01 / Use cases
Built for how you run storage.
Whether you run three sites or thirty, staff a counter or run remote, StoreBay flexes to your model.
02 / Find your fit
Four shapes of storage business
Most operators recognise themselves in one of these. Pick the closest and jump straight to the detail.
03 / Regional & multi-site
A regional growth operator — 1 to 20 sites
The primary fit: a founder or a small central team running a growing portfolio, weighed down by weak multi-site reporting, patchy integrations and too much manual exception handling. StoreBay replaces batched reporting with live analytics and takes the manual load off billing, collections and access.
Illustrative example — Pennine Self Storage: 3 sites, ~540 units, one live view.
See how it works →Illustration: a portfolio dashboard showing occupancy, monthly revenue, collection rate and conversion 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 portfolio occupancy rising from 81.2 to 87.4 per cent.
04 / Remote-managed & unmanned
Remote-managed and unmanned sites
Access-control coordination across vendors, ID verification and overlocks are the deciding factor here, not price alone. The customer portal already runs the self-service half — bookings, payments and documents without a counter. Access orchestration is on our roadmap: whichever gate or lock brand you use, StoreBay will bring them into one screen and one activity log, with credentials following the balance.
Illustrative example — Harbour Stow: a single site, run without a counter.
See how it works →Illustration of planned functionality: five sites each running a different access-control vendor — Camden Lock on Nokē, Bristol Docks on BearBox, Leeds North on PTI Cloud, Glasgow East on OpenTech and Cardiff Bay on Paxton via a site bridge — presented as one console, with Nokē named as the next vendor connection to be built.
05 / Agency & multi-brand
Agencies managing multiple operators
One login switches between the operators an agency manages — each one's data kept completely separate and private — so a small team can run several brands without juggling separate systems.
Illustrative example — an agency managing three operators from one account.
See how it works →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.
06 / Niche & specialist
Container, caravan, boat, wine and business storage
Generic PMS friction is the trigger to switch here. Flexible unit attributes and a modular agreement system already absorb much of this without a bespoke pack, with dedicated vertical templates as a named roadmap item.
Illustrative example — a VAT-registered business customer billed net + VAT, not gross.
See how it works →Guide: how to start a container storage business →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.
“StoreBay flexes to exactly how we operate.”— Illustrative operator
Regional · remote · agency · niche
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