This will be the final major release for Chintaro Classic. The most prominent change to Chintaro is the updated Rent Calculator.

Major Release (2025.05.30)

• Updated the Rent Calculator! For an overview of the new calculator and its functionality, please have a read of this article: The Chintaro Rent Calculator

• Added a link within Chintaro to our new support request system!
  

Client & Tenancy Enhancements

• Improved functionality for New Zealand SMS Global users. If the SMS Sender is left blank, then Chintaro will communicate with SMS Global to create a Sender ID automatically:
  
• Added "Email Address" to the Tenancy Letters screen.
• Added "LGA", "Language" and "Bond Registration" to the Manage Tenancies screen.
• Added a column to Manage Tenancies for "Provider ID". This is a field from the Property screen:
  

Property, Maintenance & Inspection Enhancements

• Added "Cost Centre" to Manage Maintenance Tasks.
• Added "Urgency", "DateEntered", and "CreatedBy" fields to the Manage Forecast Maintenance screen.
• Added "Condition Rating Date", "Next Condition Rating", and "Property Condition" to Manage Rooms.
  
• Added "Program" and "Target Group" to the Manage Inspections screen.
  
• Added "Make" and "Model" to the Inventory table inside property details:
  

Finance Enhancements

• Removed the ability for users to generate rent in bulk when the period is locked:
  
• Added "Tenant Band" and "Payment Frequency" to the Generate Rent screen.
• Added "Tags" to Arrears Management and Tenancy Balances.

Reporting Enhancements

• Updated the "FHL Occupancy" and "Tenancy Balances as at EOM Foundation" exports to include a column for cost centre.
• Add "Untenantable Room Status" column to VRS 1.4 within the Reporting Analyser.
• Sped up the "SA Rent Charges" reports, as well as the "Accrual Method Charges" reports, dramatically.
• Inactive properties are no longer filtered out of the "Room Status Detail-HPF (Date Range)" report.
• Added a new report: "Arrears Actions by Date Entered". This report shows arrears actions taken against tenancies between a date range.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where the first line of "ANZ CSV ALT" imports from the bank were being filtered out.
• Fixed a bug where transactions could not be allocated to vacated tenants via the Manual Bank Entry (2 Line) screen.
• Fixed a bug where "Attach to Email?" was appearing when new maintenance tasks were created.
• Fixed a bug where Forecast Maintenance tasks could not be copied.
• Fixed a bug where Inactive Transaction Types were appearing when entering a water charge within a Tenancy Detail.
• Fixed a bug where Tenancy Risk Rating histories weren't being saved.
• Fixed a bug where the Vic Safety Report could not be exported from the Reporting Analyser.
• Fixed a bug where tenants who had a bond lodgement date after the "As At" date entered to the Manage Bonds screen were being omitted.

Patch Release 2025.06.05

Made several changes to the updated rent calculator:

• Fixed a bug where South Australian users were prompted for a Client ID when opening the rent calculator.

• Fixed a bug where Rent Assistance was not being considered in rent calculations.

• Fixed a bug where the Rent Assistance field was editable.

• All calculations, temporary or otherwise, are now printable by selecting them.

• The rent calculator will no longer create temporary calculations as at today if there is a permanent calculation in the client's history already.

• Fixed the method of calculating optimised CRA.

Patch Release 2025.07.01

Made several more minor changes to the Rent Calculator:

• Added income details to printed rent calculations

• Prevented users from selecting "Optimise CRA" and "Override CRA" at the same time.

• Greyed out the Override CRA options when it's unticked.

• Fixed a bug where the output showed as "Rent Calculator VIC" while printing, even for non VIC users.

• Fixed the calculation of unoptimised CRA, when optimised CRA and override CRA are unticked.

Other changes:

• Added vacated tenancies to "Accrued Charges and Rent Payments Activity" and "Non Rent Payments and Charges Activity" reports.

• Allowed the "Tenancy Reference" column in the IRRS report to use Tenancy IDs by ensuring that the "PaymentBookIRRS" parameter is set to true.

• Added "Monthly Lease Amount" to manage properties.

• Added "Program" to NRS KPMs 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4.

• Fixed a bug where the "Select All" function did not work for certain filter types.

• Fixed a bug where Client Income Histories were not displaying inactive incomes.

• Fixed a bug where email CC's weren't populating from inventory items correctly.

• Fixed a bug where NRS KPM 6.2.2 wasn't displaying, due to an ID link issue.

  
  

Patch Release 2025.08.13

Made more changes to the rent calculator:

• Fixed a bug where "Last Updated By" wasn't carrying over to the rent record after a rent calc is performed.

• Fixed a bug where the date format of the "Last Rent Review" field in tenancies was translating into US format mm/dd/yyyy.

• Fixed a typo.

Other Changes:

• Added a parameter called "AutoResizeColumns" - this allows users to unfix column widths, meaning certain fields can be made thinner or wider in saved views.

• Added a column to Manage Clients and Manage Tenancies called "LatestNoteDate". This will give the date of the most recent note in that person's file. If the note has a date within the last week, it'll be green. Between one week and one month will give a yellow column, and older than that will be red.

• Added "KPM Type" to VRS 1.7 in the Reporting Analyser.

• Added "Tenure" to the Manage Properties screen.

• Added "Tenancy Manager" to the Manage Inspections screen.

  
  

• Fixed a bug where the reported date of maintenance tasks defaulted to 12AM instead of the current time.

• Amended the Maintenance Block preference to include tradespeople with no compliance info entered at all.

• Fixed a bug where lease expiry dates were displaying inactive lease dates.

• Updated the NAHA reporting screen to display the right dates.

• Increased the text space in the "Room number" field from 5 to 10.

• Fixed a bug where Alerts from Chintaro were exported to B+A incompletely.

• Added the "Service Reason" column to transaction imports from Centrepay. This is amended as part of the comment on the transaction: