Buurman Goes Mobile — and Your Data Goes Everywhere
Two flagships this week. A top‑to‑bottom mobile overhaul that turns Buurman into a real phone app — and a brand‑new Google Sheets export that lands your portfolio straight in Drive. Plus the usual stack of polish, fixes, and quiet improvements.
Your Whole Portfolio, Thumb‑Friendly
NewBuurman on your phone is now a phone app — not a desktop app squeezed onto a small screen. We rebuilt every list, dashboard, form, chart, and modal around your thumb. Fifty‑plus upgrades, end to end — the biggest single release in Buurman’s history.
Swipe to act — swipe a payment, expense, document, or pending extension to reveal the action you want. No more digging through menus.
Card layouts everywhere — tables become readable cards on phone. Payments, expenses, documents, contracts, properties, photos, the Top 5 performers panel — every list reflows for the screen you’re holding.
Pull‑to‑refresh, drag‑to‑dismiss, pinch‑to‑zoom — the gestures your phone already speaks. Pull down a list to refresh it. Drag a sheet down to close it. Pinch a document preview to zoom in.
Bottom tab bar & full‑screen sheets — the main sections sit at the bottom where your thumb already lives. Filters, country pickers, and photo galleries open as full‑screen sheets instead of cramped popups.
Hero KPI & smarter dashboard — cash flow front and centre, colour‑coded green or red, with the rest of the KPIs in a horizontal rail you can swipe through. Long‑press any KPI to see full precision.
Form steppers — adding a property or contract no longer means scrolling a wall of fields. One step at a time, with keyboard handling that never hides what you’re typing.
Install Buurman to your home screen — an install prompt appears on supported phones. Once installed, Buurman opens fullscreen and tucks neatly around the notch.
Your Portfolio, One Click into Google Sheets
NewProperties, payments, expenses, and contracts all gained a one‑click export menu. Pick your format — CSV for portability, Excel for your accountant, or Google Sheets — and the data lands where you need it.
Sheets, not screenshots — authorise once and your data flows straight into a fresh spreadsheet in your Drive. No download‑then‑upload dance, no CSV that lost its dates, no manual formatting. The sheet arrives with frozen headers, sorted filters, banded rows, currency and date columns formatted, and a tidy “Buurman exports” folder created for you.
Useful out of the box — payments come with the contract and property attached, expenses are linked to the property they belong to, contracts carry the address. No more UUID soup; the sheet reads like something you’d build by hand.
One‑shot takeout — your full data takeout can now land as a single multi‑tab Sheet — one tab per entity, in sidebar order, with native number and date formatting throughout.
Privacy by design — we ask only for the narrow drive.file scope, so Buurman can only see the files it created. Your access token is used for one request and never stored.
Google Sheets is rolling out behind a feature flag we’re enabling team by team. CSV and Excel are live everywhere today. Want early access to Sheets? Drop us a line.
More new this week
New- Custom date range on the portfolio dashboard — the preset ranges never quite line up with the period your bank, accountant, or co‑owner is asking about. Pick any start and end date and frame the numbers around the question you’re actually being asked
- Expand any chart to fullscreen — every chart on the dashboard and reports page has an expand button. One click and it fills the screen — perfect for spotting a trend or presenting on a call
- SMS notifications need a verified phone — before SMS notifications can be switched on, the phone number on the account has to be verified with a one‑time code. The toggle now explains exactly what to do
Quality of Life
Improved- 2026 rent regulation refresh — legal rent caps, indexation rules, and statutory ceilings have been refreshed for 2026 across every covered country, reviewed against the official 2026 figures
- A demo that looks like a real portfolio — the trial workspace now ships with a curated ten‑property mix across the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Germany. Mortgages, indexation, taxes, and cash flow are all sized to a real small landlord — so the dashboard shows you what you’ll actually see with your own data
- The green “all paid” badge has arrived — we shipped amber, red, and blue last week. Now a fourth state: a green checkmark on contacts that have paid every cent they owe. A positive signal at a glance, instead of an ambiguous absence of information
- Guarantor balances on contact cards — guarantors are financially on the hook, but their cards used to show nothing. They now display the amount they guarantee, styled distinctly from money they personally owe — so you can tell “owes” from “backs” at a glance
- More reliable email delivery — we switched our email delivery provider behind the scenes, so invitations, password resets, and notifications land in inboxes more consistently
- Richer data takeout — your data takeout now includes every document and photo you’ve uploaded, organised by entity, with a styled index page that catalogues exactly what’s in the bundle
Bug Fixes
Fixed- Past and future rent periods can now be edited or deleted — useful when you need to correct an old amount or set up a future change after the fact
- Manually‑created rent periods are now preserved when a contract extension is activated — your custom amounts are no longer overwritten
- Creating a new contract extension automatically supersedes an expired active one, so the timeline always reflects the current state without manual cleanup
- Error toasts now show the actual reason a request was rejected, instead of a generic message — far easier to fix on the spot
- Property and portfolio PDF exports now use your team’s default currency instead of falling back to euros when a property had no currency set
- The occupancy chart on the dashboard now displays its data again — previously it could appear empty for some workspaces
- Dropdown menus and date pickers now consistently appear above other content, never tucked behind a sticky header or modal
- Payment instructions can now be added with effective dates in the past — useful when you’re catching up after the fact
- PDF documents preview reliably inside Buurman again, regardless of where the file is stored
- Property booklet PDFs no longer have photos spilling past the right page margin
Open Buurman on your phone, add it to your home screen, and give it a real spin on the bus. Then tell us what you’d swipe on next — hello@buurman.io.