Run the weekend getaway marketplace for your city.
Boista lists resorts, private villas, farmstays and glamping sites within a few hours of India's metros, and gives each one a booking engine, guest CRM and the Weekender AI that turns traveller demand into offers. Travellers plan for free; properties pay a flat subscription and keep 100% of their bookings.
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A marketplace for travellers, a SaaS for the properties.
The problem
Indian trips are getting shorter and more last-minute: about two nights, decided days before, within a few hours' drive. Planning still means blogs, maps and WhatsApp. Independent resorts and villas lose a large cut of every booking to OTA commissions, never see their guests' details and sit empty midweek.
Who buys
Resort, hotel, villa, farmstay, homestay and glamping owners near Mumbai, Pune, Delhi NCR and Bengaluru subscribe. Working professionals, couples, college groups and office teams plan and book on boista.com for free.
How it earns
Subscriptions only: Standard, Premium and Ultra Premium, billed by STARTIONS. Boista takes no commission and never holds booking money; guests pay the property through the property's own payment gateway.
What travellers get, free.
Weekend Radar knows the long weekends; Weekender Buddy turns "who, from where, what vibe, what budget" into three ready plans.
Weekend Radar
The next long weekends for your city, two months ahead, with leave-bridge tips: take one day off, get four.
Weekender Buddy
Who is going, from where, the vibe and the budget. Three ready plans with drive time, per-head cost and when to leave.
Drive-time search
Stays ranked by door-to-door hours, not kilometres. Filters for pool, pets, workation Wi-Fi, student budgets and house rules.
Available this weekend
Rooms still free from Friday and the properties' flash deals, for travellers who book on the day.
Group trips
Invite by link, poll dates, vote on stays. Each member pays their own share to the property; nobody chases money.
Book direct
Instant or request-to-book, an advance through the property's own gateway, the balance at check-in, GST invoice for office trips.
You sell a dashboard owners actually use.
Every subscribing property gets its own workspace on the STARTIONS kit. As a Student Admin you demo it, onboard the owner and help them grow from Standard to Ultra Premium.
Listing and rates
Photos, amenities, house rules, drive times; weekday, weekend and long-weekend rates; extra guests and meal plans; a Verified badge after a document check.
Calendar and bookings
Availability grid, Airbnb and Booking.com iCal sync, holds, requests, check-ins, desk payments, phone and walk-in bookings.
Guests and enquiries
Guest list with tags and notes, an enquiry inbox with WhatsApp replies, coupon codes; CRM modules on Premium and above.
Dynamic pricing and packages
Flash deals, midweek fill, early-bird, occupancy and festival rules; room, meals and activities packages for couples, students and teams.
Weekender Pro
What travellers near the property asked the Buddy for, as counts, with one-tap offer suggestions. Autopilot approves the small ones on Ultra Premium.
Private by design
Guests belong to the property. Student Admins and STARTIONS see counts and totals, never a traveller or a booking.
Three plans, no commission.
- 1 property
- Booking engine, calendar with Airbnb/Booking.com iCal sync
- Razorpay, UPI and bank transfer through the property's own account
- WhatsApp and SMS guest messages
- Weekly demand digest
- Up to 3 properties
- Dynamic pricing and packages
- Group and corporate enquiries
- Weekender Pro suggestions
- Appointments, events and CRM essentials
- Unlimited properties
- Autopilot within the owner's cap
- Boista Select placement
- Stripe for international guests
- More CRM modules
Prices as set in Nirmata today. Founders and Co-Founders can edit them, never below the STARTIONS floor; every change is audit-logged.
What a Student Admin does.
Find
Shortlist resorts, villas, farmstays and camps in your city's weekend belt.
Onboard
Demo Boista on the live sample resort, start the owner's free trial, help load photos, rooms and rates, get them verified.
Support
Watch each property's health score, answer questions, curate destinations and long weekends, read the demand board.
Grow
Renewals, upgrades from Standard to Ultra Premium, more properties per owner, new clusters and metros.
Students never create tenants, change plans or see guest data: owners sign up on boista.com, and every plan change comes from a verified payment.
Everything a founder needs, from day one.
Your Nirmata panel
Boista's startup panel: properties funnel, verification, destinations, long weekends, demand board, finances.
Business email on boista.com
yourname@boista.com for every outreach and onboarding call.
Free tech support
The STARTIONS tech team runs hosting, payments, updates and fixes. You run the business.
Premium Bitrix24 CRM
Your pipeline of properties, tasks per role and invoices, synced with the kit.
A registered domain
boista.com is registered and live, with certificates handled for you.
Brand logo and identity
The Boista look, forest, cream and coral, across the site, the workspace and invoices.
A live product ready to sell
The site, the Weekender, the booking engine and the owner workspace are built. Your job starts at the first property.
Four roles, one profit pool, paid to students.
100% of Boista's net profit goes to its students; STARTIONS takes none of it. Each role has a share of the pool, split equally among that role's seats and paid once a year after the financial year ends, as Startup Execution Remuneration with TDS deducted.
