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Everything you know about your place,
kept where it is.

Where the valve is. When the WOF is due. What the pump's model number is.

Plotstead puts each thing on your property onto an aerial photo of it, with its photo, its manual, what it cost and when it is next due. For a house, a rental, a bach, a farm or a lifestyle block in New Zealand.

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The home screen on a phone: assets, areas, contacts, the ledger, and what is coming up

How it works

  1. Type your address

    The boundary arrives from LINZ onto aerial imagery of your own place. Drop a pin on the pump, tap a line along the pipe, trace a shape round the shed. Nothing has to go on the map, either.

  2. Add things as you come across them

    Photograph the nameplate, attach the manual, put the invoice against the thing it was for. Every record holds its own photos, documents, notes and costs.

  3. It reminds you, and adds it up

    WOF, rego, insurance, rates, smoke alarms and servicing come up when they are due. What each thing has cost you is there when you ask, and the tax year exports already sorted.

Your first ten minutes, step by step

Not quite like anything else

The closest anyone has come to describing it: a rich spreadsheet built on top of an aerial photograph. Mapping software draws the picture and expects you to learn GIS. An inventory app keeps the list and has no map. Plotstead is the land, the assets on it, the jobs done to them and the books, in one place.

Put your pipes, cables, gates, sheds and gear straight onto an aerial photo of your place, instead of a spreadsheet. Drop a pin on a single thing, tap out a line along a pipe run, or trace a shape around a building or an area like the shed or the back paddock. Draw it with a finger or a mouse, or walk or drive the route while the app records and plots it for you, and reshape any of it later.

Who uses it, and what for

Your boundary, already drawn

Type the address when you set up and the parcel arrives from LINZ with its boundary on the map. Nothing to trace, and no GPS unit involved.

Properties, broken down by asset

Every asset gets its own record: photos, documents, notes, the fields its type suggests, and any of your own.

New Zealand compliance

Reminders for the dates you have to keep: WOF, rego, insurance, rates, smoke alarm tests, septic pump-outs and the three-yearly pool barrier inspection. The New Zealand rules are built in, including the end of six-monthly WOFs in November 2026.

Work, before and after

A job is what needs doing, and afterwards it is what was done: who, when, and what it came to. Set one to repeat and ticking it off writes the next, on the same cycle, so the fortnightly round keeps itself.

What everything costs

Log a repair against the thing that needed it, with the invoice number and who did the work. Then ask what that asset has cost you since the day you got it.

Ready for the accountant

Say once which things earn you income and which are private. At the end of the tax year it comes out already sorted, instead of a shoebox.

How it works

Briefs and reports

Print a brief for one job or one asset: what needs doing, where it is on an aerial photo, what the gear is and what has been done to it before. No prices on either. And a dated register of the whole place, which is what an insurer asks for after a fire.

What you can hand somebody

Role-based sharing

Invite others as owner, editor or viewer. Then narrow each one: what they see of the money, whether private things are included, which kinds of asset, and whose jobs.

Who sees what

Everyone you would have to ring

The vet, the plumber, the well driller, the sparky. Their number, what they do, and the note that actually helps: ask for Dave, he knows where the septic runs. Tap to call, and the work you file against them remembers who did it.

Works offline

The apps work without an internet connection, and catch up the moment you are back in range.

A vehicle from its plate

Enter the rego and Plotstead fills in the make, model and year, and when the WOF and the rego run out. Those two become reminders without you reading a windscreen.

See the month ahead

What is coming up as a calendar as well as a list, so you can see what lands in the same week. Or subscribe to it from your phone's own calendar, alongside everything else.

Have a rental or an Airbnb?

Money comes in as well as out. Rent goes in the ledger the same way a repair does, as a one-off or set to repeat, and the totals show what came in beside what went out.

Mark the cottage as earning income and everything fitted to it follows, so the oven and the heat pump are sorted without tagging them one at a time. At the end of the New Zealand tax year, export it already split into what earns, what needs apportioning and what is private, as a PDF or a spreadsheet for your accountant.

The compliance dates come with it. Smoke alarm tests and their ten-year replacement, your Healthy Homes obligations, the septic pump-out, the pool barrier inspection, all in the same list of reminders as the WOF and the rates.

And the alarms come out as a document. Narrow the register to the safety devices and export: every alarm on the place, what kind it is, which room it is in, when it went in and when the battery runs out. That is what you want in front of you at the start of a tenancy, and it is the same two taps as everything else.

What it looks like

Real screens from the app, not mock-ups. Swipe, or use the arrows.

