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Boatsetter, GetMyBoat, and the Boats Group network are marketplaces: guests shop a catalog, they often pay the network, and you rent demand. Slipstack is the other storefront — a custom website and boat rental booking software we stand up for you, payments in your Stripe, 0% of the trip to Slipstack. $999/month. Stripe processing still applies. Keep a marketplace listing if it still sends profitable trips. Do not let it be the only URL a guest can pay on.
Published by Slipstack. We launch this stack for live rental and charter operators — our work and 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).
Percentages on these pages are approximate figures already used across Slipstack (about 6% for FareHarbor; 6–8% online for Peek Pro), not a scraped vendor invoice. The live proof is Boat Bros ATX’s season: about 4× last year’s website revenue. Confirm current fees with the vendor. We do not invent official 2026 rate cards.
Operators type “what does FareHarbor cost” and “Peek Pro pricing” because the vendors do not publish a public monthly plan. One comparison URL per vendor — pricing, fees, and alternative — so we do not split that intent across five synonym pages.
Who Slipstack is for
Operators listed on Boatsetter or GetMyBoat who want guests to finish on a site they own — rates, calendar, waiver, and the next-season email. Slipstack Full is for 1–10 boat shops. If marketplace demand is the business and you do not want a direct-booking site, stay on the network.
Cost model
Boatsetter and similar marketplaces take a cut of booked trips. Host fee schedules change, they differ by program, and we will not invent a commission percentage. Confirm current Boatsetter host fees with Boatsetter. Slipstack’s own number is public: a flat monthly subscription and 0% booking commission. Stripe still charges normal processing fees to your account. Ads, SEO, and Instagram are separate — Slipstack is not an ad agency.
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How the model works
Boatsetter and GetMyBoat sell distribution: a guest already shopping boats finds you in a catalog. That is advertising you do not control, priced as a cut of the trip. Slipstack sells the storefront those ads — and Google, and Instagram, and last year’s guests — should land on. We will not publish a fake Boatsetter commission. If a number is on this page, it is Slipstack’s published fee or a worksheet from our own operator data.
Worksheet, not their invoice
Put Boatsetter’s actual host fee in the empty cell. The live row uses one Slipstack operator’s season already published on this site.
| Scenario | Booking value | Marketplace host fee (their rate) | Slipstack ($999/mo, 0%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| One $1,200 charter | $1,200 | Confirm with Boatsetter | $0 of the fare |
| 50 trips at $1,200 | $60,000 | Their % × $60,000 | $999 that month |
| Live Lake Austin season (134 days) | $121k booked trip value | Their % × $121k (their schedule) | $4,500 across those months at $999/mo × ~4.5 |
Marketplace percentages are not invented here. Card processing still applies on Slipstack via Stripe. The $4,500 line is $999 × the same 134-day window already cited on this site (~4.5 months), rounded — still not your P&L.
Questions to ask
Ask Boatsetter — and yourself — in writing.
Instant book vs request, insurance programs, payment processing. Who pays the line item — you or the guest?
If they rebook inside the app, you are renting next season too.
If not, the listing is not a marketing channel. It is the company.
Double books happen when the marketplace and the dock notebook disagree. Direct booking on your domain is one board.
When each model fits
You want catalog demand, you do not want to own a website, or the listing still nets more than it costs after their fees.
You run 1–10 boats, you want guests to finish on your domain, you want Stripe in your account, and you are tired of standing next to five other pontoons in someone else’s search results. That is the Slipstack lane.
Ownership and control
A Boatsetter listing can still be a channel, the way Instagram is a channel. The storefront is the page they pay on, the waiver they sign, and the database that still has them in March. Slipstack builds that storefront. We will not invent Boatsetter’s payout or data-ownership rules. The claims below are about Slipstack.
Website and booking
Marketplace checkout is a catalog stall. Slipstack designs the website around your fleet, your rates, deposits, remaining balances, and waivers so Google, ads, and repeat guests hit the same live calendar.
Feature comparison
Honest trade-offs. Boatsetter still wins on marketplace reach and self-serve setup. Slipstack wins when you want the site, the Stripe account, and the customer.
| Topic | Slipstack | Boatsetter |
|---|---|---|
| Cost model | Flat $999/month and 0% of the booking to Slipstack. | Marketplace host fees on booked trips. Confirm current Boatsetter rates with Boatsetter — not invented here. |
| Checkout URL | Guests pay on your domain. Confirmation, waiver, and receipts come from you. | Guests typically finish on the marketplace. Branding and the customer file follow that URL. |
| Payments | Your Stripe account. Deposits, remaining balances, and supported installment methods land with you. | Payouts run through the marketplace program. We do not document Boatsetter’s merchant setup here. |
| Customer records | Your database. Export any day. Next-season email is yours. | The guest is a marketplace customer first. Repeat booking often stays on the network. |
| Website | Custom design on your domain, built around boats, trips, and booking. | A listing in a shared catalog. Photography and copy compete with every other boat on the page. |
| Implementation | Done-for-you launch in 2–3 days after you send the launch brief, including migration of what’s already on the books. | You create a listing and wait on marketplace demand. |
| Fit | Operators who want direct booking as the storefront, with marketplace optional. | Hosts who want network demand and are willing to rent the customer for it. |
Marketplace demand is real for some lakes and some boats. Slipstack is not a Boatsetter clone and does not promise to replace their traffic. Keep the listing as an ad if the math works.
If the only bookable URL is Boatsetter, you are renting the season. A flat monthly site plus your Stripe account is the other model. We migrate what’s booked, test a real card, then flip your own booking link.
Migration
You do not have to delete the listing on day one. We stand up your site, migrate what’s booked, test payments, then point Google, ads, and your own links at your domain.
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Trips, boats, rates, deposit rules, waiver language.
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We design the front end and load the fleet so availability, holds, and overlap rules are real.
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Existing reservations come across. Stripe is yours; we test it end to end before cutover.
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Launch your booking URL. Keep or pause marketplace listings based on the math — that call stays yours.
Full launch path: how it works.
Real Slipstack examples
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.
Live operator · Lake Austin · Boat Bros ATX
Production data from Boat Bros ATX, a Slipstack shop on Lake Austin: about 4× last year’s website revenue this season, with 200+ trips booked online. A 6% cut on that volume would have cost more than Slipstack. Not a survey and not a forecast for your lake.
4×
revenue vs last year
200+
trips booked online
500+
waivers signed
~$570
average order
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