BE vs AP Automation for Real Estate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BE
Manage property maintenance, work orders, inspections, and incidents directly from your mobile device. Attach photos and access all your data, even when offline.
- Work order management
- Preventive maintenance
- Inspections
- Incident tracking
- Photo attachments
- Offline access
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BE Mobile provides key property management features in the palm of your hand! Manage work orders, preventive maintenance tasks, inspections, incidents and much more. Attach photos to any record and view associated files on your iPhone. Work offline with access to all of your data.
AP Automation for Real Estate
Approve or reject purchase orders, receipts, and invoices on the go. Quickly create purchase orders from the field, upload photos, and search past transactions. Requires an active user ID and company subscription.
- Approve/reject POs, receipts, invoices
- Create purchase orders from field
- Upload photos
- Search past transactions
- Role rights and system securities applied
- Integrates with GL accounting systems
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Bottomline's AP Automation for Real Estate (NexusPayables OnTheGo) provides the ability to approve and reject Purchase Orders, Receipts and Invoices from anywhere at any time. Users can also quickly create Purchase Orders from the field, take and upload photos and search for previous transactions from the palm of their hand. All role rights and system securities apply from the AP Automation for Real Estate application. In order to use AP Automation for Real Estate OnTheGo you must have an active user ID and your company must be an existing user of AP Automation for Real Estate. About Bottomline's AP Automation for Real Estate Whether it’s simple AP invoice automation or the complete procure to pay life cycle you’re looking for, AP Automation for Real Estate can be easily configured to fit your unique business needs. AP Automation for Real Estate is equipped to digitally manage each aspect of the AP process including on-site purchasing, POs, sophisticated approval workflow, invoice data capture, budgets and actuals, vendor compliance, comprehensive reporting, and it seamlessly integrates with your existing GL accounting system. The AP Automation for Real Estate solution is in use by companies that require a comprehensive application for the expense management control, visibility, efficiency and cost savings associated with AP automation and best practices.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AP Automation for Real Estate at 3.4 against BE's 2.3. BE's advantage is review sentiment (21% vs 0%) and ratings volume (135 vs 5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
AP Automation for Real Estate holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BE has 135 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 21% of BE's written reviews are positive against 0% of AP Automation for Real Estate's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BE | AP Automation for Real Estate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (135 ratings) | 3.4 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 21.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 135 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Building Engines | Nexus Systems, LLC |
Customer experience
BE
AP Automation for Real Estate
Bugs and requests
BE
Reported bugs
19 issues- Have to log out/in multiple times or reinstall to gain access
- Work orders don't always load
- Only able to upload one photo at a time
- Everything gets stuck pending
- App fails, all data lost
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- Update screwed up app operation
- Tech support never responds
- App won't let you log in
- App doesn't communicate with network
- Entries do not link between app and desktop
- Acknowledgement pending issues never resolved
- New update changed 'work order by Building' to 'work order by location'
- New version is slower and not user friendly
- No access to PMs for weeks
- Stuck on 'synchronization'
- Work order creation from phone never appears in system
- Timer starts when work order begins but pauses upon completion
- Comment box moves off screen when typing
- App crashes when typing comments
Requested features
6 requests- Add resource management
- Add day view and approve/deny for resource management
- Disable notifications when staff is off the clock
- Edit frequency for PMs
- Allow scheduling
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AP Automation for Real Estate
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
BE
No in-app purchases
AP Automation for Real Estate
No in-app purchases
Questions
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