Founder
Leads Boista, prices and edits packages, and sits on the Finance Committee that approves spending.
Co-Founder
Owns a department (Sales, Marketing or Operations), prices and edits packages, sits on the Finance Committee.
Teammate
Runs a sub-team such as Customer Onboarding, Support, Online, Branding, Tech or Finance. Views packages.
Intern
Learns inside a department alongside the team. Views everything; earns the experience and the certificate.
Five consecutive paid years with an active seat earn ownership: 11% shared by Founders, 11% by Co-Founders and 11% by Teammates, growing 20% a year on your dashboard certificate. A Major startup can take a ₹75,000 STARTIONS loan for operating costs on a unanimous vote of all 27 seats.
Who is already on the team.
This chart reads Boista's seats from Nirmata. A seat turns "Taken" the moment its payment is verified, so what you see open is open right now.
Seats and yearly fees by startup type
| Startup type | Founders | Co-Founders | Teammates | Interns | Seats | All seats, a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly seat fee | ₹97,200 | ₹72,900 | ₹40,500 | ₹18,000 | ||
| With readiness, 30% off | ₹68,040 | ₹51,030 | ₹28,350 | ₹12,600 | ||
| Solo | 1 | — | — | 5 | 6 | ₹1,87,200 |
| Micro | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | ₹3,96,000 |
| Mini | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 18 | ₹7,92,000 |
| Major This one | 3 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 27 | ₹11,88,000 |
| Mega | 4 | 8 | 8 | 16 | 36 | ₹15,84,000 |
Fees in INR, the same for every type, plus 18% GST. Seat fees are STARTIONS' income, not the startup's revenue. Each student chooses manual or automatic yearly renewal.
- Founder 80–100
- Co-Founder 60–79
- Teammate 40–59
- Intern 0–39
Clear the readiness test, get 30% off your seat.
Take the free Startions Readiness Score test: ten questions, about three minutes. Your score places you at a level, from Intern up to Founder. If your level matches the role you apply for, or is higher, you get a flat 30% discount on that role's annual seat fee.
| Your score | 30% off these seats |
|---|---|
| 80–100 · Founder level | Founder ₹68,040, Co-Founder ₹51,030, Teammate ₹28,350, Intern ₹12,600 |
| 60–79 · Co-Founder level | Co-Founder ₹51,030, Teammate ₹28,350, Intern ₹12,600 |
| 40–59 · Teammate level | Teammate ₹28,350, Intern ₹12,600 |
| 0–39 · Intern level | Intern ₹12,600 |
For example, a score of 65 is Co-Founder level: you get 30% off a Co-Founder, Teammate or Intern seat, but not a Founder seat. A score at Teammate level gets 30% off a Teammate or Intern seat only. Discounted fees shown are a year, before 18% GST. Your first attempt is free, and you can retake the test up to five times.
What a seat could pay back.
Move the sliders. Property subscriptions are Boista's revenue (ex-GST); approved costs come off; a tax reserve is kept aside; the rest is net profit, split into the role pools and shared per seat.
Plans: Standard ₹4,995 / Premium ₹9,995 / Ultra Premium ₹19,995 a month, ex-GST, as set in Nirmata today. Revenue counts in the month it is paid. Each role's pool is split equally among its seats, assuming every seat is filled; a role with fewer students pays each of them more. Paid once a year, after 31 March, with TDS deducted. A loss is not paid out and carries forward.
Money properties pay the startup each month, 24 months
An illustration from the numbers you set, not a promise. Income depends on the customers your team signs and keeps.
Four steps to your first property.
Book a clarity call
Thirty minutes on Boista, the open seats and what your first 30 days look like.
Pick your role
Founder, Co-Founder, Teammate or Intern, and the department you will run.
Take your seat
STARTIONS invites you; pay the seat fee and get your Nirmata login, boista.com email and Bitrix24 CRM.
Start selling
Demo the sample resort, start the first owner's free trial, get them verified and live.
Before you apply.
Do I need a tech background?
No. The product, hosting and payments are built and run by STARTIONS. You find, onboard and support properties and grow the marketplace.
Can I see travellers' or guests' data?
No. Guests belong to the property they book with. Students and STARTIONS see counts and totals only; the kit enforces this in code.
Who collects the subscriptions?
STARTIONS LLP bills every property and issues the GST invoices. Property subscriptions are Boista's revenue; your seat fee is STARTIONS' income.
When and how are students paid?
Once a year, after the financial year ends on 31 March, as Startup Execution Remuneration with TDS deducted: 100% of net profit by role pool, pro rata for mid-year joiners. If Boista makes a loss that year, nobody is paid and the loss carries forward.
How live is the seat chart?
It reads Nirmata, STARTIONS' admin panel, every 15 seconds. A seat shows as taken only after its payment is verified; a seat someone is still paying for shows as open. Names are never shown.
Is income guaranteed?
No. The calculator is an illustration from the numbers you set. Results depend on the properties your team signs and keeps.
Take a seat in the Boista team.
Book a clarity call and we will walk you through the open seats, the pricing and your first 30 days.