---
title: "How Manage.Management Compares to Fixflo for Block Maintenance"
url: https://manage.management/blog/how-manage-management-compares-to-fixflo-for-block-maintenance
description: "Fixflo's repairs and compliance depth vs Manage.Management's integrated workspace — verified features, published pricing and the 50-property minimum."
author: "Franklin Baeza"
published: 2026-09-03T13:22:25.706Z
updated: 2026-10-29T13:55:23Z
categories: ["Software & Tools","Maintenance & Safety"]
publisher: Manage.Management
language: en-GB
---

# How Manage.Management Compares to Fixflo for Block Maintenance

Fixflo's repairs and compliance depth vs Manage.Management's integrated workspace — verified features, published pricing and the 50-property minimum.

If you are researching block management software for a UK leasehold building, Fixflo and Manage.Management both turn up. They appear in the same searches and they solve genuinely different problems, and knowing which problem you actually have is the whole decision.

## Key takeaways

- Fixflo is a repairs and maintenance reporting tool built for agents and contractors.
- Manage.Management covers repairs alongside service charges, documents and voting.
- Leaseholders can see repair status in Manage.Management rather than only reporting issues.
- Choose Fixflo if repairs triage is the only gap; choose a full workspace if governance is the gap.

This article sets out what each platform does, where they overlap, and where they diverge in ways that matter to resident directors, leaseholders and managing agents. Every claim about Fixflo here is checked against Fixflo's own published material.

## What Fixflo is built to do

Fixflo is a repairs, maintenance and compliance platform, and it is the most widely deployed product of its kind in the UK. It handles the full reactive repairs cycle — multilingual picture-based reporting for occupiers, advice pop-ups that let residents resolve minor issues themselves, branded portals, automatic responses and integration with all major CRMs ([Fixflo](https://www.fixflo.com/solutions/block-management-software)).

It is worth being more generous about Fixflo's scope than most comparison articles are, including the earlier version of this one. Describing it as "a repairs tool" undersells it. The compliance side is substantial: you can schedule statutory, regulatory and planned maintenance ahead of due dates, work from a compliance matrix, auto-instruct contractors for recurring works such as EICRs and gas safety certificates, add mechanical and electrical assets to each building and attach service events to them, manage contractor certifications, and choose from more than 200 maintenance templates. SLA targets can be set at issue, contractor and property manager level, with filters for client or warranty status ([Fixflo](https://www.fixflo.com/solutions/block-management-software)).

There are four tiers — Basic, Essentials, Pro and Manager — with unlimited users on every one, ascending from reactive reporting through workflow automation and planned maintenance to customisable dashboards and KPI reporting ([Fixflo block management pricing](https://www.fixflo.com/pricing/block-management)).

## What Fixflo does not do

Fixflo has no service charge accounting, no budget or demand cycle, no reserve fund tracking, no voting or resolution tools, and no leasehold governance layer. That is by design — it is built to sit alongside a primary management system rather than replace one, which is why the CRM and platform integrations exist.

If you run a full back office already, that is a feature, not a gap. If you are a resident director whose back office is a spreadsheet and an inbox, it means Fixflo covers one part of your job and leaves the rest where it was.

## What Manage.Management is built to do

[Manage.Management](https://manage.management/) is a shared workspace for everyone in a leasehold building. Built by leaseholders, that origin shows in how access is distributed: homeowners, resident directors and managing agents log in as co-equal users rather than one group holding the licence and the others getting a read-only portal.

The platform covers issue management for raising and tracking repairs, financial tracking for service charges and expenditure, document management for leases and insurance certificates, a voting system for formal and informal decisions, a communication hub, building safety compliance tools, and a statutory Right to Manage toolkit grounded in the Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Act 2002. Meetings support is available on paid plans.

The point is not that any one of those beats a specialist. It is that a repair sits next to the budget it will be paid from, the insurance document that may cover it, the consultation record if it crosses a Section 20 threshold, and the vote that authorised it. Nothing lives in a separate system.

## Comparing the two on block maintenance

On maintenance specifically, be clear-eyed: **Fixflo is deeper.** Rules-based automation, a contractor mobile app, a compliance matrix, asset-level service history, 200+ maintenance templates and multi-level SLA reporting are more than Manage.Management's issue management offers, and if repairs volume is your bottleneck that depth is real value.

Manage.Management's issue management lets residents raise a repair, assign it, track status and communicate about it, with a full audit trail — in the same place as the finances, documents and decisions for that building. It is broad rather than deep.

