Take bookings on software you'll actually love
Online booking, payments and waivers for rentals, tours, stays, classes, and more.
- Card payments through Stripe
- Nothing for operators to pay
- Waivers built in
Businesses take bookings for
- Jet skis
- Parasailing
- Sunset cruises
- Cabins
- Pottery classes
- Escape rooms
- Kayaks
- E-bikes
- Guided tours
- Fishing charters
- Wine tastings
- Surf lessons
- Hiking trips
- Spa days
- Campsites
- Pontoon boats
- Helicopter tours
Whatever you take bookings for
Parasailing and other flights, rentals by the hour, tours at set times, stays by the night and classes by the seat. Choose the one that sounds like you.
Jet ski & boat rentals
Every ski counted, drivers checked at the dock, waivers signed before anyone arrives.
See how it fitsKayak, SUP & bike rentals
Singles, doubles, hourly and all-day rentals, sold from your own website.
See how it fitsTours & charters
Departures with real seats, guests by age and weight, private charters approved first.
See how it fitsParasailing
Line lengths customers pick, flyers and observers on one booking, ages and weights asked before they arrive.
See how it fitsCabins & lodging
Nightly stays with check-in and check-out times, cleaning fees and lodging tax.
See how it fitsClasses & workshops
Repeating schedules, seats that fill, and students who tell you what they need before they arrive.
See how it fitsEscape rooms & attractions
Timed entry, private or public games, group pricing and a quick door.
See how it fitsLower fees. Nothing for you to pay.
Many booking platforms add a booking fee for your customers and charge you extra for the tools around it. Upwind keeps its fee lower, and you pay nothing for Upwind itself.
Customers pay Upwind's booking fee. Upwind itself costs the operator nothing.
Lower than the large platforms charge, and shown in the price from the first screen. No surprise at checkout.
Digital waivers are part of Upwind, not a paid add-on from someone else.
Comparison: FareHarbor's booking fee is paid by the customer and its level is not published (fareharbor.com/legal/tos-providers); industry estimates put it above Upwind's (arival.travel, Arival Guide to Reservation System Pricing). Card payments are processed by Stripe on your own account, and Stripe's standard processing fee applies.
One platform for the whole season
Bookings, payments, waivers, customers, reports and e-mail, built around how rental, tour and lodging businesses actually work.
Presets
Start a new offering from the card closest to what you sell, from a jet ski rental to a dinner or a cabin, and the usual settings come ready for you to change.
Digital waivers
Each guest signs on their own phone before they arrive, or a whole group signs from one shared code. A parent or guardian signs for anyone under 18.
QR check-in
Customers show a code on their phone. You scan it at the door and their booking opens.
Card payments
Customers pay by card on your booking page, through Stripe, into your own account. Take a card by phone, or let a customer pay from a code on their own phone.
Group pricing, add-ons and coupons
Prices that change with group size, extras guests can add, deposits, and promotion codes with limits.
Weather closures
Close a day, some hours or one unit, see who is booked, refund and tell every customer in a few clicks.
Questions for guests
Ask weight, height, a dietary need or anything else when they book, and see the answers on your manifest.
E-mails with your name on them
Confirmations and waiver links go out with your logo and your own words. Preview each one and send yourself a test.
Reports for your bookkeeper
Sales, payments and refunds for any period, with a tax summary for your accountant and spreadsheets to download.
Calendar and Today
The day at a glance, with what is out, what is due back and what is free, and a week and month calendar you can follow in Google, Apple or Outlook.
Team roles and locations
Invite your team as owners, managers, front desk, staff, guides or analysts, and give each person the places they work.
Your website, your booking button
Share a booking page, or put booking on your own site as a button, in the page or as a link.
From sign-up to first booking, fast
Choose what you sell
Pick the card closest to your business, add your photos, times and prices, and make it available when you are ready.
Connect card payments
Connect your Stripe account so customers pay by card and the money goes straight to you. Only the owner sees this step.
Share your booking page
Send the link, or put booking on your website as a button. Then run the day from your phone, your tablet or the front desk.
The fresh option
Built from a clean slate, with the things older booking software left out.
Lower fees, nothing to pay
Customers pay a small booking fee, and it is lower than the large platforms charge. Upwind costs the operator nothing.
Waivers built in, not bolted on
Digital waivers are part of Upwind, not a paid add-on from someone else.
Easy to put on your site
Paste a small piece of code to show booking in your page, as a button, or link to it from anywhere.
Know before they arrive
Ask weight, a dietary need or anything else when guests book, and see the answers on your manifest.
Cards stay with Stripe
Card details go into Stripe's own form. Upwind never sees a card number.
For every kind of booking
Rentals by the hour, tours at set times, stays by the night and classes by the seat, in one account.
Straight answers
Does Upwind Booking cost operators anything?
What kinds of businesses is it for?
Can I put booking on my own website?
Bookings from us. The rest from our partner studio.
Upwind Booking runs your bookings, payments and waivers. Upwind Creative, our partner studio, takes care of the rest of what a business needs online: complete web design, hosting, and marketing photo and video production.
Meet Upwind Creative- Complete web design
- Hosting
- Marketing photo and video production
Don't lose bookings to high fees
See Upwind Booking in a private demo. We will answer your questions and show you around. Nothing for operators to pay.
Tell us about your business
We will set up a private demo for the kind of business you run, and answer your questions. Usually within one business day.
- A private walk-through for your kind of business
- Your questions answered by a person
- Nothing for operators to pay for Upwind
We use your details only to reply about your demo.