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Messenger booking links
A guest asks in chat, you send one link — dates, room and price already filled in. They tap, confirm, and the booking lands in your calendar without anyone retyping a thing.
Homestays · Rental houses · Inns · Small resorts · Boarding houses
Guests book direct. You keep the whole payment.
Balay turns your Facebook chats into confirmed, paid bookings — on a website with your name on it. No commission, ever.
villa-malaya.bitzstacks.com — a live Balay property
The arithmetic
Every travel-site booking costs you 15%
Booking.com, Agoda and Airbnb bring guests — and take a commission on every one. Direct bookings don't.
Your revenue
₱150k/mo
a typical small property, half its bookings arriving through travel sites
The commission
−₱11,250/mo
at a typical 15% — ₱135,000 gone every year
The fix
1 in 7
bookings moved to direct and Balay has paid for itself — the rest is money you keep
Illustration at a typical 15% commission; travel-site rates range roughly 10–25% and change over time.
Who it's for
Rooms, houses, beds — if guests stay in it, Balay runs it
Not just resorts. Any Philippine property that takes guests — for a night, a weekend, or a semester.
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Rental houses & villas
The whole house to one group — weekends, holidays, family reunions. One listing, one calendar, no double-booked long weekend.
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Homestays & B&Bs
A few rooms in your home, sold by the night, run from your phone between everything else you do.
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Inns & pensions
Front-desk basics — arrivals, bills, room status — without front-desk software prices.
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Small resorts
Overnight stays and day-use swimmers on one calendar, with turnover time between them enforced automatically.
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Boarding houses
Rooms let by the week or month. You define how a stay is sold — Balay keeps who is in which room, and what is owed.
Something in between?
Rooms, sessions and policies are all yours to define — tell us how your place works and we'll set it up that way.
Ask us →How it works
Done for you, then run from your phone
No self-serve setup wizard to fight through. We configure your property with you — then the day-to-day fits in your pocket.
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We set everything up for you
Rooms, rates, policies, photos, your GCash details — configured with you in a working session. You never face an empty admin screen.
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Guests book on your own website
They pick dates, see the price, and pay by GCash or bank transfer. Or — when they message you instead — you send a link that fills itself in.
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You confirm from your phone
The payment screenshot sits beside the amount owed. One tap to confirm, the calendar updates, and that room can never be sold twice.
Built for how the Philippines actually books
Not a foreign tool with the prices translated
Messenger conversations, GCash screenshots, rebooking instead of cancelling, senior and PWD discounts — first-class, not workarounds.
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Your own booking website
A real website with your name on it — your rooms, your photos, your policies, your colours. Guests find you on Google and book without messaging anyone.
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Double-booking, made impossible
The calendar is enforced by the database itself — not by hoping everyone checked first. Overnight stays, day tours and maintenance blocks all count against the same room, so two guests can never hold one bed.
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GCash and bank transfer, done properly
Your GCash QR and account details on the booking page. The guest uploads their payment screenshot, you verify it against the amount owed — side by side, on your phone. No card machine, no gateway fees.
See it, don't imagine it
Two sides of the same booking
Villa Malaya is a live Balay property — what its guests see, and what its owner sees. Browse it, run a search, walk through checkout.
Ready when you are
One honest note: Balay cuts the cost and the effort of the bookings you earn — it isn't a marketing channel that fills rooms by itself. If that trade sounds right for your property, let's talk.