Keep your regulars close
When a customer flies home to the UK, Europe, America or Australia, he can keep talking, send a drink or choose a gift. A visit can become an ongoing connection with your bar.
For bar owners in Pattaya and Bangkok
Earn 24/7 from customers who aren’t even in Thailand.
Drinks, gifts and sponsorships from customers worldwide, while your bar is open and while it is closed. Paid to your bar the next day.
Get your bar started
Your full drink price
Receive your agreed in-bar price for each online lady drink. Your cashier pays the usual commission.
Paid next day
Your takings go to your bar by Thai bank transfer, in baht.
Your team. Your rules.
Manage your participating team and keep your bar’s rules on phone use.
Beyond the walk-in customer
The conversation can carry on after the holiday.
Up To You Ka connects customers with women who work in bars in Pattaya and Bangkok. Customers write in their own language. The ladies read and reply in Thai, through LINE or UTYK Ladies. Translation is built in.
Meet tomorrow’s visitors
Ladies can find customers in the app, say hello and invite them to bar events. When a customer plans a trip, he already has someone he wants to see.
Reach across time zones
An evening abroad can be a morning in Thailand. Customers can buy online around the clock, including before or after your bar’s opening hours.
Add another source of sales
Rain and low season can slow passing trade. Staying connected to customers abroad gives your team another opportunity to earn.
Drinks, gifts and sponsorships.
There is more than one way for a customer to spend. Your bar sets its own margin on shop gifts and sponsorships, and most bars set 20%, without buying or holding gift stock.
With or without livestreams
No camera crew. No corner of the bar set aside.
Start with personal conversations. There is no need to host a livestream or keep anyone on camera. Video calls are optional, when a lady chooses to make herself available.
Built around the bar.
We work with your bar and pay your bar. You manage your own team in the owner portal. Other bars cannot use their owner accounts to manage your ladies or view your takings.
The questions owners askGetting paid
Your prices. Your takings. Paid next day.
We collect the customer’s online payment. Your bar receives its agreed amount by Thai bank transfer the next day, and your cashier pays the ladies as usual.
An example, not a sales forecast
A ฿170 lady drink means ฿170 for your bar.
Suppose your agreed in-bar lady drink price is ฿170. Twenty completed online purchases mean ฿3,400 payable to your bar. You pay the usual commissions and cover your normal costs from that amount.
Illustrative daily takings
- Your agreed price
- ฿170
- Completed purchases
- 20 lady drinks
- Payable to your bar
- ฿3,400
Example only. Actual sales vary. This is revenue before your usual commissions and costs.
Where our service charge sits
The customer’s online price includes our service charge above your agreed drink price. It is not deducted from that agreed amount. We confirm both prices with you before your bar goes live, so the cashier knows exactly what to ring in.
The full drink price means your agreed in-bar price, not the full amount charged to the customer.
From the purchase to your bank
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Ring in confirmed purchases
Use a bin for the day’s online purchases. Put each confirmed lady drink on it at the bar’s agreed price, just as you would for a customer in the bar. A message saying “I bought one” is not a payment confirmation.
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Check the night’s takings
Check your bin against the purchases shown in the owner portal. You can send your bin photo and Thai payment QR through your agreed LINE chat. If something looks wrong, raise it with us; a photo helps explain the difference.
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Receive the next-day transfer
We calculate what is owed from completed customer purchases at your agreed prices and transfer to the bar in Thai baht. The bar then pays its team. You do not need to collect overseas card payments yourself.
Which day does a purchase belong to?
Takings follow your bar’s trading night, from one closing time to the next, using Thai time. A purchase after that boundary belongs to the following trading night. The owner portal shows the night, what is owed and transfers already recorded.
“Next day” refers to settlement after the trading night closes, not an instant transfer after every purchase. Payment is based on completed purchases; a bin photo is not a prerequisite for including them.
Refunds and card disputes
Once a purchase is completed, your bar is paid for it the next day. If the customer later asks for a refund or disputes the card payment, that is our cost. We do not take it back from your bar, and we do not deduct it from a later transfer.
Think of us as a customer who runs up a bin at your bar every day and settles it the next.
