Rent and utility billing for Philippine rentals
Upa calculates rent and sub-metered kuryente and tubig for every unit, gives each tenant a statement they can check line by line, and records every payment against the right unit - so you always know who has paid.
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Sampaguita Apartments · Cabuyao, Laguna
September 2026
Collection rate
₱161,300 of ₱198,450 collected
Occupancy
22 of 24 doors
OccupiedVacant
Sampaguita Apartments
Unit 201 · Grace B.
August 2026 due Sept 5
Reading saved · Unit 201 · 1,720 kWh
The monthly grind
Most operators run their doors on a spreadsheet, a notebook and a Viber group. It works, until one mistyped digit turns into a ₱4,000 argument with a tenant.
How it works
Set up your units once. After that, billing day is a walk around the building and a few taps.
Your caretaker walks the building and types each reading into Upa on their phone. A reading lower than last month, or far above that meter's usual use, is flagged for a second look.
Meter readings
September 2026
Lower than last month - check the meter
Rent, kuryente, tubig, Wi-Fi, parking and penalties are computed per unit. Review the drafts, issue them, and send each tenant their statement link by Messenger, SMS or Viber.
Sampaguita Apartments
Unit 201 · Grace B.
August 2026 due Sept 5
Record each GCash, Maya, QR Ph, bank or cash payment against the right bill in seconds. Partial payments leave a clear balance; overpayments carry forward as an advance.
Pay buttons that post payments by themselves Rolling out
Payments
Recorded this week
Features
Grouped by what each one saves you: arguments, follow-ups, and guesswork.
The numbers come out right the first time, and every tenant can check them.
Generated for every occupied unit on the date you choose. Running it twice can never double-bill anyone.
Your rate per kWh and per cubic metre. Each statement shows previous reading, current reading, consumption and rate.
A fixed monthly charge, a minimum bill, or both, per utility and per property.
Move in on the 16th of a 31-day month and the rent is 16/31. Move-outs work the same way.
Recorded on every lease from day one, so the amounts are never reconstructed from memory.
Any recurring charge per lease, plus late penalties - flat or percentage - after your grace period, applied once.
Fewer messages, fewer "nag-send na po ako" screenshots, fewer guesses.
A private link per tenant, sent in one tap by Messenger, SMS or Viber. No account or app needed on their side.
Cash, GCash, Maya, QR Ph or bank transfer, with the reference number, against the exact bill it pays.
Part-payments leave a clear balance. Overpayments are kept as an advance instead of disappearing.
Before the due date, on it, and after - only to tenants who still owe.
A pay button on each statement, with the payment posting to the right unit by itself.
A login for your collector, with cash logged under their name and the daily remittance reconciled.
One screen that answers "how much is actually outstanding right now?"
Every bill this month with its status - draft, unpaid, partial, paid - and the balance left on it.
Collected against billed for the month, updated the moment a payment is recorded.
Owed but not yet late, kept apart from owed and past due - so this morning's bill never looks like a delinquency.
Occupied against total doors, across every property you run.
What is owed, split by how long it has been owed.
The same numbers broken down per building, for owners who want their own figures.
Rolling outmeans it is not in the app yet. We are building these with our founding operators and will not charge extra for them. Everything else works today.
Built here, for here
Foreign property software assumes flat rent and a tenant who pays by card. That is not the business you run.
A sub-meter per unit, a shared master meter split by aircons or headcount, or the Meralco and Maynilad bill passed through at cost.
Label your units the way you already do. If it has a tenant and a monthly bill, Upa bills it.
Two months deposit, one month advance - recorded on the lease from day one.
Record cash with a note of who received it, right next to every GCash and Maya payment.
Flat or percentage, your own grace period, applied the same way to everyone - and only once.
Runs in the browser on a ₱4,000 phone. If your caretaker can use Messenger, they can take readings.
Each building keeps its own due day, rates and penalties, side by side.
The product
Everything below is sample data from a 24-door apartment in Cabuyao, Laguna - the same screens you use from your first day.
