Sometimes you have a tenant who moves out and the property is in perfect condition, so when the time comes to have someone new move in, you don’t want to re-take photos to put into your move-in report. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just use all the photos you took for the move-out inspection? The new “Span” feature from zInspector allows you to do just that! This can also be a useful tool if you want to incorporate photos from across a long period of time into one report, as the Span feature is able to look backwards or forwards one year from any date you choose!

Here’s how to use this feature to grab photos from a move-out inspection and put them into a new move-in inspection.

First, make sure you’ve created a new move-in inspection off the mobile app and allow it to sync with your zInspector web portal. Also make sure that the move-out inspection you performed previously at the same property is available online.

Go ahead and open up the new move-in inspection on your computer. You’ll notice there are no photos in the inspection. In order to add photos from the move-out inspection, click into the box marked “Span” in the top left hand corner and adjust the number until it encompasses the time period in which you performed the move-out inspection. This tells the software to look back and find all the photos taken during the time period you put in. Hit refresh, and you should see the photos from your previous inspection show up.

Select the photos you want by checking or un-checking the box marked “Select” to the left of each photo. When you have the photos that you want selected, you can create a report and you’ll see that all the photos from your previous move-out inspection are now included in your new move-in inspection report.

The “Span” feature from zInspector makes converting a move-out inspection to a move-in inspection a breeze.