Retveno is a commission-free booking manager for small adventure tour operators who take bookings over WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger — not on a marketplace. One flat monthly price, 0% commission, no per-booking fees.
Xola is a US booking and marketing platform for tours and activities, known for its checkout and abandoned-booking recovery tooling. It is sold as a monthly subscription with a per-booking fee on top.
No credit card required · Your guests keep using the apps they already love
Built for operators
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.
| Xola | Retveno | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Monthly subscription + per-booking fee | One flat monthly price |
| Commission on your own bookings | Often charged | 0% — always |
| How customers book | Marketplace or web checkout | Your WhatsApp & Instagram DMs |
| Best for | Operators running paid acquisition who want conversion tooling | Operators who sell direct over chat |
Based on each provider's publicly described pricing model at the time of writing — always check current pricing on their own website.
Most booking platforms take a per-booking fee or a commission on sales you sourced yourself. Retveno is a flat monthly subscription with 0% commission — bring the customers over your own channels and keep every euro. On 40 bookings a month at €60 average, a 6% fee is over €1,700 a year you simply stop paying.
Xola's pitch is conversion: checkout optimisation, abandoned-booking recovery, the machinery of turning paid traffic into sales. That machinery pays for itself when you are buying traffic. Operators who leave are typically not buying any — their funnel is a reel that did well and a stream of DMs, and there is no abandoned cart to recover.
Subscription plus a per-booking fee is a reasonable trade when the platform is measurably increasing the number of bookings; you are sharing the upside it created. It is a worse trade on bookings it had nothing to do with, and for a chat-first operator that is most of them.
Send a Stripe checkout link in one click to collect a deposit, and let automatic WhatsApp and SMS reminders cut no-shows before each trip. Set departures with capacity so a full group never gets double-booked. Set up in an afternoon — no developer required.
Much less. Recovery and checkout optimisation act on web traffic that arrives and hesitates. If your bookings arrive as messages rather than sessions, there is no funnel for those tools to work on, and you are paying for the part of the product you cannot reach.
Yes. One flat monthly price — no commission and no per-booking fee, on every plan. Every booking stays 100% yours.
No migration is required to get started — add your tours and start taking bookings the same day. You can move historical bookings over gradually as you go.
No. Your guests keep messaging you on WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger exactly as they do today — Retveno just turns those conversations into managed bookings for you behind the scenes.
Yes. Start free with no credit card required, upgrade when you're ready, and cancel anytime — your data always stays yours.
Compare Retveno with
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Also see: Commission-free booking system · Booking software by activity · Pricing
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