Best commercial property management software
- Due before they get the keys
- 2,775
- Prorated first month
- 925
- Deposit held
- 1,850
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Choosing commercial property management software is not really a software decision, it is a decision about which parts of the job you want held in a record and which you are content to keep doing by hand. The commercial portfolio makes that sharper than the residential one: leases run for years rather than months, the rent has steps and reviews written into it, recoveries and service charges have to be apportioned across tenants, and the tenant is a business whose own accounts department will query anything that does not reconcile. This page sets out what the category actually has to do for a commercial landlord or manager, how to shortlist against your own portfolio rather than against a feature list, and where the free worksheet on this site fits.
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Write down the jobs before you take a demo
List what the software has to do for your portfolio in your own words: the lease record with its steps and review dates, rent raising and collection, recoveries and service charge apportionment, arrears with ageing, work orders and vendors, owner reporting, and the documents each of those produces. Written first, the list survives the demo; written after, it is the demo's list.
Cost the quotes on one basis
Commercial software is quoted per unit, per square foot, per user and flat, sometimes several of those at once, with a monthly minimum and a setup fee underneath. Reduce every quote to cost per unit per month at the portfolio size you have now and the one you expect, over the term you would sign. The pricing calculator on this site does that arithmetic.
Test it on your least tidy lease
Every product demos well on a clean twelve month tenancy. Take your most awkward real lease, the one with a stepped rent, a rent-free period and a recovery split that is not even, and put it in during the trial. What the product does with that lease is what you are actually buying.
Lettza Pro
Keeping the rent against the tenancy that owes it
A worksheet answers the question in front of you and forgets it. A let does not forget: the lease has dates, the rent falls due every month, the arrears carry, and the work order raised in July is the one the owner asks about in October. Lettza Pro keeps every property, unit, lease and tenant, the rent charged and received against each, and every document rendered from that record rather than retyped into it.
- Download the document as a file to send to a tenant or an owner
- Your lease and rent roll without our name on them
- Save a worked tenancy and open it again next month
- Your business name and logo on every document you print
- Take every property, lease, ledger and document out at once
- Email the invoice, receipt or reference letter straight from the record
- Take rent by card or bank debit through your own Stripe account
- Send what you collect to your accounting software instead of retyping it
$49per month, whole team
Start Lettza Pro PricingLettza Pro is $49 per month and renews automatically each month on the day you started, until you cancel. The price and the renewal date are shown before you pay and again on your account page, and we email you if the price ever changes before it takes effect.
What the person managing the let asks before running the Best commercial property management software
What is the difference between commercial and residential property management software? The lease. A residential product is built around a short tenancy at a fixed monthly rent, so its ledger is simple and its documents are standard. A commercial product has to hold a lease that runs for years with steps, reviews, break clauses and rent-free periods, and it has to apportion recoveries and service charges across tenants. A residential product used for commercial work usually breaks first at the recovery, because there is nowhere to put it.
Do I need a commercial product for a handful of commercial units? Often not. If your leases are simple, the rent does not step and there is nothing to apportion, a straightforward record of properties, leases, rent charged and rent received will hold them, and that is what Lettza does. Buy the commercial product when the lease arithmetic is genuinely beyond a ledger, not before, because the price and the implementation are both real.
How long does it take to move onto one? Longer than the demo suggests, and the time is yours rather than the vendor's: extracting the leases, agreeing the chart of accounts, checking opening balances and reconciling the first month twice. Budget for the first month running old and new alongside each other. That is also the honest reason to shortlist on your own jobs list, because a second migration costs more than the first.
Ask us about your lettings paperwork
Ask us anything about running the let with Lettza: whether it fits the way you charge rent, how the record handles a mid-tenancy rent change, what moves across if you are coming off a spreadsheet, or how the documents come out with your own name on them.