Use cases
Built for how you run self-storage.
Whether you run three sites or thirty, staff a counter or run remote, StoreBay flexes to how you work.
01 / Regional & multi-site
Every site on one screen, every morning.
A founder or a small team growing a group of sites — with too much of it still done by hand.
The morning check
Occupancy, money in and arrears for every site, live on one screen — not in next month’s spreadsheet.
The chasing
Reminders, retries and late fees run themselves the moment a payment fails.
One change, every site
Prices, agreements and the day-to-day admin managed once, from one place — not once per site.
Illustrative example — Pennine Self Storage — 3 sites, ~540 units, one live view.
Illustration: a dashboard showing occupancy, monthly revenue, the collection rate and arrears as headline figures, then occupancy for each of five sites as a bar with its percentage, the arrears owed at each site as a money total, and six months of overall occupancy rising from 81.2 to 87.4 per cent.
02 / Remote-managed & unmanned
No one on the counter. Nothing stuck waiting for one.
Customers book, pay and sign for themselves — the site runs while you’re elsewhere.
Bookings take themselves
Your website shows live availability, takes the booking and the payment, and the agreement is signed on a phone.
Payments collect themselves
Direct Debit collects each month on its own, and failed payments retry without you.
Gate control◐ Coming soon
Whichever lock brand you use, StoreBay will bring them into one screen — access following the balance on its own.
Illustrative example — Harbour Stow — a single site, run without a counter.
Illustration of planned functionality: five access-control partner adapters — Nokē, BearBox, PTI Cloud, OpenTech and Paxton via a site bridge — feeding into one normalised event timeline, and the planned sequence where an overdue payment triggers an overlock and payment received restores access.
03 / Agency & multi-brand
Several brands, one login.
For teams that run storage for more than one operator.
Switch, don’t juggle
Move between the operators you manage from one login — no second system, no shared passwords.
Kept strictly separate
Each operator’s customers, agreements and billing live in their own account. Nothing is pooled.
The same routine everywhere
Billing, payment chasing and reports work the same way for every brand you run.
Illustrative example — An agency managing three operators from one account.
Illustration: an account switcher listing three storage operators managed from one login — Lockhaven Self Store currently active, with Storepoint and Hartley Self Store available to switch to — and a note that only the active operator's data is loaded on any request.
04 / Niche & specialist
Rooms aren’t the only thing you store.
Containers, caravans, boats, wine, business stock — set up to fit, no custom build.
Your own unit types
Containers, pitches, racks or rooms — with the sizes, prices and terms that match what you actually rent out.
Agreements that fit
Shape the licence to suit each type — and bill VAT-registered business customers net + VAT, not gross.
Purpose-made templates◐ Coming soon
Ready-made setups for container, vehicle and wine storage are on our roadmap.
Illustrative example — A VAT-registered business customer billed net + VAT.
Illustration: a customer part-way through an operator's checkout — unit and add-ons chosen, details entered, now at the signing step with payment still to come — showing the unit and site, the licence fee and protection waiver, the VAT-inclusive total due today, and that the agreement is signed and paid in the same flow.
One plan · everything included
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