6 Reasons Property Teams Should Use Shared Inboxes in Aptly

Many property teams use email as a collaboration tool to handle customer issues or lease to prospects. Since email wasn’t designed with teams in mind, using individual inboxes can cause problems like:

If your team suffers from any of these problems, you’re not alone. Poorly managed communication is a key contributor to poor lead conversion and low renewal rates.

With Aptly, you can create shared inboxes like residentrelations@ or leasing@ to manage communication as a team, route messages to the right people, and get more done.

Shared inboxes are the most efficient way to communicate as a team and they’re easy to set up. Simply connect an existing inbox from Gmail or Outlook or create a new one and invite teammates to access it.

Every conversation in your shared inbox is visible in a unified view that your whole team can access. An Aptly shared inbox isn’t just for email either. Add a phone number for SMS and voice communication to capture all of your conversations in one place. Most importantly, Aptly also works with your individual inbox so you can manage both personal and shared communication from one app.

With an Aptly Shared Inbox, you can assign conversations to teammates, avoiding embarrassing duplicate responses by your team. Since all of your conversations are shared with the team, it’s easy to cover for someone who’s out of the office or on vacation. Customers will appreciate your rapid response times - made possible by response time goals that ensure your team lives up to its communication standards.

With individual inboxes, communication is painful. Because email was originally designed for one-to-one communication, individual inboxes aren’t suited for today’s collaborative teams. With forwards, CCs, and BCCs, a simple question can quickly become impossible to follow. A shared inbox with Aptly transforms how teams communicate, by providing more context and visibility into every conversation.

Instead of creating new threads with forwards or CCs, use Aptly’s internal chat tool to loop in teammates and work behind the scenes to determine the next steps. @mention a teammate directly in the original conversation and they’ll receive a notification, gain access to the full conversation history, and see important contact information integrated from your property management software.

In Aptly, you can create more context for your team with Contact Alerts. A Contact Alert displays critical information above a specific contact’s conversation your entire team can see.

Many teams manually organize their individual inboxes with tags, convoluted folder structures, and inbox filters. Since each person manages their individual inbox differently, this causes inconsistent organization across the entire team.

With an Aptly shared inbox, your team will share the same efficient organization system. Instead of manually labeling each conversation, Aptly automatically categorizes conversations with shared Topics. Topics help your team streamline the organization, prioritize issues, and collect valuable insights.

With an Aptly shared inbox, your team can use communication templates to automate replies and cut down on response times. Templates are personalized to each recipient with merge fields integrated from your property management software. Aptly’s AI can also craft a response based on the content of the email (if included in your plan).

A shared inbox provides an overall better customer experience. With Aptly, every conversation with a resident can be measured with customer satisfaction surveys, revealing important insights about resident happiness. Use these powerful metrics to improve the resident experience, streamline training procedures and ultimately improve your bottom line.