Philippine properties — city hotels, beach resorts, inns and pension houses — pay three separate taxes on their own revenue that have nothing to do with the BIR: OTA commission, card processing fees, and the time lost re-typing the same booking into four systems. Zitlin removes all three from one free account.
QR Ph at 0% commission
QR Ph is the national standard, and Zitlin builds it into the invoice itself. Generate a QR Ph from any room folio or restaurant bill, the guest scans it with their own banking or e-wallet app, and the funds settle directly into your bank account.
- No commission on any plan. Zitlin creates the code; it never handles the money, so there is no percentage to take.
- Settlement is direct — no gateway account, no rolling reserve, no waiting on a payout schedule.
- No card terminal required for domestic guests. Card payments you take separately are still recorded against the folio.
- Setup needs a QR Ph merchant ID from your acquiring bank, once, per property.
The same QR works on a restaurant bill as on a room folio, so a table can settle where it sits instead of queueing at the desk.
See all 16 supported QR payment systems →
QR Ph on every folio and every bill
The guest scans, the amount is already filled in, and the funds land in your account. No gateway, no terminal, no percentage.
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12% VAT, applied and itemised
Zitlin applies your configured VAT rate automatically and states it as its own line on the guest invoice, rather than absorbing it into the room rate. Corporate guests get a document they can actually claim against, and your month-end stops being a reconstruction exercise. Properties that are not VAT-registered generate clean bills with no tax fields at all.
The OTAs Philippine properties actually use
Zitlin's channel manager syncs two-way by direct API with Agoda, Booking.com, Traveloka, Airbnb, Expedia, Trip.com and 60+ more. Availability pushes on the booking event rather than on a timer, rates stay maintained 500 days ahead, and minimum-stay, closed-to-arrival, closed-to-departure and stop-sell rules sync per channel.
Every OTA reservation arrives as a complete folio with the payment already recorded. Nobody re-types a booking, and a Holy Week weekend does not turn into a double-booking cleanup.
How real-time OTA distribution works →
Rooms, restaurant and function rooms on one bill
A Philippine resort is rarely just rooms. Zitlin runs the rest of it in the same account:
- Restaurant POS — table orders and kitchen tickets, posting to a guest's folio or standing alone for walk-in diners.
- Function and event spaces — bookable alongside rooms, hourly or by the day, with food and beverage landing on the same bill.
- Housekeeping — room status updated from staff phones, so the desk sees what is clean without calling the floor.
- Cash drawer and shift handover — a float counted in and out per shift, with the difference recorded against the cashier's name.
- Direct booking engine — 0% commission bookings from your own website, embeddable anywhere you can paste a link.
English out of the box
Zitlin's app runs in English, which for most Philippine properties means no language question at all — front desk, housekeeping and kitchen staff all work in the interface as shipped. Where you have staff who would rather not, language is a per-user setting across eight languages, not a property-wide one.
Free forever
Unlimited rooms, POS, booking engine and invoicing free with no time limit and no credit card. Zitlin Pro starts at €19 a month with zero setup fee, staff training and data migration included — send a spreadsheet export from your current system and we load your rooms, rates and forward bookings for you.
Start free — most properties take their first booking within ten minutes, with our team alongside them on WhatsApp.