Sell seats per sailing, cap by vessel capacity, and cancel weather days without a phone marathon.
No monthly platform fee — a 1.5% online booking fee on online bookings.
Every vessel has a different capacity, so one shared calendar always overbooks something.
Weather cancellations mean calling every guest individually.
Manifests for the Coast Guard get rebuilt by hand before each sailing.
A boat tour is capacity-capped by a certificated passenger limit, and that limit is not negotiable at the dock. Availability has to be modelled on the vessel, so a charter, a scheduled cruise, and a private hire on the same boat all consume the same block of time.
Add turnaround time between departures for cleaning and fuel, and the schedule stops producing bookings you cannot physically run.
Cancellations are routine, so the software should treat them as such: cancel a departure, message everyone on it at once, and offer a rebooking link or an automatic refund without touching a spreadsheet.
Doing that in two clicks on a marginal morning is worth more than most of the features on a comparison table.
Coast Guard-style passenger counts, child ages, and emergency contacts are operational necessities, not nice-to-haves. Collect passenger names at booking rather than at the gangway, attach the liability waiver to each of them, and give the captain a manifest that loads on a phone with poor signal.
Charters need deposits and a scheduled balance; scheduled cruises need fast, low-friction mobile checkout. Booking Hog's 1.5% online booking fee applies to both.
Each boat carries its own capacity, crew, and dock. Availability is calculated from the vessel actually assigned to the sailing.
Cancel a sailing and every guest gets notified, refunded or rebooked automatically — no call list.
A live manifest per sailing with guest counts, contact numbers, and signed waivers, ready to print or open on a phone at the dock.
Website widget, phone bookings, kiosk, and partner channels all read and write the same live inventory.
Take cards directly through Stripe at a 1.5% online booking fee. No per-booking commission on direct sales.
Waiver Hog waivers are built in, sent with confirmations, and tracked per guest on the manifest.
Confirmations, reminders, follow-ups, and review requests fire automatically by email and SMS.
Assign staff, publish shifts, and hand every team member a live manifest on their phone.
Revenue, occupancy, channel mix, and refunds in one place, exportable whenever you need it.
Yes. Vessels are tracked as resources with their own capacity, and a sailing's availability comes from the boat assigned to it.
Cancelling a sailing triggers your chosen policy for every booking on it — full refund, credit, or rebooking link — and sends the notification automatically.
Yes, as long as both draw on the same vessel calendar — otherwise a charter and a scheduled departure will eventually be sold for the same afternoon.
Cancel the departure once, then refund or rebook the whole manifest from the same screen rather than processing passengers individually.
Booking Hog charges a 1.5% online booking fee on online bookings. There is no monthly platform fee and no OTA-style commission on your direct sales.
Yes. An embeddable widget drops the full booking flow into any website, and a hosted storefront is available if you do not have one.
Most operators are live in a day. You build your products, set availability rules, connect Stripe, and paste in the widget.
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