Two new things in v1.11.2 that make Kamaru more flexible: open it in a browser at my.kamaru.app when you’re at a laptop, and staff roles whose permissions you set yourself. Plus 3 more updates that tidy up the detail pages and make message templates easier to use.

Open Kamaru in a browser

At a laptop and don’t feel like reaching for your phone? Kamaru now opens in a browser at my.kamaru.app. Sign in with the same Google or Apple account, your data is right there, nothing to set up twice.

Good for work that’s nicer on a big screen: reading financial reports, entering a batch of payments, or viewing the occupancy calendar a full month at a time. Staff can use it too, with the same permissions they have on the phone.

Everything you change in the browser syncs straight to the phone, and the other way round. One account, one set of data, two screens.

In the phone app, a new card on the property list and Profile → Access Kamaru on a computer explain how to get in. Both can be dismissed once you don’t need them.

Every staff member has a role, and you set the permissions

Since v1.11.0 you could add staff. Now every staff member has a role: Front Office, Supervisor, or Accounting. Each role comes with its own preset permissions, and you can adjust the preset to match how your rental actually runs.

• Front Office handles tenants and payments day-to-day. This is the default, and every existing staff member became Front Office automatically with nothing changing.
• Supervisor can do nearly everything: add and edit anything, delete nearly everything (except properties and rooms), adjust settings (except bank accounts).
• Accounting keeps the books: down payments and deposits, invoices, payments, expenses, and can read reports. Doesn’t touch tenant or room data.

Open Staff → Role settings to see three cards, one per role. Tap one to change its checkboxes: what may be added, edited, deleted, or viewed. One change applies to every staff member holding that role.

Every checkbox is a real lock, on the phone and in the database. A staff member without access sees a padlock that says “The owner hasn’t granted access”, not a confusing error.

Roles apply to all staff, on Pro (1 seat) and MAX (up to 10 seats).

Plus 3 more updates

1. Room and property detail pages are now tabs. Room detail used to be one long page you scrolled through. It’s now split into tabs: Tenants · Prices · Transactions · More, each with its own add button. Property detail works the same way. Faster to find what you’re after, and on a tablet the tabs don’t stretch across the whole screen.

2. Internal notes on every room and property. A place for things that are only for your team: where the spare key is, when the AC was last serviced, when the electricity bill is due. Open Room detail → More → Internal notes. As many as you need per room or property, never printed on anything sent to a tenant, and every staff member can read and write them. Free up to 5 notes per room or property, unlimited on Pro and MAX.

3. Translate a message template into another language. Have tenants from abroad? Open Edit message template → More → Translate, pick from 23 languages, and the template is replaced with the translation. Placeholders like the tenant’s name and the amount stay intact. Not right? There’s an Undo button. Free on every plan.

Improvements & fixes

• Forgot your password? There’s now a button for it on the sign-in screen. A 6-digit code goes to your email, enter it in the app, set a new password.
• Contact Kamaru from the sign-in screen if you can’t get in. Icon in the top right.
• Confirmation before deleting a profile photo, ID photo, property logo, or all notifications. Things that can’t be undone now ask first.
• Notes on rental prices, such as “AC” or “promo”, so two monthly prices with different amounts don’t get mixed up.
• Down payment and rent on one invoice, no need to split them into two documents.
• Photos load faster and use less data, since the app fetches a small version for avatars and cards.
• The empty screen says when sample data was deleted, so it doesn’t look like your data went missing.

And plenty of smaller fixes that make Kamaru better.

Kamaru grows with your rental ❤️

This update is about flexibility: Kamaru is no longer phone-only, and staff are no longer one-size-fits-all. An owner with two people in the office can now say “you handle tenants, you handle the books” and Kamaru keeps the boundary.

These features came from your stories: “I’m at a laptop more than a phone” and “my staff don’t need to see everything, just what they work on”. Thank you for telling us.

