The Smart house Rent Collection System

Abstract

Rental property management in third world nations faces lapses in procedure because of poor follow-up, communication gap and dearth of digital channel. To solve these problems, this paper describes the design and implementation of a Smart House Rent Collection System—an online application designed to automate the house rent collection process and enhance notification and communication between a house Owner and Renters. The application is developed based on the Laravel (PHP) framework for the backend part, Bootstrap together with custom HTML/CSS for the frontend, and MySQL as data will be persistent._ Used Technologies: Backend: Laravel (PHP) Frontend: Bootstrap + Custom HTML/CSS Database: MySQL Local development and debugging was carried out using supporting tools as XAMPP and Visual Studio Code. The platform comes with features that allows tenant registration, Property Owner-tenant interaction, Rent tracking, Rent due notifications through integrated SMS API & SMTP email server, secured Login system, Scheduled Generate / Download PDF reports & Exports, Automate Daily Backup and more with full database backup one can even restore and manage the data with Admin Panel. It was installed and tested in a Local Server Environment and tested for usability, performance and functional correctness. Comparison with the current systems reveals its exclusive characteristics, personalized dashboard, real-time rent status update, automatic intimation, scalable architecture. Other than serving multiuser functionality, logs of payment for rent, payment history details are stored in the system, and has scope for extension in the future for any mobile application or integration with financial APIs. The solution, proposed as a solution is a reduction in manual process and also transparency, accountability and better data management in the renting process.