LeaseDock vs RentBetter
RentBetter helps you find a tenant and collects the rent for you. LeaseDock does neither: it runs the tenancy once someone has moved in, with your state’s own forms and dates, room by room where you let rooms, and the rent paid straight into your account.
Checked 24 October 2026, from RentBetter’s own website.
Choose RentBetter if
- You need to find a tenant: it advertises on Domain, realestate.com.au and Rent.com.au and runs tenant checks.
- You want rent collected online, by credit card or bank account.
- You’d like a professional to do the condition report or a routine inspection for you.
Choose LeaseDock if
- You let rooms, in a share house, rooming house or co-living building, each as its own tenancy.
- You want your state’s own agreement filled in, including rooming house and boarding house agreements.
- You want compliance dates worked out for each property, with the rule behind each one.
- You want rent paid straight into your own account, with nothing in between.
What each one does, side by side.
RentBetter’s side is from its own website. Where its site doesn’t say, the table says so.
| Question | LeaseDock | RentBetter |
|---|---|---|
| Who it’s for | Self-managing landlords, and rooming house, co-living and student housing operators, in Australia. | Landlords who want to find a tenant and then self-manage their property. |
| Finding a tenant | No. LeaseDock doesn’t advertise vacancies or screen applicants. | Advertises on Domain, realestate.com.au and Rent.com.au, takes enquiries and applications, and runs tenant checks through the National Tenancy Database ($18 a report). |
| Room-by-room tenancies | Yes. Each room is its own tenancy, with its own agreement, rent, bond and renter. Empty rooms don’t count on your plan. | Not mentioned on its website. |
| State agreement forms | Filled in and signed online on the state’s own form: Victoria’s Form 1, the NSW standard form, Queensland’s Form 18a, WA’s Form 1AA, South Australia’s CBS agreement, the Northern Territory’s Schedule 2 and the ACT’s standard terms. For rooms: the NSW boarding house occupancy agreement, Victoria’s fixed-term rooming house agreement (Form 7), Queensland’s rooming accommodation agreement (Form R18) and South Australia’s rooming house agreement. In Tasmania, record the agreement you signed. | Create, send and digitally sign your lease. Its lease page doesn’t name the states or forms. |
| Compliance dates | Bond, safety check, lease and inspection dates for each property, worked out from its state’s rules and the rooming house rules where they apply, each linked to the rule it came from. Where a rule hasn’t been checked, a reminder instead of an invented date. | Automatic reminders and prompts. |
| Renter portal | Free for every renter, on any phone with nothing to install: rent details, repairs with photos, messages, and agreements and condition reports to sign. | Tenants are invited to RentBetter, with instant messaging between you and your tenant. |
| Repairs | Reported in the renter’s portal with a photo. An urgent one is emailed to you within five minutes, and where Victoria, New South Wales or Queensland set a deadline, the repair shows it. | Upload or receive maintenance requests, then hire a tradesperson to do the job. |
| Inspections and condition reports | Entry, routine and exit condition reports on your phone, room by room with photos, signed by the renter in their portal. Routine inspections every six months by default, with an entry notice you check, then send. The exit report is compared with the entry. | Digital condition reports and routine inspections you complete and sign, or an in-person professional for $175. |
| Rent | Records rent and never collects it: renters pay into your own bank account. Upload your bank’s CSV export and each payment is matched to its rent for you to confirm, or connect Xero and a deposit reconciled there marks the rent paid. Reminders on your state’s timeline. No live bank feed. | Collects rent online: tenants pay by credit card or bank account, with automatic reminders and receipts. Collects the bond from your tenant too. |
| Price | $29 a month for up to 4 tenancies, $49 for up to 15, $99 for up to 40, and Enterprise from 41, priced to fit. Every feature on every plan, unlimited staff. 30 days free, no card. Prices in Australian dollars. The price you see is the price you pay. | Manage & Maintain is $36 a month. Finding a tenant is $199 one-off, or $95 one-off plus $29 a month with management (the first three months billed up front, $182). |
Checked 24 October 2026 from rentbetter.com.au, rentbetter.com.au/pricing, rentbetter.com.au/features, rentbetter.com.au/features/rental-payments and rentbetter.com.au/features/lease-agreement. Prices are as RentBetter shows them. Something out of date? Email hugo@leasedock.com and we’ll correct it.
Five things people ask.
The questions that come up when choosing between LeaseDock and RentBetter, answered straight.
Can LeaseDock find me a tenant?
No. LeaseDock doesn’t advertise vacancies or screen applicants. RentBetter advertises on Domain, realestate.com.au and Rent.com.au, takes enquiries and applications, and runs tenant checks. If you need a tenant, that is what RentBetter is for.
Does LeaseDock collect rent like RentBetter?
No. RentBetter collects rent online, by credit card or bank account. With LeaseDock, renters pay straight into your own bank account and LeaseDock records it: upload your bank’s CSV export and each payment is matched to its rent for you to confirm. LeaseDock never holds money.
Which is better for a share house or rooming house?
LeaseDock is built for rooms: each room is its own tenancy, with its own agreement, rent and bond, and empty rooms don’t count on your plan. It fills in Victoria’s fixed-term rooming house agreement, Queensland’s rooming accommodation agreement, South Australia’s rooming house agreement and the NSW boarding house occupancy agreement. RentBetter’s website doesn’t mention rooms or share houses.
How do the prices compare?
RentBetter’s Manage & Maintain plan is $36 a month. Finding a tenant is $199 one-off, or $95 one-off plus $29 a month with management.
LeaseDock is $29 a month for up to 4 tenancies, $49 for up to 15 and $99 for up to 40, with Enterprise from 41 tenancies priced to fit. Empty rooms don’t count. LeaseDock has no fee for finding a tenant because it doesn’t find one.
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