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Tasks Page – When to Use Each Task

This section helps you understand when you would actually use each task in real workflows.

Written by Karyn Millar
Updated today


Accounts Payable

  • Condo/strata fee expenses
    Use when you need to record recurring condo or strata fees for units.

  • Enter Bill
    Use when you’ve received a bill but haven’t paid it yet.

  • Enter Expense
    Use when you’ve already paid for something and need to record it.

  • Income payout
    Use when you’re ready to pay owners their rental income.

  • Management fees
    Use when you want to charge owners your management fees.

  • Print Cheques
    Use when you need to print cheques for unpaid bills or expenses.


Accounts Receivable

  • Commercial rent roll
    Use when you need to charge rent for commercial tenants (typically monthly).

  • Condo fees
    Use when you need to charge condo corporations their monthly fees.

  • Condo special levy
    Use when a condo board issues a one-time or temporary special assessment.

  • Create Invoice
    Use when you need to manually bill a tenant, owner, or vendor.

  • Multi-unit deposit
    Use when you’re collecting deposits for multiple units at once.

  • Multi-unit invoice
    Use when you need to invoice multiple units in one action.

  • Owner contributions
    Use when an owner needs to add funds to cover expenses or shortfalls.

  • Pre-authorized debit (PAD)
    Use when collecting automatic payments from tenants or owners.

  • Residential rent roll
    Use when you need to charge rent for residential tenants (typically monthly).


General Ledger

  • Account Reconciliation
    Use when you are matching your bank statement to Propra (usually monthly).

  • Deposit interest adjustment
    Use when recording interest earned on trust or deposit accounts.

  • Import
    Use when uploading bulk journal entries from another system or spreadsheet.

  • Journal Entry
    Use when you need to manually adjust accounts.

  • Multi-property journal entry
    Use when making the same adjustment across multiple properties.

  • Property Budgets
    Use when setting or reviewing budgets for properties.

  • Recurring Entries
    Use when setting up entries that repeat regularly (e.g., monthly adjustments).

  • Transfers
    Use when moving money between properties or accounts.


Taxes

  • GST remittance
    Use when recording or remitting GST/HST to the government.

  • Non-resident withholding tax
    Use when managing tax withheld for non-resident property owners.


📅 Typical Monthly Workflow (Checklist)

Here’s how these tasks usually come together in a monthly property management accounting cycle:


1. Charge Rent & Fees

  • Residential rent roll

  • Commercial rent roll

  • Condo fees / Condo special levy (if applicable)

  • Create Invoice (for anything manual)


2. Collect Payments

  • Pre-authorized debit (PAD)

  • Multi-unit deposit (if batching deposits)


3. Record Expenses

  • Enter Bill (if unpaid)

  • Enter Expense (if already paid)

  • Condo/strata fee expenses


4. Owner & Property Adjustments

  • Owner contributions (if needed)

  • Journal Entry / Multi-property journal entry

  • Deposit interest adjustment


5. Payables & Distributions

  • Management fees

  • Income payout

  • Print Cheques


6. Reconcile & Review

  • Account Reconciliation

  • Property Budgets (review vs actuals)


7. Taxes (as needed)

  • GST remittance

  • Non-resident withholding tax


8. Automation & Efficiency (Ongoing)

  • Recurring Entries (set once, review monthly)

  • Use recurring tasks (gold clock icon) for repeat workflows

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