For landowners & farm lease operators
Cash rent usually arrives once or twice a year, often from a farmer you have known for years and never signed anything with. RentMerchant gives each payment a real invoice with a due date, sends the reminder and the receipt, and keeps the lease, the ledger, and the expense records in one place for tax time. Be aware that recurring schedules here run monthly, so for annual or split-season rent you raise an invoice per payment; the records and the Schedule E export are the real reason to use it.
The whole year rides on one or two payments
Cash rent is commonly paid in full ahead of planting or split between spring and fall. Miss the date and you are not a month behind, you are waiting on the next crop year to make it up.
Handshake leases leave nothing to show
A lot of ground is rented on a conversation with a neighbor and renews by silence. That works until you need to prove the rate, the acres, the term, or what was actually paid, usually at tax time or when the ground changes hands.
The owner is rarely on the farm
Plenty of landowners inherited the ground and live states away, sometimes with siblings who own it with them. Rent, receipts, the signed lease, and answers for the rest of the family all have to travel.
An invoice for each payment, with the chasing built in
Recurring rent runs monthly, so an annual or twice-yearly cash rent is a one-off invoice per payment instead. Set the amount and the due date; automatic reminders go out on their own, the receipt follows when the payment lands, you can download the invoice PDF to send or file, and a late fee rule applies itself if your lease provides for one. When the farmer pays online, bank transfer costs him the processor's cost capped at $5.00 plus a $2.00 RentMerchant fee that Pro waives, and you receive the full rent.
A written record behind every dollar
Send the cash rent lease for e-signature, store it with the field map and the renewal notices, and keep every payment on a ledger you can pull up years later. Track expenses by category as they happen and export a Schedule E summary at year end. If a check comes across the kitchen table, record it against the invoice so nothing sits outside the record.
Built for absentee owners and shared ground
The farmer pays from wherever he is and you review it from wherever you are. Payment history, secure messaging, and documents live in the portal, and owner statements plus a read-only owner login keep co-owners and heirs in the picture without a phone call every spring.
Common spaces
Cropland and row-crop acres, pasture and grazing leases, hay ground, hunting and recreational leases, grain bin space, and barn, shed, or equipment storage.
RentMerchant works for many kinds of space. See everything it does, or how landlords collect rent online.
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