Fetch: Features, Pricing and Integrations

Fetch is off-site package receiving for apartment communities. Residents ship to a Fetch facility address instead of the building, and Fetch couriers deliver to the resident’s door on the resident’s schedule. It was founded in Austin in 2016, and its homepage counts more than 50 million packages delivered. The site sells four services in one resident app: packages, grocery delivery through Fetch Market, storage and doorstep trash pickup five to seven nights a week. It is the one vendor in the package management category that takes packages off the property entirely, with no locker or package room on site, which changes every evaluation question a buyer would otherwise ask. The facts panel below is rendered from our vendor database with a source URL and verification date on each entry.

Who it fits

The database tags institutional multifamily alone, and no other segment. That narrow tag fits the model. An off-site service needs enough deliveries in a metro to keep couriers on scheduled routes, and it needs a community whose residents will accept a shipping address that is not their own. A dense urban tower with no room for a locker bank, or a community whose lobby theft problem cannot be solved by hardware because the parcels are stolen before they reach the lobby, is the buyer. Fetch sells against porch pirates directly.

It does not tag student housing, commercial facilities, small multifamily or single-family rental. A suburban garden community with a leasing office that can house a locker bank is usually comparing lockers to lockers, and Fetch is a different decision.

Pricing

Fetch does not publish pricing, but local news coverage shows who often pays. KIRO 7 in Seattle reported in August 2022 that residents may be paying up to $20 a month for Fetch through their lease whether they use it or not, and Denver7 reported a mandatory $17 monthly package delivery charge in one Parker lease renewal. Both stories came from residents who could not opt out, so check what your state allows for mandatory lease fees before you pass one on. Ask whether the property pays per unit, per month, or per delivery, whether the fee is meant to pass to residents and at what amount, and whether there is a minimum unit count or a minimum term. Ask what a scheduled delivery window costs the resident if they miss it, and what storage at the facility costs past a set number of days. Ask what grocery delivery, storage and trash add to the bill if a community takes them; the renter pages describe storage as month-to-month and priced by what is packed, and grocery delivery as free of tips and fees, so ask who pays for those at the community level. Then compare the annual figure to a locker quote for the same community over five years, because the off-site model turns a capital purchase into an operating cost and the owner will want to see both.

Integrations

The database records no PMS integration, because Fetch names none. That is less of a gap than it would be for a locker vendor, since there is no locker door for a resident record to open. Ask how residents are enrolled, whether Fetch can take a resident roster from your PMS on a schedule, how move-ins and move-outs reach it, and how a resident’s Fetch address is retired when they leave. Ask what the office sees, if anything, about deliveries in progress, and whether the community gets a dashboard or only the resident does.

Limitations and questions to ask

The model moves the package problem off the property, and it moves the failure modes with it. Ask what happens when a carrier ignores the Fetch address and delivers to the building anyway, since residents will make that mistake on old accounts. Ask what happens to a package that arrives at the facility damaged or that goes missing between the facility and the door, and where Fetch’s liability starts and ends. Fetch’s site says the facility has refrigerated storage for meal kits and medication and that verified delivery by secure code is optional on any package, so ask how cold items are routed and how the code works at a resident’s door. Ask about oversize items and signature-required deliveries, since a locker vendor’s oversize problem becomes a courier-capacity problem here. Ask what the delivery windows are, how far in advance a resident must schedule, and what a resident who works nights does. Ask which metros Fetch serves and how close your community is to the facility.

Alternatives

The package management vendor list compares every vendor in the category with the same facts. If the reason for looking at Fetch is that lockers do not fit the building, another hardware-light option is Position Imaging, whose Smart Package Room is an open room watched by cameras rather than a locker bank. If the reason is theft and the building can house hardware, Luxer One sells lockers and an automated room against the same problem. Every other package management vendor is set side by side on the Luxer One alternatives page.

How Luxer One and Fetch compare covers pricing, integrations and fit.

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