Enterprise DNA

Instead of Storman

Stop renting Storman. Own your self storage system.

We build your version around your units, fees and storage agreement, bring your Storman rent roll across and run it for you. You keep the database and decide how it works.

Storman does not publish its prices. Each facility is quoted, and payments, online move-ins, gate access and reporting are separate pieces on top.

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What the quote covers

A subscription sized by your units, plus the add-ons

Storman quotes each facility rather than publishing a price list, and review sites describe the subscription as tiered by the number of units. Much of the day-to-day value sits in pieces sold alongside the core system.

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Unit count

The subscription grows with the number of units on site, so every new block of units moves the bill.

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More sites

Each extra facility is another site on the account, and group reporting across sites is part of the higher tiers.

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Payments

Card and direct debit collection runs through the vendor group’s payment business, with its own fees per transaction.

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Online move-ins

Reservations, e-signed agreements and move-ins on your website are a separate module.

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Gate access

Linking overlocks and gate codes to your access control system depends on the integration partner you use.

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Reporting

Online reporting and custom reports are an add-on, and the questions are the ones the vendor built.

Your facility, your rules

The jobs your manager does by hand today

Arrears

Know exactly where every overdue storer stands

Late fee, overlock, default notice and default action, worked out from the periods in your own storage agreement.

  • check See who is due a late fee, an overlock or the default notice today
  • check Know the earliest date default action is allowed for each storer
  • check Refuse a sale until the notice period has run and the register search is done
  • check Keep every manager override with the reason for it

Overlocks

Never leave a paying storer locked out

The walk-around list for the site: units to overlock and overlocks to take off.

  • check List units past your overlock day that are not yet overlocked
  • check Flag overlocks that should come off because the storer has paid
  • check Say so the moment a payment clears the last overdue invoice
  • check Remind the manager to change the gate code by hand

Rates

Find the rent your old rates are costing you

Long stayers on old rates, compared with today’s standard rate for their unit size.

  • check List storers under the standard rate with no increase in a year
  • check Total the monthly gap across the facility
  • check Refuse a rate rise with less notice than the agreement requires
  • check Bill the new rate automatically from the date it takes effect

Move-ins and records

Keep every agreement in order

Move-ins, move-outs, deposits and goods left behind, checked against the agreement.

  • check Refuse a move-in with no alternate contact or ID check
  • check Flag deposits not refunded within 30 days of move-out
  • check Track goods left behind and when the notice can go
  • check Compare physical and economic occupancy for every unit size

Make it yours

Design your own Storman replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Storman. Try it here, and we build the real one.

2. What it runs

3. Make it fit

4. Your colour

Your business · your Storman replacement Your version
YB Your business

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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your Storman data across and run it for you.

What it looks like

Ask it like you would ask a colleague

Real answers from the demo data that ships with Self Storage for Claude Code. It runs in Claude Code inside the Claude app, so it feels like any chat you already use.

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Self Storage for Claude Code

Connected to your own database

Who is overdue, and what can I do about each one?

Rosa Martinez

Unit
D01
Owing
698.00
Oldest_due
2026-08-15
Days_overdue
50
Overlocked_on
2026-08-30
Default_notice_on
2026-09-14
Stage
default action allowed
Action_from
2026-09-28

Jack Thompson

Unit
C02
Owing
578.00
Oldest_due
2026-09-03
Days_overdue
31
Overlocked_on
2026-09-18
Stage
send default notice
Action_from
2026-10-18

Liam O'Brien

Unit
C01
Owing
299.00
Oldest_due
2026-09-14
Days_overdue
20
Stage
overlock due
Action_from
2026-10-26

Priya Sharma

Unit
B02
Owing
209.00
Oldest_due
2026-09-22
Days_overdue
12
Stage
late
Action_from
2026-11-03

Ask it anything

Ten questions your facility can answer today

These run on a fictional facility’s records. Storman has its own reports. The difference here is that the manager asks their own questions and changes the rules themselves.

chat_bubble Who is paying under today’s standard rate and has had no increase in a year?
chat_bubble Which units should be overlocked today, and which overlocks should come off?
chat_bubble Who has reached the point where the default notice must go out?
chat_bubble Whose goods can be sold today under the agreement, and from what date for everyone else?
chat_bubble What is economic occupancy for each unit size against physical occupancy?
chat_bubble Which late fees were never charged?
chat_bubble Which deposits are past the refund date?
chat_bubble Who left goods behind, and has the notice gone?
chat_bubble Which storers declared goods over the agreement’s limit with no itemised list or insurance?
chat_bubble Was any past sale done without the notice period, the register search or the surplus returned?

