The reason is not a shortage of space. Running storage rooms manually does not pay for the building, and renting storage “like an office” for months does not pay for the tenant. What is needed is a format that suits both sides — and turns technical space into revenue.
Keys at reception, an escort down to the basement, approval by phone. The management office is pulled into granting access, and the labour cost eats up whatever storage would have earned.
The property manager sees no profit in storage rooms and never creates them. Space that could earn money stays technical.
The building offers storage like an office — from several months. The tenant needs 2–5 m² for a few days: to take in a shipment, to sit out a move, to stow equipment after an event.
Finding no such format in the building, the tenant drives to a third-party self-storage. The business centre loses both the revenue and a reason for loyalty.
Basement, lower ground, a top floor, a technical zone — space that is hard to let as offices — is divided into container-type modules of 2–5 m², 2–3 metres high. Paperwork and payment happen in the tenant portal, and access opens automatically.
The portal shows available storage rooms: area, height, floor, photos and the daily rate.
From one day. Need a week for a shipment — pay for a week, not a quarter.
Online or charged to the company account — the amount lands on the monthly invoice.
The door opens with a phone, an access card, a QR code or a PIN — around the clock, with no keys and no escort.
The property manager sets the card itself: module size, daily rate and discounts for longer terms.
Hard-to-let space starts generating high-turnover revenue — with no extra load on staff.
No need to lease space for a year for a few days of storage a month — and no need to drive out of town.
No key needed: the PIN and QR are always in the app, and a guest code can be sent to a courier or contractor for a single visit.
We are responsible for the whole result: we specify the storage modules and cabinets, fit the locks, deploy the system and integrate it with your building management stack.
Storage rooms and lockers are part of Merusoft IWMS. Storage charges flow into the same settlements as everything else: space rent, services and storage are all calculated in one system.
The ones that are hard to let as offices: basement, lower ground, technical zones, upper floors with awkward layouts. The space is divided into container-type modules of 2–5 m², 2–3 metres high, with aisles, lighting and ventilation.
By the day, on a rate card: the property manager sets a rate for each module size and discounts for longer terms. The shorter the rental, the higher the daily rate — short-term storage earns 2–3 times more per square metre than an annual contract.
No. The tenant books and pays for a module in the portal and opens the door with a phone, an access card, a QR code or a PIN. The management office is involved in neither the paperwork nor the access — and that is exactly what makes short-term rental profitable.
The system warns in advance that the term is ending and, if payment does not arrive, closes access automatically according to the rule you set. What happens next — a grace period, a deposit, clearing the module — is configured by the property manager.
No. Wireless locks are installed on the furniture you have with no cabling. If new ground-floor cabinets or storage modules are needed, we supply the whole system turnkey.
The controller and the tablet keep working offline: card and PIN access continues, events are stored locally and sync once the connection is back.
We will demonstrate the system on your site, propose a module layout and a rate card, and estimate revenue and payback — for the specific spaces in your business centre.
