Leasecake Integration
Documents & TransactionsWhat It Does
Leasecake is a lease- and location-management platform built for the occupier side of commercial real estate: multi-location tenants, franchisees, restaurant and retail operators, and the asset managers who oversee a portfolio of leased sites. Rather than managing buildings the way a landlord ERP does, Leasecake organizes the obligations attached to each location your business operates — the executed lease and its abstract, every critical date, renewal and expansion options, CAM and operating-expense terms, insurance and compliance requirements, and the recurring rent and reconciliation events that follow from them.
Why Real Estate Professionals Use It
For a multi-location operator, lease risk is not abstract — it is measured in dollars and in stores. Miss a renewal-option exercise window and you can lose a high-performing location or get reset to market rent at the landlord's number. Let an auto-renewal clause fire on a site you intended to close and you are bound for another term. Skip a CAM reconciliation review and you quietly overpay operating expenses across every location, year after year. These failures share a root cause: the obligations live inside lease PDFs that nobody reads on a schedule. Leasecake structures that data, and automation around its API turns the structure into action.
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Key Features for Real Estate
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Feature
Lease Abstraction and Location Records
Stores a structured abstract per location: executed lease and amendments, base term, key economic terms, named parties, and the source documents linked to each extracted field. Every site your business operates becomes a single, searchable record.
Real Estate Impact
Most operators have leases scattered across email, drives, and filing cabinets. A structured per-location abstract is the foundation everything else depends on — an AI layer can read your executed leases and write the extracted terms into Leasecake via the API, turning an un-abstracted portfolio into a live data set without weeks of manual keying.
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Automation Workflows
Ready-to-deploy workflows powered by Leasecake + NextAutomation
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Intermediate
New Lease Added → Critical-Date Extraction and Reminder Cadence
When a new location or lease is added in Leasecake, the automation reads the structured lease terms via the API, derives the full set of critical dates from them, and builds a tiered reminder cadence so each deadline surfaces with enough lead time to act. Turns a freshly abstracted lease into a live, alerting calendar with no manual scheduling.
Trigger: New location or lease record created in Leasecake (detected via Leasecake API poll or new-record event)
Workflow Steps
1Automation detects a new location/lease record in Leasecake (scheduled API poll for newly created records, or new-record event if available on your plan)
2Fetch the lease's structured terms via the Leasecake API: base term, expiration, option windows, notice requirements, insurance and compliance dates
3Optionally run the linked executed lease through an AI abstraction step to confirm or fill any critical dates not yet keyed, then write corrections back via the API
4Compute the reminder cadence per date — e.g. option windows alerted at 120 / 90 / 60 / 30 days before the notice deadline; insurance renewals at 45 / 15 days
+3 more steps
Every newly added lease becomes a fully scheduled set of escalating reminders within minutes of being entered — closing the gap where a freshly signed lease sits un-abstracted for months and its first critical date passes unnoticed.
Triggers & Actions
Connect Leasecake to your workflows with powerful triggers and actions
Triggers
New Location or Lease Created
Fires when a new location or lease record is added in Leasecake, detected via API poll for newly created records (or a new-record event where available on your plan).
When a new lease is added, extract its critical dates via the API and build the full tiered reminder cadence so the location's deadlines are tracked from day one.
Critical Date Approaching
Fires when any tracked critical date — option window, expiration, notice deadline, insurance renewal — falls within a lead-time horizon you define, evaluated by polling Leasecake's critical dates.
When a renewal-option notice deadline enters the 90-day window, escalate to the asset manager with the exercise mechanics and financial stakes attached.
CAM Reconciliation Due
Fires when a location's CAM or operating-expense reconciliation date is reached, based on the reconciliation timing recorded against the lease.
When the reconciliation date arrives, open an audit task with the lease CAM terms and prior statements assembled, due before the dispute window closes.
Lease Term or Document Updated
Fires when a lease term, key date, or linked document on a location is changed in Leasecake (e.g. an amendment is recorded), detected via API poll for modified records.
When an amendment shifts an expiration or option window, recompute the affected reminder cadence and notify the responsible owner of the change.
Actions
Read Locations and Leases
Retrieve the portfolio's locations, lease records, and their abstracted terms via the Leasecake API for reporting, roll-ups, or downstream processing.
