Free for unlimited units

One tool to run your whole rental business

Listings, leases, e-signatures, messaging, maintenance, contractors, and rent payments. One clean place where landlords and tenants stay in sync. Easy to use, free at the floor, no credit card required.

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Units

12

Rent collected

$14,200

Pending

2

Open requests

3

Maintenance

Unit 4B, Heating issueUrgent
Unit 2A, Leaky faucetOpen
Unit 7C, Door hingeDone

Recent messages

JM

Jamie M., Unit 4B, 2h ago

The heat hasn't been working since yesterday.

SR

Sarah R., Unit 2A, 1d ago

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

TP

Tom P., Unit 7C, 3d ago

Rent paid for November.

Free for unlimited unitsStripe and Interac paymentsPWA, installs on any phoneBuilt and hosted in Canada
Payments

We don't markup Stripe.

Tenants pay what Stripe actually charges, plus a flat $0.50 platform fee. No hidden percentage spread. The lowest credit card rent fee in Canadian property management software.

Live today

Credit card rent (pass-through)

Tenants pay rent plus Stripe's actual 2.9% + $0.30 plus a flat $0.50 from Keylane. You receive the full rent in your own Stripe-connected bank account. On Starter you can absorb the fees instead so your tenants see $0 surcharge.

  • Stripe Connect, funds settle to your own bank
  • Tenant pays Stripe 2.9% + $0.30, plus a flat $0.50 from Keylane
  • Toggle on Starter: you absorb the fees, tenant pays $0 extra
Live today

Interac auto-reconciliation

Forward your bank's Interac notification emails to Keylane once. Every future e-Transfer auto-matches to the right rent payment by reference code and amount. Anything we cannot match lands in an unmatched queue you clear with one click.

  • Per-unit reference code shared with the tenant
  • Works with RBC, TD, BMO, Scotia, CIBC, more
  • No bank login or open banking required
Live today

Manual payment recording

Cash, cheque, EFT, or any other method. Click Mark as paid on a rent row, pick the method, drop a reference number. Status flips immediately and the tenant sees it in their portal.

  • Five built-in methods plus Other with notes
  • Tenant ledger and your ledger stay in sync
  • Audit trail with who marked paid and when

79%

of Canadian tenants prefer to pay rent online when given the option

2x

more likely to pay on time when an online option is available

$0.50

flat platform fee per CC transaction, no percentage markup on top of Stripe

What is shipped

Built by landlords, for landlords

Keylane automates everything you do every week for each property.

Get paid, every time

Three rails, one ledger. The whole rent collection workflow runs in Keylane.

  • Credit card rent via Stripe at pass-through (Stripe 2.9% + $0.30 plus a flat $0.50 from Keylane)
  • Interac e-Transfer auto-reconciliation by reference code and amount
  • Manual recording for cash, cheque, and EFT with audit trail
  • One-click lease auto-renew with the tenant signing on their phone
  • Auto-generated monthly rent ledger plus nightly overdue marking
  • Stripe Connect: rent lands in your bank, Keylane never holds funds

Run the property

Move-in to move-out, repairs to renewals, with every photo and signature in one place.

  • Maintenance requests with multi-photo upload and per-request chat
  • Hire vetted Canadian trades with a PDF purchase order from any request
  • Recurring contractor visits: schedule once, Keylane materializes the calendar
  • Move-in and move-out inspections with side-by-side photo comparison
  • Forensic proof-of-condition record per unit, tenant-visible, tenant-immutable
  • 7-day weather forecast on every property detail page

Stay in sync with tenants

Communication, documents, listings, and lease workflow that tenants actually open on their phones.

  • Titled inbox plus realtime per-unit chat with read receipts
  • Documents split by scope with an explicit share-with-tenant toggle
  • In-app e-signature: draw or type, with a PDF certificate appended
  • 8 document templates filtered by your property province
  • Public per-unit listing with share link and QR code
  • PWA installs on iOS and Android home screens in one tap

Ask Keylane

Starter + Pro

A floating sparkle button on every page opens a chat that knows your role, the page you are on, and what your account can do. Ask anything: how a feature works, where to find a setting, what to do next.

