Overview
RentPayment (rentpayment.com) is a payment processing platform designed specifically for collecting rent on properties and housing. Launched in 1999, RentPayment is a subsidiary of YapStone Inc. that enables tenants to pay rent to landlords and property owners via credit card, debit card, e-check, phone or text message. There is some evidence that YapStone (and, by extension, RentPayment) is an ISO of Chase Paymentech. YapStone also offers other services that are similar to RentPayment, such as Vacation RentPayment, Storage RentPayment, DuesPayment, and InnPayment. The company operates at 2033 N. Main St., Walnut Creek, California 94596 and is a registered ISO/MSP of Wells Fargo Bank NA in Walnut Creek, California. Matt Golis is listed as the CEO of RentPayment.
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RentPayment Bottom Line
RentPayment rates as an above average payment processing service according to our system. The service and its provider, YapStone, are showing a low-to-moderate amount of merchant complaints online, but renters and employees have expressed most of the concerns. There is not a great deal of information available about the company’s sales tactics or its contract terms at this time, so merchants are advised to read all terms carefully despite the company’s high overall rating. It is also worth mentioning that we have located some reports of an email scam in early 2013 that claimed to be affiliated with RentPayment, often going by RentPayment Safe Exchange. This scam does not appear to have been an official initiative of the company, but merchants should take care to ensure that they are interacting with the actual RentPayment rather than the scammer.
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While most companies process payment transactions twice in case of a problem, Rentpayment does not. Instead if the payment is not honored the first time, they charge a $45 fee even if the institution charges no fees.
Their explanation statements make little sense, such as “funds on hold”.
Emails to customer service takes 1-2 business days, the phone agents know basically nothing and someone removes transaction history from their website when apparently things don’t go their way. They never admit fault and are unwilling to resolve disputes.
They are rated BBB by the Better Business Bureau and “B” (4.3 out of 5.0)
They are private company and thus no financial information is available.
Scam – received an email from them in an email account i haven’t used in over three years. The email asked me to update my credit card info for a beach house rental. I called the rental company because my credit card wouldn’t be expiring for several years and funny, the rental company never heard of them! so, obviously these folks hacked my rental company’s third-party credit card provider.
I make my payments on 2nd of the month as my rental agreement due date is 5th of every month. But as per rental payment history website they consider mine as late payments and it have negative effect on my history. Finally when I called trans union they took out the account from my reports. The only reason for my payments through here is to make my score better. Now this have left negative mark. When I call rentpayment care they differ me to transunion again; where they say the account is already closed.
I made a rent payment via telephone for a friend. I used my credit card to pay off a balance owed, It was less than $50. The operator said there was an additional charge of $11 for paying with a credit card. That is a substantial charge for the service. If people pay their rent via this method, I can imagine the revenue stream associated with this predatory practice. My friend is a low income worker and the impact on him would be great if he paid with a credit card. It would seem that the outfit is predatory in this regard and that a review of their business practices by the State is in order.
worst customer service. we almost got evicted because they failed to make the payment in time. we paid our rent on the 26th of the month and it was still in “processing” on the 1st. when i called in on the 1st they said it was something with their system and that they would cancel that original payment and reprocess a new one. they assured me they would call my property and sort it all out. on the 6th we received a final warning on paying rent or the property would take further action. when i called rent payment again the guy on the phone had no idea what was going on and put us on hold. i had already spent an hour and a half on the phone when i called in on the 1st. i hope you do not have the same experience we had we will not use them ever again. this is a horrible company with a horrible business model and ever more horrible people representing the company.
Extremely poor. Website lacks basic functionality as setting a date for payment or changing information on your financial. There is no phone # or online chat option to contact them for emergencies. I found their phone# from my landlord and their customer service is the lowest I encountered in many years.
I consider changing my residence just not to deal with them.
Their auto pay system doesn’t adjust for varying amounts on a per month basis making their auto pay system next to worthless if you need/want to pay the correct required amount.
Also, I’m pretty sure their $42 card transaction fee (debit and credit) is against California law.