Everything between "somebody wants to book"
and "lines in the water"
Built from a real working charter site — not a generic tour-software template with a fish slapped on it.
Deposits online, balance at the dock
Guests pick a trip, see live availability, and lock the date with a deposit. The balance settles however you actually work — card, cash, or Venmo at the dock — and it all lands in one clean ledger. Pending holds release automatically, so a tire-kicker never blocks a paying crew.
- Live availability with lead time & booking horizon you control
- Deposit percentage per trip or site-wide
- Payments through your Stripe account — you're the merchant of record
- Automatic hold expiry & abandoned-cart recovery email
E-sign waivers, built into the booking
No Smartwaiver subscription, no second login, no soggy clipboard. Guests sign right after booking — every guest, drawn signature, timestamped, stored with the trip. Show up, check the manifest, cast off.
- Your waiver text, snapshotted at signing time
- Whole-party signatures & photo consent
- Attached to the booking and the manifest
Fewer no-shows. Easier blow-outs.
Automatic 48-hour and 24-hour reminders by email and text, balance-due nudges before the trip, and a review request the morning after. When the weather turns, one click cancels the day, tells every crew, and offers new dates first — refunds follow your policy, not a support queue.
- SMS + email reminders with the customer's manage link
- Weather-cancel: rebook-first flow, one-click full refund
- Customer self-service portal: reschedule, cancel, pay balance, tip
Promo codes, tips, reports, and clean books
Issue discount and gift codes, let crews tip the mate from their phone, and pull season reports your bookkeeper will actually thank you for — including a QuickBooks-compatible CSV export. Published rates, transaction records, signed waivers: a businesslike operation, documented.
- Percent or fixed-amount promo codes, per-trip or site-wide
- Tip presets at checkout and post-trip
- Revenue, payout & booking reports; QuickBooks CSV
Your domain, your staff, your widget
Bring your own domain free on every plan — we handle DNS instructions and SSL. Invite a mate or a second captain with the right role and nothing more. Already have a website you love? Embed the booking widget with one line and keep it.
- BYO domain with one-record verification, SSL automatic
- Owner / manager / guide roles; guides see the manifest, not the money
- Embeddable booking widget for any existing site
See a real charter running on Book the Captain
Wynn Charters of Savannah, GA is a live Book the Captain site — bookings, waivers, and all.