Why Premises
The case for the platform: what we built differently, what it costs, where it is going.
- Read this one firstWhy property management software in the Philippines usually fails small landlords — and what we did differently
Most property software is built for big US portfolios and priced per door. Why that fails a small Philippine building, and the four choices we made instead.
→ - What it costs: free up to five doors, and $29 a month above that
Free up to five doors on the Free plan. Premium is $29 a month up to 30 doors, the first six months free. Enterprise from $89. Never a cut of your rent.
→ - Ten hours a month back: what a building manager stops doing by hand
Invoices, reminders, receipts, the cleaning rota, the accountant's pack: what Premises takes off a manager's desk each month. With a calculator.
→ - Spreadsheet vs Premises: the same month, side by side
A real landlord's rent sheet next to the same month in Premises. Where the sheet breaks — partial payments, vacancies, a broken total — and why we can't.
→ - Built by a landlord, run on a real building first
Premises was written to run one apartment building in Pampanga before anyone else used it. What that means for how it works, and what it won't pretend to be.
→ - One workspace per business, one database per customer — why that design keeps your data yours
Every Premises workspace has its own database and its own encryption key. What that means for privacy, bugs, backups, and leaving with everything you own.
→ - No app store, no install: why a web platform is the right shape for Philippine buildings
Premises is a website, not an app to install. Why that suits a building with owners on laptops, cleaners on old phones and tenants on anything.
→ - Fast on a 2019 phone: performance as a feature
Premises pages are under 60 KB and open in about a second on 3G. Why speed is a feature for cleaners, guards and tenants on older phones. With a calculator.
→ - What it costs to not chase rent: the arithmetic of late invoices
Late rent is cash you lend tenants for free, and the longer it runs the more never arrives. The arithmetic for your building, and what a chase list changes.
→ - From one building to a portfolio: how the platform grows with you
Start with one building, add a subdivision, then condos in towers you don't run. How Premises handles several places of different shapes under one login.
→ - White-label: running Premises under your own name for your own clients
Property managers can run Premises under their own brand and domain: your logo, colours, address and your clients' workspaces. What is and isn't included.
→ - Our roadmap and how customers shape it
What Premises connects to today (Airbnb), what comes next (other short-stay platforms, calendar sync, payment links), what waits, and what we won't build.
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