Stessa

RATING:

4.5

(92)

About Stessa

Stessa is the #1 real estate app for landlords, based on App Store downloads and ratings. We’ve been helping rental property owners and operators eliminate the busywork and maximize returns since 2016. Free yourself from the endless tyranny of manual tasks. Track income and expenses seamlessly, draft leases, screen tenants and collect rent online, simplify tax time, and use real-time dashboards to manage smarter and faster. Join 200,000+ landlords using Stessa today! Features of Stessa include financial management, receipt scanner, bookkeeping, tax preparation, balance sheets, personalized dashboard, real-time alerts and more. It offers a tenant ledger, which helps landlords set up lease dates, automatically add rent charges to the ledger, track transaction history and...

Awards and Recognition

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Stessa Pricing

Individual Investors: Free (no credit card required) Professional Investors: $1,000/month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

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Stessa Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Stessa

1 - 5 of 92 Reviews

Rick

2 - 10 employees

Used more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

Reviewed October 2021

Stessa is Quicken for Real Estate

User Profile

Rick

Verified reviewer

Construction, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2021

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.

PROS

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.

CONS

To be totally honest there is nothing I don't like. I will say I haven't tried their mobile app in over a year because it used to be pretty weak but I hear it's been updated and very nice now.

Ritchie

Real Estate, 1 employee

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2019

Love this site

PROS

This site has really helped me manage my rental properties much more easily and efficiently.... all of my accounting and info about interest rates/insurance/etc are all easily accessible in one spot. And their reports make it all easy to quickly review. Also great for doing my taxes.

CONS

Doesn't yet integrate with enough small banks, so I have to manually upload my transactions ever month via Excel.

Reasons for switching to Stessa

Stessa is way better for rental property management... exactly the sort of software I had been looking for

Marty

Real Estate, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed November 2022

Ok for main stream, struggles to adapt

It's ok. we wouldn't pay for it, not remotely. But it seems like they're trying to grow their business by solving the big problems only and ignoring the "small" ones. We will keep with them at least until the end of the year for ease of tax reporting, but will seriously look at other options as December rolls around.

PROS

Look, it's free, we get that. And it has added value to our business. But their inability to resolve a seemingly simple issue after 5 months is inexcusable.

CONS

For a software company, they are surprisingly not agile. Two examples:- For every nearly transaction that comes through, we have to attribute it to the property/tenant in spite of the amounts and ledgers being exactly the same every month. It appears the only AI they use is a checkbox that ties a bank account to a property. That's great for loans, but it should be able to handle rents too. - We can go on mint.com and enter all the log in credentials and that gives us every balance of every card. Stessa has continuously struggled with adding some credit cards attached to one of my banks. We have reached out to them for the better part of a year off and on and they seem perplexed and unable to wrap their heads around it. Now, after 5 months of us staying on them about it, they've ghosted us, or given us the "yeah we're working on it." If it's that hard to do, how can another company just do it with ease?

Reasons for switching to Stessa

Quickbooks wasn't great and was charging us without the customization we wanted. However, it's starting to look more attractive as Stessa struggles to solve basic problems.

Anonymous

1 employee

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2024

Excellent for tracking financials and leases across rental portfolio

Love it. It's central to the management and tracking of my real estate portfolio.

PROS

Well-designed, good UX, great reporting on property performance. Stessa is critical for tracking income and expenditures for tax time. Lease tracking and document aggregation across property managers is also done very well.

CONS

Some bank integrations are broken and Stessa does not seem inclined to fix them. I have to enter some transactions manually, which is annoying.