What’s new.

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We document every major update here – once it’s live, not before. No made-up roadmap, no placeholder dates. What’s listed below has actually shipped.

Approvals by button only, notices no longer get lost

You confirm an approval in WhatsApp only with the button on the card. A typed “Yes” or “No”, a quoted reply or a reaction does nothing; Locari sends you the open cards again with their buttons instead. The receipt now says what happened and for whom, for example “Rejection to the Müller family: on its way.”

If your WhatsApp window is closed, notices no longer expire silently. Locari then sends a short message with the number of new notices and a “Show” button, at most every four hours.

Several ways? You choose by button, with the consequences in view

If an instruction allows several ways, Locari changes nothing at first. For viewings these are, for example, “Cancel viewings”, “Pause”, “End viewings” or “Delete slots”. Locari shows you the ways with their consequences, each as a button. Only after your choice does the approval card for the chosen action follow.

The cards themselves now state the consequences too: whether applicants are offered alternatives, whether people on the waiting list move up, who is told about a cancellation, and whether time slots stay or are deleted.

SCHUFA entries, short employment and move-in wish

If a SCHUFA report shows entries, the applicant stays qualified but is marked “With reservation”. Locari only reads whether entries exist, not the score and not their content. Card, profile and notification point this out, and you make the decision.

If someone has worked for fewer months than your income criterion requires, the payslips since the start date in the employment contract or employer’s confirmation count. If months are missing, the follow-up request names them. A self-disclosure counts for a person only if the page contains details about them.

For the move-in wish, Locari now converts phrasings such as “after my notice period ends” into a concrete date: the date of the message plus the notice period, rounded to the next first of the month. Anything that cannot be converted stays empty, and Locari then asks.

Appointment wishes by button and “Offer viewing”

If an applicant wants a different time, you get a card in WhatsApp with three buttons: Yes, create it, Suggest other time and No. With “Yes”, Locari creates a single viewing just for that person and sends the invitation. With “No”, depending on the situation, Locari offers free viewing times, keeps the ones already named, or puts the applicant on the waiting list for new times.

If an applicant is at “Slots needed”, the Offer viewing button lets you offer a day and time directly. The viewing shows the responsible person with picture and full name, and “Not assigned” if nobody is. The 24-hour reminder says “today” on the day of the viewing instead of “tomorrow”.

Approval with a checklist – without bulk rejection

When you approve an applicant, Locari shows four options, all preselected: end viewings, pause listings, switch on the short reply “reserved”, and tell all other applicants once that the apartment is currently reserved. You can deselect any option and name backups you contact first if it falls through. The same works in the chat: Locari asks first and puts the four options in front of you for confirmation.

An approval never turns into a rejection. Nobody is rejected automatically. You still send rejections one by one, also after completing the letting.

You can withdraw an approval, with a reason. You choose who Locari tells “available again”: all reserved applicants, only the backups first, or nobody. You approve a different applicant in one step: the old approval is withdrawn and the new one issued. With “Complete letting” you close the letting once the lease is signed. The letting then shows the status “Let”, and the rejection dialog notes that no message will be sent anymore.

Shortlisted applicants no longer shown as “Accepted”

Applicants who were shortlisted were wrongly shown as “Accepted” in the status display. They now read “Shortlisted”. Accepted is only whoever you have actually accepted.

Emails to applicants: clear and personal

Emails that Locari sends to applicants are now plain text and come in the landlord’s name. The sender name is your contact name; without a contact name it reads “Vermietung” (depending on the country “Location” or “Rental”) followed by the title of the rental. This also applies to your replies from the inbox.

Links sit on their own line, and subject lines are clear and free of emoji. Calendar invitations and PDF attachments stay. Creditworthiness no longer appears in briefings and team emails about a viewing.

System emails in the new design

Sign-in, confirmation, security, invitation, billing and contract emails from Locari now share one look: a white header with the logo, content on a card, a footer with the required details. Dark mode is supported, and salutation and sign-off are the same in every email.

The logo is now part of the email itself instead of being loaded from the web. Outlook and the iPhone often block loaded images, so the logo was missing there. The wording of the contract and legal texts is unchanged.

