RIVERRISE BOOKINGSFishing charter & guide booking software
Booking that lives on your own website, not on a marketplace. Guests pick a date, pay a deposit and sign the waiver from their phone in about two minutes. The money goes straight to your Stripe, the balance collects itself, and every guest stays yours.
No platform or booking fees. Standard card processing through your own Stripe.
$0 setup through November 30. Then $99 a month. Migration included.
The difference
Do the math
Move the sliders to match your season. Use the fee on your current booking receipts.
Added on top of your trip prices today. With RIVERRISE BOOKINGS, that line is $0.
Fishing charter booking software cost
RIVERRISE BOOKINGS costs $3,564 over three years with no platform or booking fees. That is less than a subscription booking platform’s cheapest plan, and a fraction of what marketplace commission takes.
| Option | Monthly price | Booking fee | Online deposits | 3-year cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERRISE BOOKINGSWorks on the website you already have | $99 | 0% | Included | $3,564 |
| Charter Pro StarterNew website included | $160 | 0% | Not included (booking requests only) | $5,760 |
| Charter Pro PrimeNew website included | $240 | 0% | Included | $8,640 |
| Peek ProExample: $40,000 season at 6% | $0 | Up to 6% of each online booking | Included | $7,200 |
| TripWorksRates not published | Platform fee (amount not published) | Guest booking fee on every booking | Included | Not published |
| FishingBooker marketplaceExample: $40,000 season at 15% commission | $0 | 10–30% of each marketplace trip | Included | $18,000 |
Monthly billing, card processing not included. RIVERRISE BOOKINGS setup is $0 through November 30, 2026, then $500. Charter Pro offers 20% off with yearly billing ($4,608 Starter, $6,912 Prime over three years). FishingBooker commission is chosen by the captain from 10% to 30% and applies only to trips booked through its marketplace, which also brings guests you might not reach yourself. Peek Pro and TripWorks don’t publish their rates. Peek charges up to 6% on each online booking (some guides report up to 8%), which the operator absorbs or adds to the guest’s total, per Bókun’s Peek Pro pricing guide. TripWorks adds a guest booking fee to every booking and charges a monthly platform fee that is waived above a volume threshold, per TripWorks’ help center; it doesn’t list the amounts. Peek and TripWorks checked October 28, 2026. Prices checked October 27, 2026 on Charter Pro’s pricing page and FishingBooker’s help center.
Compare every option and run your own numbers → · vs FishingBooker · vs Charter Pro · vs TripWorks
Why guides switch
Boats, seats, start times, deposits and waivers. The things your season actually runs on.
Guests see real availability on your site and book while they’re still excited, instead of waiting on a callback.
Take a deposit or the full amount up front. The rest charges to the saved card on schedule, and you get told if a card fails.
Who’s coming, who has paid, who has signed, and which boat they’re on. Weather turns? Cancel the trip in one step.
Two sample businesses, both live. Bear Creek Outfitters is a river guide service running RIVERRISE BOOKINGS on WordPress. Gulf Coast Charters is a two-boat Destin charter on a custom-coded booking system, no WordPress. Book a trip on either one, then open the captain’s dashboard.
The guest side
No account, no app, no bouncing to someone else’s website. It’s all on yours, in your colors.
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On your website
Put booking anywhere guests make up their mind. Every button opens the same booking window over your page, in your colors, so nobody leaves your site.
<a href="#book">Book a trip</a>Open the booking window Abandoned checkout recovery
Guests get distracted at checkout. When someone stops at the payment step, RIVERRISE BOOKINGS follows up for you, and tells you who to call.
Emails only go out between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Savings apply on their own for 10 days, and you set the amounts or turn them off. Every unfinished checkout is listed in your reports.
See it on a demo
New The RIVERRISE BOOKINGS app
Your trips, your guests and your money in one app on your phone. Built for owners and guides who spend the day on the water, not behind a desk.
Behind the scenes
Open the calendar and you know where you stand: trips this week, balances coming in, cards that need attention.
Not everyone books online. Enter the trip while you’re on the phone and the system handles the payment.
Every guest email goes out in your name and colors, on the right day, without you touching it.
Close the trip from the manifest and every guest gets an email to pick a new date or ask for a refund. What they paid moves with them.
After they book
Every confirmation links to a page in your brand where guests can do it themselves, so they don’t have to call you.
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Charter extras
And everything else
Set up now and you’re taking 2027 bookings before your guests start planning. $99 a month, month to month. We move your upcoming bookings over, and your current system finishes the ones it already holds. Setup is $500 after November 30.
Claim it on a free demoSetups are scheduled first come, first served.
$0 setup through November 30 ($500 after). Month to month.
Add booking to any RIVERRISE plan with no setup fee.
Card processing fees apply. Plan setup fees and ad spend are separate. Already on RIVERRISE BOOKINGS? Add any plan and keep $99 a month.
Most options fall into three groups. Marketplaces like FishingBooker are free to join but take 10–30% of each trip they book. Subscription platforms charge $160–$299 a month, and some only include online deposits on their higher plans. RIVERRISE BOOKINGS is $99 a month, month to month, with online deposits, waivers and automatic balances included. Setup is $0 through November 30 ($500 after), and there’s no setup fee when you add it to any RIVERRISE plan. There are no platform or booking fees. Standard card processing applies.
No. There is no per-booking fee, commission or platform fee, for you or your guests. Payments go straight to your own Stripe account, and the only cost per booking is Stripe’s standard card processing.
Yes. It installs on most websites, and you don’t need WordPress. Booking runs on its own subdomain, like book.yourdomain.com, and your Book buttons open it from WordPress, Squarespace, Wix or a custom build.
Yes. Payments go directly to your own Stripe account. If you don’t have one, we help you set it up during onboarding.
Weeks, not a season. We set up your trips, seasons, pricing, boats, deposit rules, policies and waiver. You review, we build it into your site and connect your Stripe.
Yes, from FareHarbor, FishingBooker or another system. We enter your upcoming trips so nothing gets missed, and we switch over in the off-season. Your current system finishes the bookings it already holds. Migration is included.
Close the trip in one step. Every guest gets an email to pick a new open date or ask for a refund, and what they paid moves with them. A storm day becomes a few clicks instead of a day on the phone.
Both. Sell seats per angler, charge a flat price per boat, or offer both on the same trip.
No. They pick a date, choose a trip, enter their details and pay. Every confirmation includes a link to view their booking, pay the balance and sign the waiver.
Guest-facing booking pages are in English today. If many of your guests book in Spanish, tell us on the demo.
FareHarbor is free for operators and adds a booking fee to your guest’s checkout. RIVERRISE BOOKINGS is $99 a month and adds nothing to the guest’s price, so the total they see is the total they pay. Full FareHarbor comparison.
FishingBooker is a marketplace: it can send you new anglers, and it takes a commission you choose between 10% and 30% on each trip it books. RIVERRISE BOOKINGS is your own booking system on your own website, with no commission. You can keep a marketplace listing for discovery and use RIVERRISE BOOKINGS for repeat guests and everyone who finds you directly. Calendar sync holds your marketplace bookings, so the same seat is never sold twice. Full FishingBooker comparison.
Charter Pro builds you a new website and charges $160–$299 a month, with online deposits starting on its $240 plan. RIVERRISE BOOKINGS adds booking to the website you already have for $99 a month, with deposits, waivers, automatic balance charges and a staff phone app included. If you want a new site too, we build those as well. Full Charter Pro comparison.
Free 20-minute demo
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