Bricky Bot vs Arthur Online
Arthur Online is a long-standing property management system with apps for everyone involved. Bricky Bot is an AI lettings team. One gives your team a place to work; the other does the work and asks for your ✅.
Luke AshtonFounder of Bricky Bot and Based Lettings · Updated The short answer
- Choose Arthur Online if you want a configurable system with workflow automation, accounting with Xero, and dedicated apps for your managers, tenants, contractors and owners, across residential, student, social or commercial lets.
- Choose Bricky Bot if you let room by room and want the work itself done: portal enquiries answered, WhatsApp groups run, repairs and renewals chased and statements drafted, with nothing sent until a person approves.
What Arthur Online does well
From Arthur’s own website (checked 1 October 2026):
- Apps for every stakeholder. Arthur has apps for property managers, occupants, contractors and property owners, and says it’s “the only property management software on the market with dedicated apps for all stakeholders” (arthuronline.co.uk).
- An automation engine. Automation templates, or your own automations built around your workflow.
- Breadth. Solutions for letting agents, self-managing landlords, student housing and social housing, and property types from commercial to residential and block management.
- Finance. A finance module covering tenant, client and contractor accounting, owner statements and a Xero integration; bank reconciliation by uploading your bank statement (pricing page).
- Contractor tools. Work orders, quotes and invoices from contractors, and a UK-wide network of user-rated contractors.
Side by side
Arthur facts are from Arthur Online’s own website, checked 1 October 2026. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it there.
| Arthur Online | Bricky Bot | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Property management software with an automation engine and stakeholder apps | An AI lettings team of eight specialists, working in a full property CRM |
| Who does the day-to-day work | Your team, in Arthur, with automated events cutting repetitive admin | The AI team drafts and does it; a person approves anything that goes out |
| Built around | Letting agents, self-managing landlords, student and social housing | HMOs, co-living, rent-to-rent and letting agents letting room by room |
| Applicants and enquiries | Applicant and viewing management; online applicant form | Syncs every SpareRoom and OpenRent thread, drafts replies, tracks each lead to a signed tenancy |
| Talking to people | Email or in-app, with apps for tenants, contractors and owners | Runs the WhatsApp groups you already have, each linked to its record |
| Repairs | Task management, work orders, public contractor network | Logs issues from the house chat, suggests the fix that worked last time, books contractors after your ✅ |
| Compliance | Compliance tracking on every plan | Opens each renewal inside its lead time, reads and files new certificates, raises a repair if a result fails |
| Money | Finance module, owner statements, Xero integration, bank reconciliation by statement upload | Live bank feed matched to rent, costs and payouts; spots late and short rent; drafts landlord statements |
| AI | Not stated on the pages we checked | The whole team is AI, on the AI plan you already have (for example ChatGPT); you pay your provider directly |
| Where it runs | Browser, plus Apple and Android apps | Your own Mac or Mac mini, or Bricky Cloud; your team uses any browser or phone |
| Price | Standard from £82.50/month (incl. 55 units, then £1.50/unit); Professional from £96.00/month (60 units, then £1.60); Enterprise from £126.00/month (70 units, then £1.80). Annual billing. VAT not stated | See pricing on brickybot.com |
The real difference
Arthur automates events: reminders, tasks and documents that fire when something changes. The person still reads the message, decides what to do and does it. Bricky’s team reads the message too: the Enquiry Manager answers a SpareRoom enquiry from the house record, the Maintenance Manager picks up a leak from the house WhatsApp group, the Landlord Representative drafts the month’s statement. Each one waits for your ✅ before anything leaves.
We know Arthur well: Based Lettings, where Bricky was built, ran its rooms on Arthur, a home-built system and WhatsApp before moving to Bricky.
More on the repairs side: Bricky Bot as landlord maintenance software.
And the whole picture: the seven jobs Bricky Bot does as landlord software, and the UK rules it keeps track of as property management software UK agents and landlords can use.
Who each is for
- Arthur Online suits agents and landlords who want one configurable system across many property types, with apps for tenants, contractors and owners, and accounting through Xero.
- Bricky Bot suits HMO landlords, co-living and rent-to-rent operators and letting agents who let room by room and want the day’s work done for them, while keeping the final say. For agencies, see lettings agent software.
Switching from Arthur Online
We move your records and documents across: houses, rooms, tenants and landlords, contracts, certificates and their dates, and rent history. Migration is included, and you can export everything in open formats if you ever leave. See what the records hold once they’re in on our letting agent CRM page.
Running houses in multiple occupation rather than whole lets? Here’s Bricky Bot as HMO management software, built running 150+ HMO rooms. Comparing the landlord records and accounts tool PaTMa too? Read Bricky Bot vs PaTMa, or Bricky Bot vs Landlord Vision for accounting-led landlord software. Agencies weighing a move-in platform can read Bricky Bot vs Goodlord, and those with a separate repairs tool Bricky Bot vs Fixflo.
Questions people ask
What is the main difference between Arthur Online and Bricky Bot?
Arthur Online is property management software with an automation engine and apps for managers, tenants, contractors and owners: your team runs the work in it. Bricky Bot is an AI lettings team that does the day-to-day work (enquiries, WhatsApp, repairs, renewals, statements) and waits for a person to approve anything that goes out.
How much does Arthur Online cost?
Arthur’s pricing page lists Standard from £82.50 a month (including 55 units, then £1.50 a unit), Professional from £96.00 a month (60 units, then £1.60) and Enterprise from £126.00 a month (70 units, then £1.80), billed annually (checked 1 October 2026). Bricky Bot’s prices are on brickybot.com/#pricing.
Does Arthur Online have a tenant app?
Yes. Arthur’s pricing page describes a self-service portal and app for tenants to raise maintenance issues and check statements, plus access for contractors and property owners.
Can I move from Arthur Online to Bricky Bot?
Yes. We move your records and documents across (houses, rooms, tenancies, people, certificates and files), and migration is included. Bricky was built at Based Lettings, which ran its rooms on Arthur before moving to Bricky.
Does Bricky Bot work for letting agents as well as landlords?
Yes. It was built running HMOs and co-living, and it handles landlords, statements and management fees as well.
See the team do the work
A short demo of Bricky handling real lettings work: enquiries, WhatsApp, repairs and approvals, with nothing sent until you say so.
Book a demoSources
- Arthur Online home page (checked 1 October 2026)
- Arthur Online pricing and feature comparison (checked 1 October 2026)
Arthur Online is a trademark of its owner. Bricky Bot isn’t affiliated with Arthur Online. If anything here is out of date, email hello@brickybot.com and we’ll correct it.