Live profiles pass through identity and activation gates.
Bayu starts every account as non-live. Users must complete profile setup, identity verification, and a one-time activation fee before appearing in discovery.
Identity-verified profiles
Activation exists to reduce fake accounts, bots, underage users, and spam.
$6 message requests
A payment only lets the sender message. It does not buy attention, replies, dates, or outcomes.
Boundaries are product rules
Recipients can reply, ignore, block, or report. Harassment after payment can remove the sender.
Built around clear financial language.
No subscriptions, no stored balances, no deposits, no credit packs. Activation and paid message requests are separate one-time purchases with explicit disclosures.
$5 activation
Activation is not a Bayu balance, wallet, credit, or refundable deposit.
$6 message request
The sender purchases the ability to send messages in one specific Bayu chat.
$5 pending earning
Recipients may become eligible after fraud, chargeback, and payout verification review.
Starting with Austin, then expanding carefully.
Bayu is designed for a controlled beta. Phase 1 starts in Austin, Texas, with waitlist support for planned expansion cities and geofencing for states that require additional legal review.
Core disclosure
A Bayu message request payment lets you send messages in a specific chat. It does not guarantee that the recipient will read, reply, continue messaging, meet, date, or interact with you.
After a paid message request is completed, the recipient may become eligible for a $5 earning after platform and servicing fees are applied. Recipient earnings are not payment for a reply, read, date, meeting, romantic outcome, sexual outcome, companionship, or continued interaction, and remain subject to eligibility, fraud review, chargeback review, payout verification, processor approval, and Bayu policies.