Shop gifts and sponsorships
Alongside drinks, customers can buy gifts in the Shop or sponsor a lady. Your bar sets its own margin on gifts and sponsorships, and most bars set 20%. There is no gift stock for the bar to buy or hold: the lady buys the chosen item herself.
The exact split and settlement are agreed at setup, so your cashier knows what the bar keeps and what goes to the lady.
Online lady drinks are soft drinks. Your team earns the agreed commission through the bar.
Running it in your bar
An online channel that fits your bar.
We work with your bar, and payments go to your bar. Your team gets another way to connect with customers, using familiar tools and following your bar’s rules.
Getting your team started
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Agree the setup
Tell us about your bar. Together we confirm drink prices, the share on gifts and sponsorships, payment arrangements and who will manage the account and purchases.
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Invite your participating team
Share your bar’s joining link with the ladies who want to take part. They link their accounts, give consent and complete the checks. Everyone participating must be 20 or over.
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Show them their inbox
Help each lady find her messages in LINE or UTYK Ladies. She reads and replies in Thai, and the customer reads the translation in his language. She can use her own words.
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Help the first sale go smoothly
Make sure the cashier knows where purchase confirmations arrive, what price to ring in and how to check the takings. Your portal brings your team, sales and payouts together.
A few useful habits
Before the shift
Catch up with conversations when available. A thoughtful reply or a greeting to a regular can keep the connection going between visits.
When there is news
Use Tonight to share birthdays, parties and bar events. Ladies can browse the customer directory, make first contact and reconnect with someone they recognise.
While the bar is open
Customers in the bar come first. Set clear times for answering online messages, and put the phone away when serving or sitting with a customer.
Your phone rules still apply
One workable rule is up to ten minutes of replies in a quiet hour, only when she is not with a customer. Choose a routine that fits your bar. Before and after work, ladies decide when they are available.
Purchases can arrive around the clock. That does not mean anyone has to answer around the clock. Replies, photos and optional video calls are personal choices.
Short training, in Thai
Your owner portal includes seven short Thai videos: using the app, building regular customers, events, greetings, lanyards, phone rules and sponsorships. Watch together or share them in the team’s LINE group.
Watch the Thai training videosRules
Rules for bars
A short list, so every bar knows where it stands. A bar on Up To You Ka agrees to these rules by staying on it.
Other apps
While a bar is on Up To You Ka, it must not run, host or promote another app or website that lets customers watch, message, tip or buy drinks for its staff, in the bar or online, and its staff must not send our customers to one.
Why this rule: ladies were using Up To You Ka to send our customers to other apps to pay there. Our marketing finds those customers, and a sale moved to another app pays nothing towards it.
Age
Everyone a bar brings onto Up To You Ka must be 20 or over. A bar must never add, or help to add, anyone younger.
Suspension
We reserve the right to suspend a bar that breaks these rules, and every lady who works there. We talk to the bar first, and a bar that agrees to stop is not suspended. While a bar is suspended it does not appear on Up To You Ka, and its ladies cannot send or receive messages, drinks or gifts. Their accounts are kept.
What the bar earned before the suspension is still paid.
Coming back
When the bar has stopped, it can ask us to lift the suspension. Once we lift it, the bar and its ladies come back as they were, with their conversations.
Leaving
A bar can leave Up To You Ka whenever it likes. Tell us and we take the bar off. What the bar earned before it left is still paid.
The questions owners ask
Does it cost the bar anything?
No. Joining is free. There is no setup charge and no monthly fee, and we never send the bar a bill. Our income is the service charge the customer pays on top of your price.
Who pays the ladies?
Your bar does. We transfer your bar’s takings to the bar. Your cashier or finance team then pays the ladies under your normal arrangements.
If she can earn drinks online, why would she come to work?
Because the money is at your bar. We never pay a lady at your bar directly. Every online drink is paid to the bar, and she collects her commission from your cashier under your rules. If your rule is that she has to be on shift to be paid, that rule covers online drinks too.
Who controls the bar’s team?
Your authorised owner account manages your own bar’s participating roster, joining links and profiles, including marking a lady as having left. Participation also requires her consent and the platform’s checks. Ladies can choose to leave the service.
