Simplaq vs Yardi
Yardi Retail Manager is retail leasing and property management software built around deals, leases, occupancy and accounting. Simplaq is a digital experience and operations platform for the visitor-facing side of a center. In most portfolios the honest answer is that they sit next to each other.
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Quick Summary
What is Simplaq
Simplaq is a digital experience and operations platform for shopping centers and business centers: the public website and content, visitor-facing engagement, in-mall screens, kiosks and wayfinding, and the tenant-side workflows around them — administered from one back office.
What is Yardi
Property management, accounting and retail leasing software
Yardi Retail Manager is presented as a solution for retail mall operators to optimise mall and shopping centre revenue by automating retail metrics and leasing activities. Yardi’s public material describes real-time visibility into deals, leases, occupancy and vacancy, side-by-side comparison of active proposals, speculative leases and budgets, master-lease management with relationship ownership, floor-plan graphics for leasing agents, and short-term licensing agreements for ATMs, kiosks and billboards. It is part of the wider Yardi Voyager product family.
Who Simplaq is for
- Marketing and operations teams that publish to visitors and tenants and maintain the center’s digital touchpoints.
- Centers that need wayfinding, kiosks and screens delivered and maintained as one project.
- Operators who want tenant directory content to stay consistent between the website, the app and in-mall screens.
Who Yardi is for
- Finance and leasing teams responsible for lease administration, occupancy reporting and property accounting.
- Portfolios standardising deal pipeline, lease data and budgeting in one system of record.
- Organisations already committed to the Voyager ecosystem for financial and leasing operations.
Operational differences
- Users: Yardi Retail Manager is used by leasing and finance; Simplaq is used by marketing, center management and operations.
- Cadence: lease data changes on deal and accounting cycles; visitor-facing content changes weekly or daily.
- Source of truth: the tenant, unit and lease record belongs in the system of record; the published tenant profile, opening hours, logo and offers belong in the experience layer.
- Failure mode to avoid: maintaining the tenant list twice. Decide which system owns each field before launch.
Category-by-category comparison
Each row states what Simplaq does and what the vendor documents publicly. Rows are labelled so you can see how strong the evidence is.
Deployment model
Public informationSimplaq
Cloud back office per property with installed in-mall hardware where in scope; modules enabled and rolled out property by property.
Yardi
Delivered as part of the Yardi Voyager product family for property management; deployment specifics vary by product and region.
Leasing and property accounting
Public informationSimplaq
Not in scope. Simplaq does not perform lease administration or property accounting.
Yardi
Core. Yardi documents deal, lease, occupancy and vacancy oversight, proposal and budget comparison, master leases and short-term licensing agreements.
Tenant communication
Public informationSimplaq
Center-to-tenant announcements, documents, events and operational notices with per-tenant access and a record of publication.
Yardi
Yardi’s wider portfolio includes tenant-facing products; the specific communication scope depends on which Yardi modules a customer licenses. Confirm with your Yardi account team.
Visitor-facing channels
Public informationSimplaq
Public website, tenant directory, events, offers and campaigns, published to web and in-mall touchpoints from one back office.
Yardi
Not the focus of Retail Manager’s published scope, which is leasing performance and customer (tenant) retention.
In-mall screens, kiosks and wayfinding
Public informationSimplaq
Digital signage and interactive wayfinding are platform modules sharing data with the website.
Yardi
Not documented as a Retail Manager capability. Note that Yardi documents kiosks as a short-term licensing revenue type, which is a leasing concept rather than a digital signage product.
Analytics
Public informationSimplaq
Reporting on content, directory quality, touchpoint usage and campaign activity in enabled modules.
Yardi
Yardi documents automated data analysis around retail metrics, occupancy and leasing performance.
Integrations
Public informationSimplaq
Tenant, unit and lease metadata can be synchronised from the operator’s system of record through the platform API. The integration is scoped, built and tested per deployment — no pre-built Yardi connector ships out of the box.
Yardi
Yardi provides interfaces within its own product family; third-party integration options depend on the customer’s licensing and Yardi’s terms.
Enterprise controls and governance
Public informationSimplaq
Role-based access, single sign-on where required, activity logging and approval before publication; governance terms set in the service agreement.
Yardi
Enterprise controls are part of the Voyager platform; specifics depend on the customer’s configuration and are not detailed in the public Retail Manager material.
How to read the evidence labels
- Public informationTaken from the vendor’s own public material, listed under Sources. It may change without notice.
Best fit
Choose Simplaq if…
- You need the visitor-facing layer — website, content, screens, wayfinding — and your system of record is already chosen.
- You want tenant directory content published consistently across every channel from one place.
- In-mall hardware is part of the project.
Choose Yardi if…
- The requirement is lease administration, occupancy reporting and property accounting.
- You are standardising deal and lease data across a portfolio.
- You need retail leasing workflows such as speculative leases, master leases and short-term licensing.
Migration considerations
Frequently Asked Questions
Should we replace Yardi with Simplaq?
Does Simplaq integrate with Yardi?
What does Simplaq add if we already run Yardi?
Who maintains the tenant list?
Sources
Methodology
Comparison intent: an operator running Yardi as the system of record wants to know whether Simplaq overlaps with it, replaces part of it, or sits next to it.
Statements about Yardi Systems come from the vendor’s own public pages listed here and are labelled accordingly. Where we found no public documentation, the page says so instead of guessing. Statements about Simplaq describe functionality available today. We do not compare another vendor’s pricing, because their commercial terms are not public.
Compare against your own scope
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Disclaimer: Competitor feature descriptions are based on publicly available information and may change. Trademarks belong to their respective owners. Last reviewed: .