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Online booking software
Published by Slipstack. We launch this stack for live rental and charter operators — how it works.
Who this page is for
Operators who sell timed inventory: boat rentals, fishing charters, sightseeing, guided tours, jet skis, kayaks, and similar experiences. Guests pick a departure, a party size, and pay before they show up.
Hair salons, medical offices, restaurants, hotels, or anyone whose “booking” is a staff calendar or a room night. Those products exist. They do not run a marina day.
Same search, four products
| Label in search | What it actually books | Use it if | Use Slipstack if |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salon / class booking | Staff calendars and rooms. | You sell appointments. | You do not. Wrong inventory. |
| Hotel / restaurant | Room nights and tables. | You run hospitality. | You sell timed boats, trips, or gear. |
| Activity marketplaces | Tours into OTAs and widgets. | You need reseller distribution. | You want checkout on your domain and 0% of the fare to the platform. |
| Rental & tour booking | Departures, hulls, and units. | That is the job. | $999/month. Website, Stripe, waivers, ops. |
What online booking actually does
01
The guest sees open windows, not a “we will email you.” Holds, blocks, and overlapping trips come off the calendar in real time.
02
Trip, boat or unit, departure, party size, add-ons. A full day takes the afternoon off the hull so two browsers cannot sell the same slot.
03
Pay in full or take a deposit. Remaining balances charge before the trip. Money moves through your Stripe — Slipstack does not sit on it and does not take a cut.
04
Receipt goes out with the signing link. Reminders fire. Walk-ups scan a QR. The PDF files on the booking, not in a second product.
05
The same reservation is on the crew calendar, guest list, and admin. Email and review follow-up live here — not four more logins.
The booking platform vs the whole stack
We design the front end for your brand. Guests book on your domain. No marketplace chrome on the payment screen.
The dock books from a phone. So do guests. Trip, date, deposit, waiver — built for a thumb.
Units, trips, and overlapping windows. You are not pretending a spreadsheet is a lock.
Guest records live in a database provisioned for your company. Export them. They are not a row in a marketplace.
FareHarbor is about 6% per booking on our pages; Peek Pro 6–8% online — approximate, and they grow when you do. Slipstack is $999/month and 0% commission. Stripe still processes the card.
The guest gets a receipt, a waiver link, and reminders. The crew sees the same booking without a group text.
If you already know your inventory
Tour operators should read tour booking software. Shops that rent hulls and gear should read rental booking software. Scheduled experiences — fishing, sightseeing, private charters — sit on trip booking software. The conversion pages for this company are still boat rental booking software and the reservation system underneath it.
A real season, not a demo
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
Live guest sites
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.
Also see reservation system, trip booking software, tour booking software, rental booking software, boat rental software, boat rental booking software, pricing, FareHarbor pricing, custom boat rental websites, and how launch works.
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