Pricing

Three plans. One is actually free.

Starter is $0 forever — no trial clock, no credit card, no per-booking fee. Growth and Scale add advanced modules for a flat monthly rate.

Starter

Free forever

The whole core platform. Free forever — not a trial.

$0

/ month

No credit card. No per-booking fee. No commission.

Unlimited products, bookings & team members

Own-brand storefront & booking site

POS & gate check-in

Tours, rentals, packages, transfers & class series

Reviews, gift cards, vouchers & promo codes

Crew scheduling & SMS reminders

Roles, permissions & audit history

Full API access

Choose your own payment provider

Create free workspace

Growth

For operators expanding distribution and marketing.

Flat monthly

Still $0 per booking. Talk to us for current pricing.

Everything in Starter, plus:

Channel manager — OTA distribution

Merchandise & retail (POS, carriers, returns)

Loyalty & memberships

Affiliates & reciprocal partnerships

Group quotes & buyouts

SMS marketing

Multi-currency

Custom storefront themes

Talk to us

Scale

For multi-venue and enterprise operations.

Flat monthly

Still $0 per booking. Talk to us for current pricing.

Everything in Growth, plus:

Whitelabel & custom domains

B2B agent portal

Fraud screening

Advanced inventory — POs, lot/serial, analytics

Labor rules & payroll integrations

Crew marketplace

Price experiments & advanced capacity

MCP / AI integration

Talk to us

No plan takes a cut of your bookings — paid plans are flat subscriptions, and Starter is free at no cost, full stop. Downgrades are one click, and your data exports free on every plan.

Your numbers

Calculate your savings.

Plug in your monthly bookings and average ticket price. Starter is $0 — the math is the math, no email gate.

Your savings, calculated

Plug in your numbers. The math is transparent — no pop-up, no email gate.

Bookings per month

50
500
1.5k

Average booking value

$50
$150
$350

Annual revenue

$122,400

120 × $85 × 12

22% OTA commission

$26,928

+ $3,588 SaaS

TripStub Starter cost

=$0

Free plan — and $0 per booking on every plan

Estimated annual savings on TripStub

$30,516

25% of revenue kept

Assumptions: 22% is the midpoint of typical OTA commissions (15–30%); $299/mo is the median for SaaS booking platforms in this category. Your actuals will vary. TripStub's Starter plan is $0 regardless; Growth and Scale are optional flat subscriptions — no TripStub plan ever charges per booking or takes a commission.

Compare

How TripStub stacks up

Same primitives, very different price tag.

Here's the honest math for a small operator running 100 bookings / month at $80 avg.

TripStub Starter

You

Monthly

$0 / mo

Per booking

$0

Est. annual

$0

  • The whole core platform
  • Unlimited bookings & team
  • Full API access
  • Flat-rate upgrades — $0 per booking on every plan

Typical SaaS

Monthly

$99 – $499 / mo

Per booking

0 – 2%

Est. annual

~$2,400 – $8,000

  • Core features
  • Limited integrations
  • Custom channels (paid add-on)
  • Advanced reporting (top tier)

OTA commission model

Monthly

$0 / mo

Per booking

15 – 30%

Est. annual

~$14,400 – $28,800

  • Marketplace traffic
  • You own the customer? No.
  • You set the price? Not really.
The honest answer

How the free plan stays free.

Nobody gives away software for $0 without a revenue model. Here's ours, in full.

Growth & Scale subscriptions

Operators who outgrow Starter pay a flat monthly rate for advanced modules — channel manager, merchandise, whitelabel, and friends. That subscription revenue, not your booking volume, is what funds the free plan.

Flat rate, never per booking
Payment provider referrals

When you connect a payment gateway (Stripe, Adyen, etc.), the provider pays us a small cut of their take rate. You pay the gateway their standard pricing — exactly what you'd pay signing up directly. The extra goes to us, not to them.

Operator's price: unchanged
OTA / channel connector fees

A handful of premium OTA integrations (e.g., dedicated Viator sync tiers) charge a per-booking fee to use their high-throughput pipes. Where that fee exists, it's clearly marked on the channel page before you enable it.

Always opt-in, never hidden
What isn't free (the small print, up top)

Everything that costs money anywhere near TripStub, called out here so there are no surprises:

  • Growth & Scale modules — the advanced modules on the plan cards above are part of the paid plans. Flat monthly rate, never a per-booking fee.
  • Payment processing fees — Stripe/Adyen standard rates (~2.9% + $0.30) go directly to them. We don't add a markup.
  • Premium OTA connector per-booking fees — where a channel charges for their high-throughput API. Always opt-in; price shown before enabling.
  • Custom domains are part of the Scale plan. SSL is included free via Let's Encrypt; your domain registration (~$12/year) is yours to own.

That's it. If you see any other charge in the admin that isn't on this list, it's a bug — email us.

But really?

The three questions everyone asks first

Full FAQ at /faq.

Is Starter really free?

Yes — $0, forever. Not a trial, no card on file, no booking caps. The whole core platform plus reviews, gift cards, promo codes, and every product type. If you never upgrade, you never pay us a cent.

Can I change plans later?

Anytime. Upgrades apply immediately; downgrades take effect at the end of the billing period. Nothing is deleted on a downgrade — modules outside your new plan switch off softly and pick up where they left off if you come back.

How do you make money?

Growth and Scale subscriptions, plus payment-provider referral fees and opt-in premium channel connector fees. Flat rates only — we never take a cut of your bookings.

Start free. Stay free as long as you like.

60 seconds to a Starter workspace — $0, no credit card. Upgrade only if your business asks for it, and export everything, free, on any plan.