Built for high-volume, same-day experiences.
City and food tours, boat trips, rafting runs, climbing and biking days. Samba runs the whole day — the slots, the seats, the guides, and the money.
Three departures a day — and a shared calendar.
Someone books the 9am on the website while a walk-in email takes the same two seats. Child prices are handled by memo. Every morning starts with cross-checking a spreadsheet against an inbox to work out who is actually coming.
Slots on autopilot
- A real recurring schedule. Set daily or weekly slots with several start times, and Samba keeps the calendar generated months ahead, automatically.
- Change it without chaos. Pause a schedule or update its rule and new dates follow the new pattern going forward. Already-generated departures stay put, and canceled dates stay canceled.
- Cutoffs tuned for same-day. Close each slot minutes or hours before start, so late bookings never catch you unprepared. Set a per-booking minimum so a single seat cannot claim a slot built for groups.
Sell every seat — never one too many
- Adult, child, senior pricing. Typed passenger pricing at checkout, so families book in one go and your price list finally matches reality.
- Oversell-proof at speed. Seats are held while someone checks out, so two travelers racing for the last two seats cannot both win. A slot closes itself the moment it fills.
- Add-ons that lift the ticket. Photos, gear rental, transfers, tastings — offered at checkout and charged per guest or per booking. Take the lead booker’s details and the counts, offer Apple Pay and Google Pay for the mobile majority, and get to payment.
Your team on the ground
- Guide roster and assignment. Assign guides and drivers to each slot, with availability tracked so nobody is booked twice.
- Per-guide schedules. Every guide sees exactly which slots are theirs and who is coming.
- Shared equipment, tracked. Boats, bikes, and gear are capacity-bearing resources. Overlapping slots can never double-book the same kit.
Be everywhere travelers book
Your own website first — direct bookings stay commission-light and on-brand. Connect GetYourGuide and Viator once, and every channel feeds the same calendar, manifests, and finances.
Button, calendar, product list, and upcoming-slot widgets
GetYourGuideConnect once — OTA bookings land in your calendar
ViatorNo more juggling extranets
GetYourGuideViatorTake bookings for every slot, fill last-minute seats, and get paid on the spot — a fast, on-brand booking experience built for the pace of day tours.
Frequently asked questions
Does Samba track guides and equipment, not just seats?
Yes. Guides, vehicles, boats, bikes — any resource with limited capacity — can be attached to a slot and tracked as its own resource. Assign a guide or a piece of shared equipment to overlapping slots and Samba won’t let you double-book it, even if there are still open seats on paper.
Can travelers pay for a same-day booking on the spot, without a phone call or an invoice?
Yes. Travelers book and pay through your trip page or widget in one pass — no manual invoice, no payment link pasted into a chat. The booking, the payment, and the passenger details land in the same record the moment checkout completes.
Do my GetYourGuide bookings show up in the same manifest as direct bookings?
Yes. GetYourGuide bookings land in the same calendar as bookings from your own site — same slots, same guide assignments, same passenger list. A seat sold anywhere is a seat gone everywhere, with no separate spreadsheet or extranet to reconcile.
What does Samba cost for a high-volume, same-day operation?
$0 a month, no setup fees, no contracts. The first $10,000 in bookings is free; after that it’s a flat 2% per booking, which you can absorb or pass to travelers. Stripe processing is billed separately by Stripe.
How is this different from FareHarbor or Peek Pro for a day-tour operator?
FareHarbor and Peek Pro have more OTA reach if resellers drive most of your bookings — that’s a real reason to stay on either one. Samba is built for operators who sell direct: a flat, published fee instead of an unpublished percentage, and deposits and installment plans built into the free plan. If OTA volume is most of your business, weigh the trade-off honestly; if you’re trying to keep more of what you sell direct, that’s exactly what Samba is for.
The parts that do the work.
Run tomorrow’s departures from one place.
Free to start. No setup fees. No contracts.