DoorLoop vs RentRedi: Pick by Unit Count and Cost in 2027

Key Takeaways

• Pick DoorLoop if you will use its leasing, owner-portal, agent or API features every week and can carry a per-unit price with a monthly floor.

• Pick RentRedi if rent collection, accounting and maintenance are the core job and you want one flat monthly total with no per-unit fee.

• On list prices, RentRedi costs less than every DoorLoop plan at the 25, 60 and 100 unit counts in our cost table, so DoorLoop has to justify the gap with features you will actually use.

• DoorLoop's plan structure has changed. Its pricing page now lists One, Connect and Multiply, while some reviews still describe older tiers.

• Neither pricing page gives a full schedule of tenant payment fees, so get the written fee schedule before you commit.

• TL;DR: RentRedi is the cheaper option to test first for a small portfolio centered on rent, accounting and maintenance. DoorLoop makes more sense when its agents, owner portals or API sit in your daily workflow.

Property management software runs the core of a rental business, meaning leases, rent collection, maintenance tickets and owner statements, inside one subscription. DoorLoop and RentRedi both sell that core. They charge for it in different ways, and that difference changes the answer more than any single feature does.

Start with the pricing model and plan names

Neither product appears to have been renamed, merged or discontinued in the official pages reviewed for this guide, but DoorLoop's plan names have changed. Its pricing page now lists three plans, One, Connect and Multiply, each priced per unit with a monthly minimum. Older reviews still describe a different structure. TurboTenant's review of DoorLoop, updated July 27, 2026, still describes three tiers named Starter, Pro and Premium, according to TurboTenant (updated July 27, 2026). Use the vendor's current page, not an older listing, when you compare numbers.

RentRedi's structure is simpler. Its pricing page says every subscription includes the same feature set and that its three options differ only in billing term. RentRedi: $12 per month total on annual billing according to RentRedi (2026). Its monthly option is $29.95, its six-month option is $20 per month, and the page says annual billing saves $215.40 a year against monthly billing. Tenants pay $39.99 for a credit, criminal and eviction screening report, or $49.99 with income verification, and credit reporting is $5.99 a month. Every option includes unlimited properties, tenants and teammates, with no per-unit fee.

How we evaluated these two tools

We weighted six criteria by how much each one changes a small operator's monthly bill or daily work. The weights are our judgment for a buyer with a small portfolio, not a vendor score or a published ranking. We relied on each vendor's own pricing and help pages, plus reviews from The Close and TurboTenant. TurboTenant sells a competing product, so we use its reviews only for facts it states plainly and treat its verdicts as a competitor's view.

Start with the cost row. If the answer is clear at your unit count, the other rows only decide close calls.

What each product publishes about features

The table below records what each vendor's public pages state. Where a page is silent, we say so rather than assume the feature exists or does not.

Our read: DoorLoop publishes the broader operational scope, with owner portals and an API on One and agents on the higher plans. RentRedi publishes a narrower scope in exchange for a flatter price, and its pages do not mention agents or owner portals. A feature missing from a pricing page is not proof it is missing from the product, so confirm each row in writing before you sign. DoorLoop's API help article says the company cannot map API calls or create requests on a customer's behalf, so any API plan needs someone on your side who can write and maintain the code.

What the plans cost at 25, 60 and 100 units

DoorLoop's One plan: $199 monthly minimum, then $2.50 per unit according to DoorLoop (2026). The same page lists $1.50 per unit above 100 units on One. On the Connect plan the rate is $4.00 per unit with a $299 minimum, and on the Multiply plan it is $5.00 per unit with a $399 minimum. The page says yearly billing saves up to 25%, without giving a figure for each plan.

Table 3 applies those list prices. Each figure is a monthly amount before any yearly discount, tax or tenant-paid fee, and the per-year column is the monthly figure multiplied by 12.

Pricing checked October 26, 2026.

