Tenant Turner vs Rently Self-Showing Software 2026

The choice is who holds the key

Self-showing software lets a screened renter book a time and receive a temporary code or smart-lock entry without a staff member at the door. Tenant Turner and Rently both still sell under those names. Each vendor published a live pricing page for this review, and neither page says the product was renamed, folded into the other, or withdrawn. Tenant Turner's about page lists PropertyTek executives beside Tenant Turner operations staff, which is a ownership clue, while the product you buy on the pricing page is still Tenant Turner.

The category decision comes before the brand. You are choosing whether a qualified prospect may enter alone, whether a coordinator still walks the home, and whether the invoice follows every unit you manage or only the homes that are on the market. A wider field of showing scheduling tools exists. This page stays on the pair in the search.

TL;DR: choose Tenant Turner when you want a printed listing-slot price, optional live answering, and lockbox brands you may already own. Choose Rently when the core job is unaccompanied self-tours billed as listing credits, with an access device you buy separately and an open interface on the higher software tier. Confirm the unit-count rate and the hardware quote before you sign. Vacancy cost still dwarfs either software line. Median rent: $1,388 according to Apartment List (2026), which also reports a 0.4% year-over-year decline, a 1-bedroom median of $1,220, and a 2-bedroom median of $1,374 for September 2026. Stabilized vacancy: 7% according to Apartment List (2026), down from a February 2026 peak of 7.3% on that same index.

Those rows repeat the Apartment List readings above. The 34-day row is the September list-to-lease figure in the next section's source, kept identical wherever it appears.

Key Takeaways

• Both products are on sale under the names in the search, with public single-family style rates and quote-based multifamily or top-tier packaging where the page says so.

• Tenant Turner prints two meters: a per-unit annual start, and a per-listing price that stays flat when a slot turns again. Rently prints a listing credit consumed once per active listing each month.

• Self-access on both sides needs a device. Tenant Turner prints device prices. Rently says an access device is required and leaves the hardware price off the pricing page, so that line is Quote-based.

• Live phone agents are an Ultra feature on Tenant Turner. The Standard and Premium cards on Rently list software, syndication, and, on Premium, an AI nurturing line.

• A vacant door at the national median, held for the current list-to-lease reading, costs more rent than either software bill in the worksheet later in this page. Speed of a qualified tour is the point of the purchase.

• Days on market: 34 according to CRE Daily (2026). That brief's September vacancy reading is also 7%, the same figure as the Apartment List index above.

Who this is for

This comparison is for a property manager or landlord running about 20 to 2,000 residential rentals who has already decided that showings, not full accounting, are the gap. You are close to a contract. You want to know who may enter, what a 12-listing month costs on the printed rates, and which plan puts a person on the phone. Scattered single-family and small multifamily books fit the printed rates. A garden community that wants lobby-to-door guidance is in Rently's quote-based multifamily block, not in the $28 credit.

Red flags: You will not allow a prospect inside unless your staff is there, so a self-showing stack adds hardware you will not use. You need trust accounting, owner draws, and the general ledger in this same login, which neither pricing page claims to be. You require a printed community price for GPS wayfinding before any sales conversation, and Rently's multifamily block is a quote.

Staffed scheduling still has a place. Teams that want the tour on their own calendar, with the prospect pre-screened, can stay on Tenant Turner's scheduling features and skip the lockbox. Teams that already live in smart locks and want the renter to tour after hours lean toward Rently. A shared calendar can cover a handful of homes. It gets brittle once leads arrive from many listing sites at night.

How we evaluated these tools

The weights below are a buying framework built from the public pricing, integration, and API pages opened for this article. They are a way to score a contract. They are not a recorded lab score. Access rules sit at the top because a cheap scheduler that your owners will not allow inside the house is wasted money. A price you can multiply sits in the middle because both vendors print part of the bill and leave another part for a quote. Listing-site start: 85% according to Reallyo (2026), which also says a renter researches about 10 homes and seriously considers 3, and attributes both figures to an Apartments.com survey from the fourth quarter of 2025. That is why after-hours booking is weighted just under access.

Self-showing access rules (25%) ask whether the product can issue a time-boxed entry, which devices it names, and whether identity checks are described on the vendor's own page. After-hours scheduling (20%) asks whether a prospect can book without your office being open, including agent-led slots. Screening (15%) asks whether your criteria run before a code or a calendar slot is released. A price you can multiply (15%) favors a rate printed on the pricing page over a slider that only shows a starting number. The PMS or export path (15%) asks whether listings move in without retyping, and whether a showing result can leave the tool. Hardware (10%) asks whether the device purchase and the monthly device fee are printed. A product can be right for you with a weak score on one row. A failure on access, when your owners forbid unaccompanied entry, ends the evaluation.

