Replace a subscription · every price cited

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.

Own Rentara for $119 Try the live demo

Stop renting DoorLoop.

Rented DoorLoop Starter $69.00/mo billed yearly ($99.00/mo monthly), max 10 units; Pro $149/$189 and Premium $209/$239 ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Rentara

$119 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

2 months of DoorLoop costs what Rentara costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: Starter is capped at 10 units. A promo (30% off for 3 months plus zero onboarding fees on select plans) was live at fetch time - the base price is cited. Re-read 2026-09-07: all six figures unchanged, walked through the page's own billing switch in both positions. The page also states the annual charge outright - "if you add 10 units on the basic plan, it would cost $708 upfront for the entire year ($69 x 12 months)".

How DoorLoop pricing grows

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 2026-09-07

What DoorLoop does that we don't

DoorLoop puts email and chat support, plus unlimited help-center access, on even its entry plan.

“Get five-star support by email and chat, as well as unlimited access to our Help Center.”, 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.

What Rentara deliberately doesn't do is on its 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 by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Rentara vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off DoorLoop.

Do tenants need accounts?

No. Each lease gets a private link; tenants bookmark it, see their own balance and ledger, and submit maintenance requests. You can rotate or kill any link instantly.

Does Rentara collect rent online?

Only if you switch it on, and only through your own Stripe account: the tenant pays on Stripe's page from their private link, and Rentara records the payment when Stripe confirms it. Otherwise you record payments as they arrive.

I already installed 1.0 — do I lose data?

No. Drop the new files over the old install (keep config.php and data/); the database upgrades itself in place on the next page load. Existing leases stay on manual billing until you enable auto-billing per lease, so nothing back-posts by surprise.

Will this run on my hosting?

Almost certainly. Rentara needs PHP 8.1+ with PDO — present on virtually all cPanel/Plesk hosts — and either MySQL or SQLite. Installation is a two-minute web installer.

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Sources

DoorLoop: price checked 2026-09-03, source“STARTER - $69.00/month (billed yearly) - 'Only $3/unit'”

Competitor prices change, so 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.

Replace DoorLoop with Rentara.

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