The three Monday-morning headaches we optimize away. If you run a sailing business, you've probably had all three this quarter.
One call to reschedule turns into ten. TripStub reschedules a whole sailing in a tap — guests get a new time, a refund option, or a voucher, and your ops team goes home.
No gate, no printer. Crew scans confirmation numbers or waves a QR from the pier. Works offline and syncs when you're back in cell range.
Commission from Viator plus a SaaS subscription plus per-booking fees. TripStub's Starter plan is $0, no plan charges per booking, and the Growth channel manager is a flat rate — keep the distribution, lose the tax.
"Stop the OTA commission bleed. Make weather cancellation a single action. Make dock-side check-in work without a printer. The sailing operator brief, in three sentences."
— Composite sailing operator, Recurring theme from our operator interviews
The core toolbox is free for everyone on the Starter plan. Where a feature belongs to Growth or Scale, we say so below — and it's always a flat monthly rate, never a per-booking fee, never a commission.
Capacity by seat-type
Adults, kids, crew seats, charter-exclusive — price and bookable capacity per tier per departure.
Multi-day rate plans
Half-day, sunset, overnight, weekly charter — each with its own pricing curve, restrictions, and available crew.
Weather hold & rebook
One action: offer all affected guests the next compatible departure, refund, or voucher. Tracked, reversible, audited.
Crew and captain assignments
Slot-level roster with hour tracking — useful for payroll and for proving who was aboard which run.
Deposit + balance payments
20% now, remainder 48h before sailing. Automated reminders if balance isn't paid, auto-release to waitlist if not.
Waiver capture
E-sign a liability waiver during checkout. PDF with guest signature stored per booking, searchable by name and date.
Push inventory once. Let availability fan out to the channel managers and OTAs your travelers already use. Channel-manager distribution is a flat-rate Growth module — no plan takes a per-booking cut.
Viator
GetYourGuide
Klook
Expedia
Own-site booking
Your marina concierge
TripStub exports the passenger manifest per departure — name, DOB, emergency contact — in a format Coast Guard inspections and your insurance broker can consume without reformatting. One click, PDF or CSV.
Run the numbers on your actual volume. Most operators we talk to save $8k–$35k/year just by skipping the per-booking fee.