For agents

Nothing, and it stays nothing. There is no listing fee, no subscription, no featured placement to buy, and nothing is taken out of what a guest pays you. The whole amount is yours, less whatever the payment processor charges for moving it, which is named as theirs.

Start at Become an agent. The application is six short steps and your progress saves as you go, so you can put it down and come back:

1. Personal details. Name and phone number.
2. Identity. Your NIN or a government issued ID.
3. Business and location. Whether you operate as an individual or a registered business, and where you are.
4. Documents. A photograph or scan of the identification, plus business registration if you are a business. Documents are required: an application with no identity document cannot be verified by anybody.
5. Payout account. The Nigerian bank account your earnings go to. We ask the bank whose account it is and store the name the bank gave, not the one typed into the form.
6. Review. Check it and submit.

Your documents go straight into a private store that only you and a reviewer can reach, and the reviewer opens them through short-lived links rather than downloading them. You get a reference, and you can follow the application at its status page. A person reviews it, not a script.

Approval gets you listing. Verification is a ladder of four rungs on top of it, climbed in order, and each one says something specific to a guest:

1. Identity seen. A real person with government identification stands behind this account, and we have seen it. Checked against: the NIN or government ID on the application, checked against the uploaded document.
2. Address confirmed. We know where they are, so an agent who disappears is not untraceable. Checked against: the residential or registered business address on the application, confirmed against a document or a reachable contact at it.
3. Bank account in their own name. Money owed to this agent goes to an account that belongs to them, not to somebody else. Checked against: the payout account resolved through the payment processor, with the returned account name matching the identity on file.
4. Met in person. Somebody from Vallo has met this agent or stood in one of their properties. Checked against: a visit or a live video call, recorded with the date and who did it.

A rung only counts with every rung below it passed, so nobody is promoted by a site visit alone. You can see where you stand at Verification in Agent Mode.

List a property walks you through it: what kind of place it is, where it is, how many rooms and how many guests it takes, photographs, amenities, and the price with any cleaning charge and any minimum stay.

Answer the light and water questions. They take a minute and they are the reason a guest picks your listing over the one beside it. Say what the grid gives the address, what your backup is and how many hours a day it runs, where the water comes from, and whether the unit is on a prepaid meter. An unanswered question is shown to the guest as unanswered, which is worse for you than a modest honest answer.

Fill in the gate details. Estate name, how to find the gate, the security post number and any access code. These are never public. They are released to a guest only once their booking is confirmed, which is why they can be specific enough to be useful.

A published listing is announced once in the place it sits in, so the people who live in that area see it.

Each listing has a calendar. Close nights you are not letting, up to 180 nights in one action, and reopen them the same way.

Nights held by a guest reservation and nights you closed by hand are different things, and the platform keeps them apart. When an unpaid hold expires, it reopens only the nights it took, and never a night you had closed yourself.

Bookings is your queue: who is coming, when, for how many nights, and for how much. Where a listing is not instant book, you accept or decline the request from here.

Accepting a request does not mean you have been paid. It makes the stay payable, and the guest pays it. The status on the booking says which of those two things has happened, so you are never told a stay is settled when no money has arrived.

Earnings reads the ledger, month by month: what was paid in total, your share, what the processor charged, and how many stays settled. It projects nothing and annualises nothing. If no money has moved, it says zero.

The platform share on every one of those rows is zero. Payouts go to the Nigerian account you added during your application, which you can change in Agent settings.

Guests review a stay after it finishes, and you can reply once, publicly, from Reviews. Enquiries about your listings arrive in your agent inbox. Answering quickly and honestly, especially about the light and the road, is what makes the difference here.