One starts at $199 a month, the other is free. That is not a close call on price — it is a sign they are built for different people. Here is what each actually gives you.
DoorLoop and Stessa figures read from doorloop.com/pricing and stessa.com/pricing on 18 October 2026. Vendor pricing changes — confirm before deciding.
| Tool | Entry price | How it scales |
|---|---|---|
| Stessa Essentials | $0 | Manage $12/mo, Pro $28/mo (annual) |
| DoorLoop One | $199 / mo minimum | $2.50 per unit ($1.50 above 100) |
| DoorLoop Connect | $299 / mo minimum | $4.00 per unit |
| DoorLoop Multiply | $399 / mo minimum | $5.00 per unit |
| Rentwelly | $39 / mo | Flat to 20 units, no minimum |
DoorLoop also quotes one-on-one onboarding based on portfolio size. The practical point: with a monthly floor of $199, DoorLoop is priced for a management company, not for someone with four doors.
DoorLoop is software you run a rental operation in — leases, tenants, maintenance, rent. It assumes you want a system of record for the business, and it prices like it.
Stessa starts from the money. Connect accounts, categorise transactions, watch performance. It is genuinely useful and the free tier is why so many landlords begin there.
If you are comparing them, you are probably feeling a specific pain: the free tracker stopped being enough, but a $199 monthly floor looks like far more tool than you need. That gap is exactly where Rentwelly sits — real double-entry books, rent collection and a tenant portal, priced for someone with a handful of doors rather than a management company.
Pick Stessa if you want a free portfolio dashboard, your tenants already pay reliably, and nobody is asking you for statements that tie out. At one or two doors this is often the right answer.
Pick DoorLoop if you manage property for other owners, need owner statements and maintenance workflows, and have enough units that a $199 monthly floor spreads thin. It is a serious platform and the price reflects that.
Pick something in the middle if you self-manage a handful of units, need to actually collect rent, and want books an accountant can audit — without paying management-company prices for them.
Categorising transactions gets you a rough P&L. It does not give you a balance sheet that balances, a trial balance, or an audit trail. Rentwelly posts real double-entry behind every action.
Collect rent, apply late fees and record deposits in the same system that keeps the ledger — so nothing needs reconciling by hand later.
A tenant portal for payments, balances and maintenance requests cuts the texting and the where-is-my-receipt emails.
DoorLoop charges per unit on top of a monthly floor. Rentwelly is $39/mo flat for up to 20 units, so growing your portfolio does not keep raising the bill.
Related: Stessa alternative, DoorLoop alternative, and rent collection software.
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DoorLoop is priced per unit with a monthly minimum: DoorLoop One is $2.50 per unit with a $199/mo minimum, Connect is $4.00 per unit with a $299/mo minimum, and Multiply is $5.00 per unit with a $399/mo minimum. One-on-one onboarding is quoted based on portfolio size. Stessa is the opposite end: Essentials is free, Manage is $12/mo billed annually, and Pro is $28/mo billed annually. That gap is the whole reason this comparison is hard.
Not really, which is why the comparison is confusing. DoorLoop is full property-management software you operate a rental business in. Stessa is closer to a rental finance tracker built around your bank feeds. People compare them because they are both trying to answer the question of where your rental numbers should live.
Many landlords start there, and for one or two doors it can be enough. The limits usually show up in three places: collecting rent and chasing late payments, giving tenants somewhere to log in, and producing books your accountant can actually work from rather than a categorised bank feed.
Because a categorised transaction list is not a set of books. Rentwelly keeps a real double-entry general ledger, so you get a balance sheet and trial balance that tie out, per-property P&L you can drill into, and clean 1099s at year end. You also get rent collection and a tenant portal in the same place. Plans start at $39/mo with no unit minimum.
That is the common path, and it is why the switch is worth planning. Rentwelly imports properties, units, leases, tenants and opening balances by CSV, so you can move mid-year without losing reporting continuity.
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