LetCompliance vs OpenRent

Yes. If you want Rightmove or Zoopla reach, list on OpenRent, then send applicants your LetCompliance application link, order the reference (£24.99 a full check), sign the agreement online and set up Direct Debit rent. For a tenancy already running, the CSV import brings in the address, deposit reference and tenancy dates, and the Gas, EICR and EPC expiry dates are read from the certificates you upload.

No. LetCompliance is not a marketplace: it publishes your advert on its own listing page and takes applications and viewings, but it does not post to Rightmove or Zoopla. For portal reach, OpenRent or a high-street agent are the right tools, because Rightmove and Zoopla only take listings through agent accounts; LetCompliance then runs the tenancy.

Yes. OpenRent has a free Section 8 tool for tenancies in England: it drafts the notice, runs automated validity checks and emails it to the tenant, and its paid Rent Collection service (£10 a month) also serves Section 13 notices. LetCompliance builds the Section 8 on Form 3A with the grounds and particulars, the Section 13 on Form 4A, and keeps a timestamped record of what each tenant was sent, alongside the rent, certificates and tax.

OpenRent protects deposits taken through Rent Now with mydeposits and sends the Prescribed Information and the How to Rent guide. LetCompliance works with whichever scheme you use: 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 runs the rest of the tenancy: rent, compliance, notices and tax.

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.

The page above sets what OpenRent'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; OpenRent 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.

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.

They are written by LetCompliance, which says so plainly. The OpenRent column shows only what OpenRent's own website says, with the date it was read, and every page names where OpenRent 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.