Boom: Features, Pricing, Integrations & AI Visibility

Boom sells rent reporting to property managers under the name BoomReport, alongside BoomScreen for tenant screening and BoomCRM for leasing. BoomReport sends rent data to Experian, Equifax and TransUnion, and the manager decides most of the terms: on-time only or full file, required, opt-in or opt-out enrollment, and what the resident pays. Those settings make it a component you drop into your own package, which is how it shows up in the resident benefits platforms category. It is one of the few vendors here with a published price. The facts panel below comes from our vendor database, with a source and a verification date on each entry.

Who it fits

The database tags single-family rental, institutional multifamily, student housing and affordable housing, and Boom’s own use-case pages add manufactured housing. The buyer is a manager who wants credit reporting in the resident package and wants to control the price and the enrollment rule, rather than buy someone else’s fixed bundle. A manager with a Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac loan is a specific target. The pricing page says those owners may qualify for special pricing.

It fits less well for a manager who wants one vendor to run filters, a liability policy and pest control alongside the reporting. On the benefits side, Boom sells reporting and the identity protection add-on and nothing else.

Pricing

Boom publishes it. BoomReport Standard is $2 per renter per month with no monthly minimum and no implementation fee, and the fine print says that price is for companies with a portfolio of 1,000 units or more and is subject to change. A Custom tier with volume pricing is aimed at portfolios of 100 units or more and adds full-file reporting. BoomReport+ adds identity theft protection powered by Aura, including $1 million in identity theft insurance, at a price you get from sales. Boom says the manager can absorb the cost, charge residents the at-cost price, or set a higher resident fee and keep the difference. At $2 a renter, a 400-unit community with 300 enrolled residents costs $600 a month before any markup. Ask what the per-renter price is below 1,000 units, since the published figure does not apply there.

Integrations

The record lists eight PMS integrations from Boom’s homepage: Buildium (Premium), Entrata, Propertyware, Rent Manager, Rentvine, ResMan, Yardi and AppFolio, the last one a lite integration. The homepage also names ManageAmerica and Quext. Boom’s separate integrations page gives a shorter list without Propertyware, so confirm that one before you count on it. Any manager can report by CSV upload without an integration, setup takes as little as 24 hours and up to three days, and Boom says there is no added cost to integrate. Ask what “lite” means on AppFolio, whether enrollments sync automatically on your system, and whether the resident fee posts to the ledger or is billed by Boom. The Yardi and Rentvine integration pages show which other vendors connect to each.

Limitations and questions to ask

Flexibility moves decisions onto you. If you choose full-file reporting, ask how a resident is told before enrollment that late payments will be reported, and how disputes are handled. If you choose required enrollment, ask whether that is allowed in your state and how the fee must be disclosed; Boom publishes compliance pages for California’s AB 2747 and SB 1157, so ask how its settings map to those rules. Ask who acts as the data furnisher to the bureaus and who answers resident calls. Ask what you see by property on enrollment and payment history.

Alternatives

The resident benefits platforms vendor list has every vendor in one table. Esusu reports on-time payments only and backfills up to 24 months. CredHub sells full-spectrum reporting with perks and identity protection as a ready-made package, and RentPlus is the reporting program built into Entrata. Reporting and rewards vendors compared against Piñata covers the rest with the same sourced facts.

AI visibility

The current edition’s numbers sit in the Live from the Index section below, read from the run files each month; the prompts and sources behind them are on the row page it links.