The best Rezgo alternatives for tour operators (2026)

Why are operators looking for a Rezgo alternative?

Rezgo has a genuinely appealing idea at its core: no monthly subscription. You pay a percentage of each booking, or a flat monthly minimum in months when those fees fall below Rezgo's regional threshold, which suits a low-volume or seasonal operator better than a fixed subscription. It also carries real OTA distribution — Expedia, Viator, GetYourGuide, Klook and Musement among them — and it's a long-running, independently operated platform out of Vancouver.

The friction shows up as your trips get bigger and your volume grows: that per-booking fee scales with you, and the payment structure a higher-value trip needs isn't there.

What does Rezgo actually charge?

Rezgo is transparent about it, which is to its credit: 4.9% per online booking and 0.9% per point-of-sale booking, with no monthly fee. You can absorb the fee or pass it to travelers at checkout. The number to watch is that 4.9% — it's nearly two and a half times Samba's flat 2%, and because it's a percentage, it grows with your ticket size. On a $3,000 trip, 4.9% is about $147 per booking; a flat 2% is $60. On an $80 day tour it's $3.92 against $1.60 per booking, and across 1,000 bookings in a season that gap is at least $2,320.

Where does Rezgo fall short?

A trip that isn't paid in full upfront needs a deposit to hold the booking and an installment schedule to collect the balance over weeks. Rezgo takes deposits and can automatically send a balance-payment request 1 to 21 days before the event, but there is no multi-payment installment schedule, and the traveler has to pay each request. It also leans on a bring-your-own payment gateway.

Who should stay on Rezgo?

Be fair about it: if you run a low-volume or seasonal day-tour business and want your software costs to rise and fall with your bookings, Rezgo's no-subscription model is a sensible fit, and its OTA reach is real. The operators with the clearest reason to move are the ones selling higher-value trips direct, where the 4.9% per-booking fee and the missing payment plans start to cost real money.

How should you choose a Rezgo alternative?

There's no single best tool — there's a best tool for how you actually sell. Start with one question: what does your average booking look like?

What if you sell higher-value trips?

Then the per-booking fee is the first thing to fix. Samba is built for this: $0/month and a flat 2% per booking after the first $10,000 in bookings, less than half Rezgo's 4.9% online fee, with deposits, installment plans charged to the traveler's saved card on schedule, and payouts into your own Stripe account. WeTravel is the closest alternative for the multi-day and group segment, pairing a native itinerary builder with auto-billing; just confirm its booking fee on a demo, since it isn't published.

What if you chose Rezgo for OTA distribution?

Then keep the reach but improve the economics. Bókun is built for distribution: a marketplace of 2,600+ OTAs and resellers, a 0% Bókun fee on Viator bookings on paid plans, and transparent four-tier pricing. Rezdy plays the same game with a 12,000-agent marketplace and a published +3% online-booking fee — and "rezgo vs rezdy" is the comparison operators actually search, because both compete on transparent fees plus agent reach.

How much should the fee structure weigh in your decision?

More than it seems, because it scales with your ticket. The honest way to decide is to model your real average booking against each platform: Rezgo's 4.9% with no subscription, Samba's flat 2% (first $10k free) on one free plan at $0/month, Rezdy's +3% plus a subscription. Neither Rezgo nor Samba bills a subscription, so this is a straight fee comparison: on a low-ticket calendar the gap is small in absolute terms, but on a higher-value departure a flat 2% wins back real margin every time.

Rezgo shoppers evaluating smaller booking platforms in the same tier should also compare Orioly, another lean option built for operators who don't need Rezgo's full marketplace footprint.

How hard is it to switch from Rezgo to Samba?

Switching booking platforms feels heavier than it is, mostly because your live calendar and customer relationships are on the line. The practical work breaks into three parts: moving your experiences and availability, redirecting your booking links, and bringing across any in-flight bookings.

What do you need to move first?

Your experiences and their availability. On Samba's free plan you can rebuild all your experiences, set deposit and installment terms, and run real test bookings through the engine before you point any traffic at it. In Samba, deposits and automatic installment plans are built in.

What happens to bookings already in Rezgo?

Let existing departures run out on Rezgo while new bookings flow to Samba — there's no need for a hard cutover. Point your website's "Book now" links and embedded buttons at the new checkout, keep Rezgo live until its last booked trip departs, then close the account. Offline payments you mark manually carry no Samba fee, which keeps reconciling a transition period straightforward.

The honest part: there's real setup work, and if a lot of your volume comes through Rezgo's OTA connections, you'll want a distribution plan for those channels — Samba syncs bookings from connected channels like GetYourGuide, but it isn't a full distribution channel manager. What you get in exchange is a per-booking fee less than half of Rezgo's — a flat 2%, first $10,000 free, processing billed straight to Stripe — and deposits and installment plans built in. If you're ready to see it against your own trips, you can start free on Samba.