NO-COMMISSION BOOKING
Take the booking. Keep the whole trip price.
Marketplaces take 10–30% of every trip — including the repeat clients who already know you. Timber & Tackle is flat $120 a month, zero commission, no per-booking cut. The trip price is yours, paid straight to your own account.
Every other way to take a booking online skims your margin. A marketplace like FishingBooker takes a 10–30% commission on the deposit; FareHarbor adds around 6% to the customer and holds you to terms where you don't even own your site. Generic tour software charges a monthly fee plus about 3% on every online booking. You end up paying to take your own booking.
Timber & Tackle charges one flat fee — $120 a month, or $1,200 a year — and takes nothing per booking. When a client books, the money goes to your own Stripe account. No commission, no percentage, no cut of the trip you guided. The only per-transaction cost is standard card processing, which goes to Stripe, not us.
Keep 100% of the trip price
A $1,200 charter is $1,200 to you, minus only the card fee every platform pays. Run 10 trips or 200 — the software cost stays flat.
Stop paying commission on repeat clients
The client who booked you last season shouldn't cost you 20% to book again. Direct booking means you never pay a finder's fee on someone who already found you.
Money to your own account
Deposits and balances land in your own Stripe — no platform wallet holding your money, no payout delay dictated by a marketplace.
No lock-in
Flat month-to-month or annual. Your site, your domain, your client list — export everything anytime. You're building an asset, not renting a spot in a grid.
How it works
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Set your trips and prices
List your trips, seasons, and deposit amounts — the way you actually run them, at the prices you actually charge.
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Take the booking on your own site
Clients book through your own branded site, not a marketplace listing. You accept the request, they pay a deposit to your account.
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Guide the trip, keep the money
The deposit and balance are yours. There's no commission line, because there's no commission.
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Grow without the fee growing
Book more trips and your cost doesn't move. The savings compound in your pocket, not the platform's.
Why it matters
The fee is only half the harm. The deeper cost of a marketplace is commoditization — a premium $1,200 trip listed in a grid next to discount operators competes on price, not craft. A guide with a real direct brand doesn't belong in that grid.
Flat-fee, zero-commission booking is how you sell margin and ownership instead of leads. You keep the price, the client, and the brand — and the math only gets better the more you book.
Straight answers.
Is there really no per-booking fee?
Correct — no commission and no per-booking percentage from us, ever. One flat monthly or annual subscription. The only per-transaction cost is standard Stripe card processing, which every platform incurs and which goes to Stripe.
How is the money handled?
Bookings are paid to your own connected Stripe account — deposit up front, balance on your terms. We never hold your money in a platform wallet.
What does it cost?
$120 a month, or $1,200 a year (two months free). Flat, whether you run a handful of trips or a full season.
Can I still keep my marketplace listings?
Yes. Keep them for discovery if you want, and send your direct and repeat clients to your own site so you stop paying commission on the people who already know you.
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