Price reference
What tour booking software actually costs in 2026: FareHarbor, Peek Pro, Rezdy, Checkfront, Bókun and Xola
Rezdy charges $49 to $249 a month plus 3% of every online booking. Checkfront charges $99 a month plus 3%. Bókun runs from free to $499 a month, with a booking fee of 1% to 1.5% and none at all on its free plan. Xola charges no subscription and takes a fee from your customer that it does not publish. FareHarbor and Peek Pro publish no price at all.
FareHarbor has no pricing page. On 16 September 2026its homepage did not contain the word “pricing” anywhere and linked to no price list, and fareharbor.com/pricing serves the operator dashboard rather than a price. Peek Pro states outright that its pricing is quote-based. What those two charge is documented below, out of their own support pages.
On a $650 private tour, 6% is $39.00 and 3% is $19.50. Every fee below carries the page it came from and the date it was read.
And the part a vendor page leaves out: below about $1,650 a month in bookings, a 6% platform costs you less than a $99 flat plan does. A percentage charges a seasonal operator nothing in February, and Bókun’s free plan charges nothing at all if you sell through Viator. If that is your business, take the percentage.
When a percentage is the cheaper dealLast verified 16 September 2026.Every figure was read off the vendor’s own page or help centre on that date. Nothing here is estimated or taken from a comparison article.
The table
What each platform publishes.
Same columns for every vendor. Where a vendor does not publish something, the cell says so rather than carrying a guess, because the fact that four of these six will not tell you a price without a sales call is itself most of the answer.
| Platform | Monthly fee | Per-booking fee | Who pays it | Phone and in-person bookings | Contract and trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FareHarborQuote onlyChecked 16 September 2026 | Not published | 6% on direct bookings, for operators under a volume threshold. 2% on API-generated bookings. | The guest. FareHarbor adds the fee to the activity price automatically. | Charged. Added automatically on FareHarbor payment methods; on cash or an outside card machine you collect it and FareHarbor invoices you monthly. | Not published. Fee eligibility is reviewed annually on 1 October. |
| Peek ProQuote onlyChecked 16 September 2026 | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| RezdyPublishedChecked 16 September 2026 | $49 Foundation, $99 Accelerate, $249 Expansion | 3% per online booking on all three plans | Your choice. "You can choose to absorb this fee, or pass it on to your guests." | $1.00 per offline or agent booking on Foundation, $0.85 on Accelerate, $0.70 on Expansion | No contract lock-in. 21-day free trial, no credit card. Free onboarding. |
| CheckfrontPublishedChecked 16 September 2026 | $99, one plan for everybody | 3% online booking fee | Your choice. "You can choose to absorb this fee, or pass it on to your guests." | Free. Checkfront charges no fee on offline bookings. | No setup fees. "Pricing may vary based on your region and currency." |
| BókunPublishedChecked 16 September 2026 | $0 Free, $49 Start, $149 Plus, $499 Premium | 0% on Free, 1.5% on Start, 1.25% on Plus, 1% on Premium | Your choice on any paid plan. | Free. Bókun charges 0% on offline bookings, and 0% on Viator bookings. | 14-day free trial, no credit card. Switch plans or cancel at any time. |
| XolaPartly publishedChecked 16 September 2026 | None. "No subscriptions." | Not published. The page says "Xola assesses a small partner fee to your customers on every purchase" without stating its size. | The guest. The partner fee is assessed to your customers. | Not published | Not published. The page says "Contact for pricing". |
| FleetDeskPublishedOur own pricing page | $99 Starter, $199 Pro, $399 Fleet | None | Nobody. There is no per-booking fee to pay or pass on. | Free. Phone and in-person work is the normal case here, not an exception. | 14-day free trial, no card. No setup fee. Cancel at any time. |
FleetDesk does not process payments, so it has no checkout to add a percentage to. That also means the card processing rate you pay is whatever your own processor charges you, and it is not a number this table can compare.
FareHarbor
The 6% is conditional, and the condition is the part every comparison article leaves out. See the section below.
Source: help.fareharbor.com, October 2024 booking fee adjustment, read 16 September 2026.
Peek Pro
Peek Pro states this itself: "Peek Pro uses custom, quote-based pricing tailored to your business rather than a fixed monthly plan. Request a demo for a quote."
Source: peekpro.com, pricing FAQ, read 16 September 2026.
Rezdy
Prices are exclusive of GST in Australia. The pricing page does not label a currency.
