- No one likes the process of paying bills.
- With Automated ePay, Lykens Companies makes covering your living costs so easy that you’ll never have to think about it.
- This convenient feature is free and available to all customers.
- To get started, email your leasing agent and let them know you’re interested.
- To answer all of our questions, we talked to Nicole Fuller, one of Lykens Companies awesome Leasing Agents.
As a renter, it can be a hassle to remember to write a check, stuff it in an envelope and deliver it to your landlord just to pay your rent, utilities, and any of the other charges you might owe. No one likes worrying about whether a payment got to a Property Manager. Aren’t you over checking your bank account to see if your check has been cashed?
At Lykens Companies, we understand the common hassles that come with being a renter. It’s why we go above and beyond to make sure that we do everything we can to mitigate your renting frustration. It’s the reason we simplified finding an apartment by adding an easy-to-use search tool to our website. It’s why our leasing agents are the best in the business. It’s the motivation behind our tenant-friendly maintenance request system.
It’s also the reason that we’re crazy about ePay.
To put it simply, ePay is just a way to automate your payments. Whether that’s paying us for rent, utilities, or a monthly pet-fee, ePay covers the charge without you having to think twice about it. It can be maddening to balance all the different payments we need to make in a given month: phone, cable, WiFi, credit cards, car insurance, rent—ah! The list goes on and on.
We can’t cure every headache, but we can make paying your rent to Lykens Companies something that you never have to worry about again.
For the complete rundown on every need-to-know thing about ePay, we talked to one of our awesome leasing agents, Nicole Fuller. Nicole became a Leasing Agent with Lykens Companies soon after receiving her Business Associates in 2015. She can usually be found conducting tours throughout the Victorian Village and Italian Village. When she’s not running around the neighborhood, Nicole devotes her time to communicating with tenants, promoting new listings, and a whole lot more. A Columbus native herself, she feels privileged to take part in the Short North’s expansion and help others become a part of the area’s exciting growth.
Tell me a little about ePay.
ePay, short for Electronic Payment, is the safest, easiest way to pay online! It uses an e-check or your debit or credit card information to make scheduled automatic payments on your Tenant Portal.
You guys are always raving about ePay and encouraging tenants to sign up for it. What’s so great about ePay?
Well, ePay lets you to electronically track your payments as you enter them. Each transaction has an authorization code, so you can be sure that a payment goes through. That means you can pay with certainty, just how you would handing money to a cashier and getting a paper receipt back immediately. Gone is the chance to have a paper check get lost in the mail or sit uncashed for a month.
That sounds great if you can trust the system. Putting myself in someone else’s shoes, I could see myself feeling hesitant about letting yet another place know my bank information. Can someone just take my money without me knowing? Can I take off my information whenever I want? Maybe you can speak to some common misconceptions about the ePay system.
Of course! When you first log into your Lykens Companies Tenant Portal account any payment information entered is only yours to see. Lykens Companies does not and cannot see your manually entered payment information. That’s just one layer of privacy for the ePay system—your information is never stored publicly. Second, we work with a trusted, established, and secure source: Rent Manager. By working through a secured site, Lykens Companies can offer each resident the security and protection they deserve!
Even better, Lykens Companies residents have the ability to customize their payment plan in a way that makes them feel comfortable. For instance, Rent Manager’s ePay system allows you to save your info on the server or enter it in fresh each month without ever storing your sensitive info.
You set the rules here! That’s one of the reasons I love it. You are able to save your payment information to your Tenant Portal for added convenience or use the one-time payment method I spoke of.
You talked about being able to choose whether ePay stores my information. Can I also choose what it pays for and what it doesn’t pay for? I could see someone wanting to cover a known cost, like rent each month, but maybe wanting to hold off on other costs that change month to month, like a utility bill.
Residents can use ePay to cover any charges that might appear on the Tenant Portal. For most people who take advantage of automated ePay, they’re choosing to automate payment for rent and water charges. Since water is usually billed quarterly, it can be nice to not have to set a reminder every three months. It doesn’t have to stop there, though. ePay can also include monthly pet fees and can be set to cover any other deposits that might appear on your Tenant Portal! You can set up your exact specifications on the Tenant Portal to pay specified amounts ahead of time or you can set it up to cover your full balance once the charges have appeared!
How can I sign up for ePay?
You have a few options here! If you don’t want to put in the leg work to log on to your Tenant Portal each month and pay manually, you can eliminate that chore for good in no time.
First, contact your leasing agent with an email. You can put “ePay Setup” in the subject line, or something like that. We’ve found that it’s easiest to work with you to make the process smooth and convenient.
You’ll have to choose what bank account you’d like to pay with. Be sure that you’ll always have enough money in that bank account. We suggest choosing the checking account that receives your paycheck—sorry if we’re being too obvious.
After you select an account, your leasing agent will have sent you an Automatic ePay Form for you to fill out. The questions are standard and the process goes quickly. In this step, you’ll also be deciding how you want your ePay process to look—what gets paid for, what doesn’t. When this form is completed, it allows Lykens Companies to do the work of rent pay for you! Automated ePay is easy. Once the setup is done, payment worry is gone.
All of our residents have this opportunity at no extra charge. We’ve found it to be really beneficial to all the parties involved and recommend it for all Lykens Companies residents.
ePay is awesome, easy, and free for tenants. If you’re living with Lykens Companies, make sure you don’t miss out on this awesome opportunity!
