Best boat rental software in 2026: prices and fees compared

Look for boat rental or boat reservation software and you run into a dozen names. A few are built for boats, a few for tours and activities, a few rent out anything, and two are booking networks for week-long yacht charters. Let’s Book is one of the twelve, and we make it. So every fact about the other eleven links to their own website, read on 24 October 2026.

Five questions before you compare

Most feature lists look alike, so start from your own dock instead.

What do you sell? A boat somebody drives themselves for two hours is a rental. A seat on the three o’clock departure is a ticket. A whole boat with a captain for a birthday is a charter. A week on a catamaran in Croatia is a charter too, but with a down payment in February and a crew list for the harbor office. Clubs sell membership. Many businesses sell two or three of these, and not every tool can.
Who pays the booking fee? Some tools charge you a monthly fee plus a percentage per booking. Some charge nothing monthly and take a percentage. Some add a fee that your customer pays at checkout. The difference shows up on every single booking, so look at it before the features.
Deposits and waivers. With a self-drive boat you often want a security deposit, a signed waiver or rental agreement, and buffer time between rentals for cleaning. Tour software rarely has all three.
Hardware. Do you want the customer to start the boat with their phone, or see where a boat is? Only a few tools connect to that.
Where do your guests come from? If you sell through Viator, GetYourGuide or an agency network, you need a channel manager or a broker network, and you pay for it. If your guests book on your own website, you don’t.

Built for boats

Each tool below gets the same six lines, so you can run your finger down the page: who it is for, what it costs, what it does for boats, where your guests come from, what it does well, and what to know before you call. Every line about another vendor links to the page it came from.

Let’s Book

That’s us: booking software for boat rentals, tours, charters and boat clubs, and for nothing else, on purpose. Made in Amsterdam by people who have rented out boats since 2006.

For: rentals by the hour, tours, private charters and clubs, on the same boats and one planning.
Price: Standard at $30 a month (€25) plus 2.5% of every booking, Pro at $175 (€150) plus 1%; every feature on both, unlimited boats, users and docks, no setup fee, no minimum term. The booking fee you pay yourself or pass on to the guest as its own line (pricing, FAQ).
For boats: deposits, waivers, hourly rental with buffer time, a down payment with the balance by link, memberships, add-ons, and an engine that unlocks for the booking through Sentinel Marine.
Channels: your own website, and partner links at their own rate. A channel manager for Viator and GetYourGuide and tickets per seat are being built (FAQ).
Honest limits: no OTA marketplace yet, no dry stack or slip management, not an agency network for week charters.

BookingCentral

Rental software built in Florida, for fleets “people rent by the hour, day, or trip” (BookingCentral, about).

For: “boat rentals, jet ski and watersports, RV rentals, golf cart rentals, ATV/UTV and powersports, and tours and charters”, in their own words.
Price: no monthly fee; a percentage of each booking, set “on a short call” and not published, which you can show to your guests at checkout; a one-time onboarding fee and, for low-volume businesses, possibly an annual fee, both without an amount (pricing).
For boats: hourly, half-day, full-day and multi-day rates; deposits as a fixed amount, a percentage or a card authorization; waivers through Smartwaiver; membership tiers (boat rentals page).
Channels: no OTA or channel manager on its pages.
Good at: the American rental dock. Powersports, golf carts and boats on one system, card authorization for damage, and a FAQ that says plainly where they do and don’t operate.
Know before you call: “the United States and parts of Canada”, in US dollars only, and “not set up for merchants that require French-language service” (FAQ).

SpeedyDock

“Boat rental, boat club, and drystack marina management software” from Auburn, Alabama, founded in 2016 according to the structured data on its homepage, used by “over 500 marina and boat storage operators across the US” (SpeedyDock).

For: marinas with rentals, a boat club, dry stack storage, slips and a point of sale, in five products.
Price: not published for rental and club; “as low as $200 per month” for dry stack (dry stack) and “$99 per month” for the point of sale (point of sale).
For boats: automated deposits and deposit releases, e-signed waivers and rental agreements, hourly, half-day and full-day pricing, buffer time between rentals, balance-due reminders, membership-level access per boat (boat rental); unlimited membership levels with auto-pay and a QuickBooks link for clubs (boat club).
Channels: no OTA or channel manager on its pages.
Good at: the marina as a whole. Nobody else in this list schedules forklift launches and retrievals next to the rental calendar.
Know before you call: marketed in the US only, and you’ll need a demo to learn the rental price.

CaptainBook

A booking system “built for the things-to-do industry”, founded in 2021 with offices in Miami and on Naxos, with pages for boat tours and sailing charters and for fishing charters (CaptainBook, boat tours, about).

