LetCompliance vs Arthur
Arthur is a full-stack property management platform, rent, maintenance, accounts, tenant portal, used by letting agents and self-managing landlords. LetCompliance runs the whole let too, advertise, take applications, collect rent, score compliance, serve notices and prepare tax, with timestamped evidence on every action. Here's how they compare.
Recognised by HMRC for Making Tax DigitalThe bottom line
from the advert to the tax return
LetCompliance is landlord software for the whole let, in one login: lettings, rent and arrears, e-sign, compliance, Section 8 / 13 notices and landlord tax, including Making Tax Digital.
Arthur still leads on its specialism, and the breakdown below says where.
Side by side
The Arthur column says only what Arthur’s own website shows, read on 6 October 2026. Plans change, so check theirs before you decide.
Rent is collected by Bacs Direct Debit through Stripe Connect, paid into your own account. There is no Open Banking bank-feed reconciliation.
Also in LetCompliance
18 more parts of the let, in the same login. They are not compared with Arthur here, so for their side, look at their own website.
- Waiting list / register-interest capture
- Move-in pack: statutory documents assembled
- Professional photography, inventory & inspections
- Accompanied viewings & contractor sourcing
- Tenant Risk Report + arrears-recovery service
- AI expiry-date detection on uploaded certificates
- Right to Rent checks
- Pet request 28-day tracker (RRA 2025)
- Awaab’s Law damp-and-mould SLA engine
- PRS Database readiness trackerLive today: per-property register-readiness checklist, regional deadline, and status, ref and date. HMO-aware.
- Section 24 personal-vs-Ltd calculator
- Capital gains tax calculator
- Mileage log
- Receipt / invoice scanning
- Property valuation tracker (HM Land Registry HPI)
- Insurance renewal tracker
- Planned maintenance scheduler
- Property key facts + key-date tracking
Choose LetCompliance when
- You want to run the whole let in one login: lettings, rent and arrears, compliance, Section 8 / 13 notices and SA105 tax, not just property management.
- You are a solo landlord or small-to-mid agency, and Arthur’s 55-unit minimum of £82.50 a month plus VAT, billed yearly, is more than you need.
- You want a live 0-100 compliance score, timestamped evidence, and Section 8 and Section 13 notices built for you on the prescribed forms.
Choose Arthur when
- You want contractor work orders and quotes, a UK contractor network, and tenant, contractor and owner portals.
- You want a finance module with a live bank feed and Xero sync in the same tool.
- You want paid onboarding services such as data import, training days and bespoke reports.
Switching: the questions that matter
What moving across involves, answered for LetCompliance. What Arthur can hand over is theirs to answer, so ask them.
- Can I get my data out of Arthur?
- Ask Arthur before you cancel, and export while the account is still open: properties, tenants, rent history and the documents. Check what the export actually includes, because a list of properties is not the same as the certificates and agreements behind them.
- How do my properties and tenants get in?
- One CSV file, the format any spreadsheet saves as. It carries properties, rooms, tenants, rent, tenancy start dates, deposits and the gas, electrical and EPC expiry dates. Every row is checked and shown to you before anything is imported.
- Do I have to move everything at once?
- No. Move one property first, on Single at £7.99 a month with Making Tax Digital included, and keep Arthur for the rest until you have seen enough.
- What about Making Tax Digital part-way through a tax year?
- Each quarterly update covers the tax year from its start, not just the last three months, so the year’s income and expenses so far need to be in LetCompliance before it sends your next one. A bank statement imports as a CSV. You can use more than one product in a year, but only one for each submission (GOV.UK).
- Do my tenants need to do anything?
- Not to start. Each tenant gets their own portal link, with no account or password to set up. If you collect rent by Direct Debit through LetCompliance, each tenant sets the Direct Debit up from that portal, because only the account holder can authorise one.
- What happens to the deposit?
- Changing software does not touch it. A protected deposit stays with the same scheme, whether the scheme holds the money or insures it. Record the scheme and its reference here.
The verdict
LetCompliance or Arthur?
Pick LetCompliance if
You want to run the whole let in one login: lettings, rent and arrears, compliance, Section 8 / 13 notices and SA105 tax, not just property management.
Pick Arthur if
You want contractor work orders and quotes, a UK contractor network, and tenant, contractor and owner portals.
Still not sure? Put one property on LetCompliance, from £7.99 a month, and keep Arthur for the rest. A month of your own rent, certificates and tenants will settle it faster than any table.
LetCompliance wrote this page, so this is its view. Both sides above say where the other one is better.
FAQs
Can I use LetCompliance alongside Arthur?
You usually do not need to. LetCompliance runs the whole let on its own (lettings, rent, compliance, notices and tax). An agency could keep Arthur for its contractor network and owner portal, and add LetCompliance for the 0-100 compliance score, Section 8 / 13 notices and SA105 tax prep.
Does Arthur have a compliance score?
Arthur tracks certificates with expiry alerts, missing-certificate flags and certificate reports. Its pricing page lists compliance tracking but no per-property score. LetCompliance gives every property a live 0-100 score.
Is LetCompliance property management software, or mainly a compliance tool?
It is property management software for landlords and letting agents, and it runs the whole let, not just compliance. In one login you advertise, take applications and viewings, reference tenants, e-sign the tenancy, collect rent by Direct Debit and chase arrears, track a 0-100 compliance score, draft Section 8 and Section 13 notices, manage HMO rooms, book done-for-you property services and prepare your SA105 tax. The compliance score is one feature among many, not the whole product.
Which should a UK landlord choose: LetCompliance or Arthur?
The page above sets what Arthur's own website says it does beside LetCompliance, and lists everything else LetCompliance does. For most UK landlords and small-to-mid agencies who want the whole tenancy in one place, LetCompliance covers more of the let; Arthur is the better pick for the specific areas it leads on, which are called out above. LetCompliance starts at £7.99 a month for one property, with a 3-day trial and no card.
Does LetCompliance handle Making Tax Digital and SA105 tax as well as Arthur?
LetCompliance ships an SA105-shaped Tax Pack, a Section 24 personal-vs-limited-company calculator, a capital-gains calculator and a mileage log, and it sends Making Tax Digital quarterly updates for UK property income to HMRC on every paid plan from £7.99 a month (not the free plan or the trial). It is recognised by HMRC for UK property income, and if your return needs self-employment, savings or dividend income you finalise the year with software that can add it, or with your accountant.
Are these Arthur comparisons independent and kept up to date?
They are written by LetCompliance, which says so plainly. The Arthur column shows only what Arthur's own website says, with the date it was read, and every page names where Arthur is the better choice and the one thing LetCompliance does not do (Open Banking bank-feed reconciliation). Providers change their plans and prices without notice, so check theirs before you buy.
More questions about Arthur
The whole let in one login, from £7.99 a month.
Start with one property on a paid plan, Making Tax Digital included, and see how it runs your let before you move the rest. Portfolio covers up to ten properties for £19 a month.
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