Wildlife tour booking, easy for guests and easy to run.

Buddy Booking is an online reservation platform designed for whale watching, dolphin tours, marine wildlife excursions, boat tours, and other water-based experiences.

Give guests an easy way to explore your tours, see available departure times, find meeting locations, and book online in minutes. Behind the scenes, your team can manage schedules, guest capacity, digital waivers, payments, and passenger manifests in one place.

Built for businesses of all sizes, Buddy helps simplify daily operations while connecting your tours to travelers discovering ocean adventures through the Buddy Marketplace and app.

Absolutely! Buddy makes it easy to manage recurring departures, seasonal schedules, and multiple tour times throughout the day.

Run whale watching tours at 8 AM, 10 AM, and 12 PM, set availability for each departure, and manage the number of guests you can accommodate.

Whether you operate one boat or multiple tours with different schedules, your team can manage upcoming reservations, available spots, and guest lists from one calendar.

Buddy is designed to make booking simple for travelers.

Guests can view your tour photos, descriptions, departure times, availability, pricing, and meeting instructions before booking. They can select their preferred date, choose the number and type of guests, provide the required information, and pay online.

You can also offer deposits or full payments, helping customers secure their spots without unnecessary back-and-forth.

Yes! Buddy Booking helps you collect the information you need before guests arrive.

Set up different guest types, such as adults and children, with their own pricing. Collect names, email addresses, dates of birth, and any additional information your tour requires.

Digital waivers are integrated into the booking process, and completed waiver statuses are organized alongside reservations and guest manifests.

Your crew can prepare for each departure with passenger information in one place rather than chasing paperwork at check-in.

Yes! Every activity can have a detailed booking page that answers common guest questions before they reserve.

Add photos, tour descriptions, meeting locations, arrival instructions, itineraries, what's included, what to bring, and important wildlife viewing guidelines.

Whether guests need directions to a marina, instructions for boarding, or information about what wildlife they might encounter, Buddy helps communicate those details clearly.

Automated booking confirmations and reminders help guests stay informed before their experience.

Yes! Buddy supports different guest categories, pricing options, departure capacities, and optional add-ons.

Offer adult and child tickets, private experiences, equipment rentals, photo packages, or other extras depending on your tour.

Guests can select their options while booking, and your team can keep track of reservations, guest counts, and available spots for each departure.

It's designed to make everyday ticket sales and larger group reservations easier to manage.

Of course! You can keep your current website and add Buddy Booking directly to it.

Embed the booking experience on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, or a custom website, or use individual booking links and buttons.

You can also share tour links with hotels, concierges, travel partners, and through social media or email.

Don't have a website? Buddy Websites provides a dedicated website for your tours, schedules, and booking options, all connected to your Buddy account.

Yes! You don't have to rebuild your entire booking operation yourself.

Our team can help recreate your tours, pricing, seasonal schedules, guest types, and booking requirements in Buddy using your existing website or tour information.

You can review and test your setup, make adjustments, and continue using your existing system while preparing to launch Buddy.

We'll also help connect your booking links or website integration, so the transition works for your business and your team.

Buddy Booking is free to set up, with no required monthly subscription.

• 0% Buddy commission: Bookings through your own website can use a customer-paid 5% booking fee.

• Buddy Websites: Business-paid booking fees start at 6%.

• Buddy Marketplace: Commissions start at 12% for bookings through Buddy's discovery channels.

Business-paid rates decrease as your annual booking revenue grows, reaching 4% for Buddy Websites and 8% for marketplace bookings at the highest tier.

Standard Stripe payment processing fees also apply.

Yes! Buddy is more than reservation software. We also help travelers discover and book water-based experiences.

Your tours can be listed on BookWithBuddy.com and in the Dive with Buddy app, where travelers explore destinations, marine wildlife, dive sites, and ocean activities.

Operators using Buddy Websites or website booking embeds can also receive additional marketing support, including destination articles, newsletter features, activity reels, and collaborative social media posts.

Our goal is to help more travelers discover your tours while making it easier for your team to manage reservations.