Prepaid travel wallet · Philippines

Pay any local vendor in the Philippines, straight from your phone.

Pay the restaurant, the grocery, the car rental, or the dive shop, funded from your bank, Wise, or card. No local SIM, no GCash setup, no ATM hunt.

Prepaid & protected Built on licensed rails Launching across the Philippines
CocoSend · receipt#0042
Kanto Grill & Seafood
Moalboal · Cebu
Lunch, party of 6₱2,850.00
Paid from CocoSend balance · ~$46.27 USD Settled to vendor's GCash 09:42 · today
Salamat, thanks for paying local
How it works

Pay like a local, in three steps.

01

Top up

Add a balance from your bank, Wise, card, or stablecoin, and turn on auto-reload so it refills itself. Fund cheaply from home, with no fee on every little purchase.

02

Pay like a local

Scan the vendor's code to pay in seconds. They hear a confirmation chime the instant it lands.

03

They get pesos

CocoSend settles pesos into the GCash wallet the vendor already uses with locals. Same money, same place.

Why CocoSend

Every other way to pay a cash-only merchant has a catch.

Cash means ATM fees and poor exchange rates. Your home card isn't accepted at many places. A local wallet you can't set up. CocoSend gives you one fair rate that just works.

When you want to pay a cash-only merchantCocoSendCash / ATMForeign cardGCash
Works with any cash-only merchantYesYesRarelyYes
Setup needed on arrivalJust the app, from homeFind an ATMNoneSIM + local ID
Fees on small spendOne fair rateATM + FX feesFX + DCC markupLow
Instant proof of paymentYesNoNoYes
Available to a visitorYesYesYesNot really
The gap we close

GCash runs the Philippines. It just wasn't built for visitors.

Locals pay for everything by GCash. A visitor can't realistically set one up, so they're stuck with cash: ATM fees, poor exchange rates, and never the right change.

Without CocoSend

  • × GCash needs a Philippine SIM and a local ID check, impractical on a short trip.
  • × The unverified tier can't even send or withdraw, so it's not a real option.
  • × So it's cash only: ATM fees, weak exchange rates, hunting for exact change, and often no ATM nearby at all.
₱694B ≈ $12B

foreign visitor spend a year, much of it lost at cash-only merchants of all sizes.

With CocoSend

  • Pay any merchant straight from your phone, in pesos, at one fair rate.
  • Get an instant receipt every time, so there's never any doubt.
  • The vendor receives pesos in the GCash wallet they already use.

CocoSend settles into the vendor's GCash, never against it, so the person you're buying from is glad to take it.

Run a stall, shop, or tour?

Keep your GCash wallet. Gain every foreign customer.

See how it works for vendors
How CocoSend grows

Word of mouth, built in.

CocoSend spreads as visitors and vendors tell the sellers around them. Vendors earn a reward for a year for every vendor they bring on.

Visitors

Tell a vendor you love

Found a place that isn't on CocoSend yet? Tell them about it in seconds. They set up fast and free, so you can pay them next time.

Vendors

Invite other vendors

Share CocoSend with the sellers around you, and for a year you earn a reward whenever each one gets paid through CocoSend.

Everyone

It spreads on its own

Visitors tell vendors, vendors tell other vendors. The network grows by word of mouth, and vendors earn for every vendor they bring on.

Good to know

Questions visitors ask.

Not yet, we're putting the final pieces in place. Join the waitlist and you'll be among the first in when we launch, with no city gated off.

No. You load CocoSend with your own card or stablecoin and pay from that balance. The local SIM and ID checks that block visitors on GCash aren't needed.

You top up at one fair conversion rate, with optional auto-reload so you never run dry, then pay vendors with no extra fee per purchase. The cost is built into that one rate, with no surprise ATM withdrawals or dynamic-currency markups on small amounts.

CocoSend settles Philippine pesos straight into the GCash wallet the vendor already uses. They sign up once for free and link that wallet, and after that nothing changes in how they get paid.

Your balance is prepaid and held with a licensed payment partner, and you only ever spend what you've loaded. Every payment gives you an instant receipt.

When we launch you'll be able to invite a vendor who isn't on yet, on the spot. They're set up in minutes, and through the referral program you earn an ongoing reward. No city is gated off, so anyone can join from anywhere.

At launch, across the whole country, with no city gated off. The platform is built to spread on its own as visitors and vendors invite each other. Join the waitlist and we'll tell you the moment we go live.

Where we're going

The Philippines now. The region next.

The same gap exists in every cash-heavy tourist economy where visitors can't pay the people they buy from.

Now

Philippines

Launching open across the whole country and built to spread as visitors and vendors invite each other, all settling into the GCash everyone trusts.

Next

Southeast Asia

Bali, Thailand, Vietnam: the same gap and the same playbook on a new local rail.

Vision

The default rail

The way visitors pay local vendors across emerging markets, plus the software those vendors run on.

Early access

Be first to pay like a local.

Join the waitlist and we'll tell you the moment we launch, with no city gated off.

No spam. One note when we launch.
You're on the list. Salamat, we'll be in touch.