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Day tour app: your departures, meeting points and private trips booked online
Travelers check this week's departures, find the boarding pier on the map and know by 7 a.m., from a notification, whether the swell has canceled the boat trip; a family can even book the boat just for themselves.
Build the app for your day tour company without code, whether you run boat trips, bus tours or 4x4 outings, for the iOS and Android stores and the web: your departure schedule, a page for each tour, meeting points on a map, weather cancellations by notification, seat requests through a Form and private tours booked in a time slot.
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The boat trip along the coves
The boat leaves the harbor at 10 a.m. and is back around 1:30 p.m., after two swim stops. On the map, a pin marks the boarding pier, with a photo of the sign in your colors. Its 40 seats are requested through the Form; on a morning with heavy swell, a notification tells everyone the trip is off.
The bus day trip to a heritage site
Pickups at 7:15 a.m. outside three hotels in the resort, back around 7 p.m. Each pickup point becomes a pin on the map, with its pickup time. The tour page spells out what the price covers (site admission, lunch, an on-site guide) and what travelers pay for themselves.
The private 4x4 for one family
Half a day of dirt roads and hilltop villages, with the vehicle and its driver-guide for five people, no more. This is the tour that gets booked in the app: the family picks a time slot, then uses the form to give the children's ages and the hotel where you'll pick them up.
What each tour page tells travelers
How long, from departure to return
Three hours at sea or a full day on the road: the departure time, the expected return and the breaks, so travelers know whether they'll be back for dinner.
Where it leaves from
The pier, the parking lot at the lookout or the stop outside the hotel: the name of the map pin where they should show up, and what time to be there.
What you'll see
The coves, the hilltop village, the heritage site and the time spent at each stop; a photo gallery shows the scenery before anyone sets off.
What to bring
Swimsuit and towel for the boat, a jacket for the ride back from open water, closed-toe shoes for the 4x4, water and a hat for the day on the bus.
Minimum age, under your rules
How old a child must be to come aboard, whether the route works with a stroller: your conditions, read before anyone asks for a seat.
Private tours are booked in a time slot
Three hours on the boat for a single group, picked in the app
For the family or group of friends who want the boat to themselves, open a "Private boat" section with 3-hour slots: 2 to 5 p.m. and 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., for example. Its time ranges steer clear of your shared departures, so the 10 a.m. trip never shows up there. Whoever books a slot has it to themselves; the form then asks for the number of people, their hotel and the occasion: a birthday, a proposal, a team outing. A confirmation email goes to the group and to you, and the trip is added to your Google Calendar with those answers in the description.
A seat on a shared departure, in three steps
The 10 a.m. boat carries 40 passengers, while a time slot takes only one booking: seats are requested, and you're the one who confirms them.
The request
In a Form, travelers pick the tour from a drop-down list, then give the date, the number of adults, the children's ages, their hotel and their phone number. Each submission sends you an email and stays in the back office; sort the CSV export by date, and each departure's requests line up together.Your confirmation
You check what's left on that departure, then write or call the traveler back: seat held, check-in time, price, payment on board or at the harbor kiosk. Departure full? Offer the next day, or the bus trip.Departure day
Travelers find their meeting point on the map, photo and directions included. If the sea is too rough, a notification goes out around 7 a.m., to the whole app or only to users located around the harbor. Tell the day's travelers directly too: their contact details are in their request.
Day tour operators: seven questions about the app
Can travelers book their seat on the 10 a.m. boat?
No. A booking slot has only one taker: the first couple to book 10 a.m. would close the boat to the other 38 passengers. Shared departures therefore go through a Form request, which you confirm. Online booking is for private tours, where one slot is precisely one whole group.
How do I set up a private tour for one family?
Create one booking section per tour you run privately, "Private boat" or "Family 4x4", each with its own slot length, time ranges and Google Calendar. Do you also rent the boat for a full day, on days without shared departures? Add a "Private boat, full day" section linked to the same calendar: a full day booked closes the 3-hour slots it overlaps, and the other way around.
How do I announce a departure canceled because of the weather?
Through a push notification, either immediate or scheduled for a set time: "Heavy swell: the 10 a.m. trip is canceled, the 2 p.m. one is still on." Send it to the whole app, or to an area drawn around the harbor and the hotels, for users who have allowed location access. It can't target only the people signed up: follow it with an email to those travelers. For the day's private tours, closing that date in the section cancels their bookings, and each group is told by email.
Where do I show the meeting point?
On the app's map, one pin per departure point: the harbor pier, the lookout parking lot, the stop outside each hotel, with a photo and directions. The tour page names the pin to head for. With Geofencing, free from the Premium plan, a traveler who pulls into the harbor parking lot gets your message: "Boarding at pier B, twenty minutes before departure."
Our customers book from abroad before their vacation: what time do they see?
Harbor time: slots appear in your company's local time, with no conversion, no matter which country they book from.
Can travelers pay for the tour in the app?
No: not a seat on a shared departure, not a private tour, not a deposit. Travelers pay as they do today, on board, at the harbor kiosk or through your online ticketing site. Put your prices and the payment methods you accept on each tour page; the booking screen shows none.
Does the app replace my ticketing system?
No. It doesn't count remaining seats, issue tickets or take payments. It handles everything around the sale: schedule, tour pages, meeting points, seat requests, private tours, the day's announcements. If your ticketing system has an online page, a section of the app can lead there.
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Only private tours go through Appointment booking: a paid option on the Premium plan, included in the Pro plan. CMS Agenda carries the departure schedule, CMS Map the meeting points, the Form the seat requests; Push notifications and Geofencing, both free, the latter from Premium, carry the news of the day.
Seats are requested, the private boat is booked, the swell is announced
GoodBarber builds your day tour app for iOS, Android and the web: departure schedule, tour pages, meeting points, seat requests, private tours booked in a time slot, notifications on cancellation days. The seat count and the payments stay with you.