LetCompliance vs Goodlord

You can, but there is real overlap — both reference tenants, e-sign, collect rent and track certificates, so running both means paying twice for the middle of the stack. The parts that genuinely do not overlap are at the two ends: Goodlord’s insurance (rent protection and legal expenses cover) and LetCompliance’s possession, compliance score and tax (Section 8 with Schedule 2 wording, a live 0-100 score, SA105 / MTD). Agents who want possession handled as software, or who want landlord tax in the same login, tend to run LetCompliance alone; agents who want the risk insured keep Goodlord for that.

Yes. Goodlord states that agents can serve Section 13 notices within its platform, with audit trails and automatic notifications. It does not publicly document prescribed-form (Form 4A) generation, so we make no claim either way on that. LetCompliance builds the Section 13 on Form 4A with the 2-month notice period, the 12-month gap rule and the tribunal note applied, and it also builds the Section 8 side — 14 grounds with Schedule 2 wording verbatim — which Goodlord does not offer at all.

Yes. You can order a credit-backed reference, full tenant reference or guarantor reference, pay-per-check, via a regulated UK credit reference agency, straight from the tenancy. Goodlord still leads on a unified referencing-plus-onboarding flow, and its referencing is insurance-backed, which ours is not — so some agents prefer it for high-volume onboarding. Either way LetCompliance then runs the live tenancy: rent, compliance scoring, possession notices and tax in one login.

It runs the whole let, not just compliance. In one login you advertise, take applications and viewings, reference tenants, e-sign the tenancy, collect rent by Direct Debit and chase arrears, track a 0-100 compliance score, draft Section 8 and Section 13 notices, manage HMO rooms, book done-for-you property services and prepare your SA105 tax. The compliance score is one feature among many, not the whole product.

The table above compares them feature by feature. For most UK landlords and small-to-mid agencies who want the whole tenancy in one place, LetCompliance covers more of the let; Goodlord is the better pick for the specific areas it leads on, which are called out honestly above. LetCompliance is free for your first property, then from £14.99/mo.

LetCompliance ships an SA105-shaped Tax Pack, a Section 24→ personal-vs-limited-company calculator, MTD-dated quarterly summaries, a capital-gains calculator and a mileage log — the landlord tax layer most tools skip. It is not HMRC-recognised for the direct press-submit step, so above the £50,000 MTD threshold you pair it with a recognised filer or hand the pack to your accountant.

They are written by the LetCompliance team, and we say so plainly — but each one names where Goodlord is the better choice and the two things LetCompliance does not do (Open Banking bank-feed reconciliation and HMRC direct-submit filing). Pricing and feature rows are re-verified every quarter.