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Log and work a maintenance job
How a tenant's fault becomes a numbered job, and how to book the work, share it with a contractor and close it.
Updated 27 September 2026, about 4 minutes
Before you start
- Maintenance in your rail: it shows for agents who work rentals, and for principals, managers and admins
When a tenant reports a fault on WhatsApp, Deed opens a numbered job (like MNT-0007), rings your bell and drafts a short receipt for you to approve: “I've logged this as MNT-0007 and I'm arranging it now.” Nothing sends until you approve it.
A fault reported on a call or at the office? Press New job on Maintenance.
app.ondeed.co.zaMaintenance
New job4 jobs open, 1 waiting on someone
Geyser leakingMNT-0007, 12 Oak AvenueNewStacking doors need fixingMNT-0006, 4 Marine DriveQuotedSay what's wrong, how bad it is (Habitability, Urgent, Normal or Cosmetic), who reported it and which property, then press Log the job. The job is yours to work until you hand it on, and its page opens.
app.ondeed.co.zaLog a job
What's wrongThe geyser at 12 Oak Avenue is leakingHabitabilityUrgentNormalCosmeticLog the jobReported byLerato DlaminiProperty12 Oak AvenuePress Book it, pick a day and a window (morning, afternoon or any time that day) and press Book. Deed drafts the message to the tenant, and you approve it before it sends. Quotes and notes you add stay in the office; tenants never see them.
app.ondeed.co.zaGeyser leaking
MNT-0007, Urgent, New, open 2 hours
Book the work
TodayTomorrowMon 29Tue 30Morning 8am to 12pmAfternoon 12pm to 5pmBook tomorrow, morningYou approve before it sends.
Under Get it fixed, press Send to a contractor. Pick who's doing it from your team's list of service providers, or add them (they stay on the list for the next job), say how to get in, and press Make the link. Send on WhatsApp opens their chat with the link in it. The link is their page for this job, where they press I'm on my way, say they can't make it, or send The job is done with photos, and your bell rings each time. Take the link back ends it.
app.ondeed.co.zaGeyser leaking
MNT-0007, Get it fixed
The link for Sipho
app.ondeed.co.za/j/8f2k…Send on WhatsAppCopy the linkWhen the contractor says it's done, the job asks you to check with the tenant. Press Close and ask Lerato and Deed drafts a message asking them to confirm it's fixed, for you to approve. Still broken? It's not fixed sends it back. Not a fault after all? Decline the job records why.
app.ondeed.co.zaGeyser leaking
MNT-0007, Done
Check with Lerato that it's fixed
Sipho said it's done at 14:10.
Close and ask Lerato
Maintenance
4 jobs open, 1 waiting on someone
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