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How to Create a Maintenance Request Category
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How to Help Tenants Access Their Portal if They Forget Their Password
How to Set Property Manager Permissions
How to Invite an Owner to Their Portal
How Tenants Can Add or Update a Payment Method
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How to List & Publish a Property Listing on Your Company’s Website
How to Syndicate Listings to External Platforms
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How to Edit Property Manager Notification Settings
How to Get a QR For Your Company Website
How to Create & Use Magic Tags
How to Select Owner Manager or Third-Party Manager
How to Edit Leasing Contact Information on Your Company Website
Leasing
Upload & Store Lease Agreements
How to View Unfinished Rental Applications
How to Set the Owners of a Property
How to Send a Lease Renewal Manually
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How to View & Manage Bank Accounts
Reports
How to Track Outstanding Tenant Balances Using the Delinquency Report
How to Download Reports
How to Use the Accounts Payable Report to Track Unpaid Invoices & Maintenance Costs
Help/Maintenance/How to Create a Maintenance Request Category

How to Create a Maintenance Request Category

This help article explains how to create a maintenance request category in MagicDoor.

Inside, you’ll find:

  • Where to access maintenance request categories.
  • How to create a new category from the Maintenance section.
  • What information is required when setting up a category.
  • How categories are used when submitting maintenance requests.

Use this article as a reference when organizing maintenance issues across your properties.

Steps to Create a Maintenance Request Category

1. Navigate to Categories:

  • Click on Maintenance in the left sidebar
  • Select Maintenance Requests from the menu

2. Create a category

  • Click on the Add a new category button

  • Fill out the category Title and provide a description.

You can assign a category while creating maintenance requests.

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