Rent boats by the hour, keep singles and doubles counted separately, and sign waivers before the dock.
No monthly platform fee — a 1.5% online booking fee on online bookings.
Singles, doubles, and boards get lumped into one availability number.
Everyone signs paper waivers on a wet dock.
Late returns wreck the next booking without anyone noticing.
Availability for a kayak rental is a count of hulls, and every hull is unavailable from the moment it leaves until it is back and checked. That includes the buffer for retrieval and cleaning, which is the piece most generic booking tools ignore.
Singles, tandems, and paddleboards should be separate inventory pools with their own counts, because a customer who wanted a tandem is not served by a spare single.
Hourly, half-day, and full-day rates on the same unit mean the schedule has to understand duration, not just a start time. A four-hour rental at 10am has to block the unit until 2pm plus the turnaround, or the 1pm customer arrives to an empty rack.
Late returns then cascade. A system that shows what is out, what is overdue, and what is due back in the next hour turns that from a crisis into a glance.
Life jackets, paddles, dry bags, roof racks, and shuttle seats are the margin. Sell them as add-ons at checkout and record them against the rental so returns can be checked against a list.
Waivers should be signed before arrival by every paddler, not just the payer, and the same booking should carry the condition photo at handover. Booking Hog's 1.5% online booking fee keeps a $40 rental worth taking online.
Singles, tandems, and boards each carry their own inventory, so you never promise a double you do not have.
Sell one-, two-, or four-hour blocks with return times enforced against the next reservation.
Every paddler gets a waiver link at booking; unsigned names are flagged 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. Each craft type is its own inventory pool with its own availability.
Yes. Waiver links are sent with the confirmation and tracked per participant.
Model the actual number of hulls and include the turnaround buffer. Any system that sells against a generic session count will oversell once returns run late.
Yes, provided both draw down the same equipment pool — a guided trip consumes hulls exactly like a rental does.
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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