About

We built this because the rent had to get collected.

PGManage was not designed in a product meeting, and there is no founding story about spotting a market. There was a building, and the rent had to come in.

The building is a 121-bed co-living property in Hyderabad. Seven floors, 55 rooms, 121 beds, and on any given day around 106 people living in it. Someone has to collect from all of them, every month, and that someone spent the first stretch of it doing what everyone in this business does: a notebook, an Excel sheet, and a phone with a hundred WhatsApp threads open.

What we tried first

Excel went first, because Excel always goes first. It is fine until the month you have a partial payment, a late fee, a deposit adjustment and a resident who left on the 9th, and then it is four tabs that disagree with each other. We tried a generic property tool next — one built for landlords with a handful of flats. It did not know what a bed was. It had no concept of a sharing, or a notice period, or a staff member walking around with four days of cash in his pocket. So the real work kept happening in WhatsApp and the notebook, and the software just held a copy that was already out of date.

The thing that broke us was not any single feature. It was the reconciliation. At the end of a month you could not say, with a straight face, how much cash had actually come in versus how much had been recorded, because the person recording it was the person holding it, and the tool had no opinion about that gap. That gap is where the money goes. Everyone in this business knows it, and almost nobody has closed it.

So we wrote the thing we needed

Not a platform. A tool to collect the rent in two taps and put a name against the cash. Then, because the month kept asking for them, the rest arrived one at a time: the ageing buckets when the overdue list got long, the vacancy view the month a whole room sat empty because nobody logged a notice, the ROI screen the day we argued about whether the three-sharings were really carrying the place. Every feature in PGManage is there because a real month made us need it. That is the whole design philosophy, and it is the reason the screens look like the job and not like a dashboard.

We still run the building on it. The numbers on this site — 94% of rent collected, 4.1 days to collect, 98% of WhatsApp reminders delivered — are that building’s numbers, not a demo’s. We do not name it, because it is not a customer and this is not a testimonial. It is just where the software comes from, and why it knows what it knows.

Why we are selling it

Because every PG owner we have met is fighting the same four fires with the same notebook, and it is a genuinely solvable problem that nobody bothered to solve properly for them. Software for this business was either built for big student-housing chains and priced for them, or it was a landlord app that never heard of a bed. We are neither. We are the operator who got tired of the leak and built the plug, and we would like to sell you the plug.