Skip to content
Direct PMS
Start free
DIRECT PMS VS YARDI

Switching from Yardi to Direct PMS

Yardi is commercial and institutional property management software. Direct PMS covers the same ground, plus the business lines Yardi-class tools were never built for — leasing, sales, caretaking and fit-outs on the same registry, ledger and calendar.

Yardi is an independent product and this page isn't affiliated with or reviewed by them. Comparisons below describe how Direct PMS is built, not an audited feature-by-feature breakdown of Yardi's current product — features and pricing change, so verify specifics on Yardi's own site before deciding.

How Yardi prices

Yardi publishes no pricing anywhere on its site — every visitor is routed straight to a sales conversation, consistent with its enterprise/institutional focus.

Checked 8 August 2026 — Yardi →

At a glance

Direct PMS compared with Yardi, as of 8 August 2026
Direct PMSYardi
Weeks, not a multi-quarter rolloutPriced and onboarded per unit — go live in weeks against a fixed per-unit cost.Yardi publishes no pricing anywhere on its site and routes every visitor to a sales conversation — consistent with rollouts measured in quarters and five figures.
Right-sized for a portfolio, not an enterpriseThe same deposit, arrears and SLA discipline, without negotiating an enterprise contract to get it.Yardi is built for institutional scale — a mid-sized commercial portfolio can end up paying for infrastructure sized for someone much larger.
Property types included, not licensed separatelyShops, offices and plots are first-class types in the base registry from day one.Enterprise suites at Yardi's scale typically involve a sales conversation about which modules and property types are included in your contract.
Published pricingFree to 2 properties, then from $50/month plus a per-property fee. Every figure is on the pricing page.Yardi publishes no pricing anywhere on its site — every visitor is routed straight to a sales conversation, consistent with its enterprise/institutional focus.
Yardi details checked 8 August 2026 against their own published pricing.

Where Direct PMS is different

Weeks, not a multi-quarter rollout
WITH DIRECT

Priced and onboarded per unit — go live in weeks against a fixed per-unit cost.

YARDI-CLASS TOOLS

Yardi publishes no pricing anywhere on its site and routes every visitor to a sales conversation — consistent with rollouts measured in quarters and five figures.

Right-sized for a portfolio, not an enterprise
WITH DIRECT

The same deposit, arrears and SLA discipline, without negotiating an enterprise contract to get it.

YARDI-CLASS TOOLS

Yardi is built for institutional scale — a mid-sized commercial portfolio can end up paying for infrastructure sized for someone much larger.

Property types included, not licensed separately
WITH DIRECT

Shops, offices and plots are first-class types in the base registry from day one.

YARDI-CLASS TOOLS

Enterprise suites at Yardi's scale typically involve a sales conversation about which modules and property types are included in your contract.

The honest objection

"We're already partway through a Yardi implementation."

That's real sunk cost, and worth weighing honestly. What it's usually weighed against is a multi-quarter, five-figure-plus rollout for discipline — deposits, arrears, SLA-tracked work orders — that a right-sized platform delivers in weeks, priced per unit instead of by enterprise contract.

Switching from Yardi

Yardi exports are typically large, structured data sets your team controls — we've built migrations around exactly that shape before; it's a data-mapping project, not a from-scratch setup.

What you get that Yardi doesn't cover

Direct PMS runs every business line on one registry — you only subscribe to the modules you use.

Leasing

Leases with deposits held on the ledger, monthly invoicing, arrears aging in the rent-roll matrix, notice and end-of-term flows that release the space automatically.

Caretaking

Work orders with priority and SLA, asset registers for plant and equipment, site staff attendance with vendor billing.

Property Sales

Dispositions and strata resales with commissions posting straight to the books.

Fitouts

Fit-out packages for incoming tenants — quote, approve, invoice.

Short Term Rentals

Auditoriums, event spaces and flexible suites can sell by the day.

See it running a real commercial landlords portfolio.

Try the live demo →See the full Commercial landlords page →