THE FAREHARBOR ALTERNATIVE
“Free” software your customers pay for.
FareHarbor doesn't bill you — it staples about 6% onto your customer's total at checkout. Your $850 trip quietly shows up as ~$900, and you eat every booking that surcharge scares off. Timber & Tackle is a flat fee with no surcharge: your price is your price.
FareHarbor's pitch is that it's free for the operator, and technically that's true — there's no monthly subscription. The cost just moves to your customer: a booking fee — commonly reported at roughly 6% in the US; FareHarbor doesn't publish the rate — is added to their total at checkout, as a separate line item.
That sounds like someone else's problem until you watch it work. Your clean $850 trip becomes ~$900 at the last screen, right when the customer is deciding. Every booking that surcharge talks out of it is your lost booking, not FareHarbor's. And because the whole thing lives in their platform, moving off it later means rebuilding integrations and retraining — a switching cost that keeps you put.
Timber & Tackle is a flat monthly fee and nothing else. No percentage on you, no surcharge on your customer, on your own site and your own domain. The price your customer sees is the price you set — and the relationship is yours to keep.
FareHarbor vs. Timber & Tackle
FareHarbor doesn't publish its booking-fee rate; the ~6% figure is from independent 2026 pricing breakdowns. The $0 operator subscription is FareHarbor's own pitch.
Monthly cost to you
- FareHarbor
- $0 subscription
- Timber & Tackle
- One flat monthly fee
The catch
- FareHarbor
- ~6% added to your customer's bill
- Timber & Tackle
- No surcharge, ever
Who pays it
- FareHarbor
- Your customer, at checkout
- Timber & Tackle
- Nobody
Your $850 trip at checkout
- FareHarbor
- Shows as ~$900
- Timber & Tackle
- Shows as $850
Bookings lost to sticker shock
- FareHarbor
- You eat them
- Timber & Tackle
- They see your real price
A site you actually own
- FareHarbor
- Their platform
- Timber & Tackle
- Your own domain
Leaving later
- FareHarbor
- Rebuild & retrain
- Timber & Tackle
- One-click export, anytime
| FareHarbor | Timber & Tackle | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost to you | $0 subscription | One flat monthly fee |
| The catch | ~6% added to your customer's bill | No surcharge, ever |
| Who pays it | Your customer, at checkout | Nobody |
| Your $850 trip at checkout | Shows as ~$900 | Shows as $850 |
| Bookings lost to sticker shock | You eat them | They see your real price |
| A site you actually own | Their platform | Your own domain |
| Leaving later | Rebuild & retrain | One-click export, anytime |
Your price is your price
No 6% stapled to checkout. What the customer sees is what you set — no last-screen surprise to talk them out of the trip.
You're not a tenant
Your booking lives on your own domain, building your SEO and your brand — not FareHarbor's. Leave anytime with a one-click export.
Flat, predictable cost
One monthly fee whether you book 10 trips or 200 — not a percentage that grows every time you have a good month.
Do the math on your own trips.
Switch the calculator to FareHarbor and put in your numbers. The ~6% that rides on your customer's bill is real money against your conversion — see what a flat fee looks like instead.
What are you on now?
Keep it for the strangers it finds you. This is about the trips you book yourself.
50 trips= $28,650 a year
FareHarbor fee — your anglers pay
$1,719
Timber & Tackle add-on fees
$0
Your price is your price.
No 6% surprise bolted on at checkout — so you don't lose the bookings the fee scares off.
Only guide part of the year? Pause the rest.
Run your seasons, then pause your bill in the off-months — $0 while you're off the water, and your site stays live, still booking next season. You only pay the months you're actually fishing.
FareHarbor is free to the operator and adds a booking fee (about 6%) to the customer's total at checkout. Your anglers pay it, every booking.
Straight answers.
If FareHarbor is free, how is Timber & Tackle cheaper?
FareHarbor is free to you because your customer pays a ~6% fee at checkout instead. On a $850 trip that's about $50 added to their bill — and you lose the bookings that surcharge scares off. A flat fee with no surcharge protects your price and your conversion.
Can't I just absorb the FareHarbor fee myself?
Some operators do — but then you're paying ~6% of every booking out of your own margin, which is exactly the per-booking cut you're trying to escape. A flat fee doesn't grow with your volume.
Do you lock me in like a big platform?
No. Your site is on your own domain, your client list is yours, and you can export everything with one click the day you start and the day you leave. No integrations to unwind.
What does it take to switch?
Send us your trips or your current site and we build your whole booking site for free, then send you a link to approve. You don't configure anything — it's a phone call and a tap.
Your price is your price. Booked direct.
We build your whole site free and send you a link. Look it over. If the math doesn't move you, you've lost nothing.
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