Porchyard vs Baselane
Baselane is landlord banking and bookkeeping. Porchyard is the operational side of the same portfolio: leases, owner agreements, and owner billing.
Baselane starts from the bank account. It gives you landlord banking, automatic transaction feeds, and bookkeeping built around them. If your problem is that your rental income and your personal money are in the same place, that is a real problem and Baselane solves it directly.
Porchyard assumes the money is already sorted and starts from the month ahead. Which invoices go out. Which lease is up for renewal. Where the signed agreement is. What each owner is owed after your fee. It reads your transactions from CSV rather than a bank feed, lets you categorize them per property, and carries them through to the paperwork.
| Feature | Porchyard | Baselane |
|---|---|---|
| Bank Sync | No | Yes |
| Transaction Categorization | Yes | Yes |
| Schedule E Reports | No | Yes |
| Tenant Portal | No | Yes |
| Management Invoicing | Yes | No |
| Landlord Banking | No | Yes |
Owner invoices drafted every billing period, itemized and emailed as a PDF, with your management fee applied and every status tracked from draft to paid.
Record each lease against its unit with rent, term and renewal dates in view, so the renewal that matters next is never the one you forgot.
Attach owners to their properties, calculate your management fee from each billing period's income, and send each owner an itemized invoice.
Porchyard is not a bank and does not connect to one. There are no accounts, no cards, and no automatic transaction feed: you export a CSV from your own bank and import it. It also does not generate finished tax forms. If banking and automatic bookkeeping are the point, Baselane does something Porchyard has no answer to at all.
If you want your rental banking separated from your personal money, and you want transactions to arrive without you exporting anything, Baselane is the better fit and Porchyard does not compete with it. The two are not really alternatives: a landlord could reasonably bank with Baselane and manage with Porchyard. Choose Porchyard when the work is invoicing, leases and owner reporting rather than the account the money sits in.
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