{"id":13211,"date":"2020-05-06T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/?p=13211"},"modified":"2020-07-21T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T15:52:59","slug":"rent-payment-option-for-money-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/rent-payment-option-for-money-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Rent Payment Option for Money Orders, Cash, and Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/A-Modern-Rent-Payment-Option-for-Money-Orders-Cash-and-Checks-1.jpg\" alt=\"A Modern Rent Payment Option for Money Orders, Cash, and Checks \" width=\"950\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/A-Modern-Rent-Payment-Option-for-Money-Orders-Cash-and-Checks-1.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/A-Modern-Rent-Payment-Option-for-Money-Orders-Cash-and-Checks-1-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/A-Modern-Rent-Payment-Option-for-Money-Orders-Cash-and-Checks-1-600x352.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/A-Modern-Rent-Payment-Option-for-Money-Orders-Cash-and-Checks-1-768x451.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landlords of yesteryear put pen to paper then migrated to spreadsheets, and now today trend towards adopting property management software. The real estate industry, in general, is pivoting away from older methods for in-person tasks to virtual alternatives such as video inspections and electronic lease signing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatives are available for accepting money orders, cash, and checks &#8212; isn\u2019t it time to try a modern rent payment option instead of accepting currency in your rental office? You\u2019ll gain valuable time and cost savings and your tenants will thank you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article Highlights<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper currency, from cash to money orders, inherently comes with drawbacks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although electronic online rent payment options work well for those with bank access, there are 14 million unbanked American adults who rely on cash and money orders to pay for expenses.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Cash Payment Network resource such as PayNearMe using Rentec Direct property management software is the solution to transition from cash, money order, and check payments. It comes with many benefits for landlords as well as the tenants they serve.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out with the Old Rent Payment Options\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why should landlords stop accepting cash, money orders, and checks as rental payments? Inherently, there are negatives to many rent payment options available. Let\u2019s take a look at each and why it may be time to try something new in your rental office:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cash<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An easy temptation for embezzlement.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holds bacteria and germs longer than other paper options.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Paper trail is difficult if lost or stolen in the mail.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Check (personal check, cashiers check, and certified checks)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personal checks and some cashiers checks, the funds may not be in the account at the time of deposit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Personal checks <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2017\/01\/29\/how-writing-personal-checks-can-expose-you-to-frau.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can expose the check writer identity theft<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by exposing personal information such as account numbers, address and name, and oftentimes driver&#8217;s license and phone numbers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All checks can be forged or counterfeit.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Money Orders<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the funds for money orders are available immediately as these have been purchased, they are not immune to cancellation after it has been deposited.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Money orders are prone to be considered invalid if illegible or information such as payee is incorrect. Incorrect date, mismatch on amounts, and missing or difficult to read signatures or information may delay or negate the check validity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as checks can be counterfeit, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebalance.com\/money-order-scams-315055\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">money orders are also vulnerable to scams<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and forgery.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Paper Money has in Common<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All paper money and papers of exchange for currency such as <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.safebee.com\/money\/fake-certified-checks-dont-be-victim\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">checks and money orders can be forged or faked.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cash, checks, and money orders all require you to physically handle them and perform data-entry into a bookkeeping system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All but cash and a certified check have the unfortunate ability to be canceled or reversed leaving a landlord scrambling to collect the overdue rent. And o<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f course, there is always the off chance that a mailed rent payment can be lost or stolen, or the transportation time simply used as an excuse why it might be arriving late or not at all.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13215\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prehistoric-Piggy-Bank.jpg\" alt=\"Handling money orders, cash, and personal or bank checks for rent payments can be a thing of the past! \" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prehistoric-Piggy-Bank.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prehistoric-Piggy-Bank-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prehistoric-Piggy-Bank-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Prehistoric-Piggy-Bank-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Handling money orders, cash, and personal or bank checks for rent payments can be a thing of the past!<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\nA Move in the Right Direction with Electronic Rent Payments<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What a glorious move for property managers and landlords when merchant services came to the scene to offer online rent payments. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/online-rent-payment-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Online rent payments<\/a> could now fly from the tenant&#8217;s bank through merchant services to the landlord&#8217;s account faster than a check could be mailed, processed, and cashed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From there, credit card processing became available for those that would either rather pay with a credit card to build credit, gain points or miles, or simply because they didn\u2019t have funds available in their bank account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both online payment types changed how many property managers and tenants interact with each other for paying and receiving rent. Tenants log into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/details\/tenant-portal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tenant portal<\/a> to schedule payments, landlords pull settlement reports and can pay expenses faster now that funds are flowing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, a segment of the population can not enjoy the ease of traditional electronic rent payments as more than <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/coronavirus-stimulus-check-payment-no-bank-account-waiting-2020-5\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fourteen million American adults do not have a traditional bank account <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and rely on cash and money orders to pay for expenses. Others choose not to participate with financial institutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Modern Rent Payment Option<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The good news is that now, a modern landlord can provide an easy alternative to residents who do not have access to or choose not to use traditional banking by embracing a Cash Payment Network solution instead of accepting cash, checks, or money orders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your rental office can sit back and allow those cash network locations to accept rent on your behalf while the funds transfer to your bank account.