Bricky Bot vs Hammock
Weighing up Bricky Bot vs Hammock? They do different jobs. Hammock is landlord software for Making Tax Digital: bank feeds, bookkeeping, rent and arrears, and quarterly filings with HMRC. Bricky Bot is an AI team that does the day’s lettings work, room by room, and waits for your ✅.
Luke AshtonFounder of Bricky Bot and Based Lettings · Updated The short answer
- Choose Hammock if the job you dread is the books and the tax: your bank and card feeds reconciled to rent and expenses, arrears per tenant, SA105 tax statements and MTD quarterly updates filed from one place, priced per property, from £8 a month plus VAT.
- Choose Bricky Bot if you let room by room and the time goes on the work itself: portal enquiries and viewings, WhatsApp groups, repairs, certificate renewals and landlord statements, with nothing sent until a person approves it.
- The honest line: Hammock files MTD with HMRC and pulls in live bank feeds, which Bricky Bot doesn’t. Hammock’s pages don’t mention enquiries, viewings, repairs or messaging tenants; that is the work Bricky Bot does, and you approve every step.
What Hammock does well
Hammock is the trading name of Hammock Financial Services Ltd, based in Manchester. Its founder and CEO, Manoj, is “a former CTO and a landlord”, and it is backed by Aviva, Founders Factory, Fuel Ventures, Ascension Ventures and Force Over Mass Capital (about Hammock). It says it “powers thousands of UK landlords”. A few things stand out on its own pages:
- Making Tax Digital, first. Hammock calls itself “the first landlord accounting platform recognised by HMRC for Making Tax Digital”. Every plan includes MTD quarterly updates and the final declaration, and property tax statements are mapped to the SA105 categories with an estimate of the tax bill (Hammock home page).
- Bank feeds that reconcile themselves. Hammock connects to “50+ UK bank and credit card accounts”, with unlimited feeds on every plan, read-only access and Hammock’s own FCA registration for account information services. Rent and expenses are reconciled automatically, and late or missing payments trigger a notification (landlord accounting software).
- Arrears per tenant. “Hammock keeps a running total of the arrears balance per property and per tenant”, which matters in a shared house where each room pays separately (Hammock app).
- Pricing that suits HMOs. Hammock charges by property, not by room. One HMO landlord quoted on its home page puts it plainly: “because they charge me by property, rather than by tenancy, its incredible value for money!” (Hammock pricing).
- Investment numbers at a glance. Loan to value, rental yield, profit and loss per property, arrears and occupancy, plus properties with joint owners or held in a limited company. It is also an industry supplier for Propertymark members, and agents simply recommend it to their landlords (Hammock for letting agents).
Hammock also sends “notifications and alerts about expiring documents and certificates”. What its pages don’t mention is the lettings work around the money: adverts, enquiries, viewings, repairs and messaging tenants.
Side by side
Hammock facts are from Hammock’s own website, checked 20 October 2026. “Not stated” means we couldn’t find it there.
| Hammock | Bricky Bot | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Landlord accounting and Making Tax Digital software, with bank feeds and a landlord app | An AI lettings team of eight specialists, working in a full property CRM |
| Built for | “If you manage a rental property (or more), collect rent and pay taxes”; also accountants and agents’ landlords | HMO landlords, co-living and rent-to-rent operators, and letting agents |
| Who does the day-to-day work | You, with Hammock’s reconciliation and alerts | The AI team drafts and does it; a person approves anything that goes out |
| HMOs and rooms | HMO listed on its plans; rent reconciled and arrears kept per tenant; priced per property | Built running HMOs: a record and tenancy per room, the licence and every certificate tracked per house |
| Enquiries and viewings | Not stated | Syncs every SpareRoom and OpenRent thread, drafts replies, books viewings, tracks each lead to a signed tenancy |
| Talking to tenants | Not stated (notifications go to you) | Runs the WhatsApp groups you already have, each linked to its house, lead or contractor record |
| Repairs | Not stated | Logs the job with photos, suggests a known fix, drafts the booking to the contractor who covers that house for your ✅ |
| Compliance | Alerts about expiring documents and certificates | Tracks every certificate on every property, opens each renewal inside its lead time, suggests the dates from the certificate PDF for you to confirm |
| Rent and money | 50+ UK bank and card feeds, unlimited; automatic reconciliation; arrears per tenant; receipts; SA105 tax statements; LTV, yield and P&L per property | Never holds or moves money. Matches each line of your bank statements to rent, a cost or a payout; spots late and short rent; drafts landlord statements. Not accounting or MTD software |
| Making Tax Digital | Quarterly updates and final declaration on every plan | No |
| Where it runs | Cloud: any browser, plus apps for iPhone and Android | Your own Mac or Mac mini; your team uses any browser or phone, and tenants use WhatsApp |
| AI | Not stated | The whole team is AI, on the AI plan you already have (for example ChatGPT); you pay your provider directly |
| Price | Plus VAT: Basic £8 a month (1–3 properties); Standard £15 (4–10); Plus £25 (11–20); Beyond £31.50 (21+, “confirm this price”); 30-day trial; annual saves 20% | See pricing on brickybot.com |
A worked example, by our own arithmetic from Hammock’s published prices: Hammock counts properties, not rooms. Three six-room HMOs (18 rooms) are 3 properties, so they fit Basic at £8 a month plus VAT (£9.60 with VAT at 20%). A fourth house takes you to Standard at £15 plus VAT (£18), and that covers up to ten houses. Paid annually, Standard is £144 plus VAT for the year.
