> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tangoanalytics.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> Manage your real-estate portfolio from one platform — lease abstraction, rent generation, accounting, reconciliations, and reporting.

Tango Lease is the system of record for everything that happens to a real-estate lease after it is signed. You abstract the lease into Tango, set up its financial obligations, generate rent and recurring costs each period, run lease accounting under ASC 842 and IFRS 16, reconcile expenses with landlords, and report on the whole portfolio — without leaving the platform.

If you are new here, the [Quickstart](/tango_lease/guides/quickstart) walks you through generating rent for your first lease end-to-end in about fifteen minutes. If you want the mental model first, [Understanding leases](/tango_lease/guides/concepts/understanding-leases) explains how Tango treats leases as living objects rather than static records.

## How a lease moves through Tango

Every lease in Tango follows the same arc: it gets abstracted, activated, operated on each period, occasionally amended, and eventually renewed or terminated. The capabilities you will use in the platform map directly to the stages below.

```mermaid theme={null}
flowchart LR
    A[Lease signed] --> B[Abstracted in Tango]
    B --> C[Activated]
    C --> D[Operate<br/>Rent · Costs · Reconciliations]
    D --> E{Change<br/>event?}
    E -- Amendment --> D
    E -- Option exercised --> D
    E -- Termination --> F[Inactive]
    E -- Renewal --> B
```

For the full story — what each stage means, what changes between them, and which roles act in each — see [Lease lifecycle](/tango_lease/guides/concepts/lease-lifecycle).

## Who Tango Lease is for

Four roles work in Tango Lease day to day. You may wear more than one hat.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Real estate managers" icon="building">
    Abstract new leases, track critical dates and options, and keep the portfolio inventory current.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Lease accountants" icon="calculator">
    Run classification tests, generate and post journal entries, recalculate schedules on lease changes, and produce ASC 842 and IFRS 16 disclosures.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Operations and finance" icon="wallet">
    Generate rent rolls each period, manage payments and one-time adjustments, and reconcile CAM and operating expenses at year-end.
  </Card>

  <Card title="System administrators" icon="user-shield">
    Configure users and permissions, account coding defaults, percentage-rent and reconciliation rules, and approval workflows.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## What you can do

<CardGroup cols={3}>
  <Card title="Abstract leases" icon="file-lines" href="/tango_lease/guides/how-to/leases/create-a-lease">
    Capture lease terms, locations, clauses, options, and contacts in one structured record.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Generate rent" icon="receipt" href="/tango_lease/guides/how-to/payments/generate-rent">
    Produce payment records for one lease or the entire portfolio in a single action.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Run lease accounting" icon="book-open" href="/tango_lease/guides/concepts/lease-accounting-overview">
    Classify leases, build schedules, recalculate on changes, and post journal entries.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Track critical dates" icon="calendar" href="/tango_lease/guides/concepts/critical-dates-and-options">
    Surface expirations, options, and rent changes before they become a problem.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Reconcile expenses" icon="scale-balanced" href="/tango_lease/guides/concepts/cam-and-reconciliations">
    Settle CAM, operating expenses, and percentage-rent reconciliations with landlords.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Build reports" icon="chart-column" href="/tango_lease/guides/how-to/reporting/run-standard-reports">
    Use the standard report catalog or the Query Builder to slice the portfolio any way you need.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Get started

We recommend working through these pages in order. Each one builds on the one before it, and together they cover roughly what a new Tango Lease user needs to know in their first week.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Quickstart">
    Generate rent for your first lease end-to-end. About fifteen minutes. [Start the quickstart](/tango_lease/guides/quickstart).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Understand leases">
    The mental model the rest of the docs assume. [Read Understanding leases](/tango_lease/guides/concepts/understanding-leases).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Create a lease">
    Abstract a lease into Tango from scratch. [Open Create a lease](/tango_lease/guides/how-to/leases/create-a-lease).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Learn lease accounting">
    How classification, schedules, and journal entries fit together. [Read Lease accounting overview](/tango_lease/guides/concepts/lease-accounting-overview).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Run a report">
    Use the standard report catalog or build your own with Query Builder. [Open Run standard reports](/tango_lease/guides/how-to/reporting/run-standard-reports).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set up administration">
    Account coding, permissions, and approval workflows. [Open Administration](/tango_lease/guides/admin/users-and-permissions).
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Resources

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Support Portal" icon="life-ring" href="https://supportportal.tangoanalytics.com">
    Open a ticket or browse the support knowledge base.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Status" icon="signal" href="https://status.tangoanalytics.com">
    Current platform status and incident history.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Release notes" icon="megaphone" href="/tango_lease/guides/release-notes/index">
    What is new and changed in recent releases.
  </Card>

  <Card title="API and Integrations" icon="plug" href="/tango_lease/integrations/overview">
    For developers integrating Tango Lease with AP, AR, GL, and other systems.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>