Source: rezdy.com/pricing, read 16 September 2026.
Checkfront
Checkfront also states it adds no fee of its own on OTA bookings or API-generated bookings, which is a real cost line on some of the others.
Source: checkfront.com/pricing, read 16 September 2026.
Bókun
Bókun is owned by Tripadvisor, which also owns Viator, and the Viator booking fee waiver is the reason its headline rate is the lowest here.
Source: bokun.io/pricing, read 16 September 2026.
Xola
The one figure the page does carry, 2.39% plus $0.30, sits under the heading "Industry-low credit card rates" and is footnoted "Rates vary outside of the United States". That is card processing, not the partner fee.
Source: xola.com/pricing, read 16 September 2026.
The arithmetic
What a percentage costs on a $650 tour.
A booking fee is an abstraction until a tour price goes into it. These are the published rates from the table above, worked against a $650 private charter. That figure is an example, not a claim about your business: substitute your own average and the shape does not change.
| Rate | Per booking | 10 a month | 30 a month | 100 a month | 30 a month, per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6%FareHarbor direct booking fee | $39.00 | $390 | $1,170 | $3,900 | $14,040 |
| 3%Rezdy and Checkfront online booking fee | $19.50 | $195 | $585 | $1,950 | $7,020 |
| 1.5%Bókun Start | $9.75 | $98 | $293 | $975 | $3,510 |
| 1.25%Bókun Plus | $8.13 | $81 | $244 | $813 | $2,925 |
| 1%Bókun Premium | $6.50 | $65 | $195 | $650 | $2,340 |
Per-booking figures are rounded to the cent. The monthly and annual columns are computed from the exact rate and rounded to the dollar, so multiplying the rounded per-booking figure by hand will land a few cents out.
The assumption that changes the answer
Those figures assume you absorb the fee. Rezdy, Checkfront and Bókun all let you pass it to the guest instead, in which case it costs you nothing off your margin and costs you at the checkout, where a $650 quote becomes $669.50 and the guest was not expecting it. FareHarbor and Xola put the fee on the guest by default. Whichever way it falls, somebody pays it, and the comparison articles that quote a rate without saying who is holding it are answering half the question.
Card processing is a separate bill
None of these rates include taking the money. Every platform here either charges a card processing rate on top or routes you to a processor that does. Only Xola publishes a figure for it, 2.39% plus $0.30 in the United States. FareHarbor states that its processing rate is set by your annual online transaction volume and is communicated to you by email, which means it cannot be looked up in advance at all.
Read this before you switch
When a percentage is the cheaper deal.
A flat monthly fee is not automatically better, and for a lot of operators it is worse. Here is the line, worked properly.
| Against a $99 flat plan | The percentage wins below | $650 tours a month |
|---|---|---|
| 6% (FareHarbor direct booking fee) | $1,650 a month in bookings | 2.5 |
| 3% (Rezdy and Checkfront online booking fee) | $3,300 a month in bookings | 5.1 |
| 1.5% (Bókun Start) | $6,600 a month in bookings | 10.2 |
| 1.25% (Bókun Plus) | $7,920 a month in bookings | 12.2 |
| 1% (Bókun Premium) | $9,900 a month in bookings | 15.2 |
Read the first row and take it seriously. If you are turning over less than about $1,650 a month, a 6% platform costs you less than a $99 subscription does, and the gap only widens the quieter you are. Against a 3% fee the line sits at $3,300a month. Against Bókun’s 1.5% it is $6,600 a month, which is a serious operation.
There are three more situations where the percentage model is the right call, and no flat-fee product should tell you otherwise.
- You are seasonal. A percentage charges you nothing in February. A subscription charges you the same in February as in July, and four dead months at $99 is $396 for software you did not open.
- You pass the fee to the guest and your conversion holds. If your customers book anyway at the higher displayed price, the fee is not your cost. It is worth measuring rather than assuming, in either direction.
- Most of your volume comes through Viator. Bókun charges no booking fee on Viator bookings and none on offline bookings, and has a free plan. Nothing with a monthly price beats free.
The case for a flat fee is not that it is always cheaper. It is that it is knowable in advance, it does not scale with your success, and it does not put a line on your customer’s receipt that you did not write. Whether that is worth paying for depends on numbers only you have.
The most-asked one
FareHarbor’s 6% is real, and it is conditional.
