Advanced adds automation, reporting, and Storefront tools to your existing Stora plan. It helps you reduce manual work, capture more leads, and make better data-driven decisions. This guide gives a short overview of each Advanced feature and links to detailed articles if you want to learn more.
What you get with Advanced
Advanced includes:
Checkout and Storefront features that help you capture more leads and sell add‑ons.
Pricing and revenue tools that keep prices and increases in line with demand and tenancy.
Automation features that manage units and smart entry for you.
Advanced reporting and analytics.
Integrations and developer tools.
Extra control over roles and permissions.
Early access to new Stora features
The sections below explain each area and where to learn more.
Checkout and Storefront features
Advanced Checkout
Advanced Checkout is a mobile‑optimised booking flow that breaks checkout into clear steps and adds upsell options.
Use it to:
Capture more leads.
Sell Products during checkout.
Keep the experience on brand.
📚 Learn more in Advanced Checkout explained
Add‑on Products
Products let you sell add‑ons like padlocks, packing materials, van hire, or admin fees.
With Advanced, you can:
Create one‑time and recurring Products.
Add Products to one‑off invoices.
Add Products to new and existing subscriptions.
Group and upsell unit types
Unit type groups let you organise and present unit types in ways that make sense for customers, such as indoor vs outdoor, or ground floor vs first floor. You can highlight certain groups and show “from” prices.
📚 Learn how to set this up in Unit type groups
Action Nudges
Action Nudges add small prompts on your Storefront, such as “Hurry, selling fast” or “Last few units left”, to draw attention to specific unit types.
They help you:
Highlight popular or scarce units.
Guide customers towards certain options.
📚 See how to configure them in Create an Action Nudge
Pop‑up forms
Pop‑up forms help you capture leads or share important messages on your Storefront.
You can:
Choose where and when the form appears.
Collect contact details for follow‑up.
Use different styles, such as full‑screen takeovers or smaller nudges.
📚 Learn more in Set up a Storefront Pop‑up Form
Pricing and revenue tools
Price Increases
The Price Increases tool helps you find customers who are due a price change and schedule updates in advance.
You can:
Filter subscriptions by tenancy length or last increase date.
Schedule increases or decreases on unit and insurance prices.
Control when customers are notified.
📚 See how it works in How to use Price Increases
Dynamic occupancy pricing
Dynamic occupancy pricing automatically changes the Storefront price of a unit type when its occupancy matches rules you set.
For example, you can:
Increase prices when occupancy is high.
Lower prices when occupancy is low.
Keep prices aligned with demand without updating them manually.
📚 Learn how to set it up in Dynamic occupancy pricing
Automation and smart entry
Automate unit reservation
Auto‑reservation automatically reserves units for new Storefront bookings and allocates them on move‑in day.
If move‑in is today, the unit becomes Occupied and the customer gets access instructions.
If move‑in is in the future, the unit is reserved until the move‑in date.
Automate unit deallocation
Auto‑deallocation automatically removes customers from their units at the end of their move‑out day, freeing units up for the next booking and keeping occupancy accurate.
📚 Learn more in Automate unit deallocation
Automate overlocking
Auto‑overlocking works with supported smart entry systems to remove access when payments fail, and restore it when customers pay.
You can:
Choose whether to overlock immediately or after a grace period.
Send customers an email with a payment link.
Automatically restore access when the payment succeeds.
📚 See Automate overlocking
Auto-availability
Auto‑availability keeps your unit types on the Storefront in sync with their real availability.
Stora can:
Switch a unit type from “bookable” to “collect leads” when it is full.
Switch it back to “bookable” when a unit becomes available again.
📚 Learn more in Auto‑update unit type availability
Smart entry integrations
Advanced includes support for integrating Stora with smart entry systems, so access can be managed automatically.
Reporting and analytics
Advanced Reporting
Advanced reporting gives you a flexible reporting centre with more detailed and filterable reports.
You can:
Switch between sites and date ranges.
Group data by day, week, or month.
Export data to CSV.
Use advanced reports such as recognised revenue, occupancy over time, and source reports.
📚 See the full list and behaviour in Learn about our advanced reports
Integrations and developer tools
Public API and webhooks
The Public API and webhooks let you connect Stora to other tools and automate workflows.
Use them to:
Sync customers, bookings, invoices, and units.
Trigger external automations when something changes in Stora.
Build custom integrations or dashboards.
📚 Start with Introduction to the Stora Public API
Zapier
The Stora Zapier app lets you build no‑code automations when something happens in Stora.
You can:
Trigger actions when bookings, invoices, subscriptions, units, or contacts change.
Connect to tools like Slack, HubSpot, Google Sheets and many others.
Build multi‑step workflows in a visual builder.
📚 Learn how to set this up in Automate tasks in Zapier
Roles and permissions
Staff member role
Advanced gives you more control over what team members can see and do.
You can:
Use the Staff role to limit access to sensitive settings and reports.
Early access to new features
Customers on the Advanced plan can get early access to new Stora features.
As an Advanced customer, you can:
Join the Early Access Space in the Self Storage Community to see what is coming next.
Discuss new features with the Stora team and other operators.
Try selected features before they are released more widely
📚 Visit the Early Access Space ↗ to take part.
What to do next
If you would like to see how Advanced works with your current setup, schedule a short call and we will walk you through the features and pricing.