So the maintenance question resolves by volume and context. A large agent processing hundreds of jobs a month, with accounting already handled, should look hard at Fixflo. A resident director in a 15-flat block raising a dozen repairs a year, who also needs to track service charges, store the fire risk assessment and run a vote on major works, is buying depth they will not use and still needing two or three other tools.

## The stakeholder access gap

This is where the comparison matters most for resident directors and leaseholders.

Fixflo is designed for managing agents and their teams. Leaseholders interact with it as reporters — they log a fault and wait. There is no financial visibility, no document access, no voting, no governance.

Manage.Management gives all three stakeholder types meaningful access. A leaseholder can see where their service charge is going, raise a repair and vote on a building decision. A resident director can track expenditure, store documents and manage issues without forwarding everything by email. A managing agent can demonstrate accountability without fielding constant inbound queries.

That difference has grown more consequential. The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 expanded leaseholder rights and raised expectations around transparency. Leaseholders increasingly know what they are entitled to see, and buildings without governance tools are more exposed to disputes. A repairs platform, however good, does not address that.

## Pricing: correcting the record

An earlier version of this article said Fixflo does not publish pricing. That was wrong, and it is worth putting right rather than quietly deleting.

Fixflo publishes a **£75 per month software fee**, a **Contractor Marketplace from £0.30 per unit per month**, and professional services — private training, system customisation, and data support and migration — from **£300 + VAT** each. Prices exclude VAT, setup fees and integration costs. The core per-unit licence is price-on-request, and there is a **minimum of 50 properties** ([Fixflo block management pricing](https://www.fixflo.com/pricing/block-management)).

Manage.Management publishes all standard pricing:

- **Community plan** — free for resident-led buildings up to 5 units
- **Self-Managed route** — 3% of annual service charge collected, plus Mollie transaction fees
- **Managed route** — £3.00 per unit per month for professionally managed blocks
- **Right to Manage toolkit** — £200 one-off, reduced by £50 per leaseholder email invited up to a £150 maximum reduction, so £50 minimum payable
- **Portfolio plan** — custom pricing for managing agents with 1,000+ units

The meaningful difference is not disclosure. It is **structure**. Fixflo prices for an agency running a portfolio: a fixed £75 monthly floor you pay regardless of size, and a 50-property minimum you must clear before the product is sold to you at all. That is entirely rational for a firm managing 900 units. It also means a self-managed block of eight flats cannot buy Fixflo at any price — the minimum, not the rate card, is what rules it out.

Manage.Management has no platform fee, no setup fee and a four-unit minimum. For a 20-flat block, the Managed route works out at £720 for the first year with nothing else to pay; Fixflo cannot be purchased for that building at all.

## Self-managed blocks: a specific use case

Fixflo's workflow assumes a managing agent or facilities team on the receiving end of repair reports. If your block has no agent and the resident director handles everything, the model does not map onto your situation — and the 50-property minimum settles it before the design question even arises.

Manage.Management was built for self-managed blocks from the start. The Self-Managed route charges 3% of annual service charge collected plus Mollie transaction fees, so cost scales with what you are actually collecting rather than requiring a fixed outlay. On a block collecting £40,000 a year that is roughly £1,200; on a smaller block, considerably less.

## When Fixflo makes sense

If you are a managing agent running a full back office and you need a best-in-class repairs and compliance front-end that integrates with your existing systems, Fixflo is the strongest specialist in the UK market. Its workflow automation, contractor management and planned maintenance tooling are mature, and its scale — Fixflo reports more than 2,000 agencies, 1.6 million units and over 150,000 repair tasks processed monthly ([Fixflo](https://www.fixflo.com/)) — means it is well proven.

The fit is: high repairs volume, accounting and governance already handled elsewhere, at least 50 properties, and a willingness to manage the integration overhead.

## When Manage.Management makes sense

Manage.Management fits when the people running the building need to do more than log repairs:

- Resident directors running self-managed blocks who need one place for finances, documents, repairs and decisions
- RTM company directors who want a governance layer alongside operational tools
- Managing agents who want to give leaseholders genuine visibility without increasing their own admin load
- Leaseholders in any building who are tired of being held at arm's length from decisions that affect them

The platform holds Cyber Essentials certification issued by The IASME Consortium Ltd and was commended at TechNation NextWave 2026. It integrates with Checkatrade for Business for supplier access and uses Mollie for payment processing.

