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Ajar Online is a cool service which allows you to pay your rent online. The way it works is fairly simple, first your landlord needs to register the building and the tenants, then once a month he sends out an email or SMS to all the tenants reminding them to pay the rent. The tenants can then click the link included in those messages and proceed to pay the rent online using knet.

Right now every month I need to head to an ATM machine, withdraw the rent and then make sure to pass by the landlord at certain hours of the day to pay the rent. I always end up paying the rent late because I am either never home or out of the country so I’d love it if my building signed up to Ajar Online. Which is where the problem is with this service, even though I think it’s very practical and would love to use it, I can’t unless the landlord signs up to it. Would have been much cooler if I could pay my rent online and for a small fee they can send a mandoob to pay the rent on my behalf. Or if there was a form at least which I could fill in with my buildings details so their salesman can come and pitch the service to my landlord.

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But in general Kuwait is right, simple online transfer would do. Both tenant and landlord have to sign up, add their Knet (bank) credentials for the funds to go through, so the payment gateway is still Knet, thus Bank. So what did the solution really solve here? Want my opinion, it actually layered the process with additional steps to give the same end result. Btw, many people pay rent via western union even locally if no bank or let’s say out of town, the wakeel or hares would just go pick it up. They should have operated with an escrow mindset and figure benefits for the landlord.

You’re judging all buildings the same but they’re not. Each one has a different system they follow. My building is owned by a large company and I live in a shopping complex (there are offices, apartments and shops) so it wouldn’t be possible to transfer the money to the owner because the owner doesn’t want to have to deal with my stupid rent when he has a ton of much larger things going on and more important things to deal with.

So my building has a guy in place that collects the rent. I think he’s available from 4 to 6 or something like that. I am sure that person doesn’t want to have to deal with me transferring the amount into his bank account so he could then withdraw it as cash and pay my rent as well.

So this solution (ajar online) would be super practical for me even though its of no use to you.

The contrary I am not. It’s exactly what I am saying, the solution while mass in offering is not scalable, especially to landlords. So if it doesn’t solve the landlords problem (those without Knet) and tenant can regardless pay online if Knet was an option, then what did it solve here? If u have Knet / online banking and Landlord has Knet payment gateway, what will ajar add to it?

Mmmmm, u don’t have a bank account? if u do then u have access to online banking and a debit card for knet 🙂 listen i am just being the devils advocate to ass some spice on the feed…. i do encourage any digital solution on the web, however all i am saying is that successful technologies are the ones that are scalable and solves major problems or creates an untapped opportunity. in this situation, it might appeal to few but wont hit critical mass.

Have you been reading what I’ve been saying? Obviously I have a bank account and Knet but my landlord only accepts cash. I’ve said that like a million times already not sure how you aren’t getting it.

Also why would I care if this technology hits or doesn’t hit critical mass? All I care about is solving my issue so I don’t care if this technology is successful or not, it’s not my technology.

Hi Bask,

We are much easier than to login into an Online Banking to do a transfer or to wait for the Knet machine, with us in 60 seconds you can pay your rent from anywhere at anytime and receive the “rent receipt” instantly.

Also we provide the Landlord with all details he need regarding the rent payment, which the online banking doesn’t provide to him. Please read below in the comments, we wrote a brief description of how our system work 🙂

Thanx!

Mark 🙂

1- i am answering the part where u say “But I don’t have a Knet or online banking option which is why this would be useful for me…”, so this was a direct answer, i am not here to uncode what u mean or don’t mean, i replied to your response.

2- Isn’t this a product showcase / review? so we are expressing our opinion on it & giving input on its viability in the market. So no one said u should care about how they hit critical mass, i am not really concerned with how u feel about it as i am conversing the topic with you, but not about you.

3- unless i violated your commenting clause by not commenting “responsibly”, it was practically rude to block response to your comment and the worst form of censorship, “one that cannot handle other people opinion” if this is by error from you or me, then i am sorry for the earlier statement, otherwise – not cool dude

Sorry, I didn’t understand. Why can’t you pay with Knet?

Also, you don’t need a knet machine transfer anyway.

