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BrightCalendar helps you close more sales while saving time, allowing you to focus on your business.
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Studies have shown that websites offering online booking capabilities see a significant boost in sales compared to those that do not.

Approximately 83% of adults in the US prefer booking trips online. This enhances convenience, streamlines reservations, and leads to higher conversion rates and increased revenue for businesses.

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BrightCalendar is a powerful Reservation Management Software designed specifically for the fishing industry. It seamlessly integrates with any existing website, allowing you to display availability, with the option to receive online payments, and manage all bookings effortlessly.

With BrightCalendar, you can run your fishing charter business automatically 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Whenever you receive a booking, you’ll be notified via email, allowing you to focus on fishing without the hassle of calling people back or relying on booking services. BrightCalendar is user-friendly for both you and your customers.

Boost your income with BrightCalendar

Transform your website into a productive part of your business with BrightCalendar. Our software allows visitors to easily book fishing trips directly from your website, making it a dynamic booking platform instead of just a gallery of photos.

Best of all, unlike other booking software services, you can do this without charging your customers a high convenience fee for making a booking. BrightCalendar is the tool you need to elevate your business to the next level.

How BrightCalendar Helps Your Fishing Business

Convenience for Customers:

  • 24/7 Availability: Customers can book tours at any time, even outside of regular business hours.
  • Instant Confirmation: Customers receive immediate confirmation of their booking, reducing uncertainty and enhancing their experience.

Increased Bookings:

  • Reduced Friction: Simplifies the booking process, reducing barriers and increasing the likelihood of conversions.
  • Impulse Bookings: The ease of booking can encourage impulse decisions, leading to more sales.

Improved Customer Experience

  • Streamlined Process: Customers can view available dates and times, select their preferences, and complete the booking all in one place.
  • Personalized Service: Automated systems can collect customer preferences and special requests, allowing for more personalized experiences.

Better Resource Management:

  • Real-Time Updates: Automated booking systems provide real-time updates on availability, preventing overbooking and ensuring efficient resource allocation.
  • Data Collection: Collecting data on bookings can help in managing staff schedules and resources more effectively.

Boost Sales Potential

  • Data Collection: Collecting data on bookings can help in managing staff schedules and resources more effectively.
  • Upselling: Suggest additional services or products, increasing revenue.

Reduced Administrative Work:

  • Automation: Automating the booking process reduces the need for manual input and phone calls, freeing up time for staff to focus on other tasks.
  • Error Reduction: Automated systems minimize the risk of human error in the booking process.

Increased Credibility and Trust:

  • Professional Image: A smooth and professional booking experience enhances your business's credibility.
  • Trustworthiness: Customers often prefer booking directly through the official website rather than third-party platforms.

Better Financial Control:

  • Direct Payments: Direct bookings mean immediate payment, improving cash flow.
  • Reduced Commission Fees: Avoid paying commissions to third-party booking platforms, increasing profit margins.

Customer Loyalty:

  • Seamless Experience: A positive booking experience can lead to repeat customers and referrals.
  • Loyalty Programs: Implementing loyalty programs and discounts for direct bookings can foster long-term relationships with customers.

Understanding Customer Behavior

  • Analytics: Access to booking data provides insights into customer behavior, preferences, and peak booking times, which can inform marketing and operational strategies.

Increase Bookings

Never miss another potential booking by allowing your customers to book directly on your website.

Reduce Phone Calls

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Better Time Management

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Reduce Booking Errors

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Easy to Use

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Highly Customizable

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Option to Accept Credit Card Payments

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Fast Support

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Works with any Schedule

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No Added Commissions

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How BrightCalendar Helps Your Fishing Business

Booking Engine

The BrightCalendar booking engine’s unique design gives you maximum control of your charters.

  • Control how your fishing trips interact with each other when they are booked.
  • fishing trips and times can have any combination of ticket, private, or group fares.
  • Fares can have different maximum availability for the same trip.
  • Flexible payment options allow you to accept full payments and/or deposits.
  • Create seasons to make your fishing trips available at specific times of the year.
  • Organize your charters and times into meaningful groups.
  • Flexible start and end times
  • Multiple day support.
  • Modify fares, maximum availability, add-ons, and forms for any day.

Storefront

The storefront is a modern, highly customizable booking widget that is simple for anyone to use
  • Clear buttons and minimal design simplify booking.
  • Works with any website.
  • Customize it to match your website.
  • Add images and descriptions to your fishing trips to entice customers to book.
  • Easy to install and requires no programming.
  • SSL certificate included.
  • Multiple implementation options.

Manage Bookings

BrightCalendar provides everything you need to efficiently manage your bookings without the hassle.”
  • Easily view availability.
  • Edit customer bookings without double booking or cost miscalculation.
  • Create rain checks and apply payments to bookings.
  • Refund customers.
  • Track monies owed and collected.
  • Automatic backups.

Customer Checkout

BrightCalendar’s mobile app keeps you connected on the go.
  • Streamlined checkout process.
  • Prevents double booking errors.
  • Modify the price of any charter and add-on on the fly.
  • Preset deposit amounts for fast checkout or create custom ones.
  • Add bookings without requiring payment.
  • Shopping cart functionality.
  • Redeem coupons and Groupons.
  • Optional payment methods.
  • Add internal notes to a customer's booking.
  • Automatic email confirmations.

Manage Bookings

BrightCalendar provides everything you need to efficiently manage your bookings without the hassle.”
  • Easily view availability.
  • Edit customer bookings without double booking or cost miscalculation.
  • Create rain checks and apply payments to bookings.
  • Refund customers.
  • Track monies owed and collected.
  • Automatic backups.

Email Confirmations

Save time by automating booking notifications.
  • Professional email template.
  • Automatically sends a confirmation when a booking is made.
  • Receive instant notifications when a customer makes a reservation.
  • Confirmations include reservation policies and itineraries.
  • Guaranteed email delivery with SendGrid™.

Payment Gateways

BrightCalendar provides everything you need to efficiently manage your bookings without the hassle.”
  • Payments go directly into your bank account.
  • Select the type of credit cards you want to accept.
  • Display credit card icons next to form fields during checkout.
  • Use your existing merchant processor, or we can set you up with one of our partners.
  • Next day payouts
  • Hold payment information without charging the customer.
  • Functions without payment integration.

Reporting

Powerful reporting tailored to your needs.
  • Easily create custom reports by selecting the data and display order.
  • Flexible search criteria.
  • View financials in an itemized layout.
  • Preset reports for quick access.
  • Export or print any report.

Coupons

Create and automatically redeem coupons.
  • Hide the coupon field from customers when not in use.
  • Easily set the value, maximum number, and availability.
  • Redeem Groupon and Living Social vouchers.
  • Automatically remove payment fields during checkout when the amount owed is $0.00.

Add-ons & Fees

Add-ons allow customers to purchase products and services separate from the main activity and include additional fees.
  • Set the quantity for each add-on.
  • Exclude add-ons from coupons.
  • Fees can be one-time or based on the number of people booking.
  • Emphasize the remaining availability.

Forms

Add forms to collect additional information from customers when they make a booking.
  • Forms can be made mandatory.
  • Automatically multiply forms to collect information from each person in the party.
  • Swap forms for different activities or times.
  • Add instructions for each element in your form.
  • Control the availability of your forms.

Staff Access

Create limited access user accounts for your staff with varying levels of permissions.
  • No limit on the number of accounts.
  • Customize permissions for each staff member.

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