## A direct feature comparison

**A direct feature comparison**

|  | Built for | Repairs workflow | Workflow automation | Planned maintenance | Contractor management | SLA / KPI reporting | Service charge accounting | Document management | Voting / resolutions | RTM process support | Leaseholder access | Published pricing | Monthly platform fee | Minimum size | Free tier |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Manage.Management | Leaseholders, directors and agents equally | Yes: integrated issue management | Section 20, document analyser into projects | Records and documents | Add your own contractors and Checkatrade for Business integration | Coming soon | Yes via Xero and MRI integrations | Yes - with AI Analysis | Yes | Yes: guided statutory toolkit | Full co-equal user | Yes: all standard tiers | None | 4 units | Yes: up to 5 units, no time limit |
| Fixflo | Repairs and compliance for managing agents | Yes — market-leading depth | Yes — rules-based | Yes — compliance matrix, 200+ templates | Yes — marketplace, app, certifications | Yes — issue, contractor and manager level | No | Building information storage and tagging | No | No | Fault reporting only | Partial — platform and add-on fees; licence on request | £75 | 50 properties | No |

## The core question

Ask what job you are hiring software to do.

If the job is repairs and compliance at volume, and everything else is already handled, Fixflo is the better tool and this article should not talk you out of it.

If the job is running a building — repairs alongside finances, documents, compliance and decisions, with all three stakeholder groups properly included — then Fixflo covers one part of that and you would need to build a stack around it. That adds cost, integration work, and exactly the fragmentation that produces lost documents and unanswerable email chains.

## Frequently asked questions

### Can Fixflo replace a full block management platform?

No, and it does not claim to. Fixflo handles repairs, maintenance and compliance thoroughly, but it has no service charge accounting, no voting and no leasehold governance features. It integrates with a primary management system rather than replacing one.

### Does Fixflo publish its pricing?

Partially. Fixflo publishes a £75 per month software fee, a Contractor Marketplace rate from £0.30 per unit per month, and professional services from £300 + VAT. The core per-unit licence is price-on-request, and there is a 50-property minimum.

### Can a self-managed block of 10 flats buy Fixflo?

No. Fixflo states a minimum of 50 properties, so a single small block falls below the threshold regardless of the per-unit rate.

### Is Fixflo better than Manage.Management at maintenance?

On depth, yes. Fixflo offers rules-based workflow automation, a contractor app, a compliance matrix, asset-level service histories, 200+ maintenance templates and multi-level SLA reporting. Manage.Management's issue management is broader but shallower, sitting alongside finances, documents and voting in one workspace.

### Does Manage.Management handle repairs and maintenance?

Yes. Issue management is a core feature — residents raise repairs, directors and agents track them, and the workflow sits alongside financial records, documents and communications in the same platform.

### Is Manage.Management suitable for self-managed blocks with no managing agent?

Yes. The Self-Managed route charges 3% of annual service charge collected plus Mollie transaction fees, scaling with the building rather than requiring a fixed monthly outlay. The minimum is four units and the Community plan is free up to five.

### Do leaseholders get meaningful access on both platforms?

On Fixflo, leaseholders report faults but have no financial visibility, document access or voting rights. On Manage.Management, leaseholders are co-equal users with access to service charge tracking, documents and voting alongside directors and agents.

### Which platform suits a resident director managing 15 to 30 flats?

Manage.Management, on both design and eligibility. A director at that size typically needs repairs alongside finances, documents and decisions — and a 15-to-30-flat block sits below Fixflo's 50-property minimum in any case.

### Does Manage.Management include governance tools beyond repairs?

Yes — a voting system for formal and informal decisions, a Right to Manage toolkit grounded in CLRA 2002, building safety compliance tools, document management, and meetings support on paid plans. Fixflo offers none of these.

## Where to go from here

Fixflo is a strong specialist at a specific part of the job, and for agents at scale it is a well-founded choice. It is not available to, or designed for, a single self-managed block.

If your building needs more than a repairs log — and needs everyone in it to have real access — you can explore the full platform and get started without a payment at [manage.management](https://manage.management/).

Last reviewed: 29 October 2026 by Franklin Baeza, Manage.Management. This article is general information for England and Wales, not legal advice. Check the current position with a qualified adviser before acting.

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Source: [How Manage.Management Compares to Fixflo for Block Maintenance](https://manage.management/blog/how-manage-management-compares-to-fixflo-for-block-maintenance) on the Manage.Management blog.