Lentra against the alternatives.
Parcel lockers, package rooms, concierge, micro markets and amenity rooms each solve something real. These pages set out what each one actually does, including where we are the wrong answer.
All the alternatives, side by side
One table covering parcel lockers, package rooms, concierge, micro markets and amenity rooms, with the Lentra row marked as ours.
Read the comparisonLentra vs. parcel lockers
Dedicated delivery hardware against a broader resident service. Plenty of buildings run both.
Read the comparisonLentra vs. package rooms
A room you cannot rent out, against a compartment bank along a wall.
Read the comparisonLentra vs. concierge
Staffed hours and human judgement against self-service at three in the morning.
Read the comparisonLentra vs. micro markets
Unattended retail against retail plus rentals, and which resident need each one actually answers.
Read the comparisonLentra vs. amenity rooms
Committed floor area against a compact footprint, and what each costs to keep running.
Read the comparisonWe wrote these, so read them accordingly. Each one names the situations where the other option is the better buy, because a comparison that never reaches that conclusion is an advert.
Including spending nothing
Not every alternative is another amenity. These are the ones property teams actually weigh up.
All alternativesvs. Tool libraries and sharing schemes
Community lending done properly is a genuinely good thing. It is also somewhere else, open at certain hours, and run by people who are not paid to be there.
vs. Building it yourself
Buy the lockers, stock them, run it in-house. Entirely possible, occasionally the right call, and almost always underestimated in the second year.
vs. Doing nothing
The most common alternative and the one most rarely written down. Sometimes it is correct, and a proposal that cannot say when is not worth reading.
vs. Delivery and errand apps
Fast, enormous range, already on everyone's phone. And structurally unable to do the thing that matters most here, which is lending.
vs. More resident storage
Give residents somewhere to put the things they own instead. A real alternative that solves the adjacent problem rather than this one.
Named companies, sourced claims
Each one opens by saying where they are ahead of us, because a comparison that concedes nothing is an advert.
How these are writtenStill not sure which fits your building
Tell us the property and we will say plainly if something else suits it better.