LetCompliance vs OpenRent

Yes, this is the most common pairing. Use OpenRent to advertise, reference and onboard, then add the property in LetCompliance the day the tenancy starts. Our setup imports the address, deposit reference and tenancy dates from a CSV, and AI expiry detection pre-fills Gas / EICR / EPC dates on the certificates you upload.

No. We are deliberately not a marketplace. OpenRent, Rightmove direct or a high-street agent are the right tools for tenant-finding; we handle the legal layer that runs for the next 5+ years.

OpenRent provides a basic Section 21 / 8 letter template inside Rent Now. LetCompliance ships a full Section 8 drafter (all grounds with particulars), Section 13 rent-increase notice and a court-ready evidence pack with audit-logged tenant delivery, the package most contested possessions need.

OpenRent registers deposits directly with DPS as part of Rent Now. LetCompliance goes further: it generates the Prescribed Information PDF, audit-logs tenant delivery and tracks the 30-day window so a missed PI cannot block a future Section 8 — and then runs the rest of the tenancy (rent, compliance, notices and tax) once OpenRent has done the listing.

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.

The table above compares them feature by feature. For most UK landlords and small-to-mid agencies who want the whole tenancy in one place, LetCompliance covers more of the let; OpenRent is the better pick for the specific areas it leads on, which are called out honestly above. LetCompliance is free for your first property, then from £14.99/mo.

LetCompliance ships an SA105-shaped Tax Pack, a Section 24 personal-vs-limited-company calculator, MTD-dated quarterly summaries, a capital-gains calculator and a mileage log — the landlord tax layer most tools skip. It is not HMRC-recognised for the direct press-submit step, so above the £50,000 MTD threshold you pair it with a recognised filer or hand the pack to your accountant.

They are written by the LetCompliance team, and we say so plainly — but each one names where OpenRent is the better choice and the two things LetCompliance does not do (Open Banking bank-feed reconciliation and HMRC direct-submit filing). Pricing and feature rows are re-verified every quarter.