Sampaguita Apartments · Cabuyao, Laguna
September 2026
Collection rate
₱161,300 of ₱198,450 collected
Occupancy
22 of 24 doors
OccupiedVacant
Bills this month
1 unit still needs a reading| Unit | Tenant | Total | Balance | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201 | Grace B. | 13,130.00 | 0.00 | Paid |
| 105 | Paolo R. | 7,850.00 | 0.00 | Paid |
| 110 | Liza M. | 8,755.00 | 3,755.00 | Partial |
| 203 | Jun A. | 9,340.00 | 9,340.00 | Draft |
| 302 | Mae S. | 9,800.00 | 9,800.00 | Overdue |
Sampaguita Apartments
Unit 201 · Grace B.
August 2026 due Sept 5
Meter readings
September 2026
Lower than last month - check the meter
Payments
Recorded this week
Recent activity
Sampaguita Apartments
Pricing
One plan with every feature. Empty units cost nothing, and the first 30 days are free with no card.
Effective monthly cost
₱972/month
The ₱900 minimum covers up to 20 doors.
You save ₱3,796 compared with paying month to month.
Start free for 30 daysNothing is charged during the 30-day trial, and no card is needed to start.
Founding operators
Upa is new, and we would rather say so. We are building the rest of it alongside a small group of operators who bill real tenants every month.
What we ask in return: honest feedback once a month, and permission to mention your business once it is working for you.
Why it is safe to try
Upa is new, so we will not show you quotes we do not have. What we can show you is how the trial works.
We load your first building with you and check it against last month's real collections.
Thirty days on your own tenants and rates. You judge Upa by your next statements, not a demo account.
₱45 per occupied door. No quote calls, no hidden tiers.
Ask and we export every record to a spreadsheet, including on your way out.
You talk to the people who build Upa. Usually within a few hours.
Questions
₱45 per occupied door per month. An empty unit costs nothing. There is a ₱900 monthly minimum, which covers your first 20 doors. It is not charged per tenant, per statement or per login.
Pay monthly, or commit for longer: six months is 5% less, a year is 10% less and includes free setup. Try the pricing calculator with your own door count.
Yes. 30 days on your real units and real tenants, with no card needed and nothing to cancel if you walk away. Everything works during the trial.
Yes. There is no contract beyond the term you paid for, and nothing renews automatically. When a term ends, your account becomes read-only: every bill, tenant and payment stays readable, you just cannot generate or record anything new until you pick a term again.
Probably not, if you sub-meter. The work that eats your evening is computing utilities and following up payments, and that is per-tenant work whether you have 8 doors or 80. Eight doors fall under the ₱900 monthly minimum.
Message us with your setup and we will tell you honestly if a spreadsheet is still fine for you.
Yes, that is the point of it. You set a rate per kWh and per cubic metre, plus any fixed or minimum charge. Enter each reading and Upa computes consumption and the amount for every unit.
The statement shows previous reading, current reading, consumption and rate, so a tenant can check the maths instead of arguing about it. Shared master meters, pass-through Meralco or Maynilad bills, and units on their own direct account are all supported too.
That bill waits as a draft instead of quietly billing ₱0, and your dashboard lists exactly which units still need a reading. Enter it and the draft recalculates. It is the most common way manual billing goes wrong, so Upa is built around it.
Rent is prorated by the days actually occupied. Moving in on the 16th of a 31-day month is 16/31 of the monthly rent. Move-outs are prorated the same way.
You choose per property: no penalty, a flat amount, or a percentage, after a grace period of your choosing. A penalty is added once per late bill, never stacked, and it appears on the statement as its own line so there is no surprise.
Yes - they pay you the way they already do, and you record the payment in Upa with its reference number against the right bill. Cash, GCash, Maya, QR Ph and bank transfer are all supported, and partial payments and overpayments are handled properly.
Pay buttons on each statement that post the payment by themselves are rolling out next. Until then, recording a payment takes a few seconds on your phone.
No. Upa runs in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer, including a budget Android phone. You can add it to your home screen so it opens like an app, but you do not have to.
You do. Ask us and we export your properties, tenants, statements and payments to a spreadsheet, including on your way out. A self-serve export button is being built.
Send us one building's units, rates and tenants. We will load them and show you next month's statements before you decide anything.
No card. No contract. No app to install.