What happens when a lady leaves my bar?
In the owner portal you put her on hold or mark her as having left. Customers stop seeing her, cannot find her and cannot write to her, and she cannot reply. Her conversations are kept: each customer can still read his own, and nobody else sees them. If she comes back, she is switched back on and has her conversations again.
Can another bar access my ladies through its owner account?
No. Owner management access is restricted to the venues granted to that account. Another owner does not get management access to your team, your takings or your payouts.
Can customers who meet my ladies here see other bars too?
Yes. Up To You Ka is a platform with many bars on it, in the way a social network has many bars’ pages side by side. That works for you far more than against you. Our marketing keeps bringing in customers from around the world, most of whom have never set foot in your bar, and your ladies can talk to all of them. The difference from a social page is that here those customers can pay.
What about someone trying to recruit through a customer account?
Recruitment is against the service’s terms, and we look for it. An AI system checks customers’ conversations for recruiting every five minutes, around the clock, and flags what it finds to a person. That person warns the account or removes it, and accounts have been removed within minutes of a flag. Ladies can report an approach from their own phone, and you can report one to us too. Someone can still register as a customer, and no platform can promise that an approach will never happen, but one made here is seen quickly and acted on.
What stops a lady giving a customer her LINE and being paid directly?
Nothing can stop someone handing over a number, online or across your counter, and once it is given it cannot be taken back. What we do is make it rare and visible. Customers are not allowed to ask for contact details or to arrange payment outside Up To You Ka. Conversations are reviewed for both, by automated tools and by a person. A first breach gets a written warning and a second closes the account. Your own read-only view of your bar’s conversations lets you see it too, and apply your bar’s rules.
Who at my bar can read the conversations?
Only the people you choose. The owner portal has a read-only view of the conversations at your own bar: nobody can write, change or delete anything in it. You decide who at the bar gets a portal account, and a manager without one sees none of it. Our privacy policy tells customers that a bar’s management can read them.
Will my bar or my ladies appear on your social media?
Only if you want that. Posting to our social accounts is switched on or off for each bar. With it on, a lady’s approved photos and clips can be posted with her name and your bar’s name. Tell us to switch it off and nothing from your bar is posted, and what was posted comes down. Each lady can also opt out for herself in UTYK Ladies.
Are livestreams public, and can we keep our bar out of them?
A live is public: anyone can watch it on Up To You Ka while it runs. Nobody at your bar has to go live. Whether your ladies’ lives are also sent to our channels on other platforms is switched on or off for each bar, as social posts are. Both are your decision. Tell us and we switch them off for your bar.
Where does my bar’s name appear?
On your bar’s own page, on your ladies’ profiles and on the bars page, which shows each bar’s logo and where to find it. Customers who want to visit a lady need to know which bar to walk into.
Are conversations used to train AI?
Yes, for one purpose: better translation. With a lady’s consent, her messages and their translations help train the translation model that sits between her and her customers, and a customer can switch his off. When the two understand each other properly they build a real connection, and that is what brings sales to your bar. The privacy policy has the detail.
Do we need to livestream or offer video calls?
No. Your team can start with messages. Photos, clips and video calls are available, but running a livestream is not a condition of joining. A lady chooses when she is available for a call.
Is this only for small bars?
No. The bars here run from around ten ladies to more than sixty, and include open-fronted bars, gentlemen’s clubs and gogo bars, among them a large gogo on Walking Street in Pattaya. Massage shops have started joining too. The basics are the same at any size: your ladies reach customers they would never otherwise have met, at any hour, and some of those customers come to Thailand and walk into your bar. We are happy to run a trial at a bar of any size.
Is there a contract to sign?
No. Up To You Ka is an online service, and the agreement is what is published: the service terms and the rules for bars on this page. Your drink prices, your margin on gifts and sponsorships and your payment details are confirmed with you at setup. There is no minimum term, and you can leave whenever you like.
Are sales guaranteed?
No. This opens another way to reach customers. Results depend on customer interest, participation and the conversations your team builds. Regular, personal replies give those connections a chance to grow.
Let’s talk about your bar.
We agree your prices, explain settlement and help your team get started. Ask us anything before you decide.