DoorLoop's minimum sets the bill at small sizes. The One minimum applies up to 79 units, because below that count the per-unit math comes in under $199. Connect's $299 minimum applies up to 74 units, and Multiply's $399 minimum applies up to 79 units. At 100 units, One is $250 and Connect is $400, since the above-100 rate only applies to units beyond 100.

Worked example (illustrative, not a customer): a 60-unit operator with one operations lead wants rent collection, accounting and maintenance in one system. On DoorLoop's One plan, 60 units at $2.50 comes to $150, which is under the $199 minimum, so the bill is $199 a month, or $2,388 a year. On RentRedi's annual billing, the bill is $12 a month, or $144 a year, a gap of $2,244 a year before yearly discounts or tenant-paid fees. If the same operator wants the Receptionist Agent on Connect, 60 units at $4.00 comes to $240, so the $299 minimum applies and the bill is $3,588 a year. For the build side, the official reference describes POST /leases/full on app.doorloop.com/api for creating a lease in one call. That helps only if someone on the team can write and maintain the integration.

DoorLoop: best fit, limits and implementation

Best fit: DoorLoop suits an operator who runs leasing, showings and owner reporting every day and wants agents working the queue. Its pricing page lists the AI Assistant, owner and tenant portals, unlimited users, unlimited document storage and full API access on One, so the top of the entry plan already covers much of the operational scope.

Limitations: The per-unit model with minimums penalizes small portfolios, and the floor applies at any count below the break-even points in Table 3. The Close's pricing score for DoorLoop: 2.5 out of 5 according to The Close (2025). The same review says DoorLoop has no free plan and no free trial, and that its ACH transactions are fee-based. Some user reviews cited in that review mention hidden fees and charges for importing tenant data.

Implementation: The official API reference shows POST /leases/full with 5 required fields, according to DoorLoop (2026): property, units, term, start and tenants. The reference also states the authentication header and error codes, and it lists a possible inconsistency about how end behaves for at-will leases, so confirm that detail before building on it. DoorLoop's own API reference introduction describes the API as REST-based with JSON bodies. Plan for a data migration and ask for any import charges in writing before you sign.

RentRedi: best fit, limits and implementation

Best fit: RentRedi suits an operator who wants rent collection, accounting, screening, listings, messaging, maintenance and support in one flat subscription. Its pricing page says those features are included on every plan, and it does not require a contract.

Accounting: RentRedi's accounting announcement describes bank feeds that pull debit transactions, receipt uploads, mileage tracking and profit and loss reports by property, and it says landlords can export accounting data. The QuickBooks export works with QuickBooks Online or Desktop/Pro 2018 or older, according to RentRedi (2026), and the same article says the 2019 and 2020 Desktop versions do not import properly.

Limitations: No developer API appeared in the help and product pages reviewed, so anything you connect to RentRedi will likely run on file exports. The announcement does not mention QuickBooks sync, and the QuickBooks path described in the help article is a file import. Payment processing and ACH fees are not stated on the pricing page, so ask for them in writing.

Implementation: Expect a manual export each month for your bookkeeper unless you move bookkeeping into RentRedi's own accounting features. The help steps are short: open Payments from the sidebar, choose the charges export, pick a format, choose the company, enter a date range and run the export. Setup is light, but the bookkeeper's version of QuickBooks determines whether the file imports cleanly.

When a stitched or custom setup makes sense

The most common alternative for a small operator is not a second product but a stack of Zapier, Make or n8n workflows that connect a vendor to a spreadsheet or inbox. Those tools can keep run histories, retries, error branches and audit evidence when you configure them. What they do not decide for you is who owns the design. You must build observability, idempotency (so a retried step does not send a second reminder), escalation paths, access controls and ongoing maintenance yourself.

A proposed, configurable design from US Tech Automations for a DoorLoop operator would be a late-rent follow-up. The trigger is a scheduled check each morning, which needs the API access that DoorLoop lists on One. The action compares open charges against due dates and drafts a reminder and a task for the operations lead. The output is a review-log row with the unit, amount, days late and draft text. Prerequisites are an API key with read-only scope and a named owner for the log. The human review point is a manager approving every tenant-facing message before it goes out. This is a design to be configured and tested, not a deployed system.

