Flexible-Duration Charter Booking: Let Guests Pick Their Hours
Flexible-duration charter booking lets guests choose 3, 4, or 6 hours and prices it automatically by time, guest count, and crew.
Flexible-duration charter booking lets your guests pick how long they want to be on the water, 3 hours, 4 hours, or 6, and Freebo prices it on the spot. No back-and-forth emails. No manual quotes. The number they see is the number they pay.
What flexible-duration charter booking actually does
Most charter operators sell fixed packages because their old software can’t handle anything else. That leaves money on the table and frustrates guests who want something in between.
Freebo flips that. You publish one charter, set your hourly tiers, and let guests build the trip they want. The booking page recalculates in real time as they change the details.
How the pricing adds up
Here’s the part that saves your evenings. Pricing follows a tiered-hourly model, so you stop quoting by hand.
The total comes from three things stacked together:
- Base price for your standard duration and guest band.
- Extra hours beyond the base, billed at your additional-hour rate.
- Extra guests and crew above your included counts.
Say your Legend charter is $4,000 for a 3-hour trip up to 18 guests. A group of 25 booking 4 hours sees $5,200, automatically: $4,000 base, plus 7 guests at $100, plus one extra hour at $500. They never wait on you for a number.
Why it matters to your business
You capture bookings you used to lose. Guests who wanted a 4-hour sunset trip no longer bounce because you only listed 3 and 6. And because every quote is generated the same way, your books stay clean and your crew costs are always covered.
It also kills the most common booking-day mistake: a hand-typed quote that’s off by a few hundred dollars. The formula runs the same way every single time.
How to turn it on
Open the product, set it to flexible duration, and enter your pricing tiers, base price, additional-hour rate, and per-guest and per-crew rates. Publish, and the live charter page does the rest.
If you’re migrating from a fixed-package setup, our team can help you map your existing rates into tiers. See what’s shipping next on the roadmap, or check recent updates in the changelog.
Can guests book any number of hours?
Does it handle large groups and extra crew?
Will my books stay accurate?
Want flexible charters live before your next busy weekend? Talk to us and we’ll get your tiers set up.
Related features
Flexible-Duration Booking
Guests choose how long they want — you set the options and the pricing adjusts automatically.
- ✓ Offer multiple duration options (2hr, 3hr, 4hr…) on one product — not separate products
- ✓ Asset availability blocks correctly for the guest's chosen duration
- ✓ Pricing recalculates live as the guest adjusts duration or party size
Tiered-Hourly Pricing
Base rate + per-extra-hour rate + per-guest-over-threshold rate — calculated exactly.
- ✓ Set a base price, per-extra-hour rate, and per-guest-over-threshold rate per tier
- ✓ Stack multiple tiers for different guest-count bands on the same product
- ✓ Price calculates live in guest checkout — no surprises at checkout
Yacht & Charter Bookings
End-to-end booking for variable-length charters: deposits, taxes, add-ons, and policies.
- ✓ Guests pick their duration and guest count; pricing calculates instantly from your tiered rates
- ✓ Collect a deposit at booking and balance on the trip date — automated or manual
- ✓ Cancellation and reschedule policies with configurable deadlines and fee structures