Yardi Integration
Payments & AccountingWhat It Does
Yardi (Voyager, Breeze, Genesis2) is the dominant enterprise property management and accounting platform for institutional commercial and residential CRE. It is the system of record for general ledger, accounts payable/receivable, lease administration, rent-roll management, CAM reconciliations, and portfolio-level financial reporting for thousands of institutional owners and operators.
Why Real Estate Professionals Use It
Institutional CRE owners and operators have a structural reporting problem: Yardi holds the most accurate financial and operational data in the firm, but extracting that data into investor-ready LP reports, asset-level dashboards, and underwriting refreshes is manual, error-prone, and time-consuming. A mid-sized REIT or value-add fund running 20–100 assets can spend 80+ hours per quarter assembling Yardi data into packages that LPs and IC members actually read.
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Feature
GL Actuals Extraction (via Partner API or YSR Export)
Pull general ledger actuals by property, account code, and period — either via the Yardi REST/SOAP interface (partner API, once provisioned) or by ingesting the monthly YSR/Excel financial export that most Yardi clients already receive.
Real Estate Impact
GL actuals are the authoritative NOI source. Extracting them programmatically eliminates manual re-keying into LP reports and pro-formas, and ensures investor packages reflect the same numbers as your audited financials.
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Automation Workflows
Ready-to-deploy workflows powered by Yardi + NextAutomation
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Intermediate
Monthly YSR Export → AI-Built LP Report
Each month, your property management team delivers the standard Yardi financial package (YSR/Excel). This workflow ingests that export automatically, normalizes GL line items by asset and period, computes NOI and variance vs. prior period and budget, and feeds the data into the LP reporting agent to produce a branded investor update — without analyst spreadsheet work.
Trigger: YSR/Excel financial export delivered to a monitored email inbox or secure SFTP drop folder (scheduled monthly by your PM team or Yardi admin)
Workflow Steps
1n8n monitors the inbox or SFTP folder for the monthly YSR export delivery
2Excel/CSV file parsed; GL actuals extracted by property, account category, and period
3Data normalized against the prior-period snapshot to compute revenue, expense, and NOI deltas
4Budget vs. actual variance calculated at the asset level; properties with >5% NOI variance flagged
+4 more steps
Quarterly LP reporting time drops from 3–5 analyst-days to under 2 hours of review. Reports reflect audited Yardi actuals, not re-keyed spreadsheet data. LP communications go out on schedule every quarter.
Triggers & Actions
Connect Yardi to your workflows with powerful triggers and actions
Triggers
YSR/Excel Financial Export Received
Fires when a scheduled Yardi financial export (YSR or Excel package) lands in a monitored email inbox or SFTP folder. Available without partner API access.
Trigger LP report assembly pipeline the moment your PM team delivers the monthly financial package.
Rent-Roll Export Uploaded
Fires when a new rent-roll XLSX is uploaded to a monitored Google Drive folder, SharePoint library, or email attachment.
Trigger an underwriting refresh the moment the PM team delivers a current rent roll ahead of a refinancing package.
Scheduled Nightly Partner API Pull (Provisioned Accounts Only)
Fires on a scheduled basis (nightly, weekly) to pull GL balances, occupancy, or rent-roll data via the Yardi partner REST/SOAP API. Requires Yardi partner/ISV API access.
Pull last night's GL balances across all assets and update the portfolio NOI dashboard every morning.
AP Aging Export Received
Fires when the weekly or monthly AP aging report export lands in the monitored location. Available via YSR export path.
Trigger the cash-flow exception monitoring pipeline every Monday when the accounting team delivers AP aging.
Budget vs. Actual Variance Threshold Breached
Fires when computed NOI or revenue variance between Yardi actuals (from export or API) and budget exceeds a defined threshold (e.g. 5%).
Alert the asset manager automatically when a property's actual NOI falls more than 5% below budget mid-quarter.
Lease Expiration Window Reached
Fires when the rent-roll ingestion pipeline detects a tenant lease entering a defined expiration window (6, 12, or 24 months).
Trigger a leasing-team alert when a tenant representing more than 15% of a property's gross revenue enters the 12-month expiration window.
Actions
Parse and Normalize Yardi Financial Export
Ingests a YSR/Excel financial export and normalizes GL line items by property, account code, and period into a structured dataset.
Normalize the monthly Yardi financial package into a consistent schema that feeds the LP report assembly template.
Generate LP Report Package (via LP Reporting Agent)
Feeds normalized Yardi financial data into the LP reporting agent to produce a branded investor update with AI-written commentary.
Produce a branded Q2 LP update automatically once the Yardi actuals are confirmed, with variance narrative and occupancy summary.
Update Pro-Forma from Rent-Roll Data
Updates a Google Sheets or Excel pro-forma model with in-place rents, vacancy, and lease terms extracted from the Yardi rent-roll export.
