Built by landlords,
shaped by experience

Over the years, we tried many different property management platforms. Some were very good at particular tasks, but we always found important tools were missing. We either had to adapt the way we worked, use several different systems or return to spreadsheets and manual processes.

Eventually, we asked ourselves a simple question:

What if we built the property management platform we actually needed?

That question became the starting point for Rent Logger.

We originally developed Rent Logger entirely for our own property business. Every feature was created to solve a genuine problem we had encountered while managing our portfolio.

Accounting was one of the biggest challenges. Our accountant recommended Xero, which became an important part of how we managed our finances. However, using Xero alongside managing agents exposed a particularly awkward problem: agent statements.

Agents normally deduct commission, cleaning charges, maintenance costs and other expenses before paying the remaining balance to the landlord. Correctly separating and recording these transactions in Xero can be surprisingly complicated and time-consuming.

Rent Logger solves this by processing the agent statement, identifying the different transactions and preparing the correct accounting entries for Xero. What was previously a clumsy manual task can now be handled through a clear and structured process.

Although Rent Logger began with our own requirements, we also spoke with other property investors and landlords about the challenges they faced.

Their experiences helped us improve the platform and ensure it could support more than one way of managing property. Rent Logger grew into a comprehensive system covering residential, commercial and holiday-let portfolios, with tools for tenancies, compliance, maintenance, contractors, accounting and much more.

Our original intention was to keep Rent Logger as an internal system for our own business. However, as it developed, we realised we had created something genuinely useful that could help many other landlords.

We therefore decided to make Rent Logger available to landlords and property investors across the UK.

Development will never stop. We still have plenty of ideas of our own, but we also want Rent Logger to be shaped by the people who use it. By listening to other landlords and understanding how they manage their portfolios, we can continue building practical tools that solve real property management problems.

Rent Logger was not created as a theoretical software product. It was created by landlords, inside a working property business, to manage the realities of owning property.