What the two products publish

Published facts are separated here from later judgment. Tenant Turner's pricing page describes automated tour scheduling, access control, syndication to 20+ sites including Zillow and Apartments.com, prescreening, fraud checks (VOIP scanning, ID verification, and a blacklist), owner reports, and an AI virtual agent sold as an add-on. The Ultra plan adds live answering, call routing, self-showing access assistance, and tracking numbers on active listings. The pricing FAQ says phone and text features operate in the United States and Canada.

Rently's pricing page, on the single-family selector, describes secure self-guided touring, syndication to 20+ sites, smart scheduling for agent-led tours, and PMS and CRM sync on the Standard plan. The Premium plan adds an AI leasing agent, 24/7 nurturing, direct scheduling from listing sites, and an open API. The MAX plan and the multifamily block are custom. The same page lists identity checks (photo ID, selfie, and a credit or debit card), CodeBox and SentriGuard integration, and wayfinding. It also states that a self-touring unit requires an access device.

Our read of that grid: Tenant Turner is a leasing desk that can add self-access. Rently is a self-tour and device stack that can also book an agent. If your owners want a person in the living room, Tenant Turner's scheduling plus the Ultra answering line matches the work. If the operating plan is "code on the phone, tour alone, agent only after the tour," Rently's Standard and Premium cards match the work, and you still have to buy the door hardware.

What the invoices actually say

Pricing checked October 9, 2026.

Pro listing price: $42.50 according to Tenant Turner (2026), where the Ultra listing price is $98.50 per listing, annual unit pricing starts at $1.17 per unit on the Pro plan and $2.43 per unit on the Ultra plan, MojoBox lockboxes start at $64, MojoLock smart locks start at $85, Tenant Turner access devices are $3.50 per device each month, and third-party devices are $5.00 per device each month. Standard credit: $28 according to Rently (2026), the same page that prices the Premium plan at $37 per listing credit, a 100-credit year at $2,800 on Standard and $3,700 on Premium, states 11.5 million annual visitors on its listing site, and states a 60% lead-to-tour figure beside its AI leasing line plus 30% more foot traffic beside GPS self-touring. Treat the 60% and 30% lines as Rently's own statements on that page. The MAX plan on Rently is Quote-based. Multifamily on Rently is Quote-based. The AI add-on on Tenant Turner has no printed price, so that add-on is Quote-based. Rently's device purchase is Quote-based.

The $1.17 and $2.43 figures are starting rates beside a unit-count control marked 50, 250, 500, and 1000+. The page text retrieved for this review does not print the dollar rate at each stop. Multiply those starting rates by a 50-unit book and you will invent a discount the page did not show you. Ask the vendor to confirm the rate at your unit count. The listing prices of $42.50 and $98.50 are printed as per-listing amounts, and the page says a listing slot can be filled, leased, and filled again without the monthly price changing.

Rently's credit rule is stricter than a casual reading of "100 credits." The page says 1 credit is consumed per active listing per month, and the annual pool resets at renewal. A 100-credit pack at $2,800 is 100 listing-months, which is $28 times 100. It is not 100 doors for a year. Twelve homes on the market for a full year are 144 credits. The page prints a 100-credit total and does not print a separate price for a 44-credit remainder, so the fully published way to price 144 credits is 144 times $28.

Tenant Turner, for screening and a live line

Best fit: a leasing team that wants prospects to answer its questions, book a window, and only then receive a code, with the option to keep a person on the phone. The Pro plan on Tenant Turner is the scheduling, syndication, access, nurture, and owner-report bundle. The Ultra plan is that bundle plus live answering. Owners who already hang CodeBox, SentriLock, or Seros hardware can stay on those brands. The monthly device fee is $3.50 on Tenant Turner's own devices and $5.00 on third-party devices.

Limitations: the unit meter hides the small-portfolio price behind "starting at." The AI agent has no public price. Self-access still means buying boxes at $64 or locks at $85 before the monthly fee. This is not the system of record for rent, deposits, or owner payments. A team that only needed a generic appointment link will pay for leasing features it will not open.

Implementation: connect the property-management system you already use, set screening questions and showing hours, and add devices only on doors that allow self-access. The integrations page marks two-way sync for AppFolio, Rent Manager, and Rentvine, and one-way import for Buildium, Propertyware, Rentec Direct, TenantCloud, and RentSync. Listings per request: 100 according to Tenant Turner (2026), and that page also describes a Zapier connector aimed at 8,000+ apps, plus a REST API with OAuth2. Plan a human check on the first import so a stale availability date does not open a occupied home. Primary evidence is the pricing page and the integrations page linked above.