Refresh the acquisition pro-forma with live Yardi rent-roll data 24 hours before the IC presentation.
Post Exception Alert to Slack
Posts a plain-English financial exception summary (AP aging, variance, occupancy drop) to a designated Slack channel for the responsible asset manager.
Alert the AM covering a stabilized office portfolio in Slack when any property's collections rate falls below 90% based on Yardi AR data.
Archive Snapshot for Period-Over-Period Trending
Saves a timestamped snapshot of the normalized Yardi data to the portfolio database to enable trend calculation across periods.
Retain monthly GL snapshots to power a 12-month NOI trend chart in the asset management dashboard.
Deliver Report Draft for Analyst Approval
Routes the assembled LP report, underwriting refresh, or cash-flow summary to the responsible analyst for review before distribution — ensuring a human approves before any investor-facing document is sent.
Send the AI-assembled LP quarterly update to the asset manager's inbox for review 48 hours before the investor distribution deadline.
Setup Guide
Get started in approximately Export path: 1–2 days of configuration. Partner API path: 1–2 days of configuration once Yardi credentials are provisioned (provisioning itself takes 4–12 weeks — initiate early).
Prerequisites
- Yardi partner/ISV API access provisioned for your account — OR — access to scheduled Yardi Standard Reports (YSR) and/or Excel financial exports from your property management team (the export path does not require partner API approval)
- If pursuing the partner API path: active Yardi Interface Program enrollment (contact your Yardi account representative to initiate; approval and provisioning typically takes 4–12 weeks and involves interface licensing fees)
- n8n instance (cloud or self-hosted) for workflow orchestration
- A monitored email inbox, SFTP folder, or shared drive (Google Drive / SharePoint) where Yardi exports land
- Property and account code mapping document — a list of your Yardi property codes and the GL account categories you want to monitor
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Choose Your Integration Path: Partner API or Export Ingestion
Determine which path applies to your firm. If your firm is enrolled in Yardi's Interface Program and has active API credentials (base URL, username, password, database), you can use the partner API path for real-time or scheduled pulls. If not, the export ingestion path works with the YSR/Excel financial packages your PM team already produces — and can be set up immediately without Yardi approval.
Most firms start with the export ingestion path because it is available immediately and covers 80% of the automation value (LP reporting, underwriting refresh, variance monitoring). The partner API path adds real-time capabilities once provisioned.
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(Export Path) Configure a Monitored Inbox or SFTP Drop Folder
Set up a dedicated email address (e.g. [email protected]) or SFTP folder where your Yardi admin schedules the monthly financial exports (YSR, rent roll, AP aging). Share the credentials with NextAutomation's n8n instance so it can monitor for new deliveries and trigger ingestion automatically.
Ask your Yardi administrator to schedule the exports in Yardi's Report Scheduler at consistent times (e.g. 6am on the 2nd of each month). Consistent delivery timing makes the ingestion pipeline reliable.
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(Partner API Path) Provision API Credentials via Yardi Interface Program
Contact your Yardi account representative to initiate Interface Program enrollment. Yardi will provision a dedicated API user, interface license, and API base URL for your environment (Voyager/Breeze). Provide the provisioned credentials (base URL, entity, username, password) to NextAutomation to configure the HTTP authentication node in n8n.
Provisioning takes 4–12 weeks. Initiate this process before your target go-live date. While waiting, configure the export ingestion path so automation value starts immediately.
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Map Yardi Property Codes and GL Account Categories
Provide a mapping of your Yardi property codes to human-readable asset names, and the GL account categories you want to monitor (e.g. 'Revenue', 'Operating Expenses', 'NOI', 'Debt Service'). This mapping is used to normalize raw Yardi data into structured pipeline inputs.
Your Yardi administrator can export the property code list from Yardi Administration. The GL account category mapping typically mirrors your budget template categories.
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Build and Test the Ingestion Pipeline in n8n
Using n8n, configure the appropriate trigger (email/SFTP file detection for export path; HTTP/scheduled cron for API path). Add a parse-and-normalize node to extract GL actuals, rent-roll rows, or AP aging buckets. Test with one month of historical data before connecting to live exports.
Test with last quarter's historical export first. This lets you validate the normalization logic and catch any account code mismatches before live data flows through.
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Connect to Downstream Outputs (LP Report, Dashboard, Pro-Forma)
Connect the normalized Yardi data to your target outputs: the LP reporting agent for investor packages, a Google Sheets or Airtable dashboard for portfolio monitoring, or the pro-forma generator for underwriting. Configure alert thresholds for variance monitoring (e.g. flag properties with >5% NOI miss vs. budget).
Start with one high-value output — typically LP report assembly or the variance monitoring alert. Prove the data flows correctly before adding more downstream consumers.
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