Open your first self storage site with the right software
Stora is the operating system for modern self storage: everything you need to start and run your first site. Your website, online bookings and payments all come with it.
Why Norbreck chose Stora for their first site
Trusted by over 650 self storage operators
Get customers, even before you open
A website built to convert, bookings around the clock, and a way to start collecting leads while the site is still being built.
A website built to sell
Your units, sizes and prices on your own domain, designed to turn visitors into bookings. Built, hosted and kept fast by us, and yours to restyle without a developer.
Take bookings around the clock
Customers pick a unit, sign, pay and verify their ID at any hour, without you. You choose how much runs on its own. Operators on Stora take 72% of bookings online, some over 90%.
Explore online sales
Not open yet? Start collecting leads
Pre-opening mode puts your site online in minutes so you can start ranking in search and taking enquiries before you open your doors. It switches to full booking on the day you open.
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Lead captured
We'll let you know when we go live.
"Pre-opening mode let me take reservations before we were even built, so we weren’t sat with an idle facility."
Karl Walker, GB Storage
Get paid, and know what to do next
Rent collects itself, and the figures show you where to raise prices and when to add units.
Rent that collects itself
Stora collects the rent for you. 99.3% of card payments on Stora are collected in the end, and anything still outstanding is listed in one place, ordered by how much is owed.
The numbers that tell you what to change
See how occupancy is trending, what's bringing customers in and who owes you what, updated as bookings and payments come in.
Recognised revenue
£26,610 ↑ 12.4%
Occupancy
82% ↑ 6.2 pts
"At the end of every month, we sit down and go through our analytics and our revenue. It provides us with everything that we need."
Sally King, Operations Manager at Norbreck Self Storage
Make it work the way you want
Run your site however you like. Connect the tools and systems you want through our app marketplace, or build exactly what you need with our open API.
How Secured Spaces started
Carl Mirauer came to self storage from commercial property. His first facility, in Bournemouth, ran on Stora from day one.
"It's been a really easy setup with Stora to get our first facility up and running, cash flowing, and a lot of automation that saved us a great deal of time and cost."
650+
operators run their business on Stora
30%+
of UK self storage facilities
72%
of bookings taken online, on average
You’re not starting from scratch
A brand to trade under, free tools to plan with, and operators sharing what actually worked.
A brand, professionally designed
Our Brand Marketplace sells ready-made kits: a brand name, a matching premium domain and a logo, so you can trade under a real identity from the start.
Browse the Brand MarketplaceFree tools, before and after you open
Model the returns before you commit, value a site, work out what a price rise would add once you are trading, and ask our AI mentor the questions you would otherwise take to a consultant. All free, whether you use Stora or not.
See the free tools
Learn from operators already doing it
From the blog to the Academy to the Scaling Self Storage podcast, operators at every size share what has worked and what has not.
Start with the Academy13 mistakes to avoid when starting your self storage business
The self storage business
From pilot to self storage success
