AscendixRE Stacking Plan Software: How to Use This Real Estate CRM Feature

A stacking plan is a chart or schema that displays floors in the building with all tenants and available space to lease or sell, the square footage occupied, lease expiration, company’s name, occupancy/vacancy rate, and more.

Stacking plans simplify the selling and leasing of spaces in commercial buildings. A building owner or broker can create a stacking plan via software.

Stacking Plan Example (The screenshot of AscendixRE)

The software used to generate stacking plans might go as one of the features of modern commercial real estate CRMs.

In this post, we’ll demonstrate how AscendixRE CRM handles stacking plan generation and updates them automatically. The Demo is included! 

Why Stacking Plan Software?

Stacking plan software helps brokers automate stacking plans and better represent available space, track lease expirations and find new tenants. Moreover, with stacking plan software brokers can:

• Generate up-to-date stacking plans at once
• Eliminate spreadsheets
• Better represent available space
• Simplify lease expiration tracking
• Identify tenants that require attention
• Reduce costs on stacking plan creation
• Focus on closing deals

Staking plan software helps you reduce the time needed to create a stacking plan, makes sure it will contain up-to-date data (if you entered it to the system) so you will always have an up-to-date visualization of leased and vacant space.

Also, it significantly speeds up the process of the creation of stacking plans on request. E.g., in AscendixRE CRM, you just need to make sure the system contains up-to-date information about leases and availabilities.

Once it is done, you’ll be able to see the correct Stacking Plan, Export it to Excel or PDF.

(Cory didn’t have lease information entered that’s why it took him some time to format and import it first. Again, if you track all leases in the CRM, the stacking plan is available right away.)

AscendixRE Stacking Plan Overview

A stacking plan within AscendixRE, the commercial real estate CRM, is a feature that is available for AscendixRE Enterprise users at no cost. Instead of having your data in multiple sources, AscendixRE lets you create stacking plans for any property in the system.

The best part is that once set up, the system will update stacking plans automatically when you or your team add new lease, availability, or edit records.

We recorded a detailed overview of the stacking plan functionality and how it works. Keep reading if you prefer text. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Also, we’ll be happy to offer you a free trial so you can test it on your own!

Interface

You can create a Stacking Plan for any Property in AscendixRE.

On the image below you can see a Stacking Plan of our demo Property Preston Park Financial Center within a specific timeframe (highlighted).

You can always change the date forward or back to see that the stacking plan would change depending on the tenants at that time and the vacancies/availabilities.

AscendixRE Stacking Plan Interface (Click to Enlarge)

How to Create a Stacking Plan

To create a Stacking Plan for a particular property, simply fill the Floors Above Ground and Average Floor Size (SF) fields under the Floors section of the Property.

Make sure to enter Floors number and an Average Floor Size to Create a Skeleton of a Stacking Plan

When the floors information is added, go to the Stacking Plan tab. Here you’ll see a skeleton of the Stacking Plan.

Newly Created Stacking Plan

At this point, you’ll need to populate the stacking plan with Leases/Tenants in the building, Vacant spaces.

To create a new Lease, click the corresponding button in the menu, enter the Unit Name/Number and link to the Property.

Make sure to fill in:

• Size (SF)
• Floor – start typing Floor and number of the Floor, e.g., Floor 2 and you’ll see it in the list
• Tenant (not obligatory)
• Commencement Date
• Expiration Date
• Other essential information

Creating a new Lease in AscendixRE

Once you click Save, the Lease will be added to the Stacking Plan.

To add a new availability, click New Availability button right on the Stacking Plan or Click the plus sign on the needed floor.

Adding New Availability

You’ll need to fill in the Unit Name/Number, vacant space to add Availability to the Stacking Plan. Also, we recommend you to fill in the Available from date if the availability will happen in the future.

By default, all available space is in yellow. Leases will be color-coded based on the lease expiration date.

You can find the legend below the stacking plan under the LDX title.

Besides this, you can Export your Stacking Plan to Excel or to PDF. Then you can send it to your prospective tenants or use it for analysis.

Stacking Plan in Excel

That is! In a few clicks, you could easily generate stacking plans for every property.

Combine this with advanced workflows, lease expiration notification and ability to create highly targeted lists to call or email in AscendixRE and you’ll appreciate the value of this CRM software.