Commercial Lease Data Migration: From Spreadsheets to a PMS
How to migrate commercial lease data from Excel spreadsheets into a property management system, including data preparation, mapping, and validation.
By Angel Campa, Founder · Updated March 2026 · Saves 2–4 hours per lease
Entering a new lease into Yardi Voyager from a PDF requires manually reading every clause and keying dozens of fields — a process that takes 2–4 hours per lease and introduces transcription errors that affect rent billing, CAM reconciliation, and reporting accuracy downstream.
Upload the executed lease PDF to Lextract. The system handles both digitally-created PDFs and scanned documents.
Lextract extracts all fields relevant to Yardi data entry: tenant name, premises, lease dates, base rent, escalations, CAM structure, security deposit, options, and more.
Review confidence scores for key fields — particularly rent schedules, escalation tables, and option notice periods — before proceeding to export.
Export the extraction as a CSV formatted with Yardi Voyager field names. The mapping covers the core lease record, charge schedule, and option fields.
Use Yardi's import tools to load the CSV into the appropriate unit, tenant, and charge records. Verify the imported rent schedule and set up future billing.
Learn about the full integration between Lextract and Yardi Voyager, including supported export formats and critical fields.
View Yardi Voyager integration →The Lextract export covers the fields needed to populate Yardi's core Lease, Tenant, and Charge Schedule records. CAM structure fields are also included to support Yardi CAM reconciliation setup.
Yes. Lextract extracts multi-year rent schedules including fixed escalation steps, CPI-linked escalations, and percentage rent provisions. Each period is output as a separate row in the charge schedule export.
Upload the original lease and each amendment as a combined PDF or as separate uploads. Lextract can process amendments and you can compare extracted fields to identify what changed.
How to migrate commercial lease data from Excel spreadsheets into a property management system, including data preparation, mapping, and validation.
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