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FareHarbor Overview

What is FareHarbor?

Powerful booking software designed to help tour, activity and rental businesses manage and grow their online reservations. Beyond reservations, FareHarbor is a complete business management platform for tour and activity businesses. From one easy-to-use Dashboard, do everything from manage inventory to staff schedules. Hundreds of flexible features, advanced reporting and a friendly 24/7 support team make FareHarbor the perfect fit for any business. Clients also receive website optimization services, access to hundreds of affiliates from TripAdvisor to local hotels, and personalized guidance to cultivate year-over-year growth.

FareHarbor Details
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Product Description

FareHarbor is an online booking and reservation software for tours and activities.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2013
HQ Location
Amsterdam, North Holland
Twitter
@FareHarbor
3,472 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
833 employees on LinkedIn®

Rebecca C.
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Recent FareHarbor Reviews

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"Not intuitive"
I liked the idea of my customers being able to book directly online.
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"Shady business practices"
Their calendar system is aesthetically pleasing and one of the easier ones to use. Invoicing is also easy if the customer also has a FareHarbor acc...
Mallory O.
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"The BEST Customer Service"
The people at FareHarbor are literally the best. Any time I have a question or a request, they answer me back quickly and completely. They are very...
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FareHarbor Media

FareHarbor Demo - Backend Booking Information
All customer data is neatly organized to include booking information, notes, and change history.
FareHarbor Demo - FareHarbor App
In addition to a mobile-friendly front and back end, FareHarbor has an free and easy-to-use app for iOS users.
FareHarbor Demo - Seamless Online Bookings
The front end of FareHarbor is proven to increase conversions by providing a smooth checkout that allows customers to book their activity in just seconds.
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Patrick H.
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What do you like best about FareHarbor?

We were able to integrate all or most of our contacts info from our old system to fare harbor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FareHarbor?

We run an escape room. Say a group books for 4 players, then comes in with 5, we have to manually go in and change some information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Navigation is pretty simple but may seem a bit tricky at first. Integration took a bit of back and forth with the fare harbor support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FareHarbor solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fare harbor will automatically shut down booking availability once it is inside the time window we have specified. This prevents over booking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FareHarbor?

Best thing about Fareharbor is that the more you use it, the more advantage you get from it. At first I was very doubtious about it, but after I got to know the system, I became really fond of it. You can make it bend on your needs, and modify it quite a lot and if you do not know something, the support team is more than happy to be helping or even doing the things ready for you. Really good support service. Easy to use and manage, easy to teach for everyone and all my workers have been really pleased with it so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FareHarbor?

Using the system on a phone is a bit clumsy, but not possible. Would be amazing to be able to manage multiple destinations in one screen. Also editing should have more flexible options. At start it is confusing and seems really big job to set up, but in reality it is reather easy when you just get the hang of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FareHarbor solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am planning an managing our daily activities with this system. We have hundreds of people doing different activities daily and with Fareharbor, I manage the activities, capacities, online bookability, recourses and also the work missions for the guides. Also our kitchen team can check the amount of people in each activity and therefore they know how much food to prepare to each trip. Reception can use this to see any availability left if any visitors would like to book on the front desk. Really useful and frees time from the actual planning and checkin, as when setting up you already make the daily schedule base for the coming year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

John K.
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Travel Sales Consultant
Leisure, Travel & Tourism
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What do you like best about FareHarbor?

The most amazing part is that this software integrate with our website and phones so clients can access the service through their phones. It is simple to book tour and travel from anyplace anytime. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FareHarbor?

I barely have problems working with this excellent tool. I have benefited a lot and my clients have not complained of delays and hence i have no dislikes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FareHarbor:

This software allows you to manage your clients no matter the number, from bookings to tours everything run smoothly through this software. I enjoy working with this software and therefore i recommend it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FareHarbor solving and how is that benefiting you?

This software has payment portal where clients can make their payments to their various destinations. Managing them is 3asy and communicating with them is simple. Making transfers into various hotels is simple and quick to avoid delay. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FareHarbor?

Is that the platform has a very good on boarding team , they help you with all the process and they even setup and customize everything for you, and is free they just charge you a commission for every sell

Normally all the platforms are very expensive and they charge every month Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FareHarbor?

the only thing is for instance if you are in Mexico and you sell in usd dollars the final pricing show in local currency as pesos

Other thing is that is that they don't have a mobile app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FareHarbor:

that if you want to put your packages in usd get before a bank account in usd Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FareHarbor solving and how is that benefiting you?

better reservation system, totally for free no monthly fees and great service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JR A.
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What do you like best about FareHarbor?

Our reservations rely on equipment rental and Fareharbor allows us to input our equipment and track it across multiple classes/rentals within the same time slots. (aka "Shared Resources") For example, if we have 10 Paddle Boards available and someone books 2 of them at 10am for SUP Yoga, it will pull those 2 boards out of the availabilities of all other classes/rentals at that same time slot. This allows us to give all classes/rentals a fair shot at our full fleet vs saying "we have 10 boards for 2 classes so this one gets 5 and that one gets 5" ...when the demand for that day may be 8 in one and 2 in the other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FareHarbor?

