Activity booking software for operators who sell direct — one flat monthly price, 0% commission, and no marketplace between you and your customer. Departures with real capacity, custom fields per activity, deposits and reminders, plus automatic capture of the bookings that arrive as WhatsApp and Instagram messages.
No credit card required · Your guests keep using the apps they already love
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Connect your channels once and the messages customers send you on WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger turn into ready-to-confirm bookings by themselves. No copy-paste, no typing, nothing for your guests to install — you just tap confirm. Only messages that mention a booking are ever read; never your private chats.
Unlike Rezdy or FareHarbor, we never take a cut of your bookings. One flat monthly price, every sale is yours.
Automatic SMS and WhatsApp reminders before each trip cut no-shows without you lifting a finger.
Almost every product in this category prices one of two ways: a percentage or fee on each booking, or a flat subscription. The first looks cheaper on a quiet month and is the one most operators start on. The difference is what happens next — a per-booking model scales its cost with your success, so your best season is also your most expensive one, while a flat monthly price stays exactly where it was.
Run it on your own numbers before deciding: take last season's booking count, multiply by your average trip price, and apply the fee percentage. The savings calculator on our home page does the arithmetic live, and the alternatives pages break down each platform's published model one at a time.
An activity is not an open calendar slot — it is a departure with a seat count, a guide and a vehicle. Booking software for this trade has to hold that: set a departure, give it capacity, and let bookings fill it until it closes itself. Anything that treats an activity as a generic appointment will eventually sell you a fifteenth seat on a fourteen-person boat, and you will find out on the pontoon.
A dive needs a certification level. A tandem flight needs passenger weight. A ski lesson needs boot size and ability. A charter needs licences and a departure port. A booking form that captures name, date and headcount captures a third of what you need to run the trip. Define the fields per activity yourself and every booking arrives complete.
This is the part the category mostly ignores. Operators selling direct take the majority of their bookings in conversation — a DM asking about Saturday, a WhatsApp thread agreeing a time. Software that only records what came through its own checkout leaves you re-typing the rest. Retveno reads booking conversations on WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger and turns each into a pending booking with the details already extracted, so the chat channel is a real channel rather than a spreadsheet you keep by hand.
Take a deposit with a one-click Stripe checkout link and the booking updates itself when the guest pays. Automatic WhatsApp and SMS reminders go out before the activity to cut no-shows. Both are the highest-return features in this category and both should run without you remembering them.
Add your activities, set capacity, connect a channel, and you are taking bookings the same day — no developer, no integration work, no onboarding fee. Start on the free plan without a card and move up when it is earning its place. Your data stays yours and exports whenever you want it.
Compared with the alternatives
FareHarbor alternativeRezdy alternativeCheckfront alternativeBókun alternativePeek Pro alternativeTrekkSoft alternativeXola alternativeRegiondo alternative
Also see: Outdoor activity booking software · Booking software by activity · Commission-free booking system
Software that manages bookings for activities sold as departures or lessons rather than as open appointments: it holds each departure's capacity, captures the details specific to that activity, takes payment or a deposit, and reminds guests before the day. Retveno adds automatic capture of the bookings that arrive as chat messages.
A per-booking fee grows with your volume; a flat subscription does not. Which is cheaper depends entirely on how much you sell, so the honest answer is to run your own numbers — booking count × average price × fee percentage against a fixed monthly figure. Our home page calculator and the alternatives pages both show that comparison.
Either. You get a public booking page if you want one, but nothing requires your guests to use it — bookings agreed over WhatsApp or Instagram are captured automatically and land in the same dashboard, so both channels feed one calendar.
Yes. A booking carries a headcount against the departure's capacity plus the custom fields you defined for that activity, so group details like sizes, ability levels or certifications are recorded with the booking rather than in a separate message.
No. Retveno is not a marketplace and does not distribute or resell your activities. It is your own booking manager, which is also why there is no commission to take — you bring the customers and keep the whole sale.
Yes. Add your activities and enter or paste in the bookings you already hold — including from a screenshot of the original chat, which is read into a draft booking for you to check. Most operators are running on it the same afternoon.
Keep taking bookings where your guests already are — start free and let the admin run itself.
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