DocuTenant vs RentDocs

Published 24 August 2026

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

Feature	RentDocs	DocuTenant
Tenancy agreement generated from your stored records	Yes	Yes
Total document typesRentDocs states no total; its published catalogue runs to roughly 25 forms. DocuTenant generates 38 document types and records the dates of a further 9 certificates you obtain elsewhere, such as the EPC and the gas safety record.	Partly, see the note	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.	No	Yes
Scottish private residential tenancy agreementRentDocs says it generates one, but does not publish the document text, so it cannot be checked from outside.	Partly, see the note	Yes
Scottish Notice to LeaveWe could find no Scottish Notice to Leave in the RentDocs forms catalogue or sitemap.	No	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.	No	Yes
Wales and Northern Ireland	Yes	No
Free unlimited previews before you pay	No	Yes
PDF and DOCX outputRentDocs does not state its output formats. DocuTenant produces both.	Partly, see the note	Yes
Rent and expense tracking	Yes	No
Automated rent reminders to tenants	Yes	No
Certificate expiry alertsDocuTenant records certificate dates against each property so they sit beside that property’s documents. There is no expiry alerting and no portfolio-wide compliance view. RentDocs wins this outright.	Yes	No
E-signatures	Yes	No
Your own logo on documentsNot stated on the RentDocs site either way.	Partly, see the note	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 want rent tracking and document generation billed together on one per-property price, rather than paying us per document or on a flat monthly plan.

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 want to pay for one document rather than commit to anything. Ours are £9 each, one payment, and our Pro 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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Common questions

Is RentDocs a document service or landlord software?

Landlord software. Its own site describes it as UK landlord compliance software, and it does rent tracking, expense logging, certificate expiry alerts, tenant reminders and e-signatures alongside document generation. Comparing it to a template library undersells it.

Does RentDocs cover Scotland?

For the tenancy agreement it says yes, though it does not publish the document text so that cannot be verified from outside. For Scottish notices we could find nothing: no Notice to Leave and no Scottish rent-increase notice in its forms catalogue or sitemap, as at 24 August 2026.

Which is cheaper?

It depends on how many properties you have and how many documents you need, which is why no rival price is listed here. RentDocs charges per property. DocuTenant charges £9 for a single document, or £9.99 a month for everything. Check their current price and do the arithmetic for your own portfolio.

Can I use both?

Yes, and for some landlords that is the sensible answer — their software for the portfolio, our documents for the paperwork. Nothing about either product assumes it is the only one you use.

Sources

Every statute, form and scheme named above, linked to the primary source.

Private Residential Tenancies (Prescribed Notices and Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 2017 — legislation.gov.uk
Ending a private residential tenancy in Scotland — mygov.scot
Rent increases for Scottish private tenancies — mygov.scot
Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 — legislation.gov.uk
Assured tenancy forms, including Form 3A and Form 4A — GOV.UK

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