For safari & wildlife tour operators
High-ticket trips deserve a serious back office.
Week-long safaris, gorilla treks, photography tours — bookings worth thousands, made a year out, with lodges and park fees to pay long before the guest lands.
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Without Samba
A $9,000 booking arrives — and now the work starts.
The lodge wants its deposit this month, the balance reminder is a calendar note, the park permits need passport numbers, and the whole file lives in an inbox thread titled “Re: Re: Fwd: Safari enquiry”.
Now try this
Payments
Big prices, booked with small commitments
- Deposits and payment plans. A serious price tag never kills the booking — guests commit with a deposit and the balance collects itself on schedule.
- Automatic collection with retries. Instalments charge the saved card, retry on failure, and give guests a portal to fix things themselves.
- Cancellation tiers for year-long leads. Generous at ten months, firm at ten weeks — locked onto each booking at purchase, refunds in a click.
Guest portal
Mara & Serengeti · 8 days
Deposit · $3,700
Paid
Installments 2 & 3 · $14,700
Charge automatically · retries covered
Cancellation terms
Generous at 10 months · firm at 10 weeks
Finance
Your money, the moment it is paid
- Paid into your own account. Travelers pay straight into your Stripe account — Samba never holds your funds or delays a payout.
- Cash flow you can count on. Deposits land immediately, so lodge deposits, park fees, and guide retainers get paid from money you actually have.
- Invoices and credit notes, automatic. Proper paperwork for every payment and refund, with your legal details and tax handled.
This quarter
Collected
$86,200
Scheduled
$121,050
Jul 12 · Mara & Serengeti6 of 6 · paid up
Aug 2 · Gorilla trek2 balances due Jun
Sep 20 · Photography tourDeposits in
Day 2, morning drive
Manifests
Every detail before the bush
- Passports, visas, diets, insurance. Collected from each guest automatically, with due dates counting back from departure — permits and lodge rooming lists stop depending on email archaeology.
- A manifest for camp and guide. Who is arriving, what they eat, who to call — printable for the lodge and the driver-guide.
- Private itineraries. Request-to-book lets agents and families propose dates. Accept, and a private departure exists, sized to the party.
Manifest · Jul 12
Mara & Serengeti · 6 guests
GuestPassportDietary
Kim, S. + 1KR · on file—
Adeyemi, F.NG · on fileHalal
Rossi, C. + 1Due May 121 vegetarian
Resources
Vehicles, guides, and camps that cannot collide
- Vehicles as capacity. Each Land Cruiser carries a fixed number of guests — vehicles are resources on each departure and cannot be double-allocated across overlapping trips.
- Driver-guides on the roster. Assign guides per departure with availability tracked — each sees their season at a glance.
- Trip pages that sell the wild. Itineraries, galleries, guide profiles, and FAQs that do a flagship safari justice, and found on Google.
Jul 12 departure
No conflictsLand Cruiser · KBZ 4
7 seats · this departure
Land Cruiser · KBZ 7
On the Aug 2 gorilla trek
GM
AssignedGrace M.
Driver-guide
Sell a year out, get the deposit today, let the balance collect itself, and walk into every departure with passports gathered, vehicles allocated, and the lodge already paid — from your account, not ours.
Keep exploring
The parts that do the work.
Walk into every departure ready.
Free to start. No setup fees. No contracts.
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