Bidrento Student Housing vs Housing.Cloud

Bidrento Student Housing helps purpose-built student accommodation operators manage rooms, beds, applications, billing, maintenance, and resident communication from one dashboard. Teams can make room offers, manage waiting lists and group applications, and let students review and accept offers digitally. Occupancy and operations can be tracked at room or individual-bed level, including shared units. Billing supports recurring rent and extra charges, automatic invoice generation, and payment-status tracking. Students can use the tenant app to pay, message staff, access documents, and submit service requests. Onsite teams can assign maintenance work, follow requests, and keep residents updated through resolution. Listed integrations include Microsoft Dynamics 365, Xero, SAP, Stripe, Montonio, Google Calendar, Dokobit, and smart-lock systems. Bidrento offers an open API and says it connects with more than 3,200 banks across Europe. Standard costs €56 a month for 15 units; Professional costs €195 a month for 60 units. Enterprise starts at 100 units and requires a quote. Listed plans include customer support, and onboarding assistance is also described.

Housing.Cloud is a cloud-based student housing platform for colleges, universities, and their housing teams. It handles applications, room assignments, room selection, billing, communications, reporting, check-in, and resident self-service. Students can use the portal on desktop, tablet, or smartphone without installing an app. Roommate Finder uses habits, requirements, preferences, and profile filters, while visual floor plans show real-time room availability. Resident requests become trackable tasks assigned to staff and linked to student profiles; residents can follow status in the portal. The platform connects with Ellucian Banner, Ellucian Colleague, PeopleSoft, and Workday, plus access-control, facilities, and payment systems. SIS data can move by SFTP, direct database connection, or API, with SAML and OAuth authentication. A no-code report builder creates, shares, and schedules reports. Housing.Cloud says it is SOC 2 compliant, encrypts data in transit and at rest, stores student data in US data centers, and runs on AWS with up to 14 days of point-in-time recovery. Pricing is available on request.