Work with LetBuddy
Most landlord software charges per user, which means the moment a landlord wants their accountant or their agent to see anything, somebody gets an invoice. LetBuddy bills per property. Adding you costs your client nothing, and it costs you nothing — which removes the only real reason not to be in there.
The same thing is true from the other direction. Because nothing is priced per seat or gated by portfolio size, an agent managing several hundred properties runs them on one LetBuddy account, with the people who do the work scoped to the properties they handle and the landlords they act for given read-only access to their own.
Accountants and bookkeepers
Your client's records arrive complete, categorised, and already digital.
- · Your client adds you to their account as a team member. It costs them nothing extra and it costs you nothing — LetBuddy charges per property, never per seat.
- · Per-property access control, so acting for one landlord in a family doesn't hand you the others' data.
- · Income and expenses categorised against HMRC's own property categories as they happen, not reconstructed each January.
- · Making Tax Digital record-keeping built in, with quarterly totals calculated from the underlying records rather than re-keyed.
- · Export to spreadsheet at any point, because your workflow is yours and we are not trying to replace it.
Letting and managing agents
Use it on the properties you manage, refer it on the ones you don't, or both.
- · Run a managed portfolio on it — several hundred properties on one account, with every feature on from day one. There is no larger edition, no per-seat licence, and no minimum term.
- · Priced per property with the rate falling as the portfolio grows and then stopping altogether, so a large managed book is a fixed monthly figure rather than a negotiation.
- · Unlimited users at no cost, each scoped to named properties with edit or read-only rights, and properties grouped into portfolios — so a property manager sees their own patch and the landlord you act for can be given a read-only view of theirs.
- · Certificate tracking per property — gas, electrical, energy, licensing and alarms, each with its statutory renewal limit and a chase that carries on past the expiry date — plus the deposit scheme and possession route that apply where each property sits, rather than England's rules with a label changed.
- · Case records and Section 8 notices built to the post-Renters'-Rights-Act rules, so neither you nor a landlord you refer is relying on a 2024 template.
- · What it does not do is client money: LetBuddy records rent due, paid and in arrears, but does not hold client funds, run a client account, or produce the commission and landlord-statement accounting your own books need. Keep that where it is.
- · No portal syndication either — adverts are shared as a link, not listed on Rightmove or Zoopla, so your portal relationships are untouched.
- · No white-label pretence. LetBuddy is LetBuddy in front of your client, which means we can't quietly become a competitor for the managed business you already have.
- · And if you send landlords our way, the managed book above runs free — the terms are at the bottom of this page, in full, including what ends it.
Landlord associations and local groups
A member benefit that isn't another discount code nobody uses.
- · Every landlord gets their first property free permanently — the whole product on that property, no card, no countdown. Members with larger portfolios pay per property beyond the first, and billing starts when that property is added. The free property is the trial, and it doesn't expire.
- · We'll write genuinely useful material for your members on compliance, possession and MTD. Attribution is yours to decide — we won't make a mention of LetBuddy the condition of publishing it.
- · Open to talking about member rates, joint webinars, or a proper recognised-supplier arrangement.
On referral arrangements
If you send landlords our way, your own managed portfolio runs on LetBuddy free. Every feature, unlimited users, however many properties you manage — the account an agency would otherwise be paying for, at no cost, from the day you start rather than once a run of referrals has added up to something.
That is instead of commission, not alongside it, and the reason is arithmetic we would rather show you than hide. The landlords an agent refers are usually self-managing with a property or two, our charging stops entirely once a portfolio is large enough, and a share of a bill that small comes to a couple of pounds a month. You would need twenty-five referrals to earn what a managed book costs here in a year. So we hand over the book instead.
We would rather publish how that ends than leave it vague. It runs in twelve-month terms, and renews whenever three landlords who came through you still have live accounts at the anniversary — a low bar on purpose, because it is there to tell a working arrangement from a single introduction a long time ago, not to set you a target. If it doesn't renew, you get thirty days' notice and the account moves onto ordinary pricing. Nothing is deleted, nothing is charged retrospectively for the period it was free, and either of us can stop at any point.
For accountants and associations there is no published scheme, and we would rather say so than invent a percentage on a web page. We aren't locked into one model, so an arrangement can be whatever genuinely works for both sides — a rate for your clients, a straightforward recommendation with nothing attached, something we haven't thought of. Tell us what would actually be useful and we'll have a real conversation about it.
What we won't do is pay for a recommendation you don't believe in. A landlord who was pushed toward the wrong tool by their accountant blames the accountant, and rightly.
Start a conversation
Email hello@letbuddy.co.uk or use the contact form. It goes straight to the people who build LetBuddy and can agree terms, so you get an answer to the actual question rather than a callback from a queue.