Self storage
Built, nobody on it yetSoftware for self-storage operators
Units, move-ins, the monthly ledger, and a lien process that records what you did rather than deciding for you.
For single-site and small multi-site storage operators, and for marinas and boatyards already renting space by the month.
Built and tested. No facility runs on it.
Built and tested on the parts that cost real money when they are wrong: the lien dates, the balance arithmetic, the deposit staying out of the tax, and the rule that one unit cannot be let twice. A payment keyed in backwards is refused rather than quietly increasing what somebody owes. Zero facilities, zero units, zero tenants — nobody has rented anything through it.
What a site can do on day one
Define sizes, create a block of unit numbers in one go rather than forty at a time, publish a page that shows what fits in each size and how many are left, take reservations, move somebody in with the opening charges posted, take payments against a ledger, and keep a lien record with the statutory dates computed from what you actually did.
What is deliberately missing
We cannot take a card yet. No signing the lease online, because the lease is the document your lien rights rest on and a tick box on a web form is not that document — people sign at the office. No gate controller; that is hardware and we have not touched it. No automatic late fees, because what you may charge and when varies by your lease and your state, and guessing on your behalf is how an operator ends up in an argument. And we have not sat a manager in front of these screens yet.
Who this is still not for
A multi-site operator with a revenue-management team and an incumbent platform. The honest fit is somebody who already rents space by the month — a marina, a boatyard, a single site — and wants the storage side to work the same way as the rest of it.
What it does
Why a marine company has an opinion about storage
Because a dry stack is a storage facility with a forklift. A rack position, a trailer spot and a 10×10 are the same object: one space, one tenant, a monthly rate, an occupancy question and an overdue question. The allocation model underneath this was built for boats and the storage module reuses it rather than starting a second one — which is why it exists at all, and the honest reason it was cheap to build.
The lien process is a record, not an engine
Every vendor in this category advertises automated lien management. Ours computes the earliest date each statutory step could lawfully happen, from the dates you record, and writes down what was sent, to whom, by what method, with a snapshot of the text. It has no button that authorises a sale and no field that means approved. A date calculator is not a lawyer, and software that implies otherwise is how an operator ends up holding an unlawful auction.
It refuses to guess at another state's law
The Texas periods — fourteen days after the notice of claim is delivered, two publications in consecutive weeks, no sale before the fifteenth day after the first — are named constants with a citation, and they are unit-tested. Ask for a timeline in a state whose rules are not on file and it returns nothing and says why, rather than quietly applying Texas numbers somewhere they do not apply.
One unit cannot be rented twice
Refused at the moment the record is written, not by a check two people clicking at once could both slip past. It is the same protection that stops a boat being promised to two people, and it is the difference between a near miss and a tenant turning up to a unit with somebody else's lock on it.
Prices a shopper can actually act on
Every size shows what usually fits inside it, how many are left at that price, and the full amount due on the day you move in — prorated rent for the rest of the month, fees, and deposit kept out of the tax base where it belongs.
What to ask any vendor in this market, us included
Written from a sweep of the vendors in this category on 1 November 2026. We have put our own answers on this site where we have them, and said so where we do not.
Does your lien tooling tell me a sale is authorised?
If it does, be careful. No software can know whether your notice wording, your delivery method and your lease satisfy the statute. The useful answer is a calendar and an audit trail, and a vendor who says so is telling you the truth about what software can do.
What happens when my state's lien law changes?
When your state changes a notice period, is that a support ticket and a wait, or is it done the same week? Ask the vendor how the dates are held and whether anyone checks them. Ask us too: ours are written down in one place with the statute next to them, so a change is an afternoon and not a release.
Can two people rent the same unit at the same moment?
Ask whether that is prevented by the database or by the application. An application check is two simultaneous requests away from failing, and the failure is a tenant arriving to find their unit full.
Is the deposit taxed with the rent?
A refundable deposit generally is not a taxable sale. Getting it backwards overcharges every tenant by a few dollars, every month, invisibly. It is a small thing that tells you how carefully the money code was written.
What is your card rate, and do you own the processor?
Same question as every other segment on this site. Several platform vendors make more on payments than on software. Ask us too.
Every vendor in this category routes your card payments, and not one of them publishes the rate. Several own the payment company underneath their own software, which is where the margin actually sits. Ask any of us — including us — for the card rate in writing before you sign anything.
The other segments
One product underneath. These are the kinds of business it is shaped for, and each page says plainly where it stands.