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For an office that runs maintenance with its own people. Beacon beside a spreadsheet and a shared inbox, and beside the tools priced by the door. Beacon does not collect rent. If that is what you need, a tool that does will serve you better. Checked on October 30, 2026 against each vendor’s pricing page.
Where most offices start
| Beacon | A spreadsheet and a shared inbox | |
|---|---|---|
| Who has this request | One assignee on one record | Whoever opened the email last |
| Is it late | A clock on every request, in business hours | Someone has to notice |
| What happened last time | Every request for a building, in one place | Search the inbox |
| Telling the person who asked | An email at each status change | Someone has to remember |
| What it costs | Free for up to 3 agents and 3 sites | Free |
The arithmetic
Beacon’s free plan stops at three agents and three sites, and each property is a site. On Pro sites are unlimited and every agent is billed, at $29 a month billed annually. The door-priced tools below bill the units you manage, whoever works them.
| A month | Beacon Pro, 4 agents | Property Meld | DoorLoop One |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listed price | $29 per agent | $2.00 a unit, $200 minimum | $2.50 a unit, $1.50 above 100 units, $199 minimum |
| 50 doors | $116 | $200 | $199 |
| 100 doors | $116 | $200 | $250 |
| 300 doors | $116 | $600 | $550 |
Those tools do more than requests. DoorLoop’s price includes accounting, leasing and payments. Property Meld says it works best with management companies overseeing 100 or more doors.
Fair is fair
Beacon does not collect rent or keep a ledger. Property management suites do both on one bill.
Beacon has no vendor portal. Requests reach your own technicians on one queue.
A door-priced tool speaks leases and owners from the first screen. Beacon is a help desk that keeps properties and units as sites and locations.
Plainly
One queue for an office that runs maintenance across many buildings with its own people, with the same bill whether it manages fifty doors or five hundred.
No rent collection. No leases. No owner statements. No vendor portal. A landlord with a few units who wants rent collected should pick a tool that collects it.
Decide for yourself
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