Zonetail

Name

Zonetail

Legal name

Zonetail Inc.

Website

https://zonetail.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Property Management Software

SIC

Real Estate Agents & Managers (For Others) (6531)

akta.pro primary industry

Geofencing, Proximity & Location-Based Engagement Platforms (BPAMANAJ)

Keywords

• Property management software
• Resident engagement platform
• Mobile marketplace app
• Rent payment processing
• Rent reporting services

Headquarters

HQ city

Toronto

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Marketplace Advertising & Commissions: Local and national businesses pay to advertise on the Zonetail marketplace, which is embedded in the resident mobile app. Revenue is generated through display advertising fees and transactional commissions on marketplace purchases made by residents. The platform targets high-rise residents as a captive, engaged audience for advertisers.
2. Payment Processing: Zonetail generates revenue from residents paying their monthly rent and condo maintenance dues through its platform via integration with Fortis and Yardi. The company earns approximately $1.00 for every $1,000 spent on rent payments and condo dues from participating property management clients. This is a transaction-based revenue stream.
3. Rent Reporting Subscription: Tenants pay a C$8.95 monthly program fee to have their rent payment data reported to Equifax Canada for credit building. This fee can be reduced or offset using FUTR Tokens earned for securely sharing data. Revenue is shared between Zonetail and its partner FUTR under their strategic partnership.
4. White-Label / Embedded Platform Licensing: Zonetail provides its platform to property management software companies (Yardi, Shiftsuite, MRI Software) who embed or white-label the platform for their PMC clients. Revenue derived from licensing arrangements with these PMS providers and their PMC clients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Zonetail is a mobile-first residential engagement platform that connects high-rise condo and apartment residents with their property managers and local neighborhood. The platform integrates with leading property management software providers (Yardi Voyager, MRI Software, Shiftsuite) to deliver resident communication, maintenance request tracking, amenity booking, payment processing, a local business marketplace, and AI-powered rent reporting through a single mobile application for multi-family residential and condominium buildings.

Product overview

Zonetail is a mobile platform and market network for high-rise residential buildings, consisting of a core resident-facing mobile app paired with a property manager portal, supplemented by a marketplace connecting residents to local businesses, payment processing capabilities, and an AI-powered rent reporting program. The platform integrates with leading property management software providers (Yardi, MRI Software, Shiftsuite) to deliver seamless resident engagement services. The 'Zonetail Home' platform and the AI-Powered Rent Reporting Program (with partner FUTR Corporation) represent recent additions expanding the company's service offerings beyond core communication and into financial services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Zonetail Home: A new mobile residential platform launched following the completion of Yardi Voyager integration, enabling service to thousands of condominium and apartment buildings across North America.

Products and services

• Zonetail Resident App Mobile application for high-rise condo and apartment residents providing real-time access to building services including service request creation, property manager communication, push notifications, community news, activity feeds, and amenity booking such as elevator and visitor parking reservations. It also embeds the Zonetail Marketplace and MealMe product ordering for local food, groceries, and retail.
• Zonetail Property Manager Platform Property management interface enabling managers to communicate with residents, manage service requests, share community updates, and streamline operations for multi-family residential and condominiums. Used by large PMCs in Canada and the U.S. representing hundreds of thousands of units.
• Zonetail Marketplace Local business marketplace connecting high-rise residents to neighborhood stores, services, restaurants, grocery, entertainment, health and beauty, home services, and retail offerings. Provides targeted marketing access to engaged high-rise residents for national, regional, and local businesses with a revenue-sharing model on bookings and embedded commerce (MealMe).
• Zonetail Home Mobile residential platform built on the completed Yardi Voyager integration, enabling Zonetail to service thousands of condominium and apartment buildings representing millions of homes across North America. Forms the foundation for Zonetail's entry into the U.S. rental apartments vertical.
• AI-Powered Rent Reporting Program Subscription program at C$8.95/month per tenant that reports verified monthly rent payments to Equifax Canada to help renters build credit. Powered by FUTR's AI Agent platform; participants can offset fees with FUTR Tokens earned for securely sharing their data. Revenue is shared between Zonetail and FUTR.
• Payment Processing for Rent and Condo Dues Payment processing service integrated with Fortis and Yardi that allows residents to pay monthly rent and condo maintenance dues through the Zonetail platform. Zonetail earns approximately $1.00 for every $1,000 spent on rent and condo dues from participating PMC clients. Revenue is shared with Fortis.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1731% increase in property portfolio since start of 2023 following two large PMC signings
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

AI capability2 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core, secondary and minor.

