StarRez is a housing accommodation automation software company focused on student housing and residential community management. Its unified SaaS platform supports the accommodation journey across on-campus, off-campus, and short-stay operations, helping organizations manage applications, assignments, resident engagement, operational workflows, and event-related housing within one environment.
The company structures its offering around housing management, residence life, operations, and conference & events. That approach enables institutions and residential operators to connect resident data, communications, finance, and service delivery instead of relying on disconnected tools. StarRez is built for organizations that need configurable workflows, cloud delivery, and stronger visibility across the resident lifecycle.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
StarRez combines resident self-service, administrative workflows, occupancy and roommate management, community operations, billing, inspections, maintenance, and conference workflows in a configurable cloud platform. It is designed to help housing and accommodation teams automate repetitive work, centralize resident records, and manage high-volume processes such as move-in, room selection, and seasonal event activity.
The platform extends through analytics, AI-enabled assistance, mobile tools, and a partner ecosystem. StarRez supports integrations with major student information and enterprise systems such as Ellucian, Anthology, Workday, Jenzabar, Oracle, and Tribal Group, alongside partners for e-signature, communications, workflow automation, and related campus services. It also offers API-based integration options and operates on Microsoft Azure.
Products and Services
- StarRez Intelligence: AI capabilities embedded across the platform to support generative writing, conversational data exploration, insight summaries, and workflow automation for housing and conference operations.
- Reporting & Analytics: Dashboards, prebuilt reports, report generation, and report design tools that help teams monitor operational, occupancy, and financial performance.
- Rez 360: A resident profile workspace that brings together housing details, engagement history, communications, incidents, packages, and other activity in one view.
- PortalX: A configurable self-service portal for applications, contracts, room selection, appointments, payments, maintenance requests, and resident communications.
- StarRez Web: The web-based administrative environment for managing housing operations, assignments, workflows, billing, communications, and day-to-day staff processes.
- College Pads: A university-branded off-campus housing platform and listing marketplace that helps students find rentals and helps institutions support the transition from campus to community.
- Conference & Events: A solution for conference and event housing that supports quoting, contracts, guest and group management, billing, communications, and event execution.
- Inventory & Inspections: A paperless room and asset management solution for condition reports, inspections, photos, barcode scanning, and audit-ready tracking.
- StarRez Channels: A channel management module that synchronizes inventory, pricing, and availability between StarRez and online travel agency channels from one interface.
- Visual Room Selection: An interactive room selection experience that lets residents navigate campus maps, buildings, floorplans, and rendered room views before choosing space.
- StarRez Go: A mobile app that gives staff on-the-go access to inspections, check-ins, maintenance, and other operational tasks.
- Billing & Finance: Automated billing tools for housing and event charges, prorates, payment visibility, and related financial reporting.
- Iris Conference Software Suite: A conference and events platform from Seattle Technology Group that supports rooms, dining, guest services, registration, and emergency information management.
Target Customers
StarRez primarily serves higher education institutions that manage student housing, residence life, and campus conference or summer event programs. Typical users include housing operations teams, residence life professionals, conference and events staff, front-desk teams, and administrators responsible for occupancy, compliance, finance, and resident experience.
Beyond traditional campus housing, StarRez also targets purpose-built student accommodation and student property management providers, along with organizations operating staff housing, build-to-rent, co-living, and boarding school residential communities. It is well suited to operators that need configurable workflows, self-service resident tools, off-campus housing support, and integrations with SIS, finance, payment, and communications systems.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Azure Marketplace: StarRez is available through Azure Marketplace as a cloud subscription offering, aligning with its Microsoft Azure-based delivery model for housing, residence life, and conference management operations.
Key People
- Jason Day: Chief Executive Officer
- Travis Knipe: Executive Chairman
- David Meale: President
- Edward Casey: Chief Operating and Financial Officer
- Matthew Baumgartner: Chief Technology and Product Officer
- Brendan Daly: Chief Customer Officer
- Chris Glanzman: Vice President, Marketing
- Rafe Hart: Vice President, Security
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States
- Employees: 201-500 employees
- Annual Revenue: $100M-$250M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: At least 4 acquired businesses, including College Pads, Adirondack Solutions, Residential Management Systems, and Seattle Technology Group
- Publicly Listed: Private
