For boat owners

Create a free account, then add your business details on List your boat. After that you build a listing step by step in your dashboard: the trip, the boat, photos, departure times, the meeting point and your price. Listing is free.

When you submit it, our team reviews it, normally within a couple of days, and emails you when it is live. If something is missing we tell you what to change, and you can resubmit. You can pause a live listing at any time; bookings already made still go ahead.

We email and text you about every booking, and they all appear in your dashboard. For each listing you choose instant confirmation or approving each request. If you approve requests yourself, you have 24 hours to accept or decline; after that the request expires.

In the price step of the listing editor you choose whether you accept cash, card or both. You set your own price and we add our commission on top; guests see the total. Cash bookings: the guest pays you the full price on arrival, and after each completed trip you owe HopABoat the commission. Card bookings: the guest pays online, HopABoat collects the payment and pays you your own price after the trip, with the commission already deducted. The same step shows exactly what guests pay, what you keep and what the fee is.

Mark the booking as completed or as a no-show in your dashboard. A completed trip makes the commission due, and guests can then review it. For a no-show there is no HopABoat fee. Bookings you don’t mark are completed automatically 12 hours after the trip ends.

You can cancel with a reason, for example bad weather; the guest is told immediately, and no fee is due for a cancelled trip. Please cancel only when you really have to, because guests plan their holiday around it. Marking a listing as sponsored, in the price step, shows it first in search results with a “Sponsored” label.