The self-hosted DoorLoop alternative
Rentara — Automatic rent posting, late fees, and a tenant self-service portal for the portfolio you already manage. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying DoorLoop every month.
Stop renting DoorLoop
2 months of DoorLoop equals this one-time price.
Assumption: Starter is capped at 10 units. A promo banner (30% off 3 months) was live at fetch time - the base price is cited.
How DoorLoop pricing grows with you
DoorLoop charges $3 per additional unit above each plan's base allotment, and portfolios managing more than 300 units are routed to a sales demo instead of self-serve pricing.
“Managing more than 300 units? Book a Free Demo.” — their own page, read 2026-08-11
What DoorLoop does that we don't
DoorLoop has native iPhone, iPad, and Android apps with near-full feature parity to the desktop version.
“there is even an iPhone, iPad, and Android app available on the Apple App store and Google Play store” — their own page
Who should stay with DoorLoop
If you need a full accounting package with built-in QuickBooks sync, stay with DoorLoop — Rentara is not a full accounting package; export a CSV and import it into your accounting tool. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting DoorLoop
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in DoorLoop's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records and users are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset or price-hiked out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up, and apply updates yourself — see the product page for honest limitations, and the full Rentara vs DoorLoop comparison.
Sources
- DoorLoop — price checked 2026-07-05 —
source “STARTER - $69.00/month (billed yearly) - 'Only $3/unit'”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory — every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.