LetCompliance vs COHO
COHO is built for HMOs and also handles single lets: room-level rent schedules, housemate profiles, listings on the major portals, onboarding with referencing and e-signing, GoCardless Direct Debit and a two-way Xero integration. LetCompliance runs the whole let across single lets, flats and HMOs alike, with room-level HMO rent and arrears plus the lettings funnel, compliance, notices and tax. Where the two differ most is the legal and tax end: LetCompliance adds Section 8 notices, a 0-100 compliance score per property and landlord tax, with Making Tax Digital updates sent to HMRC.
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.
COHO still leads on its specialism, and the breakdown below says where.
Side by side
The COHO column says only what COHO’s own website shows, read on 24 September 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
26 more parts of the let, in the same login. They are not compared with COHO here, so for their side, look at their own website.
- Waiting list / register-interest capture
- Holding deposits (Tenant Fees Act 2019)
- Move-in pack: statutory documents assembled
- Landlord / owner portal
- Professional photography, inventory & inspections
- Accompanied viewings & contractor sourcing
- Tenant Risk Report + arrears-recovery service
- AI expiry-date detection on uploaded certificates
- 0-100 compliance score per property
- Deposit protection deadline tracking
- Pet request 28-day tracker (RRA 2025)
- Section 8 notice builder (Schedule 2 grounds)
- 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.
- SA105-shaped Tax Pack
- Section 24 personal-vs-Ltd calculator
- Capital gains tax calculator
- Mileage log
- Receipt / invoice scanning
- Client accounting: statements + CMP reconciliation
- Property valuation tracker (HM Land Registry HPI)
- Insurance renewal tracker
- Planned maintenance scheduler
- Property key facts + key-date tracking
- Multi-branch agency workspaces
- Time to go live: Same-day self-serve
Choose LetCompliance when
- You want to run the whole let in one tool across HMOs and single lets alike: lettings, per-room rent, compliance, notices and tax.
- Your portfolio mixes HMOs with single lets and you want Section 8 notices and SA105 tax in the same tool.
Choose COHO when
- You operate co-living or HMO-only buildings and need room-by-room ops.
- Housemate profiles, compatibility matching and recurring bill charges are material to your model.
Switching: the questions that matter
What moving across involves, answered for LetCompliance. What COHO can hand over is theirs to answer, so ask them.
- Can I get my data out of COHO?
- Ask COHO 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 COHO 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 COHO?
Pick LetCompliance if
You want to run the whole let in one tool across HMOs and single lets alike: lettings, per-room rent, compliance, notices and tax.
Pick COHO if
You operate co-living or HMO-only buildings and need room-by-room ops.
Still not sure? Put one property on LetCompliance, from £7.99 a month, and keep COHO 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
Does LetCompliance support HMOs?
Yes. LetCompliance tracks multi-tenancy per address, room labels and per-tenant rent, and all core compliance items apply at address level.
What happened to GoTenant?
Its website, gotenant.co.uk, now redirects to a COHO page for GoTenant customers (checked 24 September 2026), and GoTenant no longer publishes its own prices. If you are moving on from GoTenant, this is the comparison that applies: COHO for room-by-room HMO and co-living operations, LetCompliance for the whole let across single lets and HMOs, from the advert to the tax.
Should I use COHO if I only have HMOs?
If room-level rents, housemate profiles and room listings are core to your model, COHO is built around those. LetCompliance runs the whole let (lettings, per-room rent and arrears, compliance, Section 8 / 13 notices and SA105 tax) across HMOs and single lets alike, so most operators do not need a second tool.
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 COHO?
The page above sets what COHO'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; COHO 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 COHO?
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 COHO comparisons independent and kept up to date?
They are written by LetCompliance, which says so plainly. The COHO column shows only what COHO's own website says, with the date it was read, and every page names where COHO 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.
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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