Best letting agent software (UK, 2026)

For an independent or small-to-mid agency, LetCompliance is the pick on this list in 2026: one workspace for referencing, the lettings funnel, rent, client money reconciliation, landlord statements, compliance and notices, at £129 a month for unlimited branches, seats and properties. Goodlord leads on pre-tenancy throughput at scale, with packages quoted after a demo, and Arthur on live-tenancy operations, from £82.50 a month billed annually with 55 units included. Landlord Vision suits agencies whose landlords want their own accounts and MTD filing, with referencing and agent statements on its Enterprise plan. LetCompliance puts the agency book in one place: e-signed tenancy agreements with audit certificates, a page for each landlord client with rent received, commission and arrears, Client Money Protection reconciliation and monthly statements, and a dated record of every document each tenant was sent. A new client’s portfolio imports from a spreadsheet with a branch column, and the properties table sorts, filters, groups and downloads the book as a CSV. A one-person agency can start on Professional at £49 a month.

On an agency-managed property, LetCompliance names the landlord client as the landlord and the agency as the agent, on the deposit Prescribed Information, the guarantee, the inventory sent for signature, the deposit dispute pack and the prefilled Section 8 and Section 13 notices. The Prescribed Information has to give the landlord’s name, address, telephone number and any email address, under the Housing (Tenancy Deposits) (Prescribed Information) Order 2007, so on a managed let those are the landlord client’s details, not the agency’s. Each landlord client is a record of its own in the agency workspace, with the fee and management terms and an onboarding checklist, and the properties link to it, so the right name follows every document for that client, at £129 a month on the Agency plan.

LetCompliance covers all three in one workspace, from £7.99 a month for a landlord and £129 a month for an agency: adverts that take applications, credit-backed tenant referencing paid per check, and e-signed tenancy agreements with an audit certificate. On this list Goodlord also covers referencing and contracts signed inside the platform, Arthur runs referencing and digital signatures as integrations with additional fees, and Landlord Vision puts e-signatures on its Standard plan and referencing on Enterprise. A new tenancy in England from 1 May 2026 is an assured periodic tenancy under the Renters’ Rights Act 2025; LetCompliance drafts the agreement that way, then carries the signed tenancy into the deposit, rent and compliance records.

For an agency, Arthur starts at £82.50 a month billed annually (55 units included), LetCompliance’s Agency plan is £129 a month for unlimited branches, seats and properties, and Goodlord quotes by package after a demo. Per-unit pricing grows with the book: Arthur adds £1.50 a unit beyond 55. Landlord Vision puts tenant referencing and agent statements on its Enterprise plan, at £84.97 a month billed yearly plus VAT. Check what sits outside the price: on Arthur, referencing, digital signatures, live bank feeds and Xero are integrations with additional fees. LetCompliance’s Agency plan is one flat monthly price with no set-up fee, referencing is paid per check, and a one-person agency can start on Professional at £49 a month.

There is no official count of the software UK letting agents use; the tools on this page split the job, with Goodlord for referencing and onboarding and Arthur and Reapit for property management and accounts. Independent and small-to-mid agencies can run LetCompliance on its own instead: referencing, lettings, rent, client money, landlord statements, compliance and Section 8 / 13 in one workspace, rather than paying for and stitching together three products.

Because every letting agent in England must belong to a government-approved redress scheme, and a complaint from a tenant or landlord is decided largely on the documents the agency can produce. The schemes are the Property Redress Scheme and The Property Ombudsman, and complaints can be lodged by tenants, landlords or third parties. The defence almost always turns on documentary evidence: was Prescribed Information served, was the Gas Safety record provided to the tenant before move-in, was Right to Rent checked. Audit-logged tenant document delivery is the highest-value feature on this list for agency users, and LetCompliance keeps a dated record of every document each tenant was sent.

No software enrols you in Client Money Protection, which you join directly with a scheme, but software can keep the reconciliation and the audit trail the scheme asks for. Since April 2019 a letting agent in England that holds client money must belong to an approved client money protection scheme. None of these tools enrol you in Client Money Protect, money shield or RICS: you do that directly with the scheme. What software does is hold the audit trail (rent receipts, statements, deposit registration confirmations) the scheme will ask for if a complaint is investigated; LetCompliance reconciles client money and produces monthly landlord statements on its Agency plan.

Yes: a one-person agency can run on Professional at £49 a month for unlimited properties, and adding colleagues needs the Agency plan, at £129 a month with unlimited seats. A sole agent gets the let in one login: adverts and applications, viewings, referencing through a regulated UK credit reference agency, e-signed tenancies, rent collection and arrears, and notices. Monthly landlord statements and Client Money Protection reconciliation come with the Agency plan’s workspace.

LetCompliance is a strong Goodlord alternative for agencies that want tenancy onboarding plus everything after move-in in one workspace. Goodlord covers referencing, contracts, payments and tenancy management; LetCompliance runs the full onboarding funnel, advertise, reference, e-sign and move-in, and then rent collection, arrears, compliance scoring and Section 8 / 13 notices, from £49/mo for a solo agent, with Client Money Protection reconciliation and landlord statements on the £129/mo Agency plan, against Goodlord quote-based pricing.

Goodlord says it serves agencies from small independents to large multi-branch groups, and Reapit sells a single-branch edition. LetCompliance provides tenancy onboarding (advertise, reference, e-sign, move-in) alongside rent, client money, compliance and Section 8 / 13 in a single workspace, at a published price and without a separate CRM integration. The Agency plan is £129/mo for unlimited properties.

On 2026-09-24, on each provider’s own website and HMRC’s Making Tax Digital software finder. Plans and prices change without notice, so check a provider’s own site before you buy.