I’ve seen a few posts complaining about the changes of recent updates to Stessa, and I’ll be adding to this. I cannot stand the new Stessa and am really considering switching to a new platform. It feels like they never even beta tested any of these changes.
Here are my current problems:
- There is no way to set an end date on month to month leases without changing to a fixed term lease. If there is a way, it certainly isn’t obvious like it used to be.
- Previous leases that were ended have become active again with the no way to end the lease (see above). I show several units that ended years ago that are suddenly active and behind on rent.
- When inputting income → rents, when you select the property, the unit no longer displays the tenant in the unit. It only shows the unit number and can be confusing when dealing with many tenants in a portfolio. Stessa used to display the name of the tenant in the unit. It does show the tenant in the unit once the payment has been recorded and you can change it after.
- When adding rent and saving it, if there is an old lease that became active again after the update (see above), it automatically attaches the rent to the old tenant’s ledger since you cant see the name under the unit. This leads to confusion in the rent roll because it is reporting all the transactions incorrectly.
- You can no longer open ledgers for tenants in a new tab when under the rent roll report page (it makes you click it to exit the whole report). This is just slow and poor design.
- It now takes four clicks to access a tenant ledger
- The new ledger is confusing and hard to follow (IMO you don’t need three separate pages for summary, ledger, and notes. Simplicity is better by a mile).
I can’t imagine I’m the only one that has noticed these issues. My business partners also have noticed the changes and dislike them. We all agree that Stessa is much harder to use now.