FareHarbor charges a 6% booking fee on direct bookings to operators who have been live for at least twelve months and processed less than $35,000 in online direct bookings over the previous twelve months. That is not an estimate. It is the condition FareHarbor sets out in its own help centre, in an article titled “October 2024 booking fee adjustment”, read on 16 September 2026.
This is the part that almost every comparison article gets wrong, and it cuts against the sales pitch of every company writing them. The documented 6% is a fee on smalloperators. If your direct online volume is above roughly $2,900 a month, FareHarbor’s own documentation says the direct booking fee does not apply to you. Eligibility is reviewed once a year, on 1 October.
What the 6% attaches to
Online bookings, bookings entered in the Dashboard, Dock Staff mode bookings and payment links. Bookings that arrive through affiliates or OTAs are excluded. The fee is added to the activity price automatically, so it lands on the guest rather than coming out of your payout, and FareHarbor updates your displayed prices to include it without you doing anything.
It reaches cash too. On a booking you take outside FareHarbor, you collect the 6% at the time of booking and FareHarbor invoices you for it monthly. The one carve-out its documentation names is cash taken through Dock Staff mode, where you keep the fee.
The two fees underneath it
A 2% API Connectivity Fee applies to all eligible API-generated bookings, which is how OTA channel bookings reach your dashboard. FareHarbor names two exceptions, Guam and French Polynesia.
And the card processing rate is tiered by volume and is not published. FareHarbor’s help centre says your rate “will adjust to the corresponding rate for your annual online transaction volume”, that the volume is recalculated over a rolling twelve months, and that you are told your new rate by email. For most operators this is the larger of the two numbers, and it is the one you cannot find out before signing.
Why there is no price on their website
There is no pricing page. On 16 September 2026, fareharbor.com’s homepage carried no link to one and did not contain the word “pricing” anywhere, and fareharbor.com/pricing serves the operator dashboard application rather than a price list. Everything above came from the support documentation written for people who have already signed.
Peek Pro is in the same position and says so plainly on its own site: “Peek Pro uses custom, quote-based pricing tailored to your business rather than a fixed monthly plan. Request a demo for a quote.”
Sources, all read 16 September 2026: October 2024 booking fee adjustment, API Fee & Invoice Process, Processing Rate Adjustments.
Gaps
What we could not verify.
Viator’s supplier commission is not published anywhere we can reach. Viator’s supplier site returned HTTP 403 without a supplier login on 16 September 2026, and its commission is set in the supplier agreement rather than on a rate card. Figures in the range of 20% to 30% circulate widely in comparison articles. We have not verified any of them against a Viator source and we are not going to repeat them as fact. If you sell through Viator, the rate that applies to you is in your own supplier agreement and in your payout reports, and that is the only number worth acting on.
Peek Pro’s rates. Peek Pro publishes no monthly fee, no booking fee and no processing rate. Percentages attributed to it in comparison articles are second-hand. Its own site says pricing is quote-based, and we have taken it at its word rather than filling the gap.
Xola’s partner fee. Xola states that it charges your customers a partner fee on every purchase. It does not say how much. The 2.39% plus $0.30 on its pricing page is labelled as a card processing rate, not the partner fee, and is footnoted as varying outside the United States.
What FareHarbor charges above the volume threshold. Its documentation describes the conditions under which the 6% applies. It does not describe what replaces it when those conditions are not met.
Currencies.Rezdy’s pricing page does not label a currency and notes that prices exclude GST in Australia. Checkfront states that pricing may vary by region and currency. Figures on this page are as displayed to a visitor in the United States.
Disclosure
Who wrote this, and what they sell.
This page is published by FleetDesk, dispatch software for tour operators, which is one of the rows in the table. Its plans are $99, $199, $399 a month and it takes no percentage of anything, because it does not sit in your checkout and has no mechanism to.
What that means, stated plainly so the table above is worth something: FleetDesk has no public booking widget and does not process payments. If selling fixed seats to strangers online is your business, every other platform on this page fits you better and one of them is free. FleetDesk is built for the quote-first end of the market, where an enquiry becomes a custom price for a group, a deposit lands, and somebody has to get a van, a driver and a run sheet organised for Saturday.
If the arithmetic above says a percentage suits you, take the percentage. It is a better outcome than a subscription you resent.
Read the rest of the working
- Quote-first or seat-first: which shape of operator you are, and why that decides the platform before price does.
- FleetDesk’s own pricing, in full, with every plan limit on the page.