For: tour and charter operators who sell experiences; boat rentals, marinas and clubs are not among its segments.
Price: Starter €49 a month (ten experiences, no waivers), Extended €199 (two waivers, twenty partners), Ultra €349; 0% on direct bookings, 0% plus €14.99 per product per month on Viator and GetYourGuide, 2.5% to 3.5% on other OTAs, 14-day trial (pricing); payment processing extra, through your own Stripe account (payments).
For boats: partial payment at booking with the balance collected on site, digital waivers, captain assignment, tipping (channel manager). Security deposits, hourly rental with buffer time and memberships are not on its pages.
Channels: a channel manager with Viator and GetYourGuide, and reseller contracts for hotels and agencies.
Good at: the clearest price list for OTA sellers in this group, with 0% on your own bookings, and a product built by a former sailing tour operator.
Know before you call: a good fit for tours and charters with OTAs; self-drive rental is not what it’s built for.

Tour and activity platforms with a boat page

FareHarbor

The big one: “tours, activities, rentals and attractions” for 23,000-plus companies, founded in Hawaii in 2013, headquartered in Amsterdam and part of Booking Holdings since 2018 (about).

For: tour operators and attractions first; a boat tours page with schedules per charter, a mobile manifest and OTA connections (boat tours), and a rentals page (rentals).
Price: no pricing page. The provider terms say the customer pays a booking fee to FareHarbor at checkout, or you pay a commission “communicated separately” (terms for providers). FareHarbor’s own help center uses a 6% booking fee in its examples (total price display); the fee is non-refundable and kept in full on a partial refund (terms for customers).
For boats: waivers through partners, credit card holds for equipment and time blocks for cleaning, on the rentals page.
Channels: “over 250 leading OTAs and travel platforms” and an affiliate network (distribution).
Good at: reach. If you live on OTAs and sell seats on departures, few platforms connect you to more of them.
Know before you call: the fee is your customer’s, at checkout, and it does not come back on a partial refund. We wrote a longer FareHarbor comparison, and worked out its fees on boat prices.

Peek Pro

“An independently-owned AI-powered operating system for tours, activities, rentals, and attractions”, with pages for boat rentals, boat tours and charters, jet skis and watersports (Peek Pro).

For: tour and activity operators, with boat pages of its own.
Price: “custom, quote-based” and, in Peek’s own comparison table, “commission-based”; the merchant terms name 3% on bookings through the Reseller Hub and 20% on Peek’s own marketplace, but no base commission (terms). No free trial; the way in is a demo.
For boats: a financial hold during a booking, waivers and ID upload before the trip, multi-day excursions as add-ons, dynamic pricing (boat rentals page).
Channels: integrations with Viator and GetYourGuide, and Peek’s own marketplace.
Good at: the guest’s side before departure: waivers signed and IDs uploaded ahead, a hold on the card, and real boat pages instead of a generic “rentals” tab.
Know before you call: you won’t know the price until the demo. Our Peek Pro comparison goes deeper.

Rezdy

“Designed for tour operators, activity providers and resellers”, from Australia, with a charters page for “boats, planes, yachts or charters” and a rentals page for kayaks and canoes (Rezdy, charters). Rezdy merged with Checkfront and Regiondo in 2023 (2023 wrap up).

For: tour operators who sell through resellers.
Price: Foundation $49, Accelerate $99, Expansion $249 a month, each plus 3% per online booking that you absorb or pass on, $1 to $0.70 per offline or agent booking, 21-day free trial (pricing).
For boats: waivers through a partner, Wherewolf (integrations); security deposits, buffer time and hourly rental are not on its pages.
Channels: a channel manager with Viator, GetYourGuide, Expedia and others, included on every plan (channel manager).
Good at: openness. The only tour platform here with a full price list on its site, and the channel manager comes with every plan.
Know before you call: the charters page still shows an older fee of 2%, which contradicts the pricing page. Our Rezdy comparison has the detail.

Checkfront

“The flexible booking software for every experience”, from Victoria, British Columbia, since 2010; its rentals page lists kayaks, paddleboards, jet skis, surfboards and boats, and there is no boat or charter page of its own (rentals, about).

For: tours, activities, rentals and accommodation, all on one plan.
Price: €99 a month (the price varies by region) plus a 3% online booking fee that you absorb or pass on, no fee on offline bookings, no setup fee (pricing).
For boats: waivers built in at no extra cost, a booking deposit with the balance later, a security deposit as a card pre-authorization at pickup, maintenance time per asset as buffer (Checkfront on rentals).
Channels: Viator, Expedia, GetYourGuide, Tripadvisor and Booking.com (tours).
Good at: one plan, one price, and waivers included where others charge for them. Fifteen years of doing this shows in the help center.
Know before you call: memberships and boat hardware are not on its pages, and boats are one item in a long rentals list.

Bókun

“A Tripadvisor company”: booking and channel management for tour operators, attractions and rental providers, founded in Iceland in 2012 and owned by Tripadvisor since 2018 (about).

