No. Rentvine's native inspection module is photo-based, and no video capture step appears anywhere in its inspection documentation, release notes or public API. Video is a first-class capability elsewhere in the product, just not on inspections.
Rentvine's inspection module is real, and it is a staff module
A lot of property management platforms treat inspections as a marketing bullet with an integration behind it. Rentvine actually built one, and its shape is legible from the outside because Rentvine publishes its data model.
According to Rentvine's API reference documentation (docs.rentvine.com), the platform assigns numbered object types to everything in the system, and three consecutive entries in that table are Inspection, Inspection Area and Inspection Item. That is not a single flat record with a notes field. It is a three-level hierarchy: an inspection contains areas, an area contains items, and each of the three is an independently addressable object that files can be attached to.
Inspection
Tied to a unit and optionally a lease, with a type, a status, a scheduled date, an inspection date and an assigned Rentvine user.
Inspection Area
The rooms. Rentvine's release notes describe adding and deleting rooms when creating an inspection, and picture upload happening as areas are created.
Inspection Item
The line items inside a room. A 2022 release note references inspection items for beds and bathrooms, which points to items being generated against the unit's own bed and bath configuration.
The four inspection types, per Rentvine's API reference
The four inspection statuses
That status list is the most revealing thing in the schema. Pending Maintenance is a state that only exists because Rentvine expects inspection findings to turn into work. The module was designed as the front end of the maintenance pipeline, not as a standalone reporting product, which is consistent with where it lives in the API: every inspection endpoint sits under the /maintenance/ namespace.
It is also not new. According to Rentvine's published release notes (rentvine.com), a July 2022 release shipped an inspection report that details which units have upcoming inspections and/or completed
, and inspection areas, inspection items and inspection picture upload all appear in release notes from 2022 onward. This module has been in the product for years.
It is also plainly still being invested in. According to those same release notes, a May 2026 release added the ability to duplicate a completed Move-Out Inspection into a Move-In Inspection to save setup time at turnover, and a later 2026 release expanded inspections to let users add or change the lease tied to an inspection. Both are baseline-and-comparison instincts: Rentvine is thinking about the same move-out-against-move-in question that drives every security deposit dispute. For the wider context on that comparison, see our guide to video versus photo rental inspections.
The evidence ledger: where video is, and is not
Rentvine does not publish a media specification for inspections, so the capability has to be established from what it does publish. Five exhibits, each a direct quote from a Rentvine-owned page.
Fixed Inspection Picture upload when a new Inspection area is created
Reading: the clearest confirmation that photos attach to inspection areas, and it arrives as a bug fix rather than a feature announcement. Release notes are where Rentvine's inspection media capability is actually documented.
Added ability to upload video files
Reading: video is not foreign to Rentvine. The platform-wide file system has accepted video since 2023. What does not exist is a record-video step inside the inspection flow, which is a different thing from a format restriction.
Record a video (recommended for the best results)
Reading: Rentvine already believes resident-recorded video produces better outcomes, and says so in writing. It says it about maintenance intake. The belief is in the product; the inspection module simply is not where it was applied.
Photos, video, and audio in every ticket. Dispatch on facts, not assumptions.
Reading: the strongest video language on the entire Rentvine site sits on the maintenance page, attached to work orders, not to inspections. That is a deliberate product boundary, not an oversight.
Not yet. The app is focused on the most-used workflows for on-the-go access, and we'll continue expanding features over time.
Reading: Rentvine's answer to whether the mobile app includes everything the desktop portal does. The documented mobile scope is global search, records, custom fields and work orders. Inspections are not in it today, and Rentvine is explicit that the scope is deliberate and expanding.
We read every one of the 54 release notes Rentvine has published on its site, its product pages, and more than 400 of its knowledge base articles. Video and inspection appear together exactly once, in a passing reference to a tip-of-the-week video about reminders. Video and maintenance appear together constantly. That is the single cleanest finding of this audit, and it is a statement about what the inspection module is for rather than a gap in it.
