Mehlia

Bringing Calm Clarity to Everyday Property Management

Product Engineering · Technical Architecture & System Design

INDUSTRY

Real Estate

TEAM

4 Members

PROJECT STATE

Completed in 2026

COUNTRY

United Arab Emirates

About a Project

Mehlia is a property-management platform built for independent landlords, property managers, and small agencies who need structure without enterprise complexity. Appening partnered with Selira Technology Ventures to design and engineer the full product surface: a Flutter landlord app, a Flutter tenant app (Mehlia Resident), a Node.js + MongoDB API, and a Next.js marketing site with an authenticated admin CMS.

Property management for small and mid-size portfolios runs on tools that were never designed to work together. Landlords stitch together Excel rent logs, email receipts, group chats, and paper leases — and something slips every week.

  • Rent and expenses live in separate places. Payment status, due dates, and expense records sit in different files and apps. Landlords cannot see true profitability per property without manual reconciliation.
  • Maintenance requests arrive without context. Tenants report issues through WhatsApp or phone calls with no photos, no ticket history, and no link to the unit or lease. Every repair starts from scratch.
  • Communication is scattered and untraceable. Landlord–tenant conversations happen across messaging apps with no property context, no audit trail, and no connection to rent or maintenance records.

Appening successfully delivered Mehlia from concept to a production-ready platform in just 3 months. The result is a scalable property management platform that simplifies communication, rent collection, and day-to-day operations for both landlords and residents. Key outcomes included:

  • Real-time rent tracking and notifications that keep landlords informed about rent status while automatically notifying residents about upcoming and completed payments.
  • Built-in landlord–tenant messaging powered by Socket.IO, featuring real-time chat, typing indicators, online presence, and image/document sharing, reducing the need for external communication tools.
  • Role-based access control, allowing landlords to delegate responsibilities to property managers and staff while maintaining secure access to relevant property and tenant data.

Product Features

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Multi-Property Dashboard

Landlords get a complete view of their property portfolio from a single dashboard. Key metrics such as occupancy rates, rent collected, overdue payments, maintenance requests, and upcoming lease expirations are surfaced in real time, with quick actions and prioritized task lists for faster property management.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Built aggregated property-level analytics powered by Syncfusion charts and custom visualizations, enabling landlords to track financial performance and operational health at a glance. Advanced reporting features, including PDF and Excel exports, are gated by subscription tiers and managed through a scalable GetX-driven analytics pipeline.

Multi-Property Dashboard

Real-Time Messaging

Mehlia enables seamless communication between landlords and tenants through built-in one-to-one messaging and tenant group broadcasts. Users can exchange messages, share images and documents, and collaborate within the context of specific properties and units, eliminating the need for external messaging platforms.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Implemented a Socket.io-powered real-time messaging infrastructure with JWT-based authentication, typing indicators, online presence tracking, image and document sharing via AWS S3, and resilient auto-reconnect capabilities. Session persistence ensures conversations remain uninterrupted across app restarts and network interruptions.

Real-Time Messaging

Rent & Expense Tracking

Mehlia gives landlords complete visibility into rental income and property expenses from a single platform. Every payment and expense is tracked at the unit level, with category-based organization, multi-currency support, and detailed financial histories that eliminate the need for manual spreadsheets.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Developed a comprehensive financial management system with per-unit payment tracking, automated currency conversion, and real-time financial reporting. Interactive income and expense visualizations, powered by advanced analytics and customizable date filtering, provide landlords with clear insights into property performance and cash flow trends.

Rent & Expense Tracking

Property & Unit Management

Mehlia simplifies property onboarding by enabling landlords to create and manage properties, units, amenities, utilities, and lease information from a single workflow. Each unit can be configured with photos, rental details, and property-specific information, creating a seamless path from property setup to tenant occupancy.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Built a guided multi-step property management workflow with integrated image processing, multilingual amenity and utility support, and intelligent location handling. The platform leverages geo-indexed property data and scalable unit management architecture to support efficient property organization, search, and reporting across growing portfolios. .

