Rent receipts and reminders on WhatsApp

A rent receipt settles arguments before they start. When a tenant has one for every month, nobody spends an evening in March scrolling back to prove what was paid in October. Most landlords know this and still don't write receipts, because a receipt book is one more thing to carry. Griho makes the receipt for you and sends it the moment you log the rent.

A numbered receipt for every payment

Every time you tap Mark received, Griho issues a receipt with its own number, like GR-4B21-2026-0042. Numbers run in order for your account within each year, with no gaps and no duplicates, even when two people record rent at the same moment.

The receipt shows:

your name, as the owner
the tenant's name and the flat
each month the payment covers, and any bills or charges collected with it
how it was paid (cash, bKash, Nagad, bank or cheque) and the reference
the total received, and either "Paid in full" or what is still owed

It's a proper A5 PDF, which reads well on a phone and prints two to a sheet of A4. It is written in the tenant's language, Bangla or English, as set on their profile. So your Bangla-speaking tenant in 3A gets a Bangla receipt while you keep using the app in English, or the other way round.

Sent on WhatsApp, by email, or both

Right after the payment is saved, Griho sends the receipt. Messaging happens after the payment is safely recorded, so a slow network or a failed message never undoes the rent you logged.

By email, on every plan. The PDF is attached and there's a link to view it online. Tenants don't need an account to open it.

On WhatsApp, in one of two ways:

On Starter, Growth and Business, Griho sends it for you through the official WhatsApp Business platform. The message names you as the landlord and includes the receipt link. Starter includes 30 WhatsApp messages a month, Growth 150 and Business 600.
On Free, or once a month's messages are used, Griho writes the same message and opens WhatsApp on your phone with it filled in. You press send from your own number, at no cost.

You can watch each receipt's progress on the confirmation screen: sending, sent, delivered, and read when the tenant opens it. If a message fails, you'll see that too, with a button to send it from your own WhatsApp instead.

Reminders that go out on time

Chasing rent is the part of being a landlord most people dislike. On paid plans, Griho sends polite, factual reminders for you on a fixed schedule:

Two days before the due date: a heads-up with the amount and the month
On the due date: a short note that rent is due today
Three days after the due date, if it's still unpaid: a reminder that it's overdue

Each reminder names you, the flat, the month and the amount. There's no pressure in the wording and no threats, and nothing goes to a tenant who has already paid. The guide Sending rent reminders on WhatsApp without being awkward has more on tone and timing.

You can also send a reminder yourself at any time: swipe a rent row to the left, or tap Send reminder. On Free this opens WhatsApp with the message filled in.

Rules that protect you and your tenants

WhatsApp is personal, and Griho treats it that way:

Messages only go to the WhatsApp number saved on the tenant. You can't send to a number typed on the spot.
Only approved message templates are sent. There's no free-text bulk messaging.
No tenant gets more than five WhatsApp messages or five emails from your account in a day, and an account sends at most 100 WhatsApp messages a day.
Every automated message is logged, so you can see exactly what went to whom and when.

Bills collected with the rent

If you paid a bill the tenant owes, like their share of the electricity or a plumber you called for their flat, you can mark it to be charged to them. The next time you log their rent, Griho offers to add it. It appears as its own line on the same receipt. See Bills and expenses for how that works.

Where the numbers go next

Every payment on a receipt also lands in your income figures, dated the day the money arrived. That's what the dashboard and the reports on What each flat really earns are built from. The rent itself is tracked on Rent tracking for every flat.

Plans

Email receipts and click-to-chat WhatsApp are free. Sending through WhatsApp for you, and scheduled reminders, start on Starter. See pricing for the monthly message allowance on each plan.