Who performs the inspection, and how media gets in
Two questions decide whether an inspection workflow can scale past headcount: who holds the phone, and where the resulting media lands.
On the first question, Rentvine's answer is staff. According to Rentvine's API reference (docs.rentvine.com), an inspection record carries an assigned user id described as the Rentvine user assigned to the object, which is an internal staff account rather than a resident. And according to Rentvine's knowledge base (help.rentvine.com), the resident portal is documented with eight tabs: Summary, Make Payment, Activity, Wallet, Files, Insurance, Service Requests and Chat. There is no inspections tab, and no resident-facing inspection assignment exists in the documentation. Residents in Rentvine pay, chat, upload files and report maintenance issues. They do not run inspections. Rentvine is straightforward about the shape of that boundary elsewhere too: asked on its mobile app page whether an owner or tenant app is coming, the published answer is Not at this time. More to come!
The field app Rentvine ships today is for its customers' staff. This is the same split we mapped in our explainer on what tenant-guided inspections are.
On the second question, Rentvine's file model is genuinely well designed and worth understanding. According to its API reference, uploading a file is generally a 2-step process
: store the file, then attach it to an object. Both steps collapse into one call when the object type id and object id are supplied as query parameters. Because Inspection, Inspection Area and Inspection Item are all numbered object types, media can be attached at whichever level of the hierarchy makes sense.
| Media surface | What lands there | How it gets in |
|---|---|---|
| Inspection area | Room-level condition photos | In-product upload during the inspection, confirmed by release notes |
| Inspection item | Line-item evidence within a room | Addressable as objectTypeID 19 through the file endpoint |
| Property, unit, lease | Completed inspection reports, including files pushed back by integrated inspection apps | Files tab, drag and drop or click to select |
| Work order | Photos, video and audio on maintenance tickets | Fixie resident intake, plus add and edit photos from the mobile app in the field |
Sharing is handled on the attachment itself rather than by copying files around. According to Rentvine's API reference, every file attachment carries independent flags for whether it is shared with the owner, the tenant and the vendor. For a property manager assembling a deposit file, that is exactly the right primitive: one stored artifact, three audiences, explicit control over each. Our guide to AI damage detection in long-term rentals covers what that evidence file needs to contain to hold up.
The open API is the part everyone should know about
Rentvine's API posture is the most differentiated thing about the platform, and it is directly relevant to anyone who wants an inspection workflow Rentvine does not ship natively.
According to Rentvine's Open API product page (rentvine.com), the company positions this deliberately against its competitors: Unlike closed or restricted APIs that force you into a predefined ecosystem, our truly open architecture allows vendors and developers to build autonomously, creating seamless connections between Rentvine and third-party solutions without roadblocks.
That is a strong claim, and unusually for a strong claim, it holds up on inspection. According to the API reference documentation (docs.rentvine.com), keys are generated by the customer inside their own dashboard under Settings, then Users, Roles and API, then API, with a role selected at creation. There is no partner application, no approval queue and no gatekeeper between a property manager and their own data.
Read that surface carefully and the design intent is clear. An external system can schedule an inspection against a unit, read the queue, read a specific record, and attach media to any object in the system. What the documented inspection endpoints do not include is an update or delete operation, and the inspection payload itself carries no media fields, which is consistent with media being the file endpoint's job rather than the inspection object's. The practical shape for anyone building alongside Rentvine is therefore: create the inspection record through the inspections endpoint, and land the evidence through the files endpoint against the right object type.
Rentvine's own answer to deeper inspection needs is the integrations directory, and it is a well-populated one. According to Rentvine's integrations page (rentvine.com), its Maintenance and Inspections category holds six partners, four of them inspection specialists: zInspector, RentCheck, iPropertyExpress and SnapInspect, alongside Property Meld and Mason.
