Carries all twelve — every tick pinned by our own test suite to what the platform runs.
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Buildium is serious software — for an American portfolio. Rentals and community associations, US banking, US law, USD pricing. Below, the twelve things a Philippine estate actually needs; every verdict on their side names its source and the day we checked it.
Every tick on our side is running code you can open in a live demonstration, today, without signing up.
At a glance
Premises carries all twelve in running code. Buildium carries none, 4 partly.
Carries all twelve — every tick pinned by our own test suite to what the platform runs.
Open the live demonstration →Association accounting is genuinely theirs — a US HOA is well served there.
Premises vs Buildium, in full →Where it is decided
Twelve rows are below. These three are the ones an estate coming off Buildium feels in the first week.
▶ a still from the shortstay payouts filmMoney
A tenant in Cebu does not carry a Visa card. If the platform cannot take the way Filipinos pay, every payment is a phone call and a bank slip.
▶ a still from the apartments invoices filmMoney
Every peso that lands has to be receipted the BIR way, from the same book that raised it. A foreign platform has never heard of the EOPT.
▶ a still from the shortstay door filmMoney
A price you can plan on in the currency you collect in. No slice of the rent or the booking, no dollar tier that moves with the exchange rate.
The twelve, with sources
The same twelve rows for every kind of software. Where we could not verify a thing, the cell says so and wears no verdict.
| What a Philippine estate needs | PremisesCebu, Philippines 12 | BuildiumBoston 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Money | ||
GCash, Maya, QR Ph and cash at 7-Eleven A tenant in Cebu does not carry a Visa card. If the platform cannot take the way Filipinos pay, every payment is a phone call and a bank slip. | carries it the tenant or guest pays the way Filipinos pay — no card needed | |
The OR register, the EOPT way Every peso that lands has to be receipted the BIR way, from the same book that raised it. A foreign platform has never heard of the EOPT. | carries it official receipts numbered the BIR way, from the same book | does not no BIR official-receipt register — the books it keeps are US books www.buildium.com · checked 31 Aug 2026 |
Flat pesos, never a percentage A price you can plan on in the currency you collect in. No slice of the rent or the booking, no dollar tier that moves with the exchange rate. | carries it a peso price you can plan on, never a slice of your rent | partly USD tiers, $62–$400 a month, plus per-transaction fees on payments www.buildium.com · checked 31 Aug 2026 |
| Papers | ||
Signatures that stand up (RA 8792) A lease signed on a phone that a Philippine court accepts, with the evidence kept. | carries it a lease signed on a phone that a Philippine court accepts | |
White label, all the way down Your name on every page and every paper, not ours — the tenant never learns who built it. | carries it your name on every page and paper, not ours | |
| The house | ||
The gate — person, vehicle, parcel, certified Who came in, what they drove, what they carried. An estate has a gate, and the gate keeps a book; software that runs the estate keeps it too. | carries it who came in, what they drove, what they carried — the guard’s book | does not no gatehouse — visitors, vehicles and parcels are not its world www.buildium.com · checked 31 Aug 2026 |
A real front desk with the night audit Check-in, the folio, the night’s close. A property that lets by the night needs a desk, not a calendar with a price on it. | carries it check-in, the folio, the night’s close — a hotel’s real desk | does not residential portfolios only — no front desk, no night audit www.buildium.com · checked 31 Aug 2026 |
Every channel’s calendar, both ways Airbnb, Booking.com and Agoda in and out of the one calendar, so a door is never sold twice. | carries it Airbnb, Booking.com and Agoda in and out, so a door is never sold twice | |
Your own booking door, 0% fee Your own page that takes a booking without a commission, so the channel is a way to be found and not the only way to be paid. | carries it your own page that takes a booking without a commission | |
| The business | ||
Payroll: SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, 13th month The guards and the cleaners are paid with SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG and the thirteenth month done — from the same book as the rent. | carries it the guards’ and cleaners’ pay with the government’s share done | |
Answered in Philippine hours Someone answers when Manila is awake, in your hours, in words a person wrote. | carries it someone answers when Manila is awake | not yet verifiedwe could not verify this on their pages — tell us and we will print it |
Six businesses in one book The long lets next to the short stays, the dues next to the beds — one book for the whole business, not one tool per kind of door. | carries it apartments, buildings, HOAs, beds, hotels and short stay in one set of books | partly rentals and associations — association accounting is a real strength; no hotel desk, no bed space www.buildium.com · checked 31 Aug 2026 |
Where they are genuinely better
Association accounting is genuinely theirs — a US HOA is well served there.
Where Premises is the only answer
12 of the twelve that Buildium does not carry, on their own pages, on the day checked.
The price, beside theirs
Flat pesos for the whole estate — never a percentage of what you collect. Six months free first, then month by month.
premises.ph/priceUSD tiers, $62–$400 a month, plus per-transaction fees on payments
www.buildium.com · checked 31 Aug 2026Moving in
The doors, the tenants or the rooms, the balances — loaded from your spreadsheet before your first login. Six months free, then month by month, and never a percentage of what you collect.
No card. No contract. Your data is yours to take out, any day.
Asked before switching
We did, on Buildium’s own public pages, on the date printed in each cell. Our deploy gate goes red when a date passes 90 days, so a claim is re-checked or it comes down. Seen otherwise? Tell us at /support and we will print it.
Yes. Premises reads any calendar that speaks iCal and answers with its own feed, exports every book as a spreadsheet, and nothing in it locks a door. Most estates retire the second tool within a quarter; nothing forces it.
Nothing, up to fifty properties, on every plan. You send the export and a person on our side loads it — doors, people, balances, dates — before your first login. Over fifty, or coming off software we have not seen, we scope it first and give you the date before you commit.
No card, no contract, every module open. On day 181 you choose month by month or the yearly term, or you export your books and leave with them.
Your Buildium export loaded before your first login, every module open, priced in pesos from month seven.
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