Rently, for credits and an access device

Best fit: an operator who has already accepted unaccompanied tours and wants the software meter to follow active listings, not the whole portfolio. The Standard plan on Rently covers self-tours, syndication, agent scheduling, and PMS sync. The Premium plan is the step up when you want the AI nurturer, listing-site booking, and the open API. Large single-family books and build-to-rent communities are the story the pricing page tells. A 50-unit question appears on the signup form, which is a sizing prompt, not a published rate change.

Limitations: every month a home stays on the market consumes another credit, so a slow lease costs software as well as rent. Hardware is required for self-tours and the price is Quote-based. Multifamily wayfinding, video, and the MAX bundle are Quote-based. The open API is on Premium, so a Standard contract does not include that interface. Webhook delivery, on the activity reference, is arranged by giving an endpoint to Rently's client success staff and testing the payload before go-live. That is a setup project, not a switch.

Implementation: pick a credit pack, confirm you own or will buy an access device, map listings into Rently, and decide whether overlapping tours are allowed. Example duration: 60 minutes according to Rently (2026). That success example also returns parallel_self_tours_enabled set to false and takes a required property_id. It is an example payload, not a promise that every account uses a 60-minute window. Set the real window in the manager portal, then read it back with that call before you tell owners what to expect. Primary evidence is the pricing page and that settings reference.

Our read: pay the Premium credit when a downstream system must receive tour events or you want the published AI line. Stay on Standard when a coordinator will still work the warm leads and you only need the tour, the listing sites, and the agent calendar. Skip both tiers when the community needs GPS wayfinding and you have not accepted a custom quote.

Run the numbers on 12 active listings

Take an illustrative month with 12 homes on the market at once, which is a worksheet, not a client result. The Standard plan on Rently consumes 1 credit per active listing per month, so 12 times $28 equals $336 that month, and 12 times 12 equals 144 credit-months, or $4,032 at the published $28 rate, while the printed 100-credit pack is $2,800 and leaves 44 credit-months with no separate price on the page. The Pro listing price on Tenant Turner is 12 times $42.50, which equals $510 that month, and 12 of its own access devices add 12 times $3.50, which equals $42, for $552 before lockboxes at $64 each, or $768 once. On the settings call, each door is queried with property_id, and the published success example returns duration_in_minutes of 60 with parallel tours off, so 12 back-to-back windows are 12 times 60, which equals 720 minutes, or 12 hours of access if nobody overlaps. A single vacant door at the national median of $1,388 held for the 34-day list-to-lease reading is $1,388 times 34 divided by 30, which equals $1,573.07 when rounded to the cent. That rent figure is larger than the $174 software gap between $510 and $336, so the access rule and the days on market matter more than the software delta in this worksheet.

The $0 cell means that row has no monthly fee. The $768 is the one-time purchase using the published "from $64" starting price, so a larger box would cost more. Rently hardware is absent because the pricing page does not print it. Add that quote before you treat $336 as the full month.

A handoff above either scheduler

The scheduler's job ends when the tour is booked or the code is used. The messy work starts when a lock fails, an owner wants a weekly note, or a maintenance visit has to follow a prospect's comment. A proposed, configurable workflow can sit above either product. It is a design, not a claim that any portfolio runs it today, and it produces no measured savings here.

Trigger: a Rently Prospect Comment payload whose access_problem field is true, or a Tenant Turner export that marks a showing as blocked. Action: US Tech Automations matches the listing to the property record, opens a maintenance review, and parks the vendor dispatch. Output: one queue row a coordinator accepts or rejects. Prerequisites: a tested webhook endpoint or the Tenant Turner export (the integrations page caps a listings request at 100), a property map, and credentials stored for that portfolio only. Human review: no work order goes out until a person confirms the door note. The same pattern can later feed maintenance scheduling for occupied homes, which is a different calendar from the vacant-home tour.

Trigger for a second pass: a nightly file of completed tours. Action: US Tech Automations copies the showing timestamp into an owner-report draft and leaves send turned off. Output: a draft grouped by owner. Prerequisites: the report export, an owner-to-door map, and a rule for empty days so a quiet listing still appears. Human review: the manager reads the draft and sends it. Pair that draft with the showing calendar tools you already trust, rather than building a second calendar inside the handoff.

Zapier, Make, and n8n can carry this. Configured well, they keep run history, retries, error branches, and an audit trail. Tenant Turner already advertises a Zapier connector, and Rently documents activity posts a developer can receive. The buyer still owns observability, idempotency so a retried event does not open two work orders, escalation when a lock fails after hours, access control on the credential, and the maintenance when a field name changes. A proposed US Tech Automations design can hold the field map, the retry rule, and the review gate as one configuration, with the same prerequisites: a sample payload, a credential, and a named person who clears exceptions. You design that in either place. The difference is who maintains the map when the vendor adds a field.

