Boat booking software

• keyboard_arrow_downHow is Anolla different from standard boat booking software?
  Most boat calendars only handle trip scheduling, whereas Anolla is a comprehensive all-in-one fleet revenue management and booking platform for boat rental companies, yacht clubs, and marine tour operators. Anolla connects boat online booking, customer management (CRM), contracts, and payment automation. Unlike static watercraft calendars, Anolla uses AI to optimize boat schedules and increase the utilization of available vessels. Anolla supports smart dynamic pricing based on season, weather conditions, and demand. On the same platform you can manage hourly boat rentals, multi-day yacht charters, and longer cruises in parallel across the entire fleet.
• keyboard_arrow_downDoes Anolla support hourly and multi-day boat bookings at the same time?
  Yes, this is one of Anolla’s key advantages on the boat booking software market. Unlike many boat rental systems, Anolla does not force you to choose only a short-term hourly rental model or only a multi-day yacht charter model. Within the same fleet management environment, you can simultaneously offer short hourly trips, daily rental packages and multi-day sea voyages. The boat booking software also supports trip packages with variable duration, such as sunset cruises or special-event cruises. All boat bookings—motorboats, sailboats and SUP boards—are combined into a single centralized boat calendar view. Because of this, Anolla is ideally suited to hybrid marine tourism business models: boat rental, yacht charter, fishing trips, snorkeling excursions and private event cruises.
• keyboard_arrow_downHow does the Anolla AI assistant reduce administrative workload and human errors in boat bookings?
  Anolla’s automated AI customer support assistant for boat trips runs 24/7, answering boat rental client inquiries without any need for a skipper or booking team to step in. The smart helper automatically resolves up to 79.3%¹ of all standard boat booking questions – such as available boats, departure times, prices, accessories and weather-dependent conditions. It also handles up to 52.4%¹ of first-level technical support requests related to payments, confirmation emails or calendar sync issues. Automated customer communication reduces fleet admin time by up to 39.3%¹, minimizes double bookings and human errors, and keeps the boat schedule constantly up to date.
• keyboard_arrow_downHow does Anolla’s dynamic pricing help boat rental companies offer optimized prices?
  Anolla’s dynamic pricing module automates pricing strategies for boat rentals and yacht charters according to seasonality and demand. Fleet owners can define flexible pricing rules by time of day, day of week, high season, special events, weather, and customer group. All price changes for boat rentals are applied automatically across the entire fleet according to the defined business rules. Smart boat pricing helps fill low-demand morning and weekday slots with discounted trips and maximize revenue for weekend, holiday, and peak-season charters. The goal of dynamic pricing is to increase both trip occupancy and overall fleet profitability while keeping prices transparent and fair for customers.
• keyboard_arrow_downIs Anolla suitable both for a single boat and for a large multi-marina fleet?
  Yes, Anolla boat booking software is designed to scale from single boat rental operators to international yacht charter networks. A small boat owner or independent guide can start with a powerful free plan to manage their single sailboat, motorboat or speedboat. Larger companies with multiple marinas, fleets at different docks and various charter crews benefit from centralized fleet management. The platform lets you add unlimited marinas, boats, crew members and booking kiosks. Role- and location-based access control (RBAC) allows you to separate the permissions of captains, guides, fleet managers, administrators and marketing teams, ensuring secure and clearly defined responsibilities across the entire fleet.
• keyboard_arrow_downWhich marine tourism tools does Anolla integrate with?
  The Anolla boat booking platform is built with an API-first architecture, making it easy to connect fleet management with other marine tourism and online sales tools. For processing online payments, there is a direct integration with the Stripe payment solution, allowing customers to pay for boat rentals securely using cards or digital wallets. Anolla supports analytics integrations for tracking web traffic and bookings: Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Meta Pixel help measure and optimise boat rental campaigns. Via the API, raw booking data can be exported to BI and machine learning tools to analyse seasonal patterns and fleet utilisation. In addition, Anolla offers strong interfaces for integration with accounting, CRM systems, websites, tourism platforms and other support systems used to manage the boat fleet.
• keyboard_arrow_downWhat does the free boat booking package include and what do the paid modules add?
  Anolla’s free plan includes all the core features needed to launch modern online boat or yacht charter bookings: a boat calendar, simple booking form, customer notifications and basic fleet management. This tier is ideal for small boat owners, SUP-rental points and new sea-tour operators. Paid features add unlimited automation – for example automatic boat-return reminders, weather-dependent booking rules and smart follow-up emails. In addition, you gain extended integrations with payment and marketing channels and dedicated loyalty modules such as regular-customer discounts, gift cards and multi-trip sea-tour packages.
• keyboard_arrow_downHow does Anolla’s usage-based pricing reduce the business risk of a boat rental company?
  Anolla’s usage-based pricing model is designed specifically to mitigate the risks of seasonal boat rentals, yacht charters and marine tourism businesses. A boat fleet owner does not have to pay expensive fixed monthly fees in the low season when there are few bookings or weather conditions prevent trips at sea. Service fees always scale in proportion to the actual number of bookings and the volume of boat reservations so that costs stay under control. This flexible model is ideal for boat rentals with a short summer season, weather-dependent fishing trips and yacht charters with fluctuating demand, helping to keep cash flow more stable and reduce fixed costs.
• keyboard_arrow_downHow quickly can I get my boat fleet up and running with Anolla?
  Getting started with Anolla takes just a few minutes: you enter boat details, harbor locations and rental conditions, and online booking is open to your boat or yacht charter customers. A 24/7 context-aware AI assistant guides you through the entire setup process and helps you input price lists, seasons and boat calendar rules. The platform’s ease of use is rated 5/5¹ on Capterra, and nine out of ten team members managing boat reservations learn the system’s main functions in less than 30 minutes¹, enabling a quick transition from manual calendars to modern boat rental software.
• keyboard_arrow_downWhat makes Anolla's boat booking platform a future-proof solution?
  Anolla is a future-proof boat booking platform thanks to its scalable modular cloud architecture and AI-driven continuous learning. Unlike static boat calendar solutions, Anolla is built around a powerful API that makes it easy to add new marine tourism features and integrate external systems. The modular fleet management solution also supports an IoT ecosystem: door access control for smart locks, fuel and location sensors on boats, equipment rental management, and automatic check-in and check-out logs. This architecture enables the continuous integration of the latest marine tourism and boating technologies, keeping a boat rental company’s tools competitive and a step ahead of market developments.

¹ Percentages are approximate indicators calculated based on our historical and current data. These figures are based on client feedback, surveys, and other analyses. The final result may differ. The outcome depends on the specific scope and sector of the application.