A BC fishing charter website that takes the booking and the deposit for you
You are out on the water at dawn. The spring salmon are biting. Your phone buzzes in your pocket. Then it buzzes again. Someone wants to book a trip for next week, and they want to know if Tuesday is open.
You cannot answer now. By the time you are back at the dock, that guest has been waiting all day for an answer.
A good charter site takes that call for you. It shows your open days. It takes the booking. It takes the deposit. And it does all that while you are out fishing.
Built from a real charter
Our Fishing Charter starter is not a guess. It comes from the site we built with Big Coast Marine Adventures. Big Coast is a real charter business on Denman Island, in the Northern Gulf Islands. They are a client of ours. They run fishing trips and sightseeing tours, and guests book on that site today.
On the Big Coast site, guests pick a trip and an open day. They pay a deposit in Canadian dollars through Square, straight into the business's own account. Open days come from the captain's own calendar. If a time is taken, it is not offered to the next guest. Same-day trips are off unless the captain allows them.
Your site gets your own name, your boat and your trips. Not theirs.
Everything on the Big Coast home page comes with your Launch
This is the part that sets the charter starter apart. Everything the Big Coast home page shows comes with your Launch. That means:
- A live marine forecast for the places you fish, with a book button on each good day. A forecast is not a promise that a trip will run.
- Trip and price cards with a Book Now button, one for fishing and one for tours.
- Booking with deposits paid into your own Stripe, PayPal or Square account. We never hold your money.
- Guest accounts, so guests can see their trips and pay what they owe.
- A catch calculator, a fishing rules page with links to the government pages, and a plan-your-trip page.
- A photo gallery of your own trips, a meet-your-captain part, and guest reviews your own guests wrote.
- Pages for the local area, and live seafood prices.
The tools Big Coast runs behind the scenes come too. Guests can save a card, so the balance is charged before the trip, with reminder emails. Guests can tip after a trip. You also get booking rules that follow your calendar, pages for each fish you go after, video, a newsletter and an expense log. Only taking cards in person on a card reader costs extra.
What it costs, and what you own
The starter code is free. Anyone can clone it for $0. A Launch is when we set it all up with you.
A Launch is $2,500 CAD, plus GST, paid once. You get two hours, live, with one of our people. We connect your calendar, add your trips and prices, and make one real test booking with you. We bring in your guest list, so every past guest is in one contact list.
Your site runs in your own Replit account. We charge $0 a month. Your host bills about $20 US a month for use. That is the host's bill, in US dollars. Our prices are in Canadian dollars. Or we host it for $19 CAD plus GST a month. You own the code and can leave any time with a full copy.
Change it from the dock
Weather days happen on this coast. Block the day on your calendar, and it is no longer offered. Every guest is in your contact list, so you can reach them.
For other changes, you tell your site what you want, in plain English, like a text message. Type "add a herring spawn tour for March." Or "change the half-day price on the fishing card." That is called vibe coding. On the call, you make one real change like this with us. We also show you the visual editor for small fixes, like a new photo on the gallery.
Get on the water, not the phone
Read more on the Fishing Charter starter page, or start your Launch. Want to see if it fits your boat? Book a free call. Or type your web address on See what you'd get, and we will show you what a Launch would set up.