Pull all active locations and their committed rent and expiration dates weekly to generate a portfolio obligation digest for finance.
Read Critical Dates
Query the critical dates attached to one or more locations — type, date, governing clause, and status — via the Leasecake API.
Sweep all locations daily for option and renewal dates inside the escalation horizon and route each to the right asset manager.
Create or Update a Critical Date
Write a new critical date, or update an existing one, on a location via the Leasecake API — for example after an AI abstraction step confirms a date not yet keyed.
After AI reads an executed lease and finds an insurance-renewal obligation that was never entered, write it into Leasecake so it joins the reminder cadence.
Update Location or Lease Terms
Push corrected or newly abstracted lease terms — economic terms, option mechanics, CAM caps — to a Leasecake location record via the API.
When an AI abstraction pass extracts CAM caps and base-year terms from a lease, write them to the location so reconciliation tasks can verify against them.
Setup Guide
Get started in approximately 30 minutes for API setup and a first read; 2-3 hours for the critical-date sweep with escalation; 1-2 days for full AI abstraction plus CAM audit and portfolio digest workflows
Prerequisites
- A Leasecake account on a plan that includes API access — confirm developer/API availability with your Leasecake account manager, as access can be plan-dependent
- Leasecake API credentials (API key or OAuth client) obtained from Leasecake for your account, stored in a secrets manager or your n8n credentials store
- An n8n instance (cloud or self-hosted) with the HTTP Request node for Leasecake API calls
- Your locations abstracted in Leasecake (or an AI abstraction step ready to populate them) so there are critical dates and terms for automations to act on
- Destination channels configured: Slack for alerts, an email distribution list for digests, and an Airtable or Google Sheets base for the portfolio tracker
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Confirm API access and obtain credentials
Contact your Leasecake account manager to confirm that API access is included on your plan and to obtain your API credentials. Record the base URL and authentication details Leasecake provides. Treat these as secrets — store them in your n8n credentials store or a dedicated secrets manager, never in workflow source.
Ask specifically which objects your credentials can read and write — locations, leases, and critical dates at minimum. Knowing the scope up front prevents building a workflow against an endpoint your plan doesn't expose.
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Create a reusable Leasecake API credential in n8n
In n8n, set up an HTTP Request credential holding the Leasecake base URL and authentication header. Build a small test workflow that reads your list of locations to confirm the credential works and to capture a real response shape you can reference while building.
Save a sample API response for locations, leases, and critical dates to your tracker base. Field names are easiest to map against real payloads, and you'll reference them in every subsequent workflow.
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Map Leasecake locations to your internal records
Build a lookup table in Airtable or Google Sheets that maps each Leasecake location ID to your internal store/site identifiers and the responsible asset manager or operations owner. This mapping is the bridge that lets escalations route to the right person automatically.
Include the owner's contact and the preferred escalation channel per location. When a critical date fires, the automation reads this table to decide who hears about it — no hard-coded recipients to maintain.
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Build the critical-date sweep
Create a scheduled n8n workflow that queries Leasecake's critical dates daily, filters to those inside your escalation horizons by type (options at 90 days, insurance at 45, CAM at the reconciliation date), and branches each to its handler — escalation, reminder, or audit-task creation.
Start with one date type end-to-end (option windows) and confirm the escalation reaches the right asset manager before adding CAM and insurance branches. A single reliable path beats four half-built ones.
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Add the AI abstraction step for new and un-abstracted leases
For new locations, add a step that runs the linked executed lease through an AI model to extract critical dates and key terms, then writes any missing values back to Leasecake via the API. This turns the new-lease trigger into a fully populated, alerting record automatically.
Keep AI-written fields flagged as machine-extracted and route them for a quick human confirmation the first few times. Once you trust the extraction accuracy on your lease formats, relax the review gate.
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Wire the portfolio digest and tracker roll-up
Add a weekly workflow that reads all locations and upcoming dates, ranks them by urgency and exposure, and sends the digest to operations and finance while appending a snapshot to your tracker. This closes the loop between the lease data in Leasecake and leadership's planning view.
Snapshot the portfolio each week even when nothing is imminent — the time series is what surfaces clustering expirations and rising option exposure before they become a crisis.
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