Utility bills, vendor invoices, vendor bill entry, collections intake — the workflows your team runs manually every week, because automating something that writes to Propertyware felt too risky. Celeron removes the risk without removing your team from the process.
Property management operations teams know the asymmetry well: reading data from Propertyware is easy. Running calculations is straightforward. But writing to a bill record, creating a lease charge, attaching a document, or closing a work order — those writes have consequences. An incorrect bill amount creates a vendor dispute. A wrong lease charge generates a tenant complaint. A work order closed prematurely creates a reconciliation gap.
So teams don't automate. Or they automate the reads and do the writes manually. Or they built something in Zapier, it ran silently, and one month they discovered it had been misfiring for weeks before anyone checked. Every option has the same problem: either the automation isn't controlled, or the control requires doing the work manually.
Celeron is built on a different premise. Automation handles all the reads — parsing PDFs, matching buildings and vendors, retrieving work orders. Everything that should be automated, is. And every write surfaces in the Queue with full context as it executes: source data, extracted values, what will be written. Your team reviews dozens of bills or invoices in a fraction of the time — everything visible, everything traceable. Items that look right execute. Edge cases get flagged. Everything runs with confidence, not hope.
A water or utility bill arrives. Someone on the ops team opens the PDF, reads off the vendor, amount, and property address, looks up the building and unit in Propertyware, creates the bill linked to the correct vendor, attaches the PDF, posts a lease charge to the tenant, attaches the PDF to the lease charge too, checks whether the amount is unusually high compared to last period, flags estimated reads, and updates the building's custom fields with the new amount and date. Multiply that by every utility bill across every property in the portfolio, every month.
A vendor invoice arrives. Someone opens the PDF, reads the work order number, pulls up that work order in Propertyware, retrieves the attached bill, compares the invoice amount against the bill, routes the invoice to a manager for sign-off, updates the bill once approved, attaches the invoice document to the work order, marks the work order closed, and records the payment. Nine steps. Each done manually. A missed step — an invoice approved but the work order left open, a bill not updated — creates reconciliation problems that surface weeks later.
A Home Depot purchase is tied to a work order. Someone pulls up the work order in Propertyware, reads off each line item, and manually creates a bill with the correct amounts and vendor references. With multiple line items and multiple work orders per week, this is repetitive data entry that adds no value — just risk of entry error.
A delinquency document arrives. Someone opens the PDF, reads off the debtor's name, address, account identifiers, and case details, logs into SimplicityCollect, creates the account by hand, and then separately fills out a postal trace form with the same data. Two systems, same data entry, done twice. An error in transcription or a missed field delays the account from entering active collections.
Your team's daily workflow in Celeron is built around the Queue — not a spreadsheet, not an export.
Every workflow Celeron automates returns a compounding portion of your team's time. The more workflows you run, the more time compounds back.
$200 in free credits, valid for 30 days. Propertyware integration is available on day one — connect your credentials, configure a workflow, and run your first review queue in the same session.
A recommended first workflow for Propertyware teams: utility bill processing. It's one of the most repetitive manual tasks in property management, works immediately with real documents you already have, and gives your team a clear demonstration of how the Queue works in practice. Most teams run their first review queue within one hour of connecting Propertyware.
Implementation timeline: most Propertyware teams have their first workflow in production within their first week of trial.
Start with $200 in free credits. Connect Propertyware. Run your first utility bill workflow. See exactly what Celeron does as every step executes.