I love almost everything about FH, but I REALLY despise how payments are shown in bookings. Everywhere you can possibly look on a booking, it will list payment received as $x, but in reality it's showing payment received minus your FH fees.... which is NOT an accurate display of the payment received from a client, but rather the money we, as a company, end up collecting from that particular booking after FH fees are taken out. This is EXTREMELY confusing when talking to clients who need refunds, reschedules or just have a question about what they were billed. We look at the screen and even where it shows their credit card info, it states "$x charged to Visa #xxxx" ...when that's not the full amount that was collected. The ONLY way to see the amount they were billed is to take the steps you would for emailing them a receipt. At that point you can "preview" the email and see their accurate receipt. It's really REALLY dumb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FareHarbor:

I highly recommend it. Make friends with your account rep because they will be SO helpful along the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FareHarbor solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use FareHarbor to manage all reservations (online and in-person) for a Stand Up Paddleboard and Kayak rental company. It not only keeps track of reservations, but also keeps track of what equipment we have available (aka "resources") at any given time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James B.
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What do you like best about FareHarbor?

Fareharbor's customer support is unreal. From the moment we signed-up with them, they have excelled at being super responsive- and friendly about every interaction (no matter how many times I need help setting up codes etc) no matter the time of day or night! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FareHarbor?

Because Fareharbor has so many options to help my company, build reports, set-up my for sale events and tickets etc, the software can at times be overwhelming. Lucky for me, support answers every call and quickly takes care of anything I can't do myself (and never makes me feel like I'm "putting them out." Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FareHarbor:

Really dig to see all the hidden gems that FH has to offer like their websites, affiliate programs etc. It is way more than just a ticket outlet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FareHarbor solving and how is that benefiting you?

I switched to Fareharbor because they had the best software for booking my Escape Rooms and Murder Mystery Dinners (from a customer standpoint). The ease in which customers can book events makes a huge difference in our conversions, and switching has increased our conversion rate through our website significantly. Fareharbor's tracking software allows me to track all my marketing efforts, which should help me be more efficient in my marketing spend each year (just started with this in the last 6 months). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brina M.
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What do you like best about FareHarbor?

I have tried multiple booking companies for my brewery tour business and the only one that has been easy to work with and with service that is truly quick and available is Fareharbor. I have not regretted my switch to their booking and after so many ignored issues with other booking competitors , Fareharbor is a breath of fresh air in comparison and they really seem to care. I recommend them to anyone needing a dependable booking company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FareHarbor?

Some features can be a bit complex at first but with the videos and available service help its easily remedied. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Its the best system out there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FareHarbor solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides consistent updating, easy secure checkout, trip advisor follow ups and manifest heads ups before my tours. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FareHarbor?

FareHarbor values a tour business no matter how small or large it is. Team members have specific expertise in generating tour sales online: digital marketing, Google Analytics tracking, SEO analysis, website design and so much more. Furthermore, I have a great rapport with my awesome Account Manager who is always looking out for my best interests. She is responsive to my emails and scheduling a time discuss issues that take more time.

FareHarbor’s mobile app is super easy to use and allows tour operators to go paperless.

Customer support is available 24/7/365. Team members are friendly, knowledgeable and happy to help tour operators figure out technical issue on the backend.

FareHarbor is on the cutting edge of advanced reservation technology and has experienced astonishing growth since its launch in 2013. FareHarbor rocks the booking software world! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FareHarbor?

Adding promo codes to tours is a long process and a bit confusing. Wish it was easier to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FareHarbor solving and how is that benefiting you?

FareHarbor has helped my business grow by using targeted SEO keywords to improve my Google ranking.

Also, FareHarbor designed my awesome website for free! I never ever expected anything like that to happen when I came onboard in August of 2017. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jordan H.
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What do you like best about FareHarbor?

The support team is very fast acting and responsive to our needs. The system is intuitive and easy to navigate. It works well via multiple APIs to connect to the distribution networks we use like Expedia. Keeps our business running with little headache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FareHarbor?

The software lacks a little in reporting, options for custom tours, connections with accounting software, and employee scheduling software. One of the largest drawbacks is you can not sell add-on items like shirts, meals, or souvenirs from the system. A POS feature would help a lot. The iOS app is just their mobile website in a dedicated browser. Overall it is a good stand-alone product for working with tour reservations but lacks in other functionality. It does get better and better every day but still has a long way to go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is FareHarbor solving and how is that benefiting you?

FareHarbor collects, manages, and processes payments for tour reservations. It handles manifests and oversees our tour schedule. Our team spends less time dealing with a paper reservations book and more time helping guests. Also, the ability to sell tours online in real time helps a lot. The API connections to our sales partners reduces the chance of overbooking and time dedicated to managing sales channels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.