Calendar subscription: tidier and more honest

The Calendar page in your user settings is shorter: less explanatory text, one clear sentence per device. On the phone there is no QR code any more, the buttons remain. Applicant names now always appear in the calendar event, the switch for it is gone.

On the iPhone, Locari shows “Calendar connected.” only once your calendar has really fetched the address. Until then you see a note with two ways out. “Generate a new address” now asks before swapping, because the previous address stops working afterwards.

€10 voucher with the newsletter, new sign-up window

If you subscribe to the newsletter and confirm by email, you receive a €10 voucher for your next rental in a separate email. The sign-up window on the website has a new layout with an image; on the phone it stays a slim bar.

In the website footer you only subscribe if you tick the consent checkbox. It is never pre-ticked. The same checkbox applies when you request an expired confirmation link again. You can unsubscribe at any time through the link in every email.

Connect Claude and ChatGPT to Locari

You can now connect Claude or ChatGPT to Locari. Under User settings → MCP you find the address to copy, plus a short guide for each assistant. Sign-in happens in your browser and asks for your second factor.

Then you ask about applicants, appointments and documents in conversation and have rentals, contacts and tasks maintained – with exactly the rights you have in Locari. Emails to applicants, rejections and deleting are only carried out once you approve in Locari: as a task, valid for 24 hours. The assistant never approves itself.

Fewer messages, better sorted

When many things happen at once, Locari no longer sends you every message separately. Questions arrive one after the other, at most one is open. Updates such as bookings, cancellations or due tasks are bundled: the first one immediately, further ones at least 15 minutes apart.

During your quiet hours Locari delivers nothing, not even urgent messages. For new users they are preset to 22:00 to 07:00, and you can change them at any time. The daily viewing summary arrives only once a day.

The assistant knows what happened

For every message in the history, the assistant sees the time and whether it came automatically, for example as a reminder. If you ask what it wrote you yesterday about the Müller family, it looks it up in the history, also further back.

This applies in WhatsApp, in the Locari chat and over MCP. If it finds nothing, it is meant to say so instead of guessing.

Cancelling with three clear answers

When an applicant cancels a viewing, they choose one of three answers: get a new appointment, keep the application or no longer interested. The appointment is cancelled immediately, and this needs no approval from you.

The same answers apply whether the applicant replies through the cancellation page, by email or in chat. When you move an appointment, the menu now says what happens to the old one.

Who conducts, and the calendar in the tab

The Who’s conducting? field is always there when you create a time slot, and with only one person it is preselected. Applicants see the name, but no phone number and no email address. In the day plan you assign several viewings at once.

Viewing times and the details for the invitation are now directly in the Viewings tab of your rental, no longer behind the gear icon. There you get week and month next to the overview.

Requirements profile as its own tab

The requirements profile has its own tab in every rental, called Tenant requirements. You edit requirements right on the row instead of clicking through the setup.

After a change, Locari asks whether applications that have already arrived should be checked again. Nobody is accepted and nobody is rejected by this, that stays your decision.

Income proof for self-employed applicants

Self-employed people and freelancers meet the income proof with their most recent tax assessment or BWA (business evaluation), even if all of them are older than the month limit. If the proven sum is not enough, you decide in the manual review.

Additional income such as child benefit only counts in the document check with an official notice. Without proof, the row says it was stated but not proven and does not count. This stays a comparison with your requirements profile: met, not met, missing.

Polish listing texts, also on the detail page

You now edit the texts of your listing on the detail page just as in the assistant: Polish, Generate all texts, tonality and Bilingual (DE + EN).

Polish smooths sentence structure and grammar in the chosen style. Locari makes sure that numbers, dates, proper names and negations stay the same.

The portal status says what is really online

ImmoScout24 shows “Online” with a link only once the listing is publicly reachable. Changes and withdrawals are reported as done only once the portal has applied them publicly. For a withdrawal, “Going offline” with an explanatory sentence is shown until then.

Kleinanzeigen does not confirm removals. If there is no confirmation after an hour, it says “Offline (not confirmed)” with the advice to check at the portal.

New role “Viewings only”, deleting only for owners and admins

The Viewings only role sees only the applicants of its own appointments and gets its own calendar subscription with just those appointments. When assigning it, you confirm that the person has signed a confidentiality agreement.

