🎉 Exciting news! Following a successful beta launch in Greater Manchester, Klerky is now expanding across the UK.🚀
Picture a typical booking. A letting agent needs a check-out inventory. They message a clerk they've used for years. The clerk attends, sends the report back a couple of days later, and everyone moves on. No contract. No agreed turnaround time. No written record of what was actually asked for, or agreed to...
From 1 October 2026, the UK's right to work framework will change significantly. Introduced under the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025, the updated rules extend civil penalty liability well beyond traditional employment relationships. Businesses involved in labour supply chains, subcontracting arrangements, and certain online matching platforms will now need to consider whether they have obligations they did not previously hold and whether their existing processes are adequate to meet them.
A compliance-led market with growing demand for evidence is creating a clear opportunity for independent inventory clerks. As UK rental regulations tighten, inspections are moving from optional administration to essential compliance. That means more inspections, higher standards, and increasing reliance on specialist providers. As expectations rise, agents and landlords need more capacity, more consistency and more reliable reporting. Many are turning to external providers to deliver it. For those starting now, the timing couldn’t be better.
Outsourcing inventory inspections offers flexibility and scalability for property managers but risks losing control over quality and data. Proper management and structured approaches are essential to maintain standards and protect business reputation.
As portfolios grow and compliance pressure increases, in-house inventory processes can start to create operational strain. This guide outlines seven practical signs it may be time to review whether outsourcing your inventories could improve efficiency, consistency, and resilience.
Klerky’s latest release supports multi-branch agents and BtR operators with improved account structure, smarter supplier matching, and readiness-focused features designed for real-world operations.
Following a successful beta launch in Greater Manchester, Klerky is now expanding nationally across the UK.
We’re excited to share the latest updates in Klerky! This release brings the ability for customers to edit their branch name and more intuitive naming for our invoicing methods.
Being an inventory clerk in the UK is a job that demands precision, patience, and professionalism – and increasingly, a great deal of persistence.
We’re excited to share the latest updates in Klerky! This release brings smarter notifications, a clearer booking experience, and improved tools to support supplier billing. Here's what's new:
We've made invoicing for bookings more flexible. Introducing Additional Fees & Discounts. Quote requests now available for other types of services too.
Kerfuffle is a leading UK PropTech network, celebrated for spotlighting the 50 most influential and disruptive platforms in property tech each year. Their annual Innovators list is praised for combining expert analysis with practitioner feedback, highlighting real-world impact across platforms in the property sector.
Klerky continues to develop after receiving user feedback! We've added AIIC as a membership you can display on your profile, and improved our list of bookings view for Inventory Clerks!
But for all their value, property inventory clerks still face a daily dose of frustrations that make their work harder than it needs to be. Whether you’re in the field or managing a team of clerks, you’ll probably recognise these all-too-common bugbears
The Greater Manchester Good Landlord Charter encourages landlords to move beyond basic legal requirements by committing to responsible practices across affordability, repairs, communication, and tenant support. It provides a roadmap for creating housing that’s not just legal but liveable, fair, and well-managed.
How do you prevent this recurring dispute? It starts at the very beginning with a clear inventory process that doesn’t just document the state of a property but actively involves the student tenant in that process. Getting them to interact with and feedback on their check-in report isn’t just good practice, it’s a game-changer for dispute prevention, trust, and compliance.
In our first few weeks of launching, we've been inundated with requests and sign ups from interested Letting Agents, Property managers and Inventory Clerks across the UK. Though our initial focus was on Greater Manchester, we've been able to cast the net wider. During this time, our focus has been maintaining the ongoing reliability of Klerky, but that hasn't stopped us updating some key features for our users.
In the formative months after our Beta launch, we think it’s vital we speak to as many property inventory and inspection businesses as possible, to really scratch under the surface of the challenges they face. Not just in winning new business, but managing daily operations and building an online profile with credibility.
