Deposits tracked in spreadsheets, reconciled by memory.
Three installments, eight travelers, twelve departures. That's 288 payments you're chasing by hand this season — and one missed reminder is one no-show.
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JUST BOOKED · $620
PETRA · 8 DAYS
PETRA · 8 DAYSJordan: Petra & Wadi Rum
Apr 12 → 19 · 6 of 12 seats left
✓Deposit · today$620
Feb 12$620
Mar 12$620
Apr 5$620
Pay deposit · $620
✓
Maria paid $620
Deposit · Jordan · just now
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$18,420 paid out
→ Your Stripe · arriving Mar 14
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You did not start a travel business to chase bank transfers.
The booking side of your business is held together with spreadsheets and Stripe links. Here’s what that actually costs you.
Been there?
A Stripe link in a DM is your whole booking flow.
No deposit logic. No installment schedule. No receipt your traveler can pull up at the airport when something goes wrong.
Adding a “Book now” button is a developer ticket. Every season.
Forms break. Embeds go stale. The widget you set up last spring quietly stopped converting in March — and you found out in May.
Hours on admin that should be hours on the trail.
Chasing documents, sending reminders, updating itineraries, answering “did it go through?” for the fourth time today.
this is how to fix it
Bookings
A booking page that does the heavy lifting.
Send a booking page, take a payment, move on. Every trip gets its own branded page — mobile-first and ready to share wherever your travelers already are.
- One branded page per trip
- Packages and add-ons to make every trip unique
- Fully-customisable payment and cancellation terms
- Mobile-first, where most bookings happen
PETRA · 8 DAYSJordan: Petra & Wadi Rum
$2,480Apr 12 → 19 · 6 of 12 seats left
Deposit$620
3× monthly$620 ea.
Booking confirmationauto
Widgets
Drop the booking flow into your site.
Your domain, your brand, your SEO. Samba’s booking and payment flow embeds with one snippet — and stays working when you restyle or refresh your site.
- One snippet of code, copy and paste
- Per-trip widgets or a full inventory grid
- Inherits your site’s fonts and colors automatically
- Always up to date and available
your-tour-site.com/jordan-petra
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Jordan: Petra & Wadi Rum
8 days · small group · departing April
SAMBA WIDGET
$2,4806 of 12 seats left
Reserve seat · $620 deposit
Payments
Your Stripe account. 1st-class booking flow.
Connect Stripe in two clicks. Payments land directly in your account — we never touch the money. We just handle the deposits, installments, reminders, and reconciliation that Stripe alone won’t.
- Bring your own Stripe — funds go straight to you
- Automatic reconciliation
- Deposits, installment plans, and automatic reminders
- Refunds and traveler swaps in two clicks
Total · Jordan
$2,480Collected
$1,860✓
Deposit
Paid · Jan 12
$620
✓
Installment 2
Paid · Feb 11
$620
✓
Installment 3
Paid · Mar 12
$620
Final installment
Due Apr 5 · Reminder queued
$620
Transparent pricing
while you’re here
The operator’s playbook.
Selling more trips directly, and getting a fair deal from the OTAs you keep.
Direct Bookings
Filling trips without paying 25% to a third party.
SEO, referrals, repeat travelers, post-trip emails — the channels that don’t take a cut, written by people who’ve shipped them.
- →Why most operator websites don’t convert — and the homepage teardown that proves it
- →The case for (and against) Google Ads on multi-day trips
- →Turning past travelers into your best sales channel
Which OTAs are worth it, and which aren’t.
Honest, operator-side reviews of the major booking platforms — what they take, what they deliver, and which trips actually sell on each.
- →What a 25% commission actually costs you on a $2,000 trip
- →Current commission rates across the major platforms
- →Where premium travelers actually book — and where they don’t
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