After 12 paid months: StayTally $39.99; QuickBooks Simple Start $399.00; Stessa Manage and Landlord Studio Pro $180.00 each.
Prefer annual billing?
Stessa Manage and Landlord Studio Pro also advertise $12/month billed annually: $144 per year, with Pro shown for three units. That is $104.01 more than one StayTally purchase for the first year. Those annual plans are separate from the monthly examples above.
Free plans exist, too.
QuickBooks Free, Stessa Essentials, Landlord Studio Go (up to three units), and Baselane Core have no subscription fee, with different features and limits. StayTally does not cost less than a free plan; this comparison is with the selected paid plans.
Compare the workflow as well as the price
These products overlap in income, expense tracking, and reporting. Their services differ, so the price table is not a claim that every feature is equivalent.
- StayTally: STR records, shared rental costs, reimbursements, annual-document review, and accountant exports, with local records and no account requirement.
- QuickBooks Simple Start: general business bookkeeping, bank connections, invoicing, and accountant access.
- Stessa Manage: rental bookkeeping, bank feeds, rent collection, and a Schedule E report; its published limit is five receipt scans per month.
- Landlord Studio Pro: rental accounting, bank feeds, rent reminders, and tax reports; pricing varies with unit count.
StayTally does not provide bank feeds, payment collection, payroll, or a booking channel manager. Choose it when its rental-record workflows fit your needs. Keep any other service you still need; savings only arise from a subscription you actually avoid.