Rentvine's knowledge base (help.rentvine.com) documents how that pattern works in both directions. For one listed inspection partner, properties including bedroom and bathroom counts plus tenant, owner and lease data sync out of Rentvine, and the partner will upload copies of your inspection reports back into Rentvine upon submission and generate work orders in Rentvine based on your inspection findings.
A second partner describes the same shape from its own side: according to RentCheck's published integration documentation (getrentcheck.com), property and resident data syncs from Rentvine every 24 hours, and completed inspection reports sync back to Rentvine for easy access under property and lease.
Rentvine stays the system of record; the inspection app does the capture.
This is the platform behaving exactly as designed, and it is why Rentvine is a straightforward system to build alongside. Rentvine owns the ledger, the lease and the work order. It publishes the object model, opens the API without a gatekeeper, and lets specialists handle the parts it deliberately did not build. Compare that against the wider field in our audit of which property management software supports video inspections.
Rentvine runs the operation. RapidEye reviews the walkthrough
RapidEye is AI inspection intelligence for long-term rental operators, and it pairs cleanly with a Rentvine-run portfolio. Your tenant or your staff member records a walkthrough on their own phone. RapidEye reviews the footage against that unit's own move-in baseline and reports what changed: damage separated from normal wear, each finding with timestamped evidence attached. Your team opens a result, not a submission.
That is the piece Rentvine deliberately left to specialists, and it slots into the exact seams Rentvine already built: inspection records that expect to become work, a file model that attaches evidence at the right object with per-audience sharing, and an open API a customer can turn on themselves in a few minutes. More on how we work with long-term rental portfolios.
Frequently asked questions
Does Rentvine support video inspections? +
No. Rentvine's inspection module is photo-based. No video capture step appears in Rentvine's inspection documentation, release notes or API. Rentvine's platform-wide file system has accepted video file uploads since its June 2023 release, so a video recorded elsewhere can be stored against a property, unit or lease, but recording video is not a step inside an inspection.
Can tenants perform inspections in Rentvine? +
Not through a resident inspection flow. Rentvine's inspection records carry an assigned Rentvine user, which is a staff account, and the resident portal is documented with Summary, Make Payment, Activity, Wallet, Files, Insurance, Service Requests and Chat tabs. There is no inspections tab. The resident-facing media workflow is Fixie, the AI maintenance agent, which invites residents to record a video when reporting an issue.
How do photos attach to a Rentvine inspection? +
At the area and item level. Rentvine's object model defines Inspection, Inspection Area and Inspection Item as separate object types, and files attach to an object by supplying its object type id and object id. A 2022 release note referencing inspection picture upload when a new inspection area is created confirms photos ride on inspection areas inside the product itself.
Does Rentvine's API expose inspections? +
Yes. Rentvine's public API reference documents three inspection operations: create an inspection, list inspections and view a single inspection by id. Inspection records carry unit, lease, assigned user, type, status, scheduled date and inspection date. Media is handled separately through the file upload endpoint, which can attach a file to any object type in one call. API keys are self-generated by the customer from Rentvine settings.
Which inspection apps integrate with Rentvine? +
Rentvine's integrations directory lists zInspector, RentCheck, iPropertyExpress and SnapInspect in its Maintenance and Inspections category. Rentvine's knowledge base documents both directions of the pattern: property, unit, lease and resident data flows out to the inspection app, and completed inspection reports flow back into Rentvine files, with findings able to open work orders.
Sources
Sources are named at the publisher level with their root domain, rather than linked or titled; every figure is verifiable at the named source. Every claim on this page was checked against a live vendor-owned page in August 2026.
- Rentvine product pages, release notes archive and integrations directory, Rentvine rentvine.com
- Rentvine Knowledge Base articles on inspections, files, the resident portal, the mobile app and inspection-partner integrations, Rentvine help.rentvine.com
- Rentvine public API reference, including the inspections endpoints, the file upload endpoint and the object type table, Rentvine docs.rentvine.com
- RentCheck help center documentation on its Rentvine integration, RentCheck getrentcheck.com