# Choose how you use Rentiqa

Source: https://app.rentiqa.com/help/getting-started/choose-how-you-use-rentiqa

> The five views - guest, tenant, host, landlord and contractor - how you get each one, and how to switch between them.

Rentiqa shows you a different set of pages, called a **view**, for each way you use it. One person can have several.

| View | What it is for | How you get it |
|---|---|---|
| **Renter** (guest) | Searching and booking short stays, saved lists, your trips; searching and applying for long-term homes | Every account has it |
| **Host** | Renting a place for short stays | Give the address of your first place: **Become a host** ([start](https://app.rentiqa.com/start/host)) |
| **Landlord** | Renting homes on a lease | Give the address of your first rental: **Become a landlord** ([start](https://app.rentiqa.com/start/landlord)) |
| **Tenant** | Your lease, rent, repairs and moving | Added when a landlord puts you on a lease |
| **Contractor** | Jobs for landlords and hosts you work with | Accept an invite from one of them: see [Join from an invite](https://app.rentiqa.com/help/contractors/join-from-an-invite) |

Adding your first place gives you both the host and the landlord view; the form you used only decides which opens first. Nothing about a place is public until you publish it.

## Where you land

A new account starts with the renter view and, after a plain sign-up, lands on **Trips** (signing up from a page such as "Become a host" brings you back there instead). When you have several views, you land on the most involved one: landlord, then host, tenant, contractor and renter. A view you switch to is remembered until you sign out. The **Your views** page ([Welcome](https://app.rentiqa.com/me)) shows the views you have, with a button to open each, and the ones you can add under **Explore**.

## Switch view

- **Everywhere**: open your avatar menu (your picture or initials, top right, on a phone too). It shows your **Active view**; choose another under **Switch to**.
- **On a phone** you can also open **More** (or **Profile** in the renter view) in the bottom bar and tap a view under **Your views**. The contractor view has no More sheet: use the avatar menu.

## Finding your way on a phone

Each view has its own bottom bar with the things you use most. Most also have a **More** (or **Profile**) sheet for everything else, your account, support and sign out; in the contractor view, those are in the avatar menu.

| View | Bottom bar |
|---|---|
| Renter | Explore, Saved, Trips, Inbox, Profile |
| Host | Today, Rentals, Bookings, Inbox, More |
| Landlord | Home, Properties, Money, Inbox, More |
| Tenant | Home, Rent, Requests, Inbox, More |
| Contractor | Jobs, Quotes, Schedule, Earnings, Inbox |

## Get set up

Your Today page (hosting), Home page (landlord) or Jobs board (contractor) starts with a **Get set up** card until you have done the first steps: add a place, set up payouts, verify your identity, then the steps for what you do, such as check-in instructions and a published listing for a host, lease terms and a listing or lease for a landlord, or your business profile for a contractor. Each step has a button to the page that does it and is ticked when it is done. Where your state wants a lodging tax registration before a place is shown, that is a step too. **Hide** removes the card on this browser; every step is still on its own page.

Next: [Your profile](https://app.rentiqa.com/help/getting-started/your-profile).