Estate software that survives a bad network

Most estate management in Nigeria runs on three things: a spreadsheet for service charges, a paper book at the gate, and a WhatsApp group for everything else. Each works on its own. Together they leak money, lose records, and leave residents with no idea what they owe or why.

Renly replaces all three with one system. Managers raise levies across every unit in a single action and see arrears without building a spreadsheet. Residents pay from their phone and invite visitors without ringing the gate. Guards scan a pass and log the entry.

Built for the conditions, not around them

A gatehouse loses signal. That is not an edge case here, it is Tuesday. So Renly’s visitor passes carry their own cryptographic signature: the guard’s device verifies them on the spot, with no network at all, and syncs the entry log when connectivity returns.

That single decision shapes a lot of the product. It is also why we are honest about its cost: a gate that has not synced recently can still admit a pass that was revoked minutes ago. We bound how long that window can be, and we tell you about it rather than pretending it away.

How we handle your data

Each estate’s data is isolated from every other estate’s at the database level, not just in application code. Gate and visitor logs are kept for estate security and deleted after 24 months, they are not a permanent record of anyone’s movements. We do not sell data, and personal details never enter our product analytics.

The details are in the privacy policy.

Where we are

Renly is built in Lagos, for Nigerian estates first. Payments run through Paystack and Flutterwave; notifications reach people over WhatsApp, because that is where people actually read them.