• The FUTR CorporationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 October 2025Strategic partnership to launch Canada's first AI-powered rent-reporting program in October 2025. Powered by FUTR's AI Agent platform, the program enables renters to build credit by having verified rent payments reported to Equifax Canada. Participants pay C$8.95/month and can earn FUTR Tokens as rewards. Phase One launched across 12,000 rental units in Q4 2025, with expansion to 70,000+ units planned by early 2026.
• YardicoreTechnology or Integration · 24 July 2025Integration with Yardi Voyager, North America's largest property management software, completed in July 2025. The integration enables Zonetail to service thousands of condo and apartment buildings representing millions of homes across North America. Zonetail is also an accredited payment processing vendor with Yardi. This was described by Zonetail as its most significant milestone in its history, marking the beginning of its U.S. launch and entry into the rental apartments vertical.
• Equifax CanadacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 January 2024Reporting agreement with Equifax Canada enables property management companies to submit rent payment data to Equifax on behalf of tenants to help consumers build their credit scores. The solution is available to multi-family PMCs and their tenants across Canada and the U.S. This agreement paved the way for the more comprehensive AI-powered rent reporting program with FUTR.
• ApartmentLove Inc.secondaryStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 October 2023Partnership to offer Zonetail users access to short-term vacation rental listings on OwnerDirect.com (owned by ApartmentLove). Zonetail users gain access to approximately 3,000,000 vacation rental listings in 100+ countries. Revenue is shared on bookings made through the Zonetail platform. Partnership driven by survey showing 78% of Zonetail users desired travel deals.
• FortiscoreTechnology or Integration · 11 September 2023Payment processing integration completed with Fortis, a leading payment processing and technology company with operations across the U.S. and Canada. The integration enables residents to pay monthly rent and condo maintenance dues through the Zonetail platform. Zonetail expects to generate approximately $1.00 for every $1,000 spent on rent payments from participating PMC clients.
• MealMe, Inc.secondaryTechnology or Integration · 26 September 2022Embedded commerce integration enabling Zonetail users to order over 300 million products from over 1 million local restaurants, grocery stores, and retailers directly within the Zonetail app, with pickup or sub-hour delivery options. The partnership is expected to significantly enhance transactional revenue for Zonetail.
• MRI SoftwarecoreTechnology or Integration · 20 September 2022Integration and strategic partnership agreement signed September 2022. Zonetail became a member of the MRI Partner Connect program. The white-label agreement provides MRI clients with access to Zonetail's residential mobile platform. MRI's portfolio includes nearly 90% of the top 50 apartment managers and all top 10 property managers on the 2022 NMHC 50 list, with potential access to 20.1 million units.
• ShiftsuitecoreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration partner for property management software. Along with Yardi and MRI Software, Shiftsuite accounts for an estimated 50 million households across North America. Partnership enables Zonetail to service additional PMC clients using the Shiftsuite platform.
• AAHOA (American Hotel & Lodging Association)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with the largest association of hotels in the world, representing approximately 35,000 hotels and 65% of the U.S. hotel market. Zonetail previously had a hotel vertical and expects to relaunch it when market conditions in the hotel industry rebound after COVID.
• ThumbtacksecondaryGTM or Marketing PartnerHome and concierge services partner integrated into the Zonetail marketplace, enabling residents to access professional services through the app. Revenue generated through transactional referrals.
• Osgoode PropertiessecondaryChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOne of eastern Canada's largest residential rental apartment owners/managers with approximately 10,000 units across Ottawa, Gatineau, Kingston, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Atlanta, Sarasota, and Tampa Bay. Zonetail marketplace launched within Osgoode's existing Yardi RENTCafe mobile app across 29 locations and 5,000+ units in October 2022.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Buildium: Property management software owned by RealPage targeting small-to-mid-market residential landlords. Provides resident portals, maintenance tracking, and payment processing — directly overlapping with Zonetail's resident engagement feature set.
• Entrata: Property management platform serving large multifamily operators with resident portals, payments, and communications. Comparable in targeting enterprise PMCs with resident engagement software at scale.
• AppFolio: Public property management software platform serving residential and commercial landlords. While broader in scope, AppFolio offers resident communication, maintenance, and payment features that overlap with Zonetail's core platform and compete for PMC software budgets.
• RealPage: Large property management software suite including resident payment, communication, and engagement modules. Competes with Zonetail as an incumbent PMS vendor that could choose to expand native resident experience features that displace third-party offerings.

Emerging players

• EliseAI: AI-driven leasing and resident communication automation platform for multifamily operators. Comparable to Zonetail's AI-powered rent reporting initiative, with overlapping enterprise PMC customer base and resident engagement focus.
• DoorLoop: Cloud property management software with resident portal, payments, and maintenance features. Targets small-to-mid PMCs with a similar bundled resident engagement value proposition as Zonetail.

Direct peers

• RentRedi: Tenant and landlord platform providing rent payments, credit building via rent reporting, and communication tools. Closely comparable to Zonetail's combined payments + rent reporting offering for smaller landlords and renters.
• PayLease (now part of Yardi): Payment processing platform for property managers, now integrated into Yardi's payment suite. Directly comparable to Zonetail's Fortis-powered payment processing revenue stream for rent and condo dues.
• Apartment List: Apartment marketplace and renter services platform reaching high-intent renters. Comparable in operating a marketplace monetization model adjacent to residential leasing, although more focused on lead generation than in-resident engagement.
• Funnel Leasing: Renter experience platform focused on resident engagement, communication, and payments for multifamily operators. Direct competitor to Zonetail with similar go-to-market into enterprise PMCs.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/zonetail

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds5 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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