Rafting booking software with no monthly fee
No subscription, setup fee or contract. You pay only when a guest books and pays online: 2% to Whitewatr plus Stripe's standard card processing. Here is exactly what that means.
What it costs at your volume
The Whitewatr fee on a year of online bookings, with an estimate of Stripe's processing beside it. Stripe charges that separately on each payment.
| Online bookings per year | Whitewatr 2% | Stripe processing (estimate) |
|---|---|---|
| $200K | $4,000 | about $5,800 |
| $500K | $10,000 | about $14,500 |
| $1M | $20,000 | about $29,000 |
Stripe's published US card rate is 2.9% + 30¢ per payment (checked September 2026). The estimate covers the percentage; the per-payment 30¢ and any international-card fees come on top. Stripe sets its own rates; see stripe.com/pricing.
Every platform charges a fee on each booking. You can build it into your price or absorb it, on any of them. What differs is the size of the fee. Compare the fee on each platform.
What's included
Everything below is live today. The roadmap is listed separately so you know exactly what you're getting.
Online booking
Guests pick a trip and departure and pay online. Capacity updates as bookings come in. Take full payment or a deposit, with the balance paid later.
Digital waivers
Individual and group signing links, minimum-age checks, email verification and an audit trail. Guests who haven't signed get a reminder.
Manifest and check-in
A run sheet for each day with headcounts, waiver status and balances. Check guests in and export to CSV.
Walk-ins and phone bookings
Record bookings taken in person or by phone, including cash and check. No Whitewatr fee on payments you collect yourself.
Guest emails
Booking confirmation, pre-trip details 48 hours out, waiver and balance-due reminders, and a review request after the trip.
Departure cancellations
Cancel a departure and every guest on it gets an email with a link to rebook on another date or request a refund.
Groups, contracts and invoices
Group quotes with agreements and deposits, contracts with e-signature, and invoices your customers pay online.
Guides
A guide roster with certifications, a personal schedule link for each guide, and payroll tracking by departure or by guest.
Boats and vehicles
Track your boats, vans and gear. A new departure checks that enough of each is free at that time.
Permit reporting
Assign trips to a land-agency permit, generate user-day and fee reports for the period, and export them to CSV.
Gift cards and promo codes
Sell gift cards that redeem against bookings, and run promo codes for your own campaigns.
Your listing and your website
Your Whitewatr listing gets a Book Now button, and a booking widget embeds on your own site.
On the roadmap
- Automatic guide assignment by certification and hours
- Guide-to-guest ratio enforcement
- Rafts, duckies and kayaks in a single booking
- One-click weather cancellation for a whole day, with automatic refunds
- Text-message and weather-aware reminders
- Stored PDF copies of signed waivers
- Full booking and customer export, and an API
- OTA distribution, point of sale and dynamic pricing
Switching? Import your trips from a screenshot, a spreadsheet or a pasted list, and we'll import your booking history for you.
No monthly fee, no contract
No monthly fee. On online bookings, Whitewatr charges 2%, and Stripe charges its standard card processing fee. Cash and check bookings you record are free.
Booking tools are opening to outfitters by invitation while we set each one up personally. Claiming your listing is free.