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cash Payment Network Landlord Benefits\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the world continues the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/franksorrentino\/2019\/08\/29\/the-debate-over-a-cashless-economy\/#584c18947109\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">debate of a cashless society<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and rental offices move closer to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/landlord-tips-paperless-office\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">going paperless<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, there are moves to processing cash payments (including money orders) electronically without the inherent downsides of physical currency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Receive funds after-hours<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cash payment networks act as an extension of your office by being available at times and days perhaps your office might be closed. Meaning tenants can pay their rent at midnight or perhaps a weekend or holiday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time savings<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Landlords don\u2019t need to wait for the mail, process a payment, go to the bank for a deposit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Automatic Data-Entry<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rent payment transactions will show in the property management software automatically avoiding costly data-entry errors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Processing concerns eliminated<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No more counting, sorting, storing currency and checks. No more worry about germs associated with handling cash, money orders, and checks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13216\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13216\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cash-checks-money-orders-can-hold-bacteria.jpg\" alt=\"Less handling of currency, money orders, and checks for rent may help avoid unnecessary contamination\" width=\"900\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cash-checks-money-orders-can-hold-bacteria.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cash-checks-money-orders-can-hold-bacteria-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cash-checks-money-orders-can-hold-bacteria-600x365.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/cash-checks-money-orders-can-hold-bacteria-768x468.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Less handling of currency, money orders, and checks for rent may help avoid unnecessary contamination from any bacteria or germs that may survive. Just another reason to switch to an alternative cash rent payment option.<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\nBenefits for Tenants Using a Cash Payment Network\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Can you imagine the relief your tenants will feel knowing they will no longer need to take all those steps to purchase a money order? Y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ou\u2019ll be taking away their concern about mail delivery times, legible check writing, late fees, office hours, etc. Lastly, they might even save a little money as using PayNearMe has a very small transaction fee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interestingly, many cash payment locations also sell money orders so your tenants might already be going to these locations and now can cut out many of the previous hoops and hurdles to paying rent. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tenants get peace of mind that the funds will show up within 15 minutes to their tenant ledger and portal. No more wondering if slow mail delivery will cost them a late fee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Convenience<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Often tenants need to first go and purchase a money order and then take it to another location to deliver or mail in the payment. Using a system like PayNearMe allows tenants a one-stop convenient solution.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Tenant Cost Savings\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Typically paying rent at a cash network location is equal to or less expensive than purchasing money orders or cashier\u2019s checks. Not to mention the cost of postage and\/or gas money to deliver the rent payment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speed of Payment<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tenants can avoid potential late fees as they don\u2019t have to wait for their payment to arrive at the rental office, get processed, deposited, and hope that the funds clear before a late fee is imposed.\u00a0<\/span>PayNearMe with Rentec Direct takes approximately 15 minutes for the software to be updated with the transaction details.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Property Management Software with a Cash Payment Solution<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rentec Direct <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/do-i-need-property-management-software\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">property management software<\/a> gives clients the ability to signup to offer their tenants a payment alternative through PayNearMe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a Rentec Direct client, after <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you&#8217;ve enrolled in the cash payment option, tenants get a code from their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/need-a-tenant-portal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tenant portal<\/a> and go to a local cash payment location in their neighborhood to pay their rent. It really is that simple to transition away from<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> accepting rent by money orders, cash, and checks to a modern time-saving rent payment alternative.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><b>RELATED READING FOR YOU:<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/accepting-cash-payments\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Feature: Unleashing the Power of Cash Payments<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/accepting-cash-payments\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Accepting Cash Payments Made Easy | Bonus Tenant Handouts Included<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rentecdirect.com\/blog\/best-way-collect-rent-payments\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Best Way to Collect Rent Payments Each Month \u2013 VIDEO<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landlords of yesteryear put pen to paper then migrated to spreadsheets, and now today trend towards adopting property management software. The real estate industry, in general, is pivoting away from older methods for in-person tasks to virtual alternatives such as video inspections and electronic lease signing.\u00a0 Alternatives are available for accepting money orders, cash, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":13212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[275,13882,13881],"tags":[14639,14640,14891,12484],"class_list":["post-13211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-landlord-tips","category-property-management-tips","tag-cash-alternatives","tag-cashless-office","tag-money-orders","tag-paynearme","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Modern Rent Payment Option for Money Orders, Cash, and Checks<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Still taking rent by money order, cash, and checks? 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