Pricing, in plain peso terms
Unidorms is free for landlords — they keep 100% of their rent. Students pay one platform fee per booking that covers verification, secure payment, and dispute resolution. No commissions. No hidden cuts. No surprises at checkout.
List for free, keep 100% of your rent. We never take a commission on a lease — ever.
Students pay a single fee per booking, tiered by the unit's rent. That's the only money we make.
When a landlord credits your platform fee to your first month, your fee comes back to you — look for the 1st-month credit badge.
Why we charge what we do
We could let anyone list for free and walk away. We don't — because what makes Unidorms worth using is that every booking is verified, paid securely, and backed by a real 24-hour move-in guarantee. That costs money to run, and the platform fee is how we fund it. It's also, plainly, how we stay in business — and we think that's a feature, not fine print.
For students, it buys safety
- A verified landlord and a real unit — checked before you pay a peso.
- Your money moves through Unidorms, never wired in cash to a stranger online.
- A team to escalate to if a booking goes wrong — not just the landlord.
- A 24-hour move-in guarantee: if the unit isn’t as listed, report it within a day of move-in and get your platform fee back in full.
For landlords, it brings serious students
- Inquiries come from students who already passed verification — fewer time-wasters and no-shows.
- You keep 100% of the rent and the deposit. We never take a commission on your lease.
- The fee is the student’s — never deducted from your payout, so your economics stay clean.
- Optionally credit it to a student’s first month to win the booking — your choice, your edge.
Our only revenue is this one transparent platform fee — never a hidden slice of your rent, never a markup you can’t see. So we make money in exactly one situation: when a real student and a real landlord complete a safe, verified booking. We have no reason to inflate a price, bury a cost, or push a listing we haven’t checked — doing any of those would cost us the only thing we actually sell. Profitable and honest point the same direction here, and that’s by design: the fee keeps the lights on and keeps our incentives pinned to yours.
The platform fee, by rent tier
One fee per booking — never monthly. The amount scales with the unit's rent so a budget room never carries a premium-room fee.
Every fee covers landlord verification, secure payment, dispute resolution, and the 24-hour move-in guarantee. You always see the exact amount before you confirm — it's shown on the booking summary, never sprung on you.
Why three tiers?
The fee scales with rent because higher-value bookings need more verification and dispute handling — here’s the logic:
- A higher-rent booking puts more money in play on both sides — more for the student to commit, and more for the landlord to lose to a no-show.
- The platform fee funds landlord verification, secure payment, dispute resolution, and the 24-hour move-in guarantee — so it scales in step with the booking.
- It stays proportional and fair both ways: a budget room never subsidizes a premium one, and every booking is covered in line with what’s actually at stake.
A real example
Say you book a ₱10,000/month unit. That's the Standard tier, so the platform fee is ₱2,500. Here's both ways it can play out.
- Monthly rent
- ₱10,000
- Platform fee (Standard)
- ₱2,500
- Credited to month 1 (when your landlord offers it)
- −₱2,500
- First month total
- ₱10,000
- Months 2 and on
- ₱10,000 / mo
The fee effectively nets to zero — you pay the same as the rent, and you still get everything the fee covers.
- Monthly rent
- ₱10,000
- Platform fee (Standard)
- ₱2,500
- First month total
- ₱12,500
- Months 2 and on
- ₱10,000 / mo
You pay the fee once, on top of your first month. You're still verified, paid securely, and covered by the 24-hour move-in guarantee — the wedge over an unverified free listing.
What the platform fee covers
It isn't a middleman cut. It's the cost of making an online booking with a stranger actually safe.
We confirm the landlord and the unit are real before you ever pay — identity (KYC) and listing checks.
Pay through GCash, Maya, or card via Xendit — not cash handed to a stranger you met online.
If something goes wrong with the booking, you have us to escalate to — not just the landlord.
If the unit isn't as listed, report it within 24 hours of move-in with a few photos — we verify fast and refund your platform fee in full.
Cancellation & refunds
Every booking locks in one refund policy — Flexible, Moderate, or Strict — shown on the listing and frozen at checkout. A landlord can never change it after you book.
100% of the platform fee back any time before move-in.
100% back up to 5 days before move-in; 50% back within 5 days of move-in.
100% back if you cancel 7+ days before move-in; 0% inside 7 days.
Whichever tier applies, the 24-hour move-in guarantee still returns your full fee if the unit isn’t as listed, and a landlord-initiated cancellation always refunds you in full. Full details in the reservation & cancellation policy.
It's free, and it stays free
The platform fee is the student's, not yours. You list, you get verified tenants, you keep every peso of rent.
No commission on the lease. Not on month one, not ever.
Listing is completely free. The student's fee is what funds the platform — it never comes out of your rent.
Choose to credit the fee to a student's first month and your listing shows it — a real edge when they're comparing.
Why we charge students, not you: a genuinely verified marketplace costs money to run. Charging the side that's choosing safety — and never taking a cut of your rent — keeps your economics clean and our incentives honest.
Quick answers
No — it's one-time, paid once when you book. After that you only pay rent to your landlord.
It's the landlord's choice. When a landlord offers it, you'll see the 1st-month credit badge on the listing — you can filter for it in browse.
You still get a verified landlord, a secure payment, dispute resolution, and the 24-hour move-in guarantee. That's what the fee buys, credit or no credit.
If the landlord credits the fee, your total is the same as the rent — but verified, with a refundable fee and a 24-hour move-in guarantee. Free, unverified listings can cost far more when a deposit disappears.
Nothing. Listing is free and we take 0% commission on rent. Students pay the platform fee; landlords keep 100%.
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