$68
Sunset paddle4.9 (212)
Two hours with a guide. Boards and vests included.
Rentals against tours
Every large platform in this category began by selling a seat at a time slot. Rentals were added later. That order of events decides what the software finds easy and what it finds awkward.
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A seat exists for ninety minutes and then stops existing. A paddleboard has a serial number, a location, a scratch down one rail and a booking on Saturday that somebody has to physically put it in front of.
FareHarbor publishes a solutions page for rental companies. It describes inventory automation, cleaning time blocks, calendar views and credit card holds, and the closing section on that page talks about a platform designed for your tour business.
What the page never mentions is more useful than what it does. Delivery to an address is absent. So are route sequencing and proof of delivery. Waivers arrive through digital waiver software partners rather than as part of the platform.
None of that makes FareHarbor a weak product. It makes it a tour product, sold honestly to tour operators, with a rental page attached.
Read the middle column as the thing you would work around.
| The job | Tour and activity platforms | Bodhisys |
|---|---|---|
| Availability model | A count of seats against a time slot | Individual units with a location and a history |
| Delivery to an address | Not part of the product | Routing, sequencing and time windows built in |
| Proof of an unattended drop | Not part of the product | Photo, geolocation, timestamp, sent to the guest |
| Return handling | A calendar block for cleaning | Condition against the unit, service state, gated re-availability |
| Waivers and licences | Usually a partner integration | Native, per listed driver, with sobriety capture where needed |
| Who the pricing suits | Per-seat volume | No monthly fee, 4.5% paid by the guest |
Book a unit for Saturday. Move it to a different location on Thursday. Cancel Friday and re-sell the slot. Deliver it to an address nobody is home at. Take it back damaged, and try to stop it selling again until it is repaired.
A rental platform runs that sequence without a spreadsheet. Everything else needs one somewhere in the middle.
Eight bikes, two locations, one in the workshop. Book against each model and see which one can tell you which bike the customer is getting.
Timed capacity is what the incumbents were built for, and Bodhisys sells it alongside the rental rather than instead of it. A guided paddle for eight and a half-day board hire settle as one order on one customer record.
Two hours with a guide. Boards and vests included.
Ninety minutes on the sound. Under fives go free.
Guided, twelve miles, e-bikes available on request.
Capacity, guides and guest messaging run on the same record as the rental, so a kayak for the afternoon and a guided paddle for eight arrive in one basket.
A smaller install base, a shorter integration catalogue, and none of the OTA distribution that an incumbent brings. An operator who gets meaningful volume through reseller networks is buying something Bodhisys does not sell.
Support runs on business hours rather than around the clock.
It holds up while customers come to you and the unit goes back on a shelf. It stops holding up when inventory is delivered to an address, comes back in a condition somebody has to record, and cannot be sold again until it is fixed.
Tour platforms model availability as a count against a time slot. Rental operations need availability held against an individual unit that has a location, a service history and a document trail. There is no monthly fee. A 4.5% charge is added to each reservation and paid by your customer at checkout.
It depends on whether your inventory leaves the building. Tour platforms model availability as a count of seats against a time slot, which works while the customer comes to you. Once units go out on a van to addresses that change daily, delivery routing, proof of delivery and per-unit service state stop being optional.
Availability held against individual units rather than a count, a location and service history per unit, delivery and pickup sequencing, proof that an unattended drop happened, per-driver documentation, and a return path that keeps a damaged unit off the board until it is fit.
Yes. Guided tours and timed activities sell alongside rentals in the same flow, so a kayak for the afternoon and a guided sunset paddle for eight live in one booking path.
The headline rate is the part everybody publishes. Reseller commission, paid modules and seat licences sit underneath it.
6% of that is added to your guest's checkout. The other 3% is card processing, billed by the platform that runs the payments. With Bodhisys you keep your own processor and pay them directly, so the only rate beside our name is the one at checkout.
Verified against public documentation, 2026-08. Re-check each quarter; these are well-resourced companies that ship.