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Fast deployment, low implementation effort, effective solution – these are the characteristics that best describe our easy­square ready-to-run apps. Small and medium-sized housing companies and associations particularly appreciate the advantages of these out-of-the-box solutions. As a pilot customer, the Barton Group provides initial insights into the implementation of the solution.

Always stay up-to-date on any extensions and changes – from performance, usability and security to co-branding. Today we are launching the regular release notes in our tech blog. The first quarter will see great features that make every user’s heart beat faster. Viewings held by the previous tenant, reviews of your services or rounded tiles? The latest releases for the easy­square app family can be found here.

We have an exciting digital year behind us. We have experienced a lot and have worked full speed ahead to further develop the most comprehensive cloud solution for digitisation in the real estate sector. Together, the easy­square team has produced numerous new features and exciting innovations. We are proud to further network the sector with our apps and solutions and take great pleasure in looking back at the technological treasures that became available to our customers in 2020, not to mention the top features leading the best-of 19 ranking.

Calling all property owners, administrators and landlords! Would you like to rent out property yourself, methodically and fully digitally? Then come and watch our demonstration of the best practice with easy­square. In our web seminar on 23 February 2021, our expert Daniel Dierich will elegantly guide you through the rental process, presenting the ideal tuning mechanisms for automating administrative and operational work processes.

In our latest video, we present the unbeatable benefits of our app for owners! How can the mobile app effectively support both housing companies and owners with their communication and all processes? Our video captures this in a nutshell.

For an even better user experience, easy­square apps are now available with widgets. Widgets are design elements that serve as previews of static or dynamic content. They deliver both variety and a quick overview of the top-level services, particularly when the user opens the app. Clicking on one can send users to any location.

As of 10 December 2020, our easy­square apps no longer support Facebook login. New users can simply register for the app using an e-mail address. easy­square platform users who have been using their Facebook login until now can convert their easy­square account in three simple steps.

On 10 December 2020, our expert Toni Schuster will present the EXAD 2.0 solution live. Taking part will be worth your while, as the software will take the creation of heating and consumption cost statements to a new level. The integration of the software into the easy­square networking platform has resulted in an efficient and highly integrated solution and offers real estate companies the option to design company-specific heating and consumption cost statements together with service partners or independently.

easy­square will support Internet Explorer for the web app until the end of December 2020. From 1 January 2021 onwards, another HTML5-capable browser such as Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari will be required for further use.

On 24 November 2020 our expert Charlotte Meyer will be presenting our revolutionary tenant app. Don’t miss it! Companies with digital strategies clearly have an advantage in these times. When contact restrictions and social distancing are in place, digital solutions become significantly more important for communications and networking. Neighbourhood services and communications and foreign language options for tenants, for instance, are in demand like never before.

It has long been no secret that easy­square makes digital rentals simple and efficient. Our new video tutorial shows what makes the solutions so effective in a clear and compact clip.

PROMOS participated in the first KIWI Platform Hackathon in September. The result? It is now technically possible to open and lock KIWI.KI doors through the easy­square tenant app without requiring users to verify themselves multiple times. This is not only practical, but also secure. In concrete terms, an interface to the KIWI.KI servers was created. The solution was implemented for two scenarios:

For years now, easy­square’s professional app has been helping companies in the housing industry optimise their processes to achieve significant time and cost savings The professional app provides an intuitive and simple way for employees such as property managers, caretakers, craftsmen or service providers to control mobile work steps, which are centrally mapped in ERP systems like SAP^®, using conventional devices on site.

Numerous studies demonstrate that the human brain prefers visual representations such as images and videos over text. Recipients can process information in moving images better, as the entertainment value speaks to them on an emotional level and is therefore stored more readily.

Spoken by roughly 1.5 billion people as a second language and 339 million as a native language, English serves as the most important language for international communication. It is also number one online: 949 million Internet users use English, and 52.3% of all websites are in the English language.