What's New
We're excited to announce a significant update to the RentCheck API, introducing Inspection Customization & Template Management – a powerful new feature that will streamline and enhance your inspection processes. With this latest update, Inspection Templates now allows you to create customized templates for various types of inspections, tailored to your specific needs. With this new feature, you can define the structure of your templates, including inspection items/features, descriptions, and other relevant details. You can learn more about how this new feature works by clicking here.
To support this new feature, we're introducing changes and enhancements to the RentCheck API endpoints, plus adding new endpoints and fields. Rest assured, there are no breaking changes, and you will have two months to make the necessary updates to your integration. With this update, we're adding several enhancements to the RentCheck API to seamlessly support this new feature.
Users can create or customize existing templates via the web interface by navigating to Account > Inspection Templates
GET v1/inspection-templates
GET v1/inspection-templates/:id
We’re also including inspection template info in GET v2/inspections and GET v1/inspections/:id as detailed in the New Embeds section.
Finally, POST v2/inspections is getting changed in two ways:
We’re deprecating the inspection_type field when creating inspections to allow users to use inspection templates. Don’t worry though, there’s no hurry to update your RentCheck API implementation, the field will be supported for 2 months after deprecation (May 7, 2024), giving users plenty of time to upgrade
We’re adding a new field called inspection_template_id, which is the preferred way to create inspections moving forward. The value for this field can be obtained by querying the inspection template endpoints mentioned in the Enhancements section.
Remember you can always access our API docs at https://developers.getrentcheck.com
Enhancements
New Endpoints and Associated Resources
Method | Endpoint | Documentation |
GET | v1/inspection-templates | |
GET | v1/inspection-templates/:id |
New Embeds
Endpoints | Embeds |
GET v2/inspections | inspection_template |
GET v1/inspections/:id | inspection_template |
New Fields
Endpoints | Fields |
POST v2/inspections | inspection_template_id |
Recent Deprecations
Deprecated elements will be available for a minimum of two months after the deprecation date.
Endpoints | Fields | Deprecated Date | Superseding Item |
POST v2/inspections | inspection_type | 3/7/24 | inspection_template_id |