SELF-STORAGE
CMMS Software for Self-Storage Facilities
A gate that will not open is a tenant who cannot reach their unit.
Gates, doors, climate control, lighting, and security maintained across every facility, with a single manager per site able to report and close work from a phone.
- One manager per site
- Unit turn checks
- Cost per facility
WHAT CHANGES
What changes when a facility has a maintenance record
Self-storage runs lean by design: one manager, a lot of doors, and a vendor for anything technical. These are the four things operators tell us they are trying to fix.
The site manager knows what is broken and it lives in their head or a text message.
Faults are logged against the unit, the gate, or the building, so the record survives the manager moving sites.
Doors, gates, and climate systems get attention only after a tenant complains.
Preventive schedules cover the equipment tenants actually touch, and overdue work is visible from head office.
A unit turns over and nobody records the condition it was left in.
Unit turn checks run as short inspections with photos, which settles the damage conversation before it starts.
You own forty facilities and cannot say which is costing the most to keep open.
Labor, parts, and vendor spend roll up by facility, so a portfolio comparison is possible.
RESULTS
Results from facilities operators
Measured across UpKeep customers in an independent Forrester study.
90%
Reduction in technician time spent filing work orders and finding asset information
KEY WORKFLOWS
Maintenance workflows across a storage portfolio
The site manager is the whole maintenance department most days. These are the loops that support that.
Monthly facility checks
- Facilities Gate operation, lighting, climate readings, and pest checks run as one scheduled round.
- Forms A failed item opens corrective work with a due date.
- Analytics Completion by facility is visible without a phone call.
A unit turns over
NOVA
Ask across the portfolio without calling every site
Nova is UpKeep's AI assistant, and it builds apps. Ask in plain language and it answers from your own facility and work order data.
See how Nova works- Which facilities have the most door repairs this year?
- Show me climate-controlled buildings with overdue HVAC work.
- Build a unit turn checklist with photo capture.
PRODUCTS
Self-storage maintenance software features
These are apps, not an edition. Most operators start with the CMMS and Facilities, then add Forms for unit turns.
Maintenance CMMS Work orders, preventive maintenance, asset history, and parts. The system of record everything else hangs off.
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EHS Safety Incident capture from the floor by phone or voice, with OSHA 300, 300A, and 301 recordkeeping.
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Training Learn Procedures, courses, and certifications tied to the people who do the work.
Explore Learn → Facilities Space, occupancy, and building systems for teams that maintain property rather than production. Explore → Preventive Maintenance PM schedules that trigger on dates, meter readings, or hours run, so work happens before the failure. Explore → Asset Management Every asset with its history, cost, documents, and hierarchy, from the site down to the component. Explore → Analytics & Reporting Dashboards and reports on maintenance performance, without exporting to a spreadsheet. Explore → Providers Outside contractors working in the same system, with their work visible alongside your own. Explore → Nova The AI assistant that answers questions about your data and builds custom apps from a description. Explore →
CUSTOMER STORIES
Teams running maintenance on UpKeep
Gave site managers one place to log and close facility work without a maintenance team behind them.
Neighborhood Storage Center
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Keeps kitchen equipment running across a footprint measured in thousands of sites.
Chick-fil-A
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One operator runs maintenance across every restaurant he owns from a phone.
McDonald's
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Moved campus crews off paper and onto digital preventive maintenance and work orders.
Caltech
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Standardized maintenance across one of the largest custom restorative labs in the world.
Glidewell
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Moved from 60% reactive work to 20% by putting every asset on a recurring PM schedule.
Industrial manufacturer
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Shifted work from reactive to preventive and brought maintenance costs down with it.
Layfield Group
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Replaced paper tracking and manual data entry across the plant using Nova.
Sprinturf
Read the story →Self-storage maintenance software: common questions
What is self-storage maintenance software?
It is the software a team uses to keep gates, doors, lighting, and climate systems working across facilities that typically have one manager and no maintenance staff.
It also gives the portfolio owner a view of what each facility costs to keep open, which is hard to get any other way.
We have one manager per site and no technicians. Does this fit?
Yes, and it is the common case. The manager logs and closes the simple work from a phone, and anything technical is dispatched to a vendor through Providers.
The record still builds against the gate, the door, or the building, which is the part that survives staff turnover.
Can we track work at the individual unit level?
Yes. Units can be held as their own records under a building, so a door repair or a turn check attaches to that unit rather than to the site generally.
Does UpKeep integrate with our property management system?
Not out of the box for the major self-storage platforms. UpKeep has a REST API and webhooks on the Enterprise plan, which is how operators connect tenant and unit data today.
Worth scoping honestly before you buy if a two-way sync is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
Can it handle unit turn inspections?
Yes, as short forms with photo capture. The value is not the checklist, it is the dated photographic record when a tenant disputes damage.
How much does UpKeep cost for a storage portfolio?
A seat is for someone who creates and closes work, so a forty-facility portfolio with one manager each is priced on those managers, not on the door count. Tenants and staff reporting problems are free. Current tiers are listed on the pricing page.
How long does implementation take?
Days for one facility. Import the buildings and gates, set the monthly round, and add the unit turn form.
Rolling to the rest of the portfolio is a copy rather than a rebuild, which is what makes this manageable without a central maintenance team.
FREE RESOURCES
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Practical guides and research from the UpKeep team. No cost, no sales call required.
GuideThe Reliability Playbook: Capturing 20 Years of Know-How Before It Walks Out the Door
A fully staffed plant still loses hours to failures a retired technician would have caught in minutes. This playbook reframes the problem: knowledge is disappearing because no system was built to capture it. It lays out a three-part framework for closing that gap and shows what changed at one plant that stopped hiring its way out and instead started capturing what its people already knew.
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ReportThe 2026 State of Maintenance Report
This year's report reflects a fundamental shift in how maintenance creates competitive advantage. While 90% of teams recognize what drives reliability, only 25% can consistently execute it. The gap between knowing and doing has become the defining challenge and opportunity of 2026.
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GuideChange or Be Left Behind: The Urgent Need for Change Management in Maintenance
Effectively managing change enables maintenance teams to implement new technologies, streamline processes, and foster continuous improvement, all of which are necessary to thrive in today’s fast-paced environment. This guide outlines essential change management models
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Learning center
Reading for storage operators
Written for a site run by one manager rather than a maintenance department.
- Work order basics What a useful work order contains when the person raising it is not a technician.
- Work order templates Starting points you can adapt for door, gate, and unit turn work.
- Facility management How facilities work is planned and measured across multiple sites.
- Preventive maintenance scheduling Getting gates and climate systems onto a schedule before tenants complain.
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See it against your own facilities
Bring one facility and the equipment tenants complain about. We will walk through the round and the portfolio rollup.