Everything on the place, where it actually is
Everything on the place, where it actually is
Every asset on the place, parts and all
Every asset on the place, parts and all
One thing, with everything known about it
One thing, with everything known about it
What is overdue, and what is coming
What is overdue, and what is coming
The same reminders as a month, so you can see what lands together
Or as a month, to see what lands in the same week
A year of costs, against the things they were spent on
A year of costs, against the things they were spent on
Who did what, when, and what they charged
Who did what, when, and what they charged
Everything still to do, and when it was last done
Everything still to do, and when it was last done
The numbers you actually ring
The numbers you actually ring
The whole place at a glance
The whole place at a glance

That map is a real one, of a public park, with sample data put on it. We can't show you somebody's actual property: a map like this says where the water shuts off and which gate is unlocked, which is exactly why it's worth having and exactly why it isn't ours to publish. Yours looks like this with your own place underneath, from the first boundary you draw.

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What it costs

Free

$0for one property

One property, the whole map and every reminder. No credit card, and no trial to run out.

1 property · just you · 100 MB of photos and files

Plotstead Plus

$89a year, or $8 a month

More properties, shared with family and whoever helps look after the place. Every document: a brief to hand whoever is doing the job, a dated register for your insurer, and the tax-year report for your accountant. Recent satellite imagery, and room for the manuals and photos.

10 properties · 10 people on each · 5 GB of photos and files

Export everything on either plan. A lapsed subscription never locks you out of your own records.

Questions people ask

What is Plotstead?

Plotstead is property and asset management software for New Zealand. It puts your land, buildings, vehicles and the infrastructure underneath, the pipes, cables, bores and septic tanks, onto an aerial photo of your own place, and keeps the manuals, photos, costs and maintenance history attached to each one.

It then reminds you what falls due: WOF, rego, insurance, rates, smoke alarms, septic pump-outs. It works with no signal and syncs when you are back in coverage, which matters because the things worth recording are usually the furthest from a cell tower.

It is built for lifestyle blocks, farms, rural properties, ordinary sections and rentals. What people use it for.

I already use a spreadsheet. Why would I change?

Underneath it is the same idea, already wired up. Assets are one sheet, reminders another, costs another, contacts another, and they are joined to each other rather than copied between. A repair knows which pump it was on, which invoice paid for it and who did the work, without you keeping three tabs in step by hand. And you can pull a spreadsheet back out whenever you want.

Can I track a rental or an Airbnb?

Yes. Rent goes in as a credit, one-off or set to repeat, beside what the place costs to run. Mark the cottage as earning income and everything fitted to it follows, then the tax year exports already split into what earns, what needs apportioning and what is private.

Can I let a contractor in without showing them everything?

Yes, and that is the point of it. Everyone you share with gets their own answer to five questions: what they can see of the money, whether private things are shared with them, which kinds of thing they see at all, whether they see everyone's work or only their own, and whether they see your contacts.

So the groundskeeper can have the run of the place without the finances, the plumber can see the water and not your car, and an accountant can be given every cost on the property while being shown no assets at all. Who sees what.

Is it complicated to set up?

Type your address and the boundary arrives from LINZ, which is most of it. After that you add things as you come across them: photograph the nameplate on the pump, attach the invoice when it turns up, put a date on the WOF while you are thinking about it.

Nothing is required. A half-filled record is worth more than a perfect one you never made, so the forms suggest and never insist.

Can I get my data back out?

Yes, on every plan including the free one, and that will not change. Export any tax year or the whole lot as a spreadsheet that opens straight in Excel. Letting a subscription lapse leaves your records readable and exportable.

How does putting things on the map work?

There is a crosshair fixed in the middle of the screen and that is where your point lands. Move the map under it until it sits on the spot, then press the button. It is the other way round from most maps, and the reason is your finger: at most zoom levels a fingertip covers several metres of paddock and hides the very thing you are aiming at.

One point is a pin, which is a pump or a gate. Keep adding points and it becomes a run, which is how a pipe, a cable or a fence goes in, and the map counts the length as you draw. Close it up and it is a shape, and the map switches to telling you the area instead. Out on the block you can walk a line with GPS rather than tapping corners.

The full walkthrough is in the help, with worked examples for a pipe from the bore, a house footprint and a paddock.

Do I have to draw anything on the map?

No. The boundary comes from LINZ on its own, and a thing does not need a place on the map to be worth recording. Plenty of people run a car, its WOF, its rego and its insurance without putting a single pin down.

How does offline work?

The app keeps a full copy of your property on the device, so out the back of the block with no signal at all you can still drop a pin, put a date on a reminder, log what the part cost, and read every note and serial number you have saved. It goes up on its own next time you are in coverage. That is rather the point: a bore pump is usually the furthest thing on the place from a cell tower.

Photos are the exception. They need a connection to upload, so the app says so and keeps the picture on your phone until you have one. The browser version needs a connection throughout, since it reads from the server as it goes. The Android app is on Google Play, in open testing.