Property & Unit Management

Lease Management

Mehlia streamlines lease creation and tenant onboarding through a guided workflow that captures rent schedules, security deposits, additional charges, notice periods, lock-in terms, maintenance responsibilities, and inspection requirements. Landlords can easily assign tenants and manage the entire leasing lifecycle from a single interface.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Developed a structured lease management system that centralizes lease terms, payment schedules, inspections, and supporting documents into a unified workflow. A multi-step onboarding experience with built-in validations ensures data accuracy and provides a seamless transition from lease creation to tenant assignment.

Lease Management

Maintenance Tickets

Mehlia enables tenants and landlords to report, track, and resolve maintenance issues through a centralized ticketing system. Users can attach photos, assign priority levels, monitor progress, and manage issues through their entire lifecycle, from reporting to resolution. Advanced search and filtering capabilities make it easy to track maintenance activity across multiple properties.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Built a comprehensive maintenance management workflow with image-based issue reporting, real-time status updates, and automated notifications. The platform supports structured issue tracking, efficient communication between stakeholders, and streamlined resolution management, ensuring complete visibility into property maintenance operations.

Maintenance Tickets

Resident Tenant App

Mehlia Resident provides tenants with a dedicated mobile experience for managing their rental journey. Through the app, residents can view rent and payment status, access lease documents, submit maintenance requests with photos, receive important updates, and communicate directly with their landlord from a single platform.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Developed a standalone tenant application that seamlessly integrates with the broader Mehlia ecosystem, delivering real-time communication, maintenance tracking, document access, and payment visibility. A streamlined invitation and onboarding process ensures residents can quickly connect to their property and begin managing their tenancy with minimal friction.

Resident Tenant App

Smart Notifications

Mehlia keeps landlords and tenants informed through real-time notifications for rent due dates, payment confirmations, lease renewals, maintenance updates, and new messages. Users can instantly access the relevant information by tapping a notification, creating a seamless experience across communication, payments, and property management workflows.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Built a comprehensive notification system that delivers timely alerts across mobile devices and in-app experiences. Intelligent deep-linking routes users directly to the relevant screen, ensuring faster response times, improved engagement, and a more connected property management experience.

Smart Notifications

Subscriptions & Billing

Mehlia offers flexible subscription plans designed to support landlords at every stage of growth, from individual property owners to professional portfolio managers. Users can easily upgrade, downgrade, or manage their plans directly within the app, unlocking additional features such as advanced analytics, team collaboration, and enhanced communication tools as their needs evolve.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Implemented a fully integrated subscription management system with native in-app purchasing across iOS and Android. Feature access is dynamically controlled based on subscription level, enabling seamless plan upgrades, automated entitlement management, and a scalable monetization framework for future platform growth.

Subscriptions & Billing

Team Roles & Access

Mehlia enables collaborative property management for growing landlords by supporting multi-user access on Growth and Pro plans. Landlords can invite team members, assign roles, and manage permissions to ensure smooth coordination across assistants, co-managers, and property staff while maintaining full control over portfolio operations.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Built a secure role-based access control system with deep-link invitation flows and server-side enforcement of subscription-tier limits. Role permissions are validated against active plans in real time, ensuring consistent access control across APIs while supporting scalable team-based property management.

Team Roles & Access

Multi-Language & Currency

Mehlia supports a multilingual and multi-region experience, allowing users to switch between English, Spanish, and Dutch directly from their profile settings. Currency handling is fully dynamic, enabling landlords to manage properties across different regions while viewing and reporting financial data in their preferred currency.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Implemented a robust localization system using GetX translations with both inline mappings and structured JSON locale files. Locale preferences are persisted and synced across sessions, while a dedicated service ensures consistency on login and app resume. Multi-currency handling is managed through session-based selection with backend-powered conversion, enabling accurate cross-property financial reporting at scale.

Multi-Language & Currency

Mehlia CMS

Mehlia includes a secure admin console at mehlia.co that provides platform operators with full visibility into system activity. The dashboard supports landlord account management, subscription plan control, waitlist tracking, and user feedback monitoring, all within a centralized operational interface built for scalability and control.

Agency Engineering Value-Add: Built using Next.js App Router with a modular admin architecture powered by TanStack Query and Zustand. The system features JWT-secured API communication, persistent session management with rehydration guards, and role-protected dashboard routes. Componentized UI using Radix UI and shadcn ensures consistency, while dedicated admin service endpoints power dynamic, expandable dashboard modules.

Mehlia CMS

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