What the wizard actually asks for
Setup runs in four short steps: who you are, a little about how you let, your first property, and your first tenant. Only the first is needed to have an account.
If you are signing up to look before you commit, skip ahead. An empty account still opens the dashboard, the document builders and the free tools, and nothing you skip is lost: each step exists as a normal screen inside the product.
Adding a property later
Open Properties from the left menu and choose Add property. You need the address, town and postcode. Everything else, certificates, rooms, rent, tenants, can be filled in whenever the paperwork is in front of you.
The council area and ward it keeps
When a property is saved, LetCompliance looks its postcode up in the ONS postcode directory and keeps the council area and ward it gives. They show on the property’s Overview tab and are checked again each night.
If the directory lists the postcode as ended, or puts it in another council area or ward, the bell and the property page say so, so the address can be checked before it goes on a notice or an advert. Got it on the property page clears the notice.
This is on every plan, in your own account and in an agency workspace, where a viewer sees the notice but cannot clear it. A Northern Ireland postcode, one starting BT, is not looked up.
Why LetCompliance asks early anyway
The tenancy, the rent, the reminders and the 0 to 100 compliance score are all kept per property, so an account with no property has nothing to show yet. If you want to see what the product is for in one screen, adding one address is the fastest way to get there.
If you have more than a handful, do not type them one at a time. Import them from a spreadsheet instead.
