Monthly rent receipts generated and sent once payment is confirmed

On the 1st of each month the agent prepares rent receipts from your tenant sheet, and only sends the ones you've ticked as "rent received". (In France landlords must provide a receipt — quittance — on request.)

L2 semi-autonomousVerified sourceBased on official documentation we checked; not tested by us yet. · updated 16/10/2026

Difficulty: Intermediate
Setup time: 2 h
Estimated cost: €0 (personal Google account + n8n)
Category: Real estate

⏱ Trigger

1st of the month at 9am (cron) + "paid" box ticked

✋ Human approval

You tick "rent received": without it, nothing is sent.

→ Output

Email to the tenant + send log in Sheets

Autonomy level 2 — Semi-autonomous (approval): Runs on its own but waits for your approval before anything sensitive.

01Connected tools

02What the agent does on its own

step 01

Reads the list of leases (tenant, rent, charges) in Google Sheets.

step 02

Prepares one receipt per tenant for the month.

step 03

Waits for the "paid" column to be ticked on each row.

step 04

Emails the receipt as a PDF and logs the send date.

03Agent instructions

$ instructions.txt · replace the {VARIABLES}

> Write a short, polite email body sending {TENANT} the rent receipt for {MONTH} for the property at {ADDRESS}. Never mention any amount other than {RENT} and {CHARGES}.

04Limits and legal points

A receipt must only be issued for rent actually paid: the human check is not optional. Source is the French government's Service-Public site.

05Source

https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F35247

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