How we compare

What Keylane does that the alternatives do not

We do our homework on the rest of the market every few weeks. Here is the surface-by-surface honest comparison.

FeatureKeylaneBuildiumProperty CopilotMi Property PortalInnago
Free tier with unlimited unitsUp to 25 units
Built for Canadian complianceUS-firstBC onlyON focused
Credit card rent (Stripe)
Interac auto-reconciliationManual onlyManual only
In-app e-signature with PDF certificateBC leases only
One-click lease auto-renew
Move-in / move-out inspections with photos
Contractor / trades portalLimited
Modern phone-first UIDatedDated
In-app AI helper
Bilingual French (Quebec)This quarter
Starting priceFree / $19 / $49US$58 to $375 / moFree / paid tiersFree <25 / paidFree

Comparison reflects publicly listed features as of May 2026. We refresh this view every few weeks.

How it works

From zero to your first paid rent in a week

1

Sign up and add a unit

Create your free landlord account, add a property, add a unit. Five minutes, no credit card. You can run unlimited units on the free tier forever.

2

Invite the tenant

Drop the tenant's email into the invite form. They get a link, set a password, sign the lease in the app. Their portal opens to a clean home screen with their next rent payment and your messages.

3

Run the business

Rent flows in by card or Interac, maintenance gets tracked with photos, contractors get hired with a PDF purchase order, leases auto-renew on schedule. You stay in one tab.

Roadmap

Shipping this quarter

Everything below is in active development. We are honest about timelines and update this list every session.

SMS outbound (voip.ms)

Weeks

Rent reminders, maintenance updates, and lease renewal nudges sent by SMS, with CASL-compliant STOP handling. Per-org from-number on a voip.ms DID; tenant opt-in stored.

Tenant screening (SingleKey)

Weeks

Equifax-backed credit and identity report inside the invite flow with PIPEDA-compliant consent capture. Partner pricing on Starter and Pro.

Rent reporting to Equifax (FrontLobby)

Weeks

Per-tenant opt-in. Every on-time rent payment helps them build credit history. Free to enable; partner negotiation in progress.

Bilingual French (Quebec)

This quarter

Full French translation plus Quebec TAL forms. The durable moat: no other Canadian small-landlord platform ships bilingual.

Pricing

Free at the floor. Pay only when you outgrow it.

Unlimited units at every tier. CC processing is pass-through (we don't markup Stripe). Starter pays for itself in one absorbed card fee or one discounted tenant screening; Pro is for multi-portfolio operators who want their books, branding, and APIs in one place.

Free

$0

Unlimited units, forever

  • Every feature above, fully usable
  • CC rent: tenant pays Stripe 2.9% + $0.30 plus a flat $0.50 (pass-through)
  • Interac auto-reconciliation included
  • Lease auto-renew, e-signature, inspections
  • Ontario LTB notices (N1, N4, N12, N13)
  • Pros directory and direct hiring
Start free

Starter

$19CAD

per month

  • Everything in Free
  • Absorb card fees: tenants pay $0 surcharge
  • Contractor marketplace: vetted trades, purchase orders, commission ledger
  • In-app AI helper
  • Full Ontario LTB library + BC RTB + Quebec TAL bilingual
  • Portfolio analytics: vacancy, collection, days-to-fill, revenue trend
  • SMS reminders, late-fee automation, screening at partner pricing
  • 3 team-member seats and priority email support
Start Starter

Pro

$49CAD

per month

  • Everything in Starter
  • Custom Keylane platform service fee: $0 to $10 per transaction
  • Bulk operations (mark paid, send notices, upload portfolios)
  • QuickBooks + Xero connectors
  • REST API and webhooks
  • White-label tenant portal with custom brand and domain
  • Unlimited team-member seats and priority phone support
Start Pro
Free, unlimited units, no credit card

Stop running your rentals out of email and SMS

Everything in one place. Connect with your tenants, get paid on time, hire contractors, renew leases. Easy enough to set up in five minutes.