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Relyo vs Livinsoft

Livinsoft alternative for staff housing

Relyo is staff housing software for hotels and resorts: rooms, inspections, repairs, bills and costs. Livinsoft is built mainly for student dormitories, taking bookings and rent online, staff housing included.

Relyo

Relyo: staff housing software for hotels and resorts

Relyo puts HR, finance and accounting, operations and housing on one platform for hotels and resorts that house their staff. It runs room planning, grades (each person's room and allowance), repairs, bills and cost per occupant.

Livinsoft

Livinsoft: software for operators who rent beds

Livinsoft is property management software built mainly for student dormitories, also sold for co-living, budget hotels, residences, boarding schools and staff housing. It covers bookings, online rent, a branded resident app, roommate matching, maintenance and inspections.

Relyo vs Livinsoft for staff housing

FeatureRelyoLivinsoft
Built for
Built for it: Hotels and resorts that house their staff.
  • Room planning, grades, inspections and repairs
  • Utility bills and cost per occupant
  • Rooms assigned by your team, not sold
Built for it: Student dormitories first, with staff housing as one segment.
  • Student housing, co-living, residences and rentals
  • Budget hotels and boarding schools
  • Staff housing for ski resorts, theme parks, hotels and medical facilities
Room planning
Built for it: Smart Match, the room planner, proposes rooms by your rules.
  • Rules for grades, smoking, pets and bed capacity
  • Optional same-gender rooms and own-room entitlements
  • Every proposal explained before you accept
Partly, with workarounds: Automated roommate matching from resident preferences.
  • Customisable algorithm with a match rate
  • Also offered for staff allocation
  • Shift or grade rules not published
Grades and housing entitlements
Built for it: A grade sets the room, utility allowance and rent cover each person gets.
  • Room rules, including a room of their own
  • Enforcement off, warn or block, per department
  • Rule changes re-check existing stays
Partly, with workarounds: Staff grades and entitlements not described in its pages.
  • Manager approvals cover pricing and room changes
  • Role permissions for your own team
Move-in and move-out inspections
Built for it: Four checkpoints per stay, recorded on a phone.
  • Checks by your team and by the occupant, in and out
  • Room photos and meter readings with photos
  • Flags any stay without a move-in inspection after 7 days
Partly, with workarounds: Room inspections, scheduled and recorded.
  • Schedule, run and record inspections
  • Inspection history kept over time
  • Move-in and move-out checkpoints not described
Damage linked to the right stay
Built for it: Your team marks new damage, linked to its stay.
  • Never charged for damage that was already there
  • Move-in and move-out photos side by side
  • Repair costs attributed to the stay, for reporting only
Partly, with workarounds: Residents can be charged automatically for a damage penalty.
  • No move-in vs move-out comparison described
  • Damage linked to a specific stay not described
Utility bills and allowances
Built for it: Every bill is checked against the grade's allowance.
  • Scan a bill or enter it by hand
  • Cost shared by days stayed
  • Flags missing bills and unusually high ones
Partly, with workarounds: Automated billing to residents, no utility allowances described.
  • Bills generated by rules or schedules
  • No meter readings or allowances described
Cost per occupant, department and grade
Built for it: What each person's housing costs, by department and grade.
  • Rent for leased buildings, utilities including overage, damage and repairs
  • Plus capacity use and rent paid for empty beds
  • Period CSV and per-occupant PDF exports
Partly, with workarounds: Reports focus on occupancy, rental income and financial health.
  • Occupancy, income and turnover, with forecasts
  • No cost per person, department or grade described
Rent and contracts for the buildings you lease
Built for it: Rent, deposits and leases for the buildings you lease.
  • Rent tickets 15 days ahead, and overdue alerts
  • Contract scan reads leases in any language, for you to check
  • Alerts when a lease ends before your staff leave
Partly, with workarounds: Built to collect rent from residents.
  • Digital contracts and signatures via your provider
  • Lease tracking listed on Capterra
  • No portal found for landlords leasing to you
Repairs and maintenance
Built for it: Your staff report repairs from their phone and add photos.
  • Routing rules send tickets to the right maintainer
  • When your team writes a ticket, AI suggests severity and duplicates
  • Maintainer day plan with time estimates
Built for it: Maintenance requests routed to the right staff.
  • Residents report with photos and see live status
  • Full history per fixture, with serial numbers
Portals for occupants, maintainers and landlords
Built for it: Each group gets its own portal, in any phone browser.
  • Occupants: room, entitlement, bill share and repairs
  • Maintainers: their own jobs and day plan
  • Landlords of buildings you lease: who stays, tickets and rent
Partly, with workarounds: A resident portal and app, no landlord portal found.
  • Residents pay, report repairs and book appointments
  • White-label portal with iOS and Android apps
  • No portal found for landlords
Operational Signals and a daily email
Built for it: One ranked list of what needs attention, from 31 checks.
  • Rule-based checks on people, housing, money, maintenance and compliance
  • One email each morning, only when something is new or critical
  • Up to 3 AI recommendations a night, in Relyo recommends
Partly, with workarounds: Resident reminders, workflows and a manager dashboard.
  • Reminders by email, SMS or push, plus WhatsApp workflows
  • Dashboard flags low occupancy and overdue payments
  • No housing-specific checks described
Built for it Partly, with workarounds Not designed for it

