UK landlord document tools compared

Published 24 August 2026

Every claim about another company on this page and the pages it links to was read from that company’s own website on 24 August 2026. We do not publish rival prices, because a stale price about a named competitor is worse than none.

There is no single best tool here, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling one. What there is: membership bodies that give you templates and a phone number, template shops that hand you a Word file to edit, management software that generates documents as a side feature, free government generators that are genuinely good within their limits, and document engines like ours.

The table below covers all of them, including the free options and the tools we do not beat. Everything in it was read from each provider’s own live site in August 2026. Prices are deliberately absent: they change, a stale one is worse than none, and every provider publishes theirs.

We make DocuTenant, so read our row with that in mind. It is highlighted below rather than hidden among the others, because a comparison that buries its author is doing something worse than one that admits it. The case for us is the last two columns read together: DocuTenant is the only tool here that produces the notices in their prescribed forms and carries your property and tenant details from one document into the next. Three others manage the first. One other manages the second. Nothing else does both, and every claim in the table is checkable on the site it came from.

The market at a glance

Tool	Best for	Covers	Notices, not just agreements	Reuses your data
DocuTenantThis is us	Every document a tenancy needs, in England and Scotland	England, Scotland. 38 generated, 9 tracked	Notices in their prescribed form: yes	Reuses your data: yes
mygov.scot	A free Scottish agreement or notice, one at a time	Scotland only. Four documents	Notices in their prescribed form: yes	Reuses your data: no
SAL	Scottish advice at the end of a phone	Scotland only, including legacy tenancy types	Notices in their prescribed form: yes	Reuses your data: no
RentDocs	Rent, expenses and paperwork in one dashboard	Claims all four nations. Catalogue is England-centred	Notices in their prescribed form: partly	Reuses your data: yes
Landlord Heaven	Taking an England eviction through the county court	Agreements all four nations. Notices England only	Notices in their prescribed form: partly	Reuses your data: no
Net Lawman	Unusual lettings you intend to redraft yourself	England, Wales. Scotland nominal	Notices in their prescribed form: partly	Reuses your data: no
NRLA	An England advice line and a body that lobbies for you	England, Wales. Scotland via a SAL partnership	Notices in their prescribed form: partly	Reuses your data: no
Rocket Lawyer	Legal documents well beyond letting	England, Wales, Scotland agreements. Notices England only	Notices in their prescribed form: partly	Reuses your data: no
Simply-Docs	Commercial property alongside residential	England, Wales. No Scotland at all	Notices in their prescribed form: yes	Reuses your data: no
Lawpack	A one-off kit to buy outright, no subscription	England kit, plus Scottish agreements and Notice to Leave	Notices in their prescribed form: no	Reuses your data: no
Property Hawk	Nothing now. Get your data out and move	England, Wales. Announced closure July 2026	Notices in their prescribed form: no	Reuses your data: no

The highlighted row is our own product. Every other row names the one job that tool is genuinely the best answer to, including the jobs we lose.

“Notices, not just agreements” means the possession notice and the rent-increase notice in their prescribed forms, for every jurisdiction the tool claims to cover: Form 3A and Form 4A in England, the schedule 5 and schedule 2 forms in Scotland. A dash means a tool does this for one jurisdiction it covers but not another. It is the clearest dividing line in this market, because almost everyone sells a tenancy agreement and far fewer produce the notices you need to raise the rent or end the tenancy.

Side by side with DocuTenant

DocuTenant vs RentDocsRentDocs is compliance software with a document generator inside it. DocuTenant is the document engine. Where each is stronger, and where RentDocs wins.Read the comparison DocuTenant vs Landlord HeavenLandlord Heaven sells guided document packs and eviction prep for England. DocuTenant is a document engine for England and Scotland. Which one fits you.Read the comparison DocuTenant vs Net LawmanNet Lawman sells editable legal templates with optional lawyer review. DocuTenant generates finished documents from your property record. Where each one fits.Read the comparison DocuTenant vs NRLA templatesNRLA membership includes templates, an advice line and Portfolio software, for England and Wales. DocuTenant is a document engine for England and Scotland.Read the comparison DocuTenant vs SAL membershipThe Scottish Association of Landlords gives you a document library and an unlimited advice line. DocuTenant generates those documents from your records.Read the comparison

When not to pick us

You want rent tracking, expenses or tax filing. We do none of it and have no plans to. Landlord Studio, Hammock and Landlord Vision are the market for that.

You need tenant find or advertising. OpenRent and the online letting agents do that. We do not advertise property, reference tenants or collect rent.

You let in Scotland and only need an agreement and a notice. The Scottish Government generates both free on mygov.scot, and they are good. We wrote a page about exactly what it covers, including the parts where it will not help you.

You want somebody to phone. The NRLA in England and SAL in Scotland both include an advice line with membership. No document generator is a substitute for a person who knows your situation.

You let in Wales or Northern Ireland. We cover England and Scotland only.

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Common questions

What is the best landlord document service in the UK?

There is no single answer, because the tools solve different problems. If you want somebody to telephone, a membership body such as the NRLA in England or SAL in Scotland beats any software. If you let in Scotland and need only an agreement and a notice, the free Scottish Government generator on mygov.scot is genuinely the right answer. If you want documents across the whole tenancy, generated from one record rather than typed out each time, that is what a document engine such as DocuTenant is for. Work out which problem you have first.

Which providers cover Scotland properly?

Very few. mygov.scot, SAL and DocuTenant provide the Scottish Notice to Leave and the rent-increase notice in their prescribed schedule forms. Several providers offer a Scottish tenancy agreement and then stop, which leaves you without the two documents you need to raise the rent or end the tenancy. Check for the notices, not just the agreement.

Why are there no prices on this page?

Because they change, and a comparison table with a stale price in it is worse than one with none. Every provider here publishes its own pricing, so check it at the source. Where the shape of the pricing matters — per property, per document or a flat monthly plan — we say so in words on the individual comparison pages. Our own is £9 for a single document or £9.99 a month for all of them.

Is a free template as good as a paid one?

Sometimes, and it depends entirely on who wrote it and when. The Scottish Government model tenancy agreement is free and correct. A free English tenancy agreement written before 1 May 2026 is worse than useless, because the Renters’ Rights Act 2025 voided fixed terms, Section 21 clauses and rent review clauses, and a document that contradicts the law in writing weakens your position. Always check when a free template was last reviewed.

Do I need landlord software as well as documents?

If you want rent tracking, expense logging or Making Tax Digital filing, yes, and it will be a separate product. DocuTenant does none of those and does not intend to. Plenty of landlords run bookkeeping software alongside a document tool, and that is a perfectly sensible arrangement rather than a failure of either one.