Housing.Cloud vs Platuni Maintenance

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.

Platuni Maintenance helps landlords and property managers receive maintenance requests, assign work, coordinate vendors and track progress tied to properties and units. Tenants, owners and staff can submit requests at any time with details and photos. Each request links automatically to its property and unit, while updates and communication stay in one connected thread. Teams can assign a vendor or internal team, follow work, close orders and retain activity logs for resolved requests. The workspace provides visibility into requests, vendors, SLAs and property performance. Residents can use a mobile and web app to request maintenance and access lease details. Starter includes basic work orders; Growth adds internal tickets, assignments and SLA tracking; Enterprise includes prioritized maintenance rules and technician dispatch workflows. Starter is free for up to one unit and includes email support. Growth costs $1.39 a month with a 10-unit minimum and includes API access and webhooks. Enterprise pricing is custom. Platuni says it uses encryption at rest and in transit, firewalls, access controls, regular audits and penetration testing, and role-based data access.