GiyaPay was born out of a need to rehabilitate Boracay Island.

Its mother company, BIMS- actually stands for “Boracay Island Management System”. This was an ambitious project started in 2019, where we worked with the Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force (BIATF), to design a more efficient system of collecting fees, easing transport, managing tourism, waste management, and sustaining and expanding jobs, while conserving the natural beauty of the Island.

This was in line with the Presidential directive to protect the tourism asset of Boracay in the decades to come.

BIMS designed a platform that consolidated all the areas of tourism, employment, collection, and rehabilitation– a solution that would have sustained the Island, while expanding the tourism contributions to the country’s GDP.

The introduction of GiyaPay

In March, 2020, the country was put on lockdown, and all tourism activity was suspended.

With the project shelved indefinitely, the BIMS team pivoted and focused their attention on their payment solution platform–GIYAPAY. 

GIYAPAY, initially designed to complement the IMS, was now the main focus of the company, as circumstances pushed the nation into the digital payments universe.

Since then, GIYAPAY has quietly grown by leaps and bounds–signing on merchants, service providers, and partnering with various LGUs.

Although GIYAPAY was born out of a ‘crisis’, the culture of advocacy towards making technology work to develop the country is still very much the driving force of the BIMS team.

The BIMS team continues to innovate and design platforms, and with the return of tourism, seeks to revisit its original Boracay advocacy–and make it even better.

Learn more about what GiyaPay and its capabilities by checking our website: https://giyapay.com