Booking platform for fishing charters

Keep every dollar of the deposit.

Helm runs booking, payments, live weather and tide, and your whole calendar on your own website. No per-booking fees, no clutter, no lock-in.

$0 per-booking fees

NOAA weather & tide on every date

5 min drop-in for any website

What you get

Everything to run the business from the dock.

You set the price; the deposit is yours. We never take a cut of the booking.

The itemized review shows a literal $0 booking fee — no surprise surcharge added at the end.

Crew gratuity is its own clean line — collected once, never billed twice.

Take a deposit online and the balance on a saved card or in cash on the day. Card-on-file and split-the-bill built in.

Anglers see the marine forecast and tide right in the booking flow, before they pick a slot.

Close a slot and every booked angler is offered a new date automatically — no re-charge, no phone tag.

Export a souls-on-board passenger manifest as CSV for any day.

Require a signed waiver or a license acknowledgment before a booking completes.

A full trip takes a waitlist; when a seat opens, the next angler gets the offer.

Anglers who don't finish get a gentle nudge with a resume link.

Customers manage, reschedule, or cancel their own trip from a magic link, and add it to their calendar.

Run promo codes, sell gift cards, and offer store credit instead of a refund — all applied cleanly at checkout.

How it compares

Dimension	Helm	Peek
Per-booking commission	0%	6–8% per online booking
Pricing model	One flat monthly subscription	No subscription — pure commission
Support	Direct human support (founding cohort)	Operators report AI-answered phone / ticket-only; 24h+ first response
Weather & tide	Live NOAA forecast + tide in the booking flow	No angler-facing tide / marine forecast in the booking flow

Founding operators

Early access for a small founding group — flat pricing, direct support, and a say in the roadmap.