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Boat rental software
Slipstack is a boat rental platform — the operator's website, booking, payments, waivers, and scheduling — not a third-party widget dropped onto a brochure. We launch it for live shops: Boat Bros ATX on Lake Austin and Nasty Sport Fishing in Cabo. Most shops still run those pieces as five logins. Slipstack is one system: inventory, checkout, Stripe, waivers, and the board your crew actually uses. Booking and the custom website are the same product — not a widget bolted onto a brochure.
Published by Slipstack. We launch this stack for live rental and charter operators — how it works.
Who, how, why
Slipstack. We design the website and stand up booking, Stripe, waivers, and ops for 1–10 boat rental and charter shops. Live examples: Boat Bros ATX (Lake Austin) and Nasty Sport Fishing (Cabo San Lucas).
Intake, we build the front end from the operator’s photography and rates, migrate what’s already booked, test a real card in their Stripe, then flip the booking link — about a week. The $121k booked / 212 trips / 556 waivers figures are Boat Bros ATX’s 134-day season on Slipstack, not a survey. Their prior year through the old website: $34,000.
Operators looking for boat rental software need the whole stack — site, calendar, money, waivers — not a widget brochure. This page is that product. Booking checkout lives on the booking page; the custom site lives on the websites page.
What it replaces
Operators do not have a software problem. They have a stack problem. Slipstack is the operating layer so the guest only ever sees Book on your domain.
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A brochure site with a book button that dumps guests into someone else’s checkout.
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Percentage-based reservation software that grows more expensive every good month.
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A middleman on the money, or a Square reader taped to a spreadsheet.
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A second vendor, a second login, and PDFs that do not file against the booking.
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Email, reviews, guest list, and the calendar the dock actually runs — usually four more tabs.
Booking and money
Live availability. A ten-minute hold while the guest pays. 50% deposit or pay in full. The balance charges before the trip. Money lands in your Stripe — Slipstack takes 0% of the charter. Card processing is still Stripe’s fee, on your merchant account.
Fleet and trip operations
Charters, ticketed seats, holds, and blocks in one view. A full-day trip takes the afternoon off the board so you do not double-book the hull. Guest list, email templates, and review follow-up sit in the same login as the booking — not a clipboard in the office.
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We design the front end for your brand — homepage, boats, trips, SEO pages — on your domain. Not a template. Not a marketplace skin.
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Live availability, deposits, and Stripe in your account. Slipstack takes 0% of the trip.
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E-signed before the dock, filed on the booking. Not a second vendor and not a second bill.
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Calendar, guest list, email templates, and review requests. One login for the crew.
Waivers
The signing link goes out with the receipt. Reminders fire automatically. Walk-ups scan a QR. Signed PDFs live on the reservation — not in a second product you pay for on top of a 6% cut.
Customer ownership
Payments land in your own Stripe account. We never hold your funds and never take a cut.
Your own database, in your own account — not a row in a marketplace. Export it any day.
Your domain, logo, and photos. We design the site around them — not a template. No marketplace branding on checkout, ever.
The site is part of the software
We design the front end for your brand — boats, trips, photography, domain. Guests book there. The inventory they see is the same board the crew runs.
Boat Bros ATX · Lake Austin
Captained pontoon, watersports, sunset, and holiday charters on Lake Austin.
Nasty Sport Fishing · Cabo San Lucas
Private Cabo fishing charters — packages, live booking, Stripe, and buy-now-pay-later.
Flat-fee economics
A $1,200 charter does not send 6% of the booking to Slipstack. FareHarbor is about 6% per booking on our pages; Peek Pro 6–8% online — approximate, and they grow when you do. Slipstack is a published monthly number. Processing fees are Stripe’s, on your account.
Live operator · Lake Austin · Boat Bros ATX
Production data from Boat Bros ATX, a Slipstack shop on Lake Austin: $121k booked trip value in 134 days. Their whole prior year through the old website: $34,000. A 6% cut on this season’s volume is $7,275. Slipstack was $4,500. Not a survey and not a forecast for your lake.
$121k
booked trip value
212
trips booked online
556
waivers signed
$572
average order
Also see online booking software, boat rental booking software, boat rental websites, jet ski rental software, charter boat booking software, FareHarbor pricing, boat rental business plan, agreements and waivers, deposits vs pay later, after-booking guest email, pricing, and Peek Pro pricing.
How implementation works
Intake, we design the site, migrate what is already booked, test a real card, then flip the link. How launch works, step by step.
Day 1
Trips, rates, boats, seasons, deposit rules, and waiver language.
Day 2–3
We design the front end from your brand and photos, load inventory, and stand up accounts.
Day 4–5
Bookings already on the books come across. We test payments with you.
Day 6–7
Flip the booking link outside your busy window and train the crew.
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