Your estate: places, units and shapes
Buildings, subdivisions and scattered units — how the estate is modelled and set up.
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- Read this one firstPlaces: the building block of every estate
A Premises workspace holds places; places hold units. What a place is, the three shapes it can take, what lives at each level, and how to add a second one.
→ - Stacked or flat? Setting up a building with floors vs a subdivision with streets
The shape of a place decides its pages: floors and corridors for a building, streets and lots for a subdivision. What changes, what stays the same.
→ - Adding units: names, floors, groups and the full legal address
How to add units to a place in Premises — one at a time or by pasting a list — what each field is for, and why the legal address lives on the unit.
→ - Owning scattered units across buildings you don't manage
Condos in towers run by other people: how to set them up in Premises, what the platform tracks for each unit, and which building pages it leaves out.
→ - Several buildings, one workspace: per-building views and totals
How a workspace with several places works in Premises: a portfolio roll-up for the owner, a per-building My day for managers, place filters on every list.
→ - Units you service but don't own: keeping them out of your money pages
A unit you clean or maintain for someone else in Premises: the service-only flag keeps it on the rota and out of occupancy, invoices, the portal and P&L.
→ - Running costs per unit and why they belong on the unit, not in your head
What a unit's running cost is in Premises — the fixed monthly cost of holding it empty — where to set it, what it includes, how it prices vacancy. Calculator.
→ - Building location and GPS check-in: what the coordinates are used for
Why a place has coordinates: one GPS reading at staff check-in, compared server-side to a radius, shown as a trust signal on the rota. No tracking.
→ - Renaming, merging and retiring units without losing history
How unit changes work: rename and every past document keeps the old name; merge two units with both histories; split one into two; retire a unit — nothing.
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