Switching

How to switch from Storman

A move involves exporting your rent roll, checking how your records map, testing the import, then running both systems side by side before you switch.

  1. 1

    Export your Storman records

    In Storman’s Reporting menu, run a rent roll or unit list report and export it to Excel. Save the export as CSV for the import. The rent roll brings across units, unit sizes, storers, agreements, paid-to dates and balances. Payment history, notes and documents are not included in that report, so plan separately for the records you need to keep.

  2. 2

    Load a test import

    Start with a test run of the rent roll import before loading the records for day-to-day use. It brings the report data into the new system, including units, storers, agreements and balances. A repeat import updates existing records rather than duplicating them. If Storman does not offer the report or export you need, check with Storman about what your account allows.

  3. 3

    Review the import results

    Check the test results before proceeding. Confirm that the units, sizes, storers, agreements, paid-to dates and balances have come across as expected. Look at any records the import does not map cleanly, and resolve those before relying on the new system. The test run gives you a chance to spot mismatches before the imported records become part of your daily work.

  4. 4

    Run both systems side by side

    Keep Storman available while you use the new system for a short overlap period. Compare the rent roll, balances and the routine work you rely on, and make sure the records behave as expected. Payment history, notes and documents remain in Storman unless you arrange to bring them across separately. Use this period to confirm what history you still need before ending Storman.

  5. 5

    Switch off Storman

    Once you have checked the imported records and completed the side-by-side period, decide when to stop using Storman. Before you do, make sure you have dealt with any payment history, notes and documents you need, since they are not part of the rent roll import. Keep access to the information you still need, then end your Storman service through your normal account process.

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Where the real effort goes

The real work is usually mapping your own fields and facility rules, then deciding which history to bring across. The rent roll import covers core operating records, but payment history, notes and documents are not in that report. If Enterprise DNA installs and runs the system for you, Enterprise DNA handles the mapping and import work as part of the switch.

Not ready for a call?

Get your Storman switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Storman, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

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Three ways to make it yours

Choose how your facility wants to run it

Open source

Do it yourself

Free

  1. 1 Clone the repo and run npm install
  2. 2 Run npm run demo to see a fictional 20 unit facility
  3. 3 Open it in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor
  4. 4 Test-import your Storman rent roll, then load a fresh database
Get the free version

Built around your business

We customise it

Scoped setup fee, then an agreed retainer

  • check Your unit sizes, fees and the periods in your storage agreement
  • check Your Storman storers, balances and paid-to dates brought across and checked
  • check An online move-in page, a phone app or a different stack if you want one
  • check Card payments and your gate access system connected where it makes sense
Get your version built

Omni by Enterprise DNA

We run it for you

One setup fee, then a retainer

  • check Set up and connected for your managers and head office
  • check Invoices, late fees and the debt ladder run on schedule
  • check Rate reviews, new sites and rule changes handled with you
  • check Run inside Omni by Enterprise DNA with the rest of your business
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Questions

Instead of Storman, answered

Storman does a lot. Why would we change? expand_more

If it does everything you need, you may not. The reason to own your version is control: your agreement’s rules enforced the way you read them, your records in a database you hold, and answers your manager can get without waiting for a report. We start with the jobs that do not fit today.

Can storers still move in online and pay by card? expand_more

The free version is run by the manager, and it records payments rather than taking them. Enterprise DNA builds an online move-in page and connects card or direct debit collection in your custom version.

What about our gate access system? expand_more

This version records overlocks and tells the manager which ones to put on or take off. Changing gate codes is done in your access system, so we connect it in your custom version where your provider allows.

Can we bring our Storman history? expand_more

Yes. Storman exports its reports to Excel, and the free version imports a rent roll after a test run: units, sizes, storers, rates, paid-to dates and balances. Payment history and notices already sent are not in that report, so we bring those across as part of your switch.

Is this legal advice on default and sale? expand_more

No. It checks your records against the periods in the storage agreement your storers signed and refuses action before those periods have run. Take advice before any sale. The rules are settings, so they match your agreement, your state and New Zealand.

Show Sam how your facility really runs

Book 30 minutes with Sam. Bring a Storman rent roll export, your storage agreement and the arrears steps your manager follows by hand. We will map the first version around them.

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Self Storage for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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