If you have a bank account with online transfer capability (which I presume everyone does), why not request your landlord for his bank details? Transfer your rent from anywhere in the world.

Because we can only pay in cash, the building doesn’t have a knet machine. Also read the response I just posted above to why a transfer isn’t possible in my situation.

I am more baffled and bemused by the landlord who has apartments, shops and a much larger things going on, who employs a full time employee to collect cash money.

When I lived in an apartment there was a simple dropbox where you can either put in cash or a check in an envelope, very simple and convenient.

Hey guys, This is the Talal Alyaseen from Ajar Online Team. First I’d like to express my thanks to Mark for posting about our website. We appreciate all the comments from everyone and especially the feedback about adding a form to fill your buildings details (We’ll be adding it soon, thanks mark).

Now to clear up the picture a little bit and explain why Ajar Online is in fact solving a current problem in the market.

Let’s take the (Tenant transfers to Landlord’s bank) scenario (Large company):
1) All tenants would transfer to the Landlord’s bank account.
2) Accountants at the company, would have to spend enormous amount of time, matching every incoming transfer to their internal tenant profile. (i.e. Mark him as a paid tenant and what date/time he paid)
3) Accountants have to figure out who hasn’t paid (match who paid against the entire tenant list – 500+ tenants)
4) Follow-up with tenants to figure out the late/non-payments issues
Note: All the above processes are done manually.

At Ajar online, the prior example would look like this:
1) All tenants would AUTOMATICALLY receive an SMS/Email (without landlord sending out anything)
2) Tenants would obviously choose to pay or not pay.
3) In Ajar Online platform, all the previous scenario accountant’s work are done automatically (We will show them, who paid and who hasn’t and when)
4) As an added on feature, we have a reporting system for the landlord to generate numerous reports within seconds.

Our solution is designed to make the landlords process easier, faster and hassle-free. It would also solve the tenant paying in cash issue. If you already do a bank transfer, the solution applies to the landlord rather than the tenant.

We hope this provides the “bigger picture”.

Great, that explains a lot. Good luck Talal.

I also hope you can integrate into your website a feature which automatically disables the landlord from increasing the rent before a 5 year period 🙂

Your website is so nice and impressive! Can I ask if it was built in house or you used a local company? My mum needs a website for her training business and I haven’t found any decent companies in Kuwait…

thank you for your feedback. Well our system and website are developed in house by Ajar Partners, we develop our own systems 🙂 therefore, sorry we can’t make a recommendation to any development companies as we haven’t dealt with any. Best of luck on the website!

Where is the catch?
I mean there is a cost of this service, will it be paid by the landlord or will it be borne by the tenant.
The ministry has to make services like this compulsory, so that there are controls in place to check arbitrary increases in rent.

Hi lolguy,
There are no fees on Tenants, the service fees will be paid by the Landlord and it’s cheaper than the cost he’s currently spending to collect the rent 🙂
We hope the ministry do some control on the increases of rent.

Good luck with that! If you try to explain your service to my landlord, first he will think you are alien from Mars (what registration? what website? not sure if he knows existence of internet at all) and when he realizes you are asking money for this “unknown” service, he will probably call to police and claim you was trying to rob him 😀

Really good idea and good luck, but unfortunately most of landlords in Kuwait are amazingly stupid to realize benefits from your service 🙁

hahahahaha we are not aliens, we are simple, easy and fast for the Landlords. Most of the Landlords are old style they love to see cash but when they see how much money and time we save for them they accept us 🙂

You can go to our website (https://www.ajar.com.kw/#contact) to fill the form and mention your landlord contact details so we present our service to him.

Thank you Nicolas for your feedback 🙂

Bask

1- When I said “But I don’t have a Knet or online banking option which is why this would be useful for me…” If you notice I said “option” not I don’t have knet or a bank account. Not sure how you understood that as I don’t have knet or a bank account.

2- You can criticize Ajar as much as you want

3- Which response of yours did I block? You’ve been commenting here freely. If you mean you can’t find a reply button under a comment it’s because the commenting software limits the nested replied to I think 8 replies. It’s why I am replying down here instead of directly under your response above. This isn’t blocking or censoring you its a software limitation.

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