Two ways we build Kamaru together:

1. Profile → Feature requests → straight from the app, into our inbox. We chat via WhatsApp or Email.
2. Reviews in the store → 20 seconds. Beyond helping the app’s ranking, reviews are also a signal to us on which features are worth continuing and expanding.

We read every review, so if this update helps, please tell us.

Bregga / founder of Kamaru

Three new things in v1.11.1: staff are now available on Pro, the stay badge becomes a countdown to the next collection, and your name plus signature on invoices and receipts. Plus 5 supporting updates.

Staff now on Pro, Max rises to 10 seats

Last month staff were a Max feature only. Now Pro includes 1 staff seat with its own login, and Max rises from 4 to 10 seats.

Why does Pro get a seat but no activity history?

The resource-hungry part isn’t the seat, it’s the history. So we traded: Max rises to 10 seats with retention dropping from 6 months to 3, and Pro gets the seat without the history.

If a plan drops from Max to Pro, the most recently joined staff are switched off down to the new seat count. Nobody is removed.

When was each staff member last online?

On the staff page, every person carries a line saying when they last opened Kamaru. Someone who never has is stated outright rather than left blank. Sign-ins are recorded in the activity history too, including the owner’s own, because a record that only points one way isn’t a record.

The stay badge becomes a countdown

The badge on a tenant row used to show the number of nights between check-in and check-out. A figure that never changed, and one that collapsed into an infinity symbol for monthly rentals with no move-out date.

Now it answers the question people actually use it for: how many days until this tenant needs chasing. The figure is payment-aware, so someone who paid three months ahead isn’t told to pay today. Once the due date passes, it becomes the age of the debt, exactly the number the arrears report prints.

Anyone who preferred the old reading can switch back under Profile → Stay → Card badge.

Name and signature on invoices and receipts

Two owners asked for the same thing, and the second gave the deciding reason: their tenant is billed to a company, and that company’s finance desk rejects a receipt with no recipient name and no signature on it.

There’s now a closing block at the foot of every A4 document (invoices, receipts, deposit return receipts, across the Professional and Minimalist templates): a greeting, the signature, a rule, and the name. The signature is drawn directly in the app, and comes out as vector in the PDF. All three new switches in Document template start switched off, so documents you already send won’t change.

Plus 5 more updates

1. Time format is now your choice. Under Profile → General settings → Time format: follow the device, 12-hour, or 24-hour. Per person rather than per account, so staff can read time their own way.

2. The calendar can print portrait. An Orientation picker under the period selector: landscape fits roughly 23 room rows per page, portrait about 35. Your last choice is remembered.

3. The check-out date picker opens on what’s already paid for. It used to open on today, so for a tenant paid through 10 September the owner had to scroll forward themselves.

4. An occupant’s stay card names the lease holder, with their photo, and tapping it opens their details.

5. Currency moved to General settings, directly under Region, because the region is what picks it.

Notable fixes

• Staff access ends with the plan, rather than waiting for the owner to open the app again.
• Staff can add a tenant again. It used to fail with a raw error message and leave half-written data behind.
• Error messages on a failed save are readable now, rather than a truncated technical message.
• Rent increases on invoices are calculated correctly. The rent line for a period after an increase used to carry the old price.
• Editing a check-out date no longer overwrites payment status.

And plenty of other small fixes that make Kamaru better.

We Listen And We Don’t Judge We Fix It ❤️

Last month we shipped Max accounts with 4 staff seats. The feedback that came back was uniform: why should this need Max when all I want is one person helping me record payments? Fair point, so this update gives 1 staff seat on Pro, and raises Max to 10 seats for the people whose teams really are that size.

The signature feature above came from two owners asking for the same thing too. Kamaru is built by a small team with no investors, so what gets built is decided by what’s actually needed.

Two ways we build Kamaru together:

1. Profile → Feature request — straight from the app, straight to our inbox. We’ll continue the conversation over WhatsApp or email.
2. Review on the store — 20 seconds. Beyond helping the app climb the rankings, a review tells us which features people actually use.

We read every review, so if this update landed for you, please tell us.

— Bregga / founder of Kamaru