The real difference: keeping the books vs doing the work
Take the first week of the month in a six-bed HMO. In Hammock, the bank feed brings in each room’s rent, the payments are reconciled to the right tenant, and you get a notification that room 4’s rent is short; the arrears balance for that tenant updates itself, and the quarter’s figures are ready for MTD. Room 2’s tenant has given notice, and a tenant has texted you about a dripping shower. The rest is yours: chase room 4, write the advert, post it, answer the enquiries, book viewings, set up the next tenancy, and find a plumber.
With Bricky Bot, the team matches your bank statement lines to each tenant’s month and flags room 4, and the chase it drafts waits for you. The notice is logged against room 2, the Listings Manager builds the advert from the house record for your own SpareRoom and OpenRent accounts, and the Enquiry Manager answers the enquiries, books viewings and follows each lead to a signed tenancy. The shower goes to the plumber who covers that house. You approve each step with a ✅, in the app or straight from the house’s WhatsApp group.
The honest difference runs the other way too: Hammock pulls in live bank feeds, produces the tax statement and files MTD with HMRC, and Bricky Bot does none of that. If the tax return is the job you dread, Hammock is the cheaper fix.
Who does which job
- Hammock: bank and card feeds, bookkeeping and reconciliation, rent and arrears per tenant, SA105 tax statements, Making Tax Digital filings, investment metrics.
- Bricky Bot: adverts, portal enquiries and viewings, tenancies, shared-house WhatsApp groups, repairs with your own contractors, certificate renewals, rent matching and landlord statements, all prepared for a person to approve.
- Both, in different ways: knowing who has paid in each room, and knowing when a certificate is about to expire.
Who each is for
- Hammock suits landlords, including HMO landlords, who self-manage and want the books and MTD done cheaply, priced per house rather than per room, and are happy to find tenants and run repairs themselves (Hammock pricing).
- 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 taken off their plate, while keeping the final say on everything that goes out. For the money side on its own, see what to look for in landlord software.
Using both, or switching
These two sit side by side more naturally than most: Hammock keeps the books and files with HMRC while Bricky Bot does enquiries, WhatsApp, repairs, renewals and statements. Bricky Bot doesn’t connect to Hammock, so each runs in its own account. If you’re moving the lettings side into Bricky Bot, we move your houses, rooms, tenants and landlords, certificates and their dates, and files across. Migration is included, and you can export everything from Bricky Bot in open formats too.
If HMOs are most of what you run, see how Bricky Bot works as HMO management software. Comparing other landlord apps? Read Bricky Bot vs August, Bricky Bot vs Landlord Studio or Bricky Bot vs Landlord Vision, or Bricky Bot vs COHO for HMO software, or Bricky Bot vs Rentila for free-to-start landlord software. Checking a house’s numbers? Our free rental yield calculator works room by room.
Questions people ask
What is the main difference between Hammock and Bricky Bot?
Hammock is landlord accounting software built around Making Tax Digital: your bank feeds come in, rent and expenses are reconciled, arrears are tracked per tenant, and it files your quarterly updates with HMRC. Bricky Bot is an AI lettings team: specialist bots answer room enquiries, book viewings, run WhatsApp groups, chase repairs and renewals, and prepare every message for a person to approve. Hammock does the books and the tax; Bricky Bot does the lettings work.
How much does Hammock software cost?
Hammock prices by number of properties, plus VAT: Basic £8 a month for 1–3 properties, Standard £15 for 4–10, Plus £25 for 11–20 and Beyond £31.50 for 21 or more, which it asks you to confirm with it. Annual billing saves 20% and there is a 30-day free trial (checked 20 October 2026). Bricky Bot’s prices are on brickybot.com/#pricing.
Does Hammock work for HMOs?
Hammock lists HMO on its plans, reconciles rent per tenant and keeps an arrears balance per property and per tenant. Because it charges by property rather than by room, a six-room HMO counts as one property. Bricky Bot was built running HMOs: a record and tenancy per room, with the licence and every certificate tracked per house.
Who owns Hammock software?
Hammock is the trading name of Hammock Financial Services Ltd, registered in Manchester and registered with the FCA for account information services. Its about page names Manoj as founder and CEO, and lists Aviva, Founders Factory, Fuel Ventures, Ascension Ventures and Force Over Mass Capital among its backers. Bricky Bot has no connection with Hammock.
Does Hammock handle tenants, repairs or enquiries?
Hammock tracks tenancies, rent and arrears, and alerts you to expiring documents and certificates. Its pages don’t mention adverts, portal enquiries, viewings, repairs or messaging tenants, so that work stays with you or your agent. Bricky Bot syncs every SpareRoom and OpenRent thread in your own accounts, books viewings, runs the house WhatsApp groups and sends repairs to your own contractors, all for your approval.
Does Bricky Bot do Making Tax Digital or my accounts?
No. Bricky Bot matches rent and costs, reads invoices and receipts, and prepares landlord statements, but it isn’t accounting or MTD software and doesn’t file anything with HMRC. If MTD is the job, Hammock does it; plenty of HMO landlords will want both.
Does Bricky Bot message tenants on its own?
Only the automatic replies you switch on, such as the out-of-hours holding reply. Every other message, advert, booking or payment the team prepares waits for a person’s approval, in the app or straight from WhatsApp.
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- Hammock home page (checked 20 October 2026)
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- Hammock for letting agents (checked 20 October 2026)
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