For RentRedi, the proposed workflow starts from the charges export in its help steps. A staff member saves the exported file to a shared folder. That file landing is the trigger, because RentRedi's pages describe no public API for an automatic pull. The action maps the rows to a QuickBooks Online bank-transaction import, so entries appear in the For Review tab, and the output is a count of matched and unmatched rows for the bookkeeper. US Tech Automations could configure this design, but the bookkeeper must confirm every match before anything is categorized.

When NOT to use US Tech Automations: if you only need rent collection and reminders, a flat tool such as RentRedi already covers that without a build. If no one on your team will own the review log, the API key and the upkeep, a custom workflow will go stale. If the vendor's own agent already does the job, as DoorLoop lists for its Connect and Multiply agents, use that agent instead of a parallel build.

Who should choose which

Who this is for, DoorLoop: an operator who runs leasing, showings and owner reporting daily, has budget for a monthly floor, and wants agents or an API on the same plan.

Red flags: you need a free plan or free trial, which The Close's 2025 review says DoorLoop does not offer; your portfolio is small enough that the minimum dominates the bill and you only need rent collection; or nobody on your team can own an API integration.

Who this is for, RentRedi: an operator who wants rent collection, accounting and maintenance on one flat fee and does not need agents.

Red flags: you need custom state lease agreements; you need a public API to connect your own systems; or you need payment processing fees stated up front, since RentRedi's pricing page does not state them. TurboTenant's review of RentRedi, updated August 3, 2026, says RentRedi offers two levels of screening reports and does not generate custom lease agreements, according to TurboTenant (updated August 3, 2026).

Common mistakes to avoid

• Reading a headline per-unit price as the bill. At small unit counts, the minimum sets the total.

• Treating "unlimited" as "no other charges." Tenant-paid screening and credit reporting are billed separately on RentRedi.

• Assuming API access comes with every plan. Check which plan lists it before you build anything.

• Skipping the payment-fee question. Neither pricing page gives a complete schedule.

• Trusting an older listing. Third-party pages can describe plan tiers that DoorLoop no longer sells.

• Taking a competitor's review at face value. TurboTenant sells landlord software that competes with both vendors.

Terms to know before you sign

• Per-unit pricing: a bill that rises with each unit you add.

• Monthly minimum: the floor a plan charges even when the per-unit math comes in lower.

• ACH payment: a bank-to-bank transfer; each vendor sets its own fee rules for it.

• Tenant-paid screening: the applicant pays for credit, criminal or eviction reports, so the charge sits outside your subscription.

• Owner portal: a login that lets property owners see statements and balances without calling your office.

• Idempotency: a guarantee that a retried step does not repeat its side effect, such as a second reminder to the same tenant.

Frequently asked questions

Is RentRedi cheaper than DoorLoop?

Yes, on list prices: RentRedi's lowest option sits below every DoorLoop plan at the 25, 60 and 100 unit counts in the cost table, so the real question is whether DoorLoop's added features are worth the gap.

Does DoorLoop have a free trial?

No free trial appears on its pricing page, and a 2025 review from The Close says DoorLoop has no free plan and no free trial.

Does RentRedi have a public API?

Not in the help and product pages reviewed for this guide, so plan on file exports for any system you want to connect.

Which product has AI agents?

DoorLoop does, on its higher plans: its pricing page lists a Receptionist Agent on Connect and maintenance and lease-renewal agents on Multiply, while RentRedi's pages reviewed here list no agents.

Who pays for tenant screening?

The tenant or applicant pays for screening reports on RentRedi, and DoorLoop's pricing page lists a screening charge without showing which plan includes it.

Where to go from here

Start with the cost table and the minimum, because that alone settles the answer for many small portfolios. Then check the rows that decide your daily work: owner portals, accounting export, payment fees and API access. If your daily work includes a workflow such as late-rent follow-up or bookkeeper review, see how US Tech Automations configures this as a proposed design, and list its prerequisites and review points before you commit to either vendor.