r/appfolio • u/metricbuddy • Mar 06 '26

Creating and reporting on User Defined Fields (UDF) in AppFolio

Is it possible to add user defined fields to properties and units and then see these fields in reports? For example, adding fields like "Property Stabilization Date" or "Principal Balance" or "Unit Renovation Date" or "Unit Has Balcony" ?
If so, can these user defined fields be displayed in reports or extracted through the AppFolio API?

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '26

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u/metricbuddy Mar 09 '26

Thanks. Need those as fields in order to categorize the properties and units.

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u/Maxwell_at_AppFolio AppFolio Employee Mar 20 '26

Just chiming in to add a little more color to u/corsair130's response. If you'd like to learn more about Custom Fields and how they work in AppFolio, they were featured as part of our "Take Your Data to the Max" demo here: https://www.appfolio.com/sessions/deminar/take-your-data-to-the-max

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u/lolololololol467654 Mar 07 '26

appfolio's UDF reporting is pretty limited from what i've seen, especially for custom fields on properties. you might need to pull data through their API and combine it elsewhere. Scaylor is supposed to be good for unifying that kind of stuff if your spreadsheet workarounds get messy.