them full transparency over paid-to dates and rent owed as well as an array of payment options, including direct debit, debit card, credit card, and Centrepay. They also get automated rent reminders if they don’t have automated payments set up.
As the property manager, this automation means less time crunching numbers and great accuracy. And when you need it, trust accounting automation minimises receipting and reconciliations. All these features work together to ensure rent, bills and disbursements are made on time with little to no effort on your part as the property manager.
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3. Gain a competitive edge – offer new & better services to homeowners

Up until now, legacy systems have focused solely on increasing your capacity, forcing you to manage more with less. But consumer expectations keep increasing and existing solutions fall short – putting you on the back foot.
Ailo is the only platform built from the ground up to empower your team to deliver new and better service to property investors. With a customer-first approach, Ailo helps agencies win more business at higher fees by enabling better communication, unprecedented transparency, and personalised engagements with property investors.
Prove your agency is better by leveraging your own data around response times, vacancy rates, and how quickly funds are transferred to the investor. Plus, our partnerships program introduces new revenue streams for forward-thinking agencies.

4. Constant innovation & unrivalled support

Ailo was built by property managers for property managers. Unlike outdated legacy systems, we listen to our customers and continuously roll out new features and updates weekly based on real-world feedback. The Ailo platform evolves as the industry does, ensuring you always have the latest tools to stay ahead.
We don’t just provide software—we provide a partnership. With Ailo, you gain access to a dedicated enablement team, a personal account manager who understands your business and is there to support your success, a responsive support team available to assist you and your consumers, and access to exclusive events where you can learn from industry trailblazers.
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Property managers who ditched their legacy systems & are reshaping the future of the industry

Ailo makes your job easier and more rewarding, but don’t just take our word for it. Hear real-life success stories from property managers shaping the future of the industry while working in the Ailo platform.

More control

Rob moved his department from chaos to control

“Ailo allows me to have a department that's in complete control and not in chaos. It's so simple," he said.
Everyday I used to hear, 'I have too many emails, I can't get on top of my work and I cant leave the office to do any inspections'. I don't hear that anymore. The emails still come in, its now about how we respond using projects. Prioritising is so much easier now.”
– Robert Zappia, General Manager Property Management at McGrath on the Sydney's Lower North Shore
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Happier team

Tina's team is a lot happier after ditching their legacy system

“I've never seen anything like it. The system truly is working for us," she said.
"It is stopping silly errors. It's giving my property managers peace of mind. They're just a lot happier. They're able to take a holiday and know that someone can jump in that seat and just continue on where they left off.”
– Tina Kennedy, New Client Manager at LJ Hooker Nerang
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Stellar support

Luke says Ailo's support is the best in the industry

“Ailo's support team engages at a deeper level than other providers, who seem to only respond by sending links to help articles. We feel fully supported by Ailo and believe their support team is the best in the industry."
– Luke Curran, Head of Property Management at Ray White Upper North Shore
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Innovative

Louise would 'never go back' to the old way

“When we saw Ailo doing things that are cutting-edge, I thought, ‘Let’s be on the front foot now. In a few year’s time, we’ll no longer have the advantage of being ahead of the pack. Everyone else will have caught up.'" she said
"There’s no way I would ever go back to what it was like before. No thank you!"
– Louise Schofield, Operations Manager at Ray White Rural Gloucester
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Why Ailo is the best alternative to legacy property management software?

In real estate, the quality of your relationships is everything. Retention is just as important as acquisition. And building trust and respect with your customers, your suppliers, and your team is critical to keeping them happy, and your business growing.
Up until now, legacy cloud property management software has helped the industry find incredible efficiencies when it comes to finding renters, collecting the rent and keeping properties maintained.
But these solutions were designed to help property managers be great administrators and bookkeepers – not relationship managers. As a result, property managers are still struggling to manage the same size portfolios on top of a jumble of software, apps and plug-ins to keep their businesses running smoothly.
Ailo is the only all-in-one property management software on the market designed to help property management businesses increase efficiency, boost profitability, and build strong and enduring relationships with your customers, your suppliers, your team, and your entire market.
To do this, we’ve removed the complexity with a platform that handles most of the payments and accounting for you, empowers your customers with more choice and transparency, and makes communicating with investors, renters, suppliers and your team effortless by seamlessly integrating it into your workflows.
Businesses on Ailo are able to offer new services to homeowners that their competitors can’t, and attract the best and brightest team to cultivate enduring and profitable relationships with customers.

