THE ANYCREEK ALTERNATIVE
Your own client shouldn't pay a service fee to book you.
AnyCreek makes good booking software, and plenty of guides like it. But its pricing stacks up: $49–$199 a month plus a $199 setup fee, a 5% service fee added to your client's bill — even when they came from your own phone — and a 15% commission on leads it sources. Timber & Tackle is $29 flat. Your price is your price.
Let's be fair to AnyCreek first: it's a polished platform with a real following, especially among fly-fishing guides. The booking calendar is clean, payouts through Stripe land in about two business days, and its lead fee is more honest than most marketplaces — a one-time 15% on a new client it sends you, after which that client reverts to standard fees instead of being taxed forever. That's a better deal than the perpetual-commission platforms, and we'll say so.
But look at the whole stack. Plans run $49 to $199 a month, plus a one-time $199 setup fee. Then, on every trip booked through your own channels — your website, your phone, your DMs, clients you earned yourself — AnyCreek adds a 5% service fee to the customer's bill and charges you a 3% card fee. Book a $500 trip with a regular who's fished with you for years, and their receipt reads $525. Your price stops being your price, on your own clients, on top of your subscription.
Timber & Tackle charges $29 a month, or $290 a year, and that's the whole bill. No setup fee. No service fee added to your client's checkout — a $500 trip costs your client $500. The only processing cost is Stripe's standard card fee, which goes to Stripe, not us, and which you'd pay under any system that takes cards.
And we start where AnyCreek asks you to finish. Send us the link to your current site and we build the entire thing — your trips, photos, story, and reviews — free, before you've paid anything. You look it over, then decide. Your site lives on your own domain with per-water landing pages that rank for the rivers and flats you actually fish, and your client list exports in one click if you ever want to leave. Hunting operations too, not just fishing — one platform for an outfit that runs ducks in December and redfish in July.
A client who found you through your own phone number still pays AnyCreek 5% at checkout. On your Timber & Tackle site, a $500 trip costs $500.
AnyCreek vs. Timber & Tackle
Fee and pricing facts are from AnyCreek's own pricing page and help center, checked July 2026.
Monthly price
- AnyCreek
- $49–$199/mo + $199 setup fee
- Timber & Tackle
- $29/mo flat, or $290/yr — no setup fee
Fee added to your client's bill
- AnyCreek
- 5% service fee, even on your own bookings
- Timber & Tackle
- $0 — your price is your price
Commission on platform leads
- AnyCreek
- 15%, one time per new client
- Timber & Tackle
- No leads business — no commission, ever
Who builds your site
- AnyCreek
- You set up your page
- Timber & Tackle
- We build the whole site free, before you pay
Your own domain & SEO equity
- AnyCreek
- Profile lives on anycreek.com
- Timber & Tackle
- Your domain, per-water landing pages, 301s
Walk away with your data
- AnyCreek
- Not published
- Timber & Tackle
- One-click export, anytime
What your client pays on a $500 trip
- AnyCreek
- $525 — their 5% lands on the receipt
- Timber & Tackle
- $500 — the number you quoted
What a 60-trip season costs you
- AnyCreek
- $588–$2,388 subscription + $199 setup, plus a 3% card fee
- Timber & Tackle
- $290 flat — and Stripe's standard card fee, paid to Stripe
| AnyCreek | Timber & Tackle | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | $49–$199/mo + $199 setup fee | $29/mo flat, or $290/yr — no setup fee |
| Fee added to your client's bill | 5% service fee, even on your own bookings | $0 — your price is your price |
| Commission on platform leads | 15%, one time per new client | No leads business — no commission, ever |
| Who builds your site | You set up your page | We build the whole site free, before you pay |
| Your own domain & SEO equity | Profile lives on anycreek.com | Your domain, per-water landing pages, 301s |
| Walk away with your data | Not published | One-click export, anytime |
| What your client pays on a $500 trip | $525 — their 5% lands on the receipt | $500 — the number you quoted |
| What a 60-trip season costs you | $588–$2,388 subscription + $199 setup, plus a 3% card fee | $290 flat — and Stripe's standard card fee, paid to Stripe |
No fee between you and your client
AnyCreek's 5% service fee lands on your client's receipt even when you earned the booking yourself. Here, nothing is added at checkout — the number you quote is the number they pay.
The site is built for you
Send one link. We rebuild your trips, photos, story, and reviews into a premium site on your own domain — free, before you owe a dime. Approve it or walk away.
No lock-in, on purpose
Your client list, bookings, and content export in one click. Old URLs 301-redirect to the new site, so the search equity you've earned carries over instead of 404-ing — and nothing traps you if you ever leave.
Straight answers.
Isn't AnyCreek's 15% fairer than other marketplaces?
Yes, honestly. A one-time 15% on a genuinely new client — who then reverts to standard fees — beats platforms that take a cut of the same customer forever. Our difference is simpler: we don't run a leads marketplace at all, so there's no commission to structure. You pay $29 a month and keep every dollar of every trip.
Don't you both charge card-processing fees?
Card processing exists everywhere. AnyCreek charges guides a 3% credit card fee; on Timber & Tackle you pay Stripe's standard rate (about 2.9% + 30 cents), which goes to Stripe — we add nothing on top. The real difference is everything else: their 5% customer service fee, the $199 setup, and the subscription tiers.
What does the 5% service fee actually mean for my clients?
AnyCreek adds 5% to the customer's total at checkout — their own help docs use the example of a $500 trip costing the client $525. That applies to bookings from your owned channels: your site, your calls, your DMs. On a Timber & Tackle site nothing is added, so your quoted price is the checkout price.
AnyCreek already hosts my guide page. Why move?
Because equity compounds where the domain lives. A profile on anycreek.com builds anycreek.com's ranking; a site on your own domain builds yours, with landing pages for each water you fish. We import your existing content and reviews and 301-redirect old URLs so the ranking you've earned comes with you.
What if I run hunts too?
That's half of what we do. Timber & Tackle handles fishing charters and hunting outfits in one place — seasons, multi-day hunts with lodging, deposits sized to the trip. One site and one flat fee covers the duck blind and the flats boat.
How hard is it to switch?
You send one link and approve one build. We do the rest — the whole switch runs about a week, with roughly 15 minutes of your own time in it: look the site over, tap approve, connect payouts from your phone.
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