Terms that change the bill

Listing credit. On Rently, one credit is consumed per active listing per month. A year-long vacancy on one door is 12 credits, not one.

Listing slot. On Tenant Turner, the listing price is tied to a slot you can refill after a lease without the monthly price changing, on the terms printed on the pricing page.

Unit under management. Tenant Turner's other meter. The printed figures are annual starting rates, and the rate at 50 units is not in the page text reviewed here.

Self-showing. A prospect enters during a window you defined, using a code or a smart lock, after whatever identity check the product requires.

ILS. An internet listing site. Both vendors describe syndication to 20+ of them. The tour tool does not create the demand. It catches the inquiry those sites already sent.

Prescreen. Your questions on income, move date, pets, or vouchers, answered before a slot or a code is released.

Webhook. An automatic post Rently can send to a URL you provide, including tour and comment events. Tenant Turner's public counterpart on the integrations page is the API and the Zapier connector.

duration_in_minutes. The field in Rently's property-settings example that carries the tour length. Read it back after you change hours in the portal.

A decision list you can mark up

• Write down whether owners allow unaccompanied entry. If the answer is no, price Tenant Turner's scheduling and skip both hardware columns.

• Count active listings, not units, and price 1 credit per listing per month on Rently. A 100-credit pack covers 100 listing-months.

• On Tenant Turner, get the unit rate at your actual unit count in writing. Use $42.50 or $98.50 only if you are buying listing slots.

• Add Tenant Turner device fees at $3.50 or $5.00, plus the box or lock purchase. Ask Rently for the device quote before you compare totals.

• Pick Ultra on Tenant Turner only if you want people answering. Pick Premium on Rently only if you want the AI line and the open API.

• Name the export or webhook, the person who reviews lock failures, and the owner-report approver before go-live. A property-manager scheduling stack still needs that handoff or the tour data dies in the showing tool.

Questions to settle before you commit

Are these products still sold under these names?

Yes. Both published pricing pages in this review, and neither page says the product was renamed or discontinued. Tenant Turner's about page lists PropertyTek executives next to Tenant Turner staff, and the invoice you are comparing is still the Tenant Turner price card, not a renamed bundle.

Which bill follows occupied units, and which follows vacant ones?

Tenant Turner's unit meter follows units under management, and only the starting annual rate is printed. Tenant Turner's listing meter and Rently's credit both follow homes on the market. A full portfolio with few vacancies can look cheap on a true per-unit rate and expensive on a per-listing rate, which is why the unpublished unit tiers matter.

Do both products require a lockbox purchase?

Staffed scheduling on Tenant Turner can run without a device. Self-access on Tenant Turner uses MojoBox, MojoLock, SentriLock, Seros, CodeBox, or similar hardware, with printed purchase and monthly fees. Self-tours on Rently require an access device, and that purchase price is Quote-based on the page reviewed here.

Which plan puts a person on the phone?

The Ultra plan on Tenant Turner includes a live answering service, call routing, and help with self-showing access. The Standard and Premium cards on Rently do not list a call center. Premium lists an AI leasing agent and round-the-clock nurturing, which is software, and you should confirm with the vendor what a prospect hears if they call.

What does a 100-credit pack actually cover?

It covers 100 listing-months on the published math, because 100 times $28 is $2,800 and 100 times $37 is $3,700. Twelve listings for twelve months need 144 credits. Price the extra 44 at the published per-credit rate only if the vendor confirms that rate still applies past the pack.

Can Zapier, Make, or n8n cover the handoff?

Yes, if you build it. Those tools can store run history, retry a failed post, branch on errors, and keep an audit trail when someone configures them. You still design idempotency, after-hours escalation, who may see prospect IDs, and who fixes the flow when a payload changes. Use them when your team will own that upkeep.

When should a simpler tool win?

When NOT to use US Tech Automations is when every tour stays inside one vendor and nobody needs a property-system note, an owner draft, or a maintenance handoff, when the team will not keep an API credential or a CSV export current, and when a handful of doors is already handled by the vendor's reminders and a shared calendar. In those cases the showing product you just bought is the simpler system, and another layer adds a credential to rotate.

The pick, then the handoff

Buy Tenant Turner if the printed listing price, the optional live line, and lockbox brands you can name are the decision. Buy Rently if unaccompanied tours are the operating plan, you will budget a device separately, and you want credits that track active listings, stepping up to Premium when the open API or the AI line is required. Get the unit-count rate and the Rently hardware quote in writing, then compare them with the worksheet above. Either way, decide who reviews a failed lock and who approves the owner note before the first code goes out. For how that review step can be configured on top of the export or the webhook, see how US Tech Automations configures this.