I already have tenants. Can I bring existing tenancies into Tenarize?

Next to Start new tenancy on any property page there's Import existing tenancy. It runs through the same pipeline as a new let, with three deliberate differences:

• The vetting checklist gets a Mark all as already done button, so you're not re-recording reference checks for a tenant who has lived there for years.
• The compliance checklist is *not* skippable — those certificates are exactly the paperwork an import exists to capture, and each one still wants its document.
• No move-in checklist is created. The move-in already happened outside Tenarize, and generating a checklist would imply Tenarize verified something it never saw.

You then set the real terms — including a start date in the past, which is accepted — and activate the tenancy against the agreement you already have signed. See activating a tenancy with your own agreement.

Worth knowing: Imports are one tenancy at a time by design. There's no CSV bulk importer — on a compliance product, silently mass-creating records nobody has checked is a bigger risk than the typing it saves.