PlumblineEl Nido Questions

What owners ask me

Including the ones where the answer is no.

Money

Is it really paid once?

The work is. You pay me once and I never bill you again. No monthly fee. No commission on your orders. Nothing that renews on my side.

One thing does renew, and it is not mine: your own address on the internet, your domain name. It is registered in your name, on your account, and the registrar charges you for it once a year. I set it up for nothing and I take no cut. I will show you the exact price on the screen before you agree to anything.

What if I do not want to pay for a domain?

Then your page sits on a free address from the platform I build on. It works exactly the same, and it costs nothing.

Be clear about what you give up: that address belongs to the platform, not to you. If they ever change it, your stickers point at nothing and they have to be reprinted. Your own domain is a small cost once a year and cannot be taken from you. I will show you the registrar's own price before you decide. Most owners take the domain.

When do I pay?

Half when we start, half when it is live and working on your own phone. Not before.

What if I do not like it?

You see it before a single guest does, at your counter, on your phone. Changes at that point are expected and free. That is what the step is for.

Owning it

Has anyone actually bought one of these?

Not yet. You would be among the first.

Every tool here opens on your phone right now. I built them before anyone asked, so you can see the thing itself instead of a drawing of it. But no business here uses one every day, and I will not pretend otherwise. A tool only says Proven when a real business uses it daily and their name is on the card.

That is worth something to you, and it is the price. The price goes up once five businesses are using these every day. You would be buying before that.

What happens if you disappear?

Your page keeps working. The files are yours, on your phone and on the internet. They keep working without me.

If the domain is in your name, anyone can take over from there. That is the main reason I want it in your name and not mine.

Whose address is on the sticker?

Yours, from the first sticker printed. I never print a sticker that points at an address you do not own. A QR code on forty tables is the hardest thing here to change later.

Who changes my prices?

Four of these tools you edit yourself, on your phone. For the rest, you send me the change. A message, or a photo of the new board. It is live the same day. No charge, no limit, either way.

Using it

Do my guests have to download anything?

No. They scan the sticker and it opens, like any page. If they want to keep it, their phone offers to add it to the home screen. After that it opens like an app.

What happens where there is no signal?

Once the page has opened once, it stays on that phone — every price, every photo, your number. It opens again with no connection at all. That is the point of building it this way.

Do I need a computer?

No. Everything here is done on your phone, including the editing.

I have a Facebook page. Is that not enough?

For being found, it is often better than a website. For a guest at your table deciding what to order, it is not. They have to stop, open Facebook, search and scroll. Then they find a photo of a menu from last year. This opens on the table in front of them and works with no signal.

What I will not do

Can you take card payments inside the page?

Not a card machine, no. A real checkout needs a server running every day. A server costs a fee every month. That is the one thing this whole product is built against. It would also make me the person your guest argues with about a refund.

The tours and diving pages do have a deposit screen. It shows your own GCash or QR Ph code. There is also a card link for guests paying from abroad. The money goes from them to you.

Can it answer messages by itself?

Your WhatsApp already can, free. The Business app greets anyone who messages you first. It sends an away message outside your hours. It keeps saved replies for the questions you type twenty times a week. I set all three up on your phone at handover and it costs nothing.

Sending messages out for you is a different thing. It needs Meta's paid platform and a fee for each message. I do not offer it.

Can you do it in Tagalog?

Your own words, in any language, yes. You give them to me and I put them in. What I will not do is translate it myself. I cannot check a sentence in a language I do not speak. On a safety card, a guessed word can get someone hurt.

None of the tools is what I need.

Then we should talk about that instead. Tell me the job you keep doing by hand. I will say if I can build it, and what it would cost. I will also say if it is not worth building.

Still asking

If your question is not here, it is a better question than the ones that are. Send it.

₱15,000 for three tools, ₱8,000 for one.

Your name, your colours, your photos, your prices, printed stickers, and changes after that at no charge. Everything — your trade app and all four of the tools every business needs — is ₱25,000; a tool added later is ₱3,000. Paid once — no monthly fee, no commission, nothing that renews on my side. Your own domain name renews once a year, in your name, paid to the registrar.

Or tell me what you need →