How can we help?
Plain answers to the questions we get most. Signed in? The “talk to support” bubble on your dashboard reaches Maria live — she can check a work order, your vault intake, and your billing on the spot.
Billing, trial & cancellation
The price, the 7-day trial, cards, invoices, and what happens when you cancel.
›How much does Maria Concierge cost?
$599 a month, month-to-month. No contract, no setup fee — you can cancel any time and you'll never be charged again after the period you've paid for.
›How does the free trial work?
You get 7 free days with a card on file. The card is charged $599 on day 7 unless you cancel first — cancelling during the trial is one click on your dashboard and costs nothing.
›How do I cancel?
Open "Manage billing" on your dashboard — it takes you to your secure billing portal where you can cancel in one click. Cancelling stops all future charges; your service runs to the end of what you've already paid for. Your account and documents are never deleted, so you can come back any time.
›How do I update my card or see invoices?
The same "Manage billing" link on your dashboard opens your secure billing portal — update your payment method, download invoices, or cancel there. We never take card numbers by email or phone.
›Do you give refunds?
Cancelling always stops future charges, and your service keeps running to the end of the period you've paid for. Started periods aren't automatically refunded — but if we've genuinely dropped the ball, write to support and a person will look at it. We'd rather make it right than argue.
Work orders, vault & connectors
Checking status, pausing a job, getting documents in, and connecting your tools.
›How do I check the status of a work order?
Your dashboard shows every open work order. You can also just ask Maria — the "talk to support" bubble on your dashboard can pull the live status of any work order by property address: how many bids are in, what’s scheduled, and what happens next.
›Can I pause or cancel a work order?
Yes — tell Maria on your dashboard’s support line to hold or cancel a work order and she’ll confirm it back before doing it. A held work order keeps everything gathered so far and stops all outreach until you resume it.
›How do I get documents into the vault?
Forward or CC them to your private vault email address (shown on your dashboard — or ask Maria and she’ll email it to you). Each attachment is filed automatically under the deal or property in the subject line. The address only lets mail IN — knowing it grants no read access.
›Maria can’t find a document I sent — what happened?
The usual causes: it was a photo/scan (image-only documents can’t be read yet — that’s a current limit, not a bug), the email had no attachment, or it went to a different address than your vault address. Ask Maria to check your recent intake activity, and mention where you sent it from — she can see what arrived and what didn’t, and will open a ticket if something’s genuinely missing.
›Which property-management tools connect?
Rentvine (paste your API key) and QuickBooks (one-click connect) are live today. AppFolio, Buildium and others aren’t connected yet — documents can always reach Maria through your vault email in the meantime.
How Maria Concierge works
What Maria owns, what stays in your system, and how safety triage works.
›What does Maria Concierge handle for my properties?
Maria answers your tenant line, triages maintenance DIY-first (anything dangerous escalates to a human immediately), opens and chases work orders, gathers and levels vendor bids — up to twenty per job — sequences turns, and files documents in your encrypted vault. She speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.
›What does Maria NOT touch?
The money side. Rent collection, evictions, and ledger or trust accounting stay in your own property-management system of record. Maria owns maintenance, vendors, and turns — nothing else.
›How secure is the document vault?
Every customer has a physically separate encrypted vault — its own database and its own encryption key, so isolation is structural, not a software filter. Sensitive numbers (SSN, bank, card) are tokenized before indexing, every access is logged append-only, and staff don’t browse vaults.
›Can I remove documents — or everything?
Yes. Ask Maria to archive the documents for a deal or property and she’ll confirm and tuck them away — out of her memory and searches entirely, but safely stored, and she can restore them any time you ask. Want something permanently destroyed, or the entire vault erased? Tell support — it’s honored promptly, with written confirmation.
›What happens when a tenant reports something dangerous?
Safety first, always: gas smells, sparking, flooding, or anything hazardous skips DIY triage entirely and escalates immediately. DIY guidance is only ever offered for clearly safe, minor fixes — and the tenant can always insist on a visit.
Still stuck?
Email support@mariaconcierge.com — you’ll get an answer fast, any hour. Or open your dashboard and talk to Maria live about a work order, your vault, or billing.