Only owners and admins may delete a rental, also through the assistant. Members still discard their own drafts.

Compact and Reach

The two offers are now called Compact (Kleinanzeigen) and Reach (ImmoScout24 and Kleinanzeigen). Reach is marked as recommended.

The prices per term are on the pricing page and apply per rental, with no subscription and no commission.

One layout, search as you type, a leaner phone

The pages of the app now follow a common layout. In many places you edit fields directly with the pencil at the value and save explicitly. Search in applicants, contacts, inbox and tasks filters as you type.

On the phone you get cases, applicants, viewings and questions. Pages that only work on a computer say so.

GDPR data access, one click

When an applicant asks what data is stored about their application, that’s an access request under Art. 15 GDPR – with a statutory one-month deadline that applies to private landlords too. Locari now detects these requests in every application status – even after rejection or withdrawal –, shows the deadline right on the todo, and compiles the complete access report as a PDF: all stored details, the full email history, the list of submitted documents with their classification, purposes, recipients, retention and the applicant’s rights.

You review and confirm – one click, via WhatsApp or in the dashboard. The report is generated without AI, word for word from the stored data, and is delivered exclusively to the address the applicant uses to communicate with you. It ends with what always holds at Locari: applicants can have their data deleted at any time with a single reply.

Free tenant self-disclosure generator

You can now put together a tenant self-disclosure form for free – structured along the German data protection authorities’ three-phase model, as a PDF to fill in and sign, for up to three people, in German, English or bilingual.

Every field carries a traffic light: harmless questions are green, sensitive ones come with an explanation – and questions you must not ask at all are listed separately in the catalogue. No account, right in your browser.

Red flags in plain sight

Locari now marks concrete red flags right on the applicant – things like payments offered, pressure or threats, contradictory statements and manipulation attempts. As a discreet note with evidence that you can dismiss at any time.

It rates no one – it flags individual incidents in behavior, anti-profiling stays intact. You decide what follows from it; Locari just makes sure nothing slips past you.

Clearer plans, simpler checkout

The plans are now called AI Letting Basic and Plus – one flat fee per letting, no recurring costs.

The order summary has been completely reworked: every detail at a glance, payment right on the page, confirmation as a downloadable PDF. Voucher codes are redeemed instantly.

AI listing copy – field by field

You can have the AI write or refine each text block of your listing individually – title, description, location summary. Or generate the whole listing at once with a single click.

New: the surroundings are detected automatically – Locari adds concrete distances to shops, transport and schools instead of vague phrases. Portal character limits are counted live.

Applicant checks against your criteria

Locari matches submitted documents against the criteria you set – proof of income, credit report, ID. For households with several people, income is added up correctly.

If only parts of a document are present, Locari shows this transparently as “partially met” rather than rejecting outright. It stays rule-based on your terms – anti-profiling, no automated rating of people.

Viewings without scheduling chaos

When you create new viewing slots, Locari automatically invites open applicants. Reschedules send an updated calendar invite instead of cancelling and re-booking.

A daily viewing summary keeps you in the loop, and short-notice rebookings hold the applicant’s spot until you approve them.

ImmoScout24 joins in

Alongside Kleinanzeigen, you can now publish your listing directly to ImmoScout24 too – connected via the AI Letting Plus plan.

One listing, both portals: images, amenities, energy-certificate data and contact details transfer cleanly. Pausing and reactivating run the same way.

Applicant communication, bundled

Locari answers questions from applicants over WhatsApp, requests missing documents and sends documents right in the chat. Reminders for viewing appointments go out automatically.

Open items appear bundled in one overview, so you can answer or dismiss them directly – without jumping between inboxes.

New website and pricing page

The public website has been reworked – with real prices, a clear explanation of the three steps and product screenshots instead of abstract symbols.

Comparison pages were added too, putting Locari factually up against common alternatives.

Locari goes live

The foundation: create a listing, publish it to Kleinanzeigen, collect incoming enquiries and answer them – all from one place. Images, gallery and energy-certificate data included.

Privacy-minded from day one: consents are collected deliberately and traceably, applicant data can be deleted on request. Payment runs through a vetted checkout with a proper invoice.