Transform your business with Ailo

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What makes Ailo different is what we stand for

At Ailo, we believe property managers should be relationship managers, advisors and problem solvers – not administrators, bookkeepers and complaints handlers. That’s why we built the Ailo platform from the ground up, with these four tenets:
  • Managing payments should not be in your job description
  • Property management is a team sport
  • Strong communication is at the heart of every good relationship
  • Landlords should have more choice & transparency in how you manage their property

1. Managing payments should not be in your job description

You shouldn't have to do end-of-month on your summer holiday in Fiji. Legacy systems offer robust trust accounting solutions but provide limited visibility into who has paid what and when, virtually no flexibility in helping you cater to customer preferences, and then it’s tools down for end-of-month.
The Ailo platform automatically handles the bulk of payments and accounting, so you can spend less time on the books and more time delighting customers. Importantly, there’s no end-of-financial-year burnout to beat; June 30 becomes just another regular day. We know that giving you the space to deliver better customer experiences will increase your job satisfaction more than if we simply made you more efficient in the tedious tasks. Learn more.

2. Property management is a team sport

Up until now, the inbox has been a property manager’s primary tool to manage your to-do list, but that doesn't help you get any closer to customers, work as a team, or manage through the complexity of your day-to-day.
The Ailo platform was built for teams. Projects bring together all of the steps needed to work together to complete common workflows – from inspections and repairs to leasing and compliance – in one simple interface. Team leads can streamline or customise workflows, and gain clear visibility across the team to keep things moving. Because you deserve a holiday without your portfolio falling apart while you’re away.
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2. Communication is at the heart of every good relationship

Industry data shows time and time again that communication is the number one driver of communication. But keeping everyone in the loop, and on track, isn’t always easy. Especially when your conversations are split across so many platforms and team members.
We built communication into the heart of the Ailo platform, so you can deliver more frequent, personalised and relevant communication your renters and property investors expect. Ailo centralises your communications – including chat messages, email, notes and comments from colleagues – into a single, organised inbox. One source of truth that keeps you and your team in the loop and not digging through email chains and endless SMS to find things.
That way everyone can simply get the information they need, when they need it. Learn more.

4. Landlords should have more choice and transparency

Technology is transforming services everywhere. It’s giving us more choice and convenience by putting us in control of the service we use – from the way we bank, to the way we invest, to the way we order taxis and takeaway food, and now to the way we manage investment properties.
But legacy systems don’t support property managers to offer a variable and personalise service to landlords without overloading the team. Where they can add buttons to help short-cut manual, tedious processes like daily disbursals, for example, the Ailo platform automates this completely freeing up property managers to focus on high-value work.
The Ailo platform lets you give a level of choice and convenience to your clients that they’ve come to expect in other parts of their life already. The Ailo app for property investors gives customers the perfect balance between the convenience of on-demand service and preferences, while making communication with their property manager easier. Investors have the choice to access their own money (even as soon as rent has been paid), see live reports, download documents and get instant notifications. Those that want to can now get a much more tailored and on-demand experience day-to-day without adding load to the PM. Learn more.
FAQs | Ailo vs. PropertyMe and other legacy systems
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A PropertyMe alternative

Ready to see the future of property management?

We're excited to learn more about your business and show you how the Ailo platform can help you:
✅ Boost team satisfaction and productivity by automating or removing unnecessary tasks, so they can focus on delivering more value to customers

✅ Deliver more choice and innovative new services to landlords and renters and stand out from the competition

✅ Turn property management into the engine room for your agency’s growth

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