LetCompliance vs Sage

Yes. Sage’s landlord page sells Sage Sole Trader, which records landlord income and expenses, and HMRC’s software finder lists it as a free and a paid product. On 31 October 2026 both product pages showed quarterly updates “Ready now” for sole trader and UK property income, and foreign property “Not included”. In the finder’s results for a landlord with UK property income only, read on 26 October 2026, both showed the tax return “Ready now”. Of the other income and items a tax return can need, 15 are “In development” on both, which HMRC defines as committed in time for the 2026 to 2027 tax return. LetCompliance is listed for UK property income: it sends the quarterly updates on every paid plan. The tax return goes from LetCompliance too when UK property is the only income you need to add yourself and you have no property loss from an earlier year, capital allowance beyond a car, or relief or charge to add.

Sage Sole Trader Free costs nothing. On Sage’s landlord page, read on 31 October 2026, it records landlord income and expenses, is Making Tax Digital ready, sends 5 sales invoices a month, connects 1 bank account and auto-categorises 25 transactions, with receipts entered by hand. Sage Sole Trader is £7 a month excluding VAT, after 90% off for 6 months, and adds receipt scanning, more bank accounts and unlimited invoices. LetCompliance includes Making Tax Digital on every paid plan from £7.99 a month with no VAT added, not on the free plan or the trial, and the same plan runs the let: the tenancy, the deposit, rent by Direct Debit, repairs, and Section 8 and Section 13 notices.

In Sage Accounting, its product for VAT-registered sole traders and small businesses: Start is £20 a month excluding VAT, after 90% off for 6 months, and includes calculating and submitting VAT and Sage Payroll, and Standard and Plus are £43 and £59 a month excluding VAT after the same offer. Sage Sole Trader is made for sole traders who are not registered for VAT. LetCompliance does not send VAT returns or run payroll: it runs the let and the landlord’s own tax, with the SA105 figures and Section 24 on paid plans and Making Tax Digital for UK property income.

Sage says its software lets you collaborate with your accountant online, and HMRC’s finder lists both its products as agent software, for an accountant acting for clients, as well as individual software. LetCompliance is individual software, not agent software: the landlord sends the updates, and an accountant gets a read-only link with no login to set up, to the SA105 figures, every confirmed ledger entry with its receipts and the updates already sent, with CSV and PDF downloads, on every landlord plan.

Landlord and property management software for landlords and letting agents in England. In one login you advertise, take applications and viewings, order a reference for each tenant, e-sign the tenancy, track the rent and the arrears, handle repairs and manage HMO rooms, and a landlord can collect rent by Direct Debit into their own account. On paid plans it also drafts Section 8 and Section 13 notices and prepares a landlord’s SA105 tax figures. Certificate dates and a 0 to 100 compliance score per property sit alongside.

The page above sets what Sage's own website says it does beside LetCompliance, and lists everything else LetCompliance does. For a UK landlord or small-to-mid agency that wants the whole tenancy in one place, choose LetCompliance: it runs more of the let in one login. 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 record on a sale 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 Sage column shows only what Sage’s own website and HMRC’s software finder say, with the date each was read, and every page states where LetCompliance stops: it has no Open Banking bank feed and does not list on Rightmove or Zoopla, and its Making Tax Digital filing covers UK property income only. Providers change their plans and prices without notice, so check theirs before you buy.