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DocuTenant vs RentDocs

The short answer

RentDocs is landlord management software that generates documents as one of its features. DocuTenant is a document engine and nothing else. If you want rent tracking, expense logging and certificate expiry alerts in the same place as your paperwork, RentDocs does things we do not. If your paperwork is the problem, and particularly if you let in Scotland, we cover documents RentDocs does not appear to.

What RentDocs is

A UK landlord compliance platform, built by a landlord, that describes itself as built for the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. It holds your properties and tenants, generates a tenancy agreement from those records, tracks rent and expenses, chases rent by email and SMS, watches certificate expiry dates, and takes e-signatures. Documents are one part of a wider management tool rather than the whole product.

Everything on this page about RentDocs was read from their own site on 24 August 2026. Neither product’s price is listed here, because prices change and a stale one helps nobody. Check theirs on their site and ours on our pricing page.

Feature by feature

FeatureRentDocsDocuTenant
Tenancy agreement generated from your stored recordsRentDocs, Tenancy agreement generated from your stored records: yesDocuTenant, Tenancy agreement generated from your stored records: yes
Total document typesRentDocs states no total; its published catalogue runs to roughly 25 forms. DocuTenant generates 38 document types and tracks a further 9 certificates you obtain elsewhere, such as the EPC and the gas safety record.RentDocs, Total document types: partly, see the noteDocuTenant, Total document types: yes
Documents named by their prescribed formRentDocs has a Section 8 notice and rent-increase notices, but its pages do not name Form 3A or Form 4A. Serving a notice that is not in the prescribed form is the mistake that loses possession claims.RentDocs, Documents named by their prescribed form: noDocuTenant, Documents named by their prescribed form: yes
Scottish private residential tenancy agreementRentDocs says it generates one, but does not publish the document text, so it cannot be checked from outside.RentDocs, Scottish private residential tenancy agreement: partly, see the noteDocuTenant, Scottish private residential tenancy agreement: yes
Scottish Notice to LeaveWe could find no Scottish Notice to Leave in the RentDocs forms catalogue or sitemap.RentDocs, Scottish Notice to Leave: noDocuTenant, Scottish Notice to Leave: yes
Scottish rent-increase noticeLikewise absent from the RentDocs catalogue. Scotland uses the schedule 2 form under SSI 2017/297, not England’s Form 4A.RentDocs, Scottish rent-increase notice: noDocuTenant, Scottish rent-increase notice: yes
Wales and Northern IrelandRentDocs, Wales and Northern Ireland: yesDocuTenant, Wales and Northern Ireland: no
Free unlimited previews before you payRentDocs, Free unlimited previews before you pay: noDocuTenant, Free unlimited previews before you pay: yes
PDF and DOCX outputRentDocs does not state its output formats. DocuTenant produces both.RentDocs, PDF and DOCX output: partly, see the noteDocuTenant, PDF and DOCX output: yes
Rent and expense trackingRentDocs, Rent and expense tracking: yesDocuTenant, Rent and expense tracking: no
Automated rent reminders to tenantsRentDocs, Automated rent reminders to tenants: yesDocuTenant, Automated rent reminders to tenants: no
Certificate expiry alertsDocuTenant shows certificate status on a compliance dashboard but does not email you when one expires. Email reminders are planned, not built.RentDocs, Certificate expiry alerts: yesDocuTenant, Certificate expiry alerts: partly, see the note
E-signaturesRentDocs, E-signatures: yesDocuTenant, E-signatures: no
Your own logo on documentsNot stated on the RentDocs site either way.RentDocs, Your own logo on documents: partly, see the noteDocuTenant, Your own logo on documents: yes

Choose RentDocs if

  • You want one tool for the whole job — rent in, expenses out, certificates tracked and documents generated — rather than a document tool plus a bookkeeping tool.
  • You need e-signatures. We do not offer them, and chasing a wet signature is a real cost.
  • You want the software to email or text your tenant when rent is due.
  • You let in Wales or Northern Ireland. RentDocs covers all four nations; we cover England and Scotland only.
  • You have one property. Their per-property pricing is cheaper than a flat subscription at that size, and there is no sense paying us for capacity you will not use.

Choose DocuTenant if

  • You let in Scotland and need more than the agreement. We generate the Notice to Leave in the schedule 5 prescribed form and the rent-increase notice in schedule 2. We could not find either on their site.
  • You want the prescribed forms named and drafted as prescribed forms — Form 3A, Form 4A, and the Scottish schedules — rather than a notice that covers similar ground.
  • You want to see the document before you decide. Every template document previews free and unlimited, without an account.
  • You need the documents around the edges: guarantor agreements, pet consent, arrears letters, breach notices, checkout reports, deposit deduction schedules.
  • You have several properties. Our price does not change with portfolio size.

These are not really the same kind of product

It is worth being clear about the shape of the comparison, because a straight feature count would mislead you in both directions.

RentDocs is management software. Its centre of gravity is the dashboard: what is let, what rent has come in, which certificate expires next. Document generation sits inside that. If you are currently running a portfolio out of a spreadsheet and a folder of Word files, that whole-job framing is the thing you actually want, and no amount of document depth on our side substitutes for it.

DocuTenant is the document engine. We store the property and the tenancy because documents need the data, not because we are trying to become your books. We do not track rent, do not log expenses and do not intend to.

So the honest question is not which is better. It is whether your problem is running the portfolio or producing the paperwork.

Where the difference genuinely bites: Scotland

RentDocs says it covers all four nations and picks the right agreement style for the country you choose. Taking that at face value for the agreement, the gap opens immediately afterwards.

We could find no Scottish Notice to Leave and no Scottish rent-increase notice anywhere in their published catalogue. Those are not optional extras in Scotland — they are the two prescribed forms a Scottish landlord will eventually need, and both are mandatory as to form under the Private Residential Tenancies (Prescribed Notices and Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 2017.

That matters more than a missing template usually would. McAnally v Boyle [2025] UT 53 held that section 73 of the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 saves errors made inside the prescribed form, and cannot save a notice that was never in the prescribed style. Get it wrong and the Tribunal has no application it can hear.

Also worth noting: their catalogue does not name prescribed forms at all, in either jurisdiction. There is a Section 8 notice and there are rent-increase notices, but Form 3A and Form 4A are not named on those pages. That may be a labelling choice rather than a substantive gap. It is checkable in a minute on their site, and worth checking before you rely on it.

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