BookYah: Bantayan Services

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About this app

BookYah is the booking app for Bantayan Island, Cebu — Madridejos, Bantayan and Santa Fe. Book verified local providers for massage and hilot, house cleaning, repairs, catering, motorbike rentals and island hopping.

Find a manicurist, a hilot, a cleaner, a plumber, a cook for the fiesta or a pump boat for island hopping, all from people on the island. See who they are, agree the price between you, and pay them in cash when the job is done. BookYah never touches your money.

HOW IT WORKS
• Browse by service and see who covers your town: their photo, what they offer, their rating and how many jobs they have done recently.
• Request a time, and make an offer. The provider can accept or counter; you can counter back. Nothing is booked until you both agree.
• Need someone right now? Send an ASAP request. Providers who are free answer with their price and how soon they can arrive — you choose who comes.
• Chat in the app, get reminders before the booking, and see "On my way" when your provider sets off.
• When the job is done, pay the provider directly in cash, then rate each other.

WHAT YOU CAN BOOK
• Beauty — manicure, pedicure, haircut, hair colour, makeup
• Wellness — massage and hilot, reflexology
• Home care — house cleaning, laundry, gardening, aircon cleaning
• Repairs — plumbing, electrical, carpentry, welding, aircon and ref repair
• Food and events — home cooking, catering, sound system, photography, videography, hosting
• Care — caregivers and tutors
• Rentals and recreation — motorbikes and scooters, bicycles and e-bikes, tricycles and vans to drive yourself, pump boats for island hopping, pickleball courts, videoke, and vans with a driver for day tours

Can't find what you need? Tell us — the list grows from what people ask for.

PICKLEBALL OPEN PLAY
• Courts on BookYah can run drop-in open play. Check in at the court with your court pass or the court's poster, and the app keeps the line: who's up next, which court is free, who won.
• Courts can open on a schedule, and when no staff are around the players run the board themselves.
• See your games after the evening, and join the monthly leaderboard only if you want to.

BUILT ON TRUST
• Every provider is checked by our team against a government ID before they appear in the app.
• Customers verify their phone number, or have an ID approved, before their first booking.
• Reviews are blind: neither side sees the other's review until both have written one, so nobody rates in retaliation.
• Your phone number is never shown to a provider. A provider's number is shown only if they choose to share it, and only once your booking is confirmed.
• Report or block anyone, from their profile or from a chat.

FOR PROVIDERS
Manicurists, masseuses, cleaners, repairmen, cooks, drivers, boatmen and rental shops: list what you offer, set your own hours and prices, and get booked by customers on the island. Court owners can run open play evenings from a phone, or let the players run them. No platform fees, ever — you are paid by the customer, in cash.

BookYah is for adults 18 and over.

Questions? [e-mail]

What’s new

Stop a job that can't go on. If a job has started but can't be finished, either of you can now tap Stop this job at the bottom of the booking and choose a reason: couldn't finish, had to leave, didn't feel safe, or something else. The job ends right away and is marked Stopped, not Completed. If you choose "Didn't feel safe", the BookYah team is told.

New services: Computer repair and Cellphone repair, under Repairs & trades.

Plus small fixes for open play.