For: operators who sell on Viator and want the rest of the OTAs too.
Price: a free plan that only manages Viator bookings, Start at $49 a month plus 1.5%, Plus at $149 plus 1.25% (its own feature list for that plan says 1%), Premium at $499 plus 1%, which you can pass on to the customer, 14-day trial (pricing).
For boats: a deposit as a percentage of the price, but Bókun “does not offer the option to charge the remaining amount automatically online” (deposit payments). Security deposits and memberships are not on its pages.
Channels: a marketplace of “2,600+ OTAs and resellers” (Bókun), and a booking widget in 36 languages (widget languages).
Good at: the widest marketplace and the most languages in this list, and a free way in for anyone who already sells on Viator. Its own guide to boat rental software calls Let’s Book “entirely focused on boat rental businesses” (Bókun guide), which is fair.
Know before you call: the balance after a deposit is collected by hand, and the Plus plan’s fee is written two ways on its own page.

Rental software for any kind of gear

Booqable

“The modern rental software for every business”, from Leeuwarden in the Netherlands, launched in 2014, with a boat page that runs “from hourly kayak rentals to multi-day powerboat charters” (boat rental, about).

For: rental businesses of any kind: boats next to bikes, tents and cameras.
Price: no commission on bookings; Start from €29 a month billed yearly, Grow from €69, Scale from €149, e-signatures from Grow, 14-day trial, a second location €29 a month (pricing).
For boats: security deposits as a charge or a card hold that expires after five to seven days and can be captured once (card holds); rental agreements and waivers; buffer time (rental periods); a down payment with payment requests for the balance (payments). Memberships are on the roadmap only (roadmap).
Channels: no OTA or channel manager among its integrations.
Good at: honest pricing with no percentage, and the clearest documentation of card holds in this list: how long a hold lasts and what happens when it expires.
Know before you call: a multilingual checkout needs the Weglot app, which works only on Booqable’s own website builder (Weglot app), and captained charters are not its thing.

Anolla

A general booking platform with “over 200 service categories”, one of them boats, from Booklux OÜ in Estonia, founded in 2011, used in 33 countries with 26 languages (about).

For: rentals, yacht charter, tours, marinas and clubs, on the same template as 200 other trades (boat rental software).
Price: a free plan at €0 and a monthly fee “that grows with the size of your fleet” with no euro amount published; pay-as-you-go for payments and SMS (features); a 30-day trial without a credit card (activity software).
For boats: online deposits through Stripe, check-in logs, membership tiers, smart locks and sensors, dynamic pricing. Charter contracts, crew lists and a down payment schedule for week charters are not on its pages.
Channels: a channel manager and a service marketplace on the generic rental page (rental software).
Good at: languages and price of entry. 26 languages and a €0 plan is a low threshold for a one-boat business anywhere in Europe.
Know before you call: Anolla itself says its third-party integration marketplace “is currently smaller than on some legacy platforms”.

Yacht charter networks

These two are a different animal. They are booking networks where thousands of charter agencies see your yachts and book them for their clients, with back-office software attached. If you charter yachts by the week in Croatia, Greece or Turkey, you probably know them already.

Booking Manager

By MMK Systems in Zagreb, founded in 2002 (MMK story); “the world’s largest online booking system” for charter fleets and agencies: “5,000+ agencies, 1,300+ fleets, 12,000+ boats” (Booking Manager).

For: charter fleets that sell weeks through agencies, and the agencies themselves.
Price: “depend on the size of your fleet”; a transaction fee only on bookings that come through the network, fixed fees for the back office, and an agency commission on a bareboat charter “between 15% and 20%” (FAQ); agencies get free access to the search and booking tools (for agencies).
For boats: crew lists with exports for the Croatian and Greek authorities, advance payments with a final invoice, contracts, extras, and since version 14 hourly charter and offers in 28 languages (v14).
Channels: the network is the channel: 5,000 agencies log in and book your yachts.
Good at: the paperwork of a charter base, from the crew list for the harbor office to the final invoice, built over twenty years in Croatia.
Know before you call: not for self-drive rental by the hour, memberships or hardware, and the price needs a conversation.

NauSYS

Also from Zagreb (privacy policy): a booking network for fleet operators, charter agencies and yacht owners with “over 5,000 charter agencies”, “over 900 fleets” and “over 9,000 yachts” (NauSYS).

For: charter fleets and the agencies that sell them, plus an owner portal.
Price: “0% fees on all bookings”; fleets choose a distribution package or a Premium Partnership that includes the back office (NauSYS); the partnership asks for exclusivity, and no price is published (premium partner).
For boats: contracts, crew lists, down payment status, a security deposit authorization by card and a digital check-in, the last two for premium partners (system updates); price lists are weekly or daily (price lists).
Channels: the agency network, and your yachts on “over 250 websites”.
Good at: 0% on every booking is a rare sentence in this trade, and the charter paperwork is as complete as its neighbor’s.
Know before you call: hourly rental appears nowhere on its pages, and premium means exclusivity.