Choose Livinsoft if…

  • You rent beds as a business: student housing, co-living, residences, boarding schools
  • Your residents book, sign a digital contract and pay rent online
  • You want a resident portal and iOS and Android app under your brand
  • You need payment, accounting, e-signature or messaging integrations, or an API
  • You sell beds through your website and a channel manager
  • You want a product already live with student housing and co-living operators
  • Your staff housing should run on bookings, online payments and a branded app

Choose Relyo if…

  • You are a hotel, resort or hotel group that houses its staff
  • You want rooms proposed within hard rules such as grade, then fitted by department and shift
  • You want grades and allowances applied the same way for everyone
  • You want utility overuse caught the month it happens
  • You need cost per occupant, department and grade
  • You want new damage linked to its stay, and nobody charged for damage already there

What Relyo does for staff housing

Grade rules first, then the best fit

Livinsoft matches residents by preference and profile. Smart Match uses what an employer knows: grade rules, then department, shifts, dates, languages and who has a car.

  • 6 hard rules, including grade room rules
  • 9 fit factors, such as night-shift quiet and commute
  • "Keep the kitchen team together" never breaks a hard rule
  • Every result explained, accepted in one click

Catch utility overuse the month it happens

Each grade can carry a utility allowance. Relyo checks every bill against it, shares the cost by days stayed and shows each person their share.

  • Bill scan reads 13 fields, from any provider or country
  • Cost shared by days stayed, under each grade's policy
  • Flags missing bills and bills at least twice the recent average
  • Flags a property with 3 or more over-allowance bills in a period

Grades apply the same rules to everyone

Livinsoft prices beds for the people who book them. In Relyo, each person's grade sets their room, their utility allowance and how much of the rent is covered.

  • Room rules, including a room of their own
  • Enforced as off, warn or block, per department
  • Rule changes re-check existing stays
  • Cost per occupant by grade and department

Frequently asked questions

Is Livinsoft a good choice for staff housing?

It can be. Livinsoft markets staff housing to ski resorts, theme parks, medical facilities and hotels, with a branded app, online payments, roommate matching, maintenance and inspections. If you need grade rules, utility allowances and cost per person, department and grade, which its public pages do not describe, Relyo is built for that.

What is the main difference between Relyo and Livinsoft?

Livinsoft is built mainly for student dormitories and for renting beds: bookings, seasonal pricing, online payments, a channel manager and financial reports. Relyo is staff housing software for hotels and resorts. It plans rooms with Smart Match, applies grades, checks bills against allowances and shows cost per occupant, department and grade.

Which is better for a hotel or resort that houses its staff?

Relyo is built for that case: grades, utility allowances, leased buildings, inspections and cost per occupant, with HR, finance, operations and housing on one record. Livinsoft fits better if you rent beds as a business and want bookings, online payments and a branded resident app.

How does room planning in Relyo compare with Livinsoft?

Livinsoft matches roommates from resident preferences and profiles, shows a match rate and says it works for staff allocation too. Relyo's Smart Match applies 6 hard rules, such as bed capacity, smoking and grade room rules, and scores 9 fit factors like shift clashes, night-shift quiet, commute and shared language. Preferences in plain words never override the hard rules.

Does Relyo collect rent or process payments like Livinsoft?

No. Relyo tracks rent due, paid and overdue, opens a rent ticket 15 days before each due date and records deposits, and money moves outside it. Livinsoft takes rent and deposits online through the operator's own payment provider.

Does Relyo have a mobile app like Livinsoft?

Relyo works in the browser on any phone, with nothing to install, but has no native iOS or Android app. It has four portals: operator, occupant, maintainer and landlord. Livinsoft offers a resident portal and a mobile app that can carry the operator's brand.

Can Relyo track utility overage per person?

Yes: each grade can have a utility allowance, every bill is checked against it, and overage is flagged the month it happens. The cost is shared by days stayed, and each grade's policy decides whether the organisation, the person or both pay. Livinsoft's public pages describe automated billing to residents, not utility allowances.

Does Relyo integrate with Livinsoft, and can we move over?

There is no integration or API, but you can move over by file. Export your staff list to CSV or Excel and import it, up to 500 rows per file, or let Relyo AI map the columns and import after your approval. The Relyo team sets up your buildings with you.

How does pricing compare between Livinsoft and Relyo?

Relyo has no public pricing. Selected partners get a free pilot that starts with one building, set up with the founders, and pricing is agreed after the pilot. For Livinsoft pricing, ask Livinsoft directly.

See your staff housing run in Relyo

Walk through Smart Match and grades with the founders, and ask about the free pilot for selected partners.

Free pilot for selected partners: start with one building, set up with the founders.