Stessa
Free rental property financial software for landlords to track income, expenses, and portfolio performance with automated reporting and banking.
About Stessa
Stessa is a financial management platform for residential real estate investors and landlords. It automates income and expense tracking via live bank feeds, provides real-time portfolio dashboards and CPA-ready tax reports, and offers online rent collection, tenant screening, lease eSigning, and maintenance tracking. Stessa also features integrated high-yield FDIC-insured banking and a property marketplace powered by parent company Roofstock. The platform supports both long-term residential rentals and short-term vacation rentals, with dedicated Airbnb data import and STR-specific reporting. Over 350,000 landlords track 800,000+ units representing $100B+ in asset value.
What sets this company apart
Free-to-use platform covering the full rental investment lifecycle — from acquisition (via Roofstock marketplace) to management (bookkeeping, rent collection, tenant screening) to exit — with integrated FDIC-insured high-yield banking. Unlike generic accounting tools, it uses single-entry bookkeeping purpose-built for rental properties, and its free tier supports unlimited properties with no time limit.
Markets & Coverage
Operating across 3 countries
Markets & Coverage
(3)Supported Languages
Property Types
- HousePrimary
- Apartment
- Villa
- Condo
- Cabin
- Cottage
Service Characteristics
Main Features
- Mobile app / mobile-friendly
- Custom reporting & dashboards
- Free trial / freemium tier
- Help documentation & knowledge base
- Automated notifications & alerts
Integrations & Partnerships
1 integrations and partnerships across 1 categories
OTA & Listing Sites
1
Pricing Plans
Pricing information based on publicly available data. Contact vendor for exact quotes.
Pro
- Everything in Manage
- Unlimited portfolios
- All advanced reports
- Budgeting & pro-forma analysis
- Unlimited receipt scanning
- 7 eSignatures/month
- Up to 3.24% APY on cash balances
- Priority tenant screening
- Priority phone support
Essentials
- Unlimited properties
- Automatic bank feeds
- Basic financial reports
- Vacancy marketing
- Tenant screening
- Online rent collection
- Up to 1.88% APY on cash balances
Manage
- Everything in Essentials
- Maintenance requests & tracking
- 1 eSignature/month
- Schedule E report
- 60+ legal forms & templates
- Accelerated rent payments
- Priority chat support
Reviews
16 reviews from verified users
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Would recommend
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Rick K.
Stessa is Quicken for Real Estate
I absolutely adore Stessa and tell everyone about it. I'm probably their biggest fan though I'm a small time investor. It is literally the single best accounting app I've ever used and better then working with a CPA or accountant. It's made my life significantly more simple around tax time and for that I am eternally grateful. The auto import from my connected accounts including bank and credit card accounts. It also is the biggest help with my taxes that I could ever dream of. Every year I just print out the tax report for each property and my tax guy barely has to ask me any questions.
View originalBetty C.
Stessa - the answer to tracking rents and expenses
I love that you can connect your bank account and credit card(s) to Stessa which makes accounting so much easier when you manage multiple properties. Ease of use, practicality, and price for the product.
View originalAlex L.
Stessa is improving!
Overall I really like Stessa. I utilize it for my accounting and my CPA loves the spreadsheet style reports that I generate for him at year end. I love that you can connect your bank account and credit card(s) to Stessa which makes accounting so much easier when you manage multiple properties.
View originalAustin R.
Great real estate expense management on a budget
Easy to set up, easy to use. Went from using spreadsheets to using Stessa and made a huge difference in productivity and accuracy. Loving it! I just wish there was a way to add/modify categories.
View originalShawn______
Very useful app for new landlords
I've found Stessa to be simple to use, and although I haven't used it long enough to submit the collected information on a tax return, I think it will be very helpful in storing and retrieving the information I've entered. I have a couple of suggestions that might improve the app though. I am currently using a great app called Stride to track my miles during trips, but I then have to manually enter all the information into Stessa. If I could just tap a button and have Stessa track my miles driven like Stride, this would be helpful.
View originalWalter R.
Stessa is very good software, especially for a free product.
After using the software for a year, I was informed that they could not pay the high interest rates on properties owned by a trust. I would use it again if they paid the high interest on properties owned by a trust. It's well designed, I never had any problems, it was easy to transfer the balance to my bank account.
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- Stessa is a financial management platform for residential real estate investors and landlords. It automates income and expense tracking via live bank feeds, provides real-time portfolio dashboards and CPA-ready tax reports, and offers online rent collection, tenant screening, lease eSigning, and maintenance tracking. Stessa also features integrated high-yield FDIC-insured banking and a property marketplace powered by parent company Roofstock. The platform supports both long-term residential rentals and short-term vacation rentals, with dedicated Airbnb data import and STR-specific reporting. Over 350,000 landlords track 800,000+ units representing $100B+ in asset value.
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