Prices side by side

What each vendor publishes, read on 24 October 2026. “Not published” means the number is not on their site.

Tool	Monthly	Per booking	Who pays the fee	Free trial
Let’s Book	$30 (€25) or $175 (€150)	2.5% or 1%	You, or passed to the guest	Test login, no trial needed
BookingCentral	None	Not published, set on a call	You, or passed to the guest	Not published
SpeedyDock	Not published for rental	Not published	Not published	Demo
CaptainBook	€49, €199 or €349	0% direct; 2.5% to 3.5% on OTAs	You	14 days
FareHarbor	Not published	6% in their own example	Your customer, or a commission for you	Not published
Peek Pro	Quote only	Not published	You, commission-based	Demo
Rezdy	$49, $99 or $249	3% online	You, or passed to the guest	21 days
Checkfront	€99, varies by region	3% online	You, or passed to the guest	Not on the pricing page
Bókun	Free, $49, $149 or $499	1.5% to 1%	You, or passed to the customer	14 days
Booqable	From €29, €69 or €149	None	Nobody	14 days
Anolla	€0, then grows with fleet size	Not published	You	30 days
Booking Manager	Not published	Fee on network bookings	You	Demo
NauSYS	Not published	0%	Nobody	Not published

Payment processing is on top everywhere, at the rates of Stripe, Mollie or whichever processor the tool uses.

Which tool for which business

Self-drive rental by the hour, in Europe. You want deposits, buffer time, a waiver and a booking form in your language. Let’s Book, Booqable and Anolla publish all of that; of the three, only Let’s Book is boats-only and ties the deposit, the waiver and the unlock to the booking.
Self-drive rental in the US, with a marina attached. SpeedyDock and BookingCentral are built around US marinas, dry stack and powersports. Let’s Book works in the US too, with dollars and Stripe, but has no dry stack or slip management.
Tours with tickets per seat. FareHarbor, Peek Pro, Rezdy, Bókun and CaptainBook all sell seats on a departure and connect to Viator and GetYourGuide. Let’s Book sells the whole boat today; tickets per seat are coming.
Private charters with a captain. Let’s Book, CaptainBook, Peek Pro and FareHarbor all do a down payment and a balance; check who collects the balance, and whether the deposit and the waiver are in the same booking.
Week charters in the Mediterranean. Booking Manager and NauSYS, because the agencies are there. Let’s Book handles the down payment, the balance and the deposit of a week charter, but it is not an agency network.
Boat clubs. Let’s Book, SpeedyDock and BookingCentral publish membership tiers and booking rules; the tour platforms don’t. What Let’s Book does for a club is on our boat club software page.
A few boats next to bikes, kayaks or tents. Booqable or Anolla, because they rent out anything.

Where Let’s Book fits, and where it doesn’t

Let’s Book is boat rental software for operators who sell boats in more than one way: rentals by the hour, tours, private charters and memberships, on the same boats and one planning. The price is on one page, the booking fee is between you and us and you decide whether your guest sees any of it, and there is no setup fee or minimum term. What you will not find yet is a channel manager for the big marketplaces or tickets per seat; both are being built, and we say “coming” until they are live. If your business is week charters sold through agencies, or a marina with dry stack, one of the tools above fits you better, and we’d rather say so than sign you up.

Frequently asked questions about boat rental software

Is there free boat rental software?

Bókun has a free plan that only manages Viator bookings, and Anolla has a €0 plan with pay-as-you-go payments. Everything else costs a monthly fee, a percentage, or both. Free usually means the fee moves to your customer or to your time.

What does boat rental software cost?

Of the tools that publish a price, the monthly fee runs from €0 to $499, and the fee per online booking from nothing to 6%. A rental business doing 2,000 bookings a year at $150 pays very different amounts under a 1% plan and a 6% customer fee, so do the math on your own numbers before you look at features.

Is boat reservation software the same as boat rental software?

Yes, in practice. Reservation, booking and rental software do the same job: your boats on one calendar, a booking form on your website and a payment at checkout. What sets them apart is what comes with a boat: a deposit, a waiver, buffer time between rentals. How the booking form of Let’s Book works is on the boat reservation system page.

Do I need software made for boats?

Not always. A tour operator who sells seats and lives on Viator is well served by a tour platform. A rental operator with deposits, waivers, buffer time and a boat that has to be unlocked is better off with a tool that has those built in, so you are not stitching four apps together.

Can I switch later?

Yes. Most vendors, Let’s Book included, move your existing bookings for you. Ask what happens to the bookings already paid through the old system and to the payment account, and pick a quiet month to switch.