Services · Mobile app development · Yacht charter apps
Codeeo takes on yacht booking app development London charter brokers, yacht managers and private travel planners can use to sell and run crewed charters. Clients browse yachts that are actually available, hold a week, sign the charter agreement, pay in stages and fill in a preference sheet from their phone. Your brokers see every enquiry, option, contract and payment in one place, whether the yacht is on the Solent for a summer weekend or in the western Mediterranean for August.
Very few London clients board a yacht in London. They book here, then fly or drive to where the yacht is based. The app is built around that distance: clear itineraries, travel details, documents and a single thread with the broker until embarkation day.
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Inside a London charter app
A London charter is usually sold in an office in Mayfair or St James's, over lunch, or on a call between a broker and a client's assistant, and then delivered hundreds or thousands of miles away. The paperwork in between is heavy: options and holds, charter agreements, staged payments, an advance provisioning allowance, guest lists, passports, dietary notes and transfer plans. Most of it still travels by email and PDF, and that is where dates slip and details get lost. A good app replaces that chain with one shared record that the client, the broker and the yacht's crew each see from their own angle. These are the features London brokerages ask for most, roughly in the order we usually build them. The first release is chosen with you, and anything left out stays on a written roadmap.
Each yacht shows open weeks, existing holds and confirmed charters, pulled from your central agency listings or entered by your team. A broker can place a dated option for a client, set its expiry and release it automatically if the client goes quiet, so two brokers never promise the same week.
No double holds on the same yacht and week.
The agreement you already use, including the standard Mediterranean charter terms many brokers work from, is filled from the booking record and sent for electronic signature by the charterer and the owner's side. Every version and signature is stored against the charter.
Contracts signed in days, with a clear audit trail.
Deposit, balance and advance provisioning allowance requests go out on schedule in pounds, euros or dollars. Clients pay by card, Apple Pay or bank transfer, and the captain's APA spend can be shared back during and after the trip.
Clients always know what is paid and what is due.
Guests complete food, drink, cabin, activity and allergy details on their phones. The crew receives a clean summary well before embarkation, and changes made later are flagged so the chef and chief stewardess are never working from an old copy.
Crews arrive prepared, not guessing.
Names, passport details and arrival times are collected once, stored securely and shared only with the people who need them, such as the captain or the marina agent. Access is logged and data is removed after the retention period you set.
Personal data held carefully and for a defined time.
Brokers sketch a suggested route, anchorages and shore plans, and the client can comment on each day. The captain has the final word on weather and safety, and the app makes that clear so expectations stay realistic.
A plan the client has seen and agreed before boarding.
One thread per charter, visible to the client, their assistant and the broker, with crew access added nearer the date. It replaces personal messaging apps for anything that should sit on the record.
Every promise and change is written down in one place.
Commission splits between the central agent, the retail broker and any introducer are worked out from the confirmed charter, with reports by broker, yacht and season for the directors.
Fewer spreadsheet arguments at the end of the season.
Nearer the date, the captain and chief stewardess get a limited view of the charter: guest names, arrival times, preferences, dietary notes and the agreed outline route. They cannot see contract terms or payment history, and their access ends when the charter does, which keeps the client's details inside a small circle.
The crew has what it needs and nothing more.
For day and weekend charters closer to home, such as Cowes Week hospitality or a sail out of the Hamble, a shorter booking flow handles fixed packages, headcounts and catering without the full Mediterranean contract.
Short UK charters sold without heavy paperwork.
Who this is for
London is where a large share of the UK's charter selling happens, even though the yachts are elsewhere. Brokerages, management companies and private travel teams here share a problem: high value bookings that run on long email chains, with clients who expect discretion and quick answers. These are the four situations we see most often. Each one leads to a different first release, and discovery and design reviews run by video call, since our team works remotely with London clients from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi.
A small team of brokers selling yachts from several central agencies needs one tool for options, contracts and payments, with each broker's clients kept private from colleagues where you want that. We start with the enquiry to signed contract flow, because that is where most London brokerages lose time, then add preference sheets and client messaging. The aim is that a broker can answer a client's question from a phone between meetings without opening a laptop.
Begin with contracts and payments; guest tools follow.
When you manage yachts for owners and also run their charter programme, the app needs two faces: owners see bookings, income and APA reconciliation for their own yacht, while charter clients see only their own trip. We build role based access so both sit on one platform without leaking information between owners.
Some London teams book charters for one family or a small group of principals rather than selling them. Here the app is less about sales and more about records: preferences that carry over from one summer to the next, documents kept in one place, and a clear history of yachts and crews the family liked. Confidentiality settings matter more than marketing features. We also add simple approval steps, so a principal or their chief of staff signs off the yacht, dates and budget holder before the broker is told to proceed, and every approval is kept on file.
Travel firms that already arrange villas, flights and hotels often add a crewed yacht to a client's trip. We connect yacht bookings into the itinerary you already sell, with clear terms on who is responsible for which part. When flights and a charter are sold together, package travel rules may apply, and we build the booking flow so you can show the right information.
Your legal adviser confirms how package rules apply to you.
How we work together
Most brokerages start with a fixed scope first version covering availability, contracts and payments, then keep improving it on a monthly retainer. Management companies with several owners and a charter desk sometimes choose a dedicated team for a longer programme. Whichever route you take, the scope, the dates and what is excluded are written down before design begins. Reviews and demos take place by video call, and you can bring in your own compliance or IT people at any stage. We also agree early how support will work during the summer, when a payment problem on a Friday afternoon cannot wait for a scheduled release.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
We pick the stack to suit your brokers, your existing CRM and accounts software, and whoever will maintain the app after launch. Cross platform frameworks usually make sense for a charter app, with native work only where a feature truly needs it.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Because the build depends on understanding charter paperwork, not on being nearby.
Our team of 80+ works from Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and runs London projects remotely, by video call. Across the UAE and the US we have delivered 200+ projects, and our Google rating stands at 4.7 from 23 reviews. What matters for your project is a clear scope, regular demos and a team that asks the right questions about options, contracts, APA and privacy. Speak to us, then compare our scope with anyone else's.
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