Run your sober living home without the spreadsheet and the group text

Sober living management software is the system of record for a recovery home. Instead of keeping your roster in a spreadsheet, your rent ledger in a notes app, your UA results in a binder, and your curfew accountability in a group text at 11pm, it puts all of it in one place — and gives every resident an app that connects them to it.

That matters because the work of running a sober living isn't one job. It's a housing job, a bookkeeping job, an accountability job, and a documentation job, all at once, usually done by one or two people who would rather be spending that time with residents.

The status quo it replaces

Most homes we talk to are running some version of the same setup: a spreadsheet that only one person really understands, a group text where passes and curfews get approved and then forgotten, a paper binder of house agreements that no one can find when it matters, and a rent ledger reconstructed from memory at the end of the month.

None of that is negligence. It's what happens when the tools cost more than the home can justify. The problem isn't the spreadsheet — it's that a missed rent conversation or an unsigned agreement can turn into a housing crisis for someone in their first ninety days.

Resident roster & tracking

Every resident has a record: who they are, which house and bed they're in, when they moved in, and their history with the home. Your roster stops being a spreadsheet tab and becomes something a new house manager can pick up on their first day.

Membership & rent payments

Residents pay by card, CashApp, or Zelle — the ways people in early recovery actually pay. Partial payments are tracked, which is the part most homes need most: when someone pays $180 of $250 on Friday, the balance is on the record instead of in your head. You see who's current, who's short, and by how much.

Drug test (UA) logging

Log each UA against the resident's record with the date and result, so test history is a timeline you can actually look back through — not a binder page that walked out of the office.

Bed & occupancy management

Track beds by house: which are filled, which are open, who's in which room. When a referral calls asking if you have space, the answer takes seconds. Empty beds are the quiet way a sober living loses the ability to stay open — see them before the month ends. More on bed management →

Overnight & multi-day passes

Residents request passes in the app; you approve or deny them, and the record stays attached to the resident. A pass approved in a group text is a pass that never happened as far as documentation is concerned. This one gets remembered.

Curfew GPS check-ins

Residents check in at curfew from the app with location attached. You get a straight answer about who's home without a manager making eleven phone calls at 11pm.

Meeting attendance with GPS verification

Residents find meetings and tap to check in — location and address are logged automatically. No more signed cards, no more paper slips that get lost between the meeting and the house. Verified attendance shows up on the resident's record, which is what you need when a court, a probation officer, or a treatment center asks.

Chores & house responsibilities

Assign house responsibilities and let residents see their own. Accountability works better when it's written down and visible to the person it applies to, instead of relitigated at a house meeting.

Documents & e-signed house agreements

Store house documents where staff can find them, and have residents e-sign the house agreement in the app at move-in. The signed copy lives on their record. When you need to show what someone agreed to, it's there — signed, dated, and not in a binder.

Multi-house dashboards & manager roles

Run several homes from one dashboard, with per-house manager roles. Each house manager sees their own house; you keep consolidated visibility across all of them. Growing from one house to four shouldn't mean four spreadsheets and four group texts.

Most software in this category is priced per bed, and what the resident gets out of it is nothing. They're a line item. The house pays per head to track them, and the person being tracked never sees a thing.

We build the opposite way, because we're a non-profit and the residents are who we're here for. Every resident in a participating home gets the app free, forever: a sober-day counter, meeting search with GPS check-in, their house responsibilities, e-signed agreements, membership payments, and a crisis "I need help now" button.

The accountability you need and the recovery tools they need are the same app. That's why residents actually open it — and why your curfew check-ins and meeting attendance come back filled in.

Per-bed pricing punishes you for the thing you're trying to do, which is house people. Fill a bed, pay more. We didn't want a price that makes an operator hesitate before saying yes to one more person.

So it's one flat $60 per month, per home, with unlimited residents. Because Sober Living Companion is a program of a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit, your membership is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law — and it helps fund rent assistance and free transitional counseling for people in early recovery.

We have no investors and no ad networks. The price answers to the mission, not to a growth target. See where the money goes →

You can import your current residents from a CSV export, so switching doesn't mean retyping your roster at midnight. Export from whatever you're on now, send it over, and we'll help you get set up — often the same day.

If you're not sure what your export should look like, call (213) 321-6518 and a person will walk through it with you.

Recovery records are among the most sensitive data a small organization can hold. Sober Living Companion uses bank-level encryption in transit and at rest.

Role-based access means staff only see what they need — a house manager sees their house, not every house — and residents control their own accounts.