Services · Ecommerce development · Yacht charter booking sites
Codeeo offers yacht charter booking website development London operators and brokers use to sell time afloat straight from their own site. A guest picks a vessel, sees which dates or hours are genuinely free, chooses a boarding point, pays a deposit or the full sum and receives a confirmation with everything needed on the day. It suits evening hire on the Thames, weekends out of the Solent and summer weeks in the Mediterranean sold to London clients.
The platform lives in the browser, so nobody has to install anything to book. Behind it sits one admin area where your team manages vessels, crews, prices, payments and refunds, and where every change is logged against the staff member who made it. Our team works with London clients remotely, and discovery and design reviews run by video call.
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What the booking platform does
London charter demand is split in a way few other cities share. A Thames operator sells three hour evening slots to firms in the City and Canary Wharf, birthday groups and visitors. A Mayfair or Chelsea broker sells a crewed week off Sardinia, quoted in euros, signed weeks in advance and paid in stages. Many businesses do both, and run them from email threads, a shared spreadsheet and payment links sent by hand. That works until two people accept the same Friday evening. Our yacht charter online booking system development London work starts from your real rules: minimum hire, turnaround between groups, crew rotas, passenger limits on each vessel's certificate, pier or marina access, and the point at which a booking becomes non refundable. The checkout then applies those rules every time, without anyone checking a spreadsheet first.
For Thames hire, availability is shown in slots you define, with a buffer between groups for cleaning, crew changes and moving to the next pier. Tide windows that affect when a vessel can leave a marina such as St Katharine Docks can be blocked in the calendar by your team.
Evening and weekend slots sell without clashes.
Mediterranean and Caribbean weeks appear with their embarkation port, Saturday to Saturday or flexible dates, and the yacht's own rate. Prices can be shown in euros or dollars with a sterling guide, and the guest pays in the currency your contract uses.
Brokers sell overseas weeks from the same site as local trips.
Each boat carries the maximum guest number from its certification, and the checkout refuses a group that exceeds it. A guest list is collected before boarding so crew have the names they need on the quay.
No booking can exceed what the vessel may carry.
Firms can book on account, add a purchase order number, enter the billing entity and receive a VAT invoice automatically. Event planners can hold a slot pending internal sign off for a period you set.
City and Canary Wharf firms can book the way their finance teams require.
You decide the deposit and when the balance is due. The platform sends the payment request, retries a failed card, and flags unpaid balances to staff before the charter date rather than after it.
Balances arrive on time without anyone chasing by email.
Every booking gets a private page where the lead guest can add names, dietary needs and arrival times, pay the balance, buy extras and download the invoice. For overseas weeks the same area holds the signed charter agreement and the preference sheet your broker sends to the captain.
Guests manage their own details instead of emailing the office.
Canapés, a DJ, a photographer, decorations or a branded welcome are sold as priced extras during checkout or added later from the booking page, each with its own lead time and stock limit.
Extras are paid upfront and arrive on board as ordered.
Your terms are built in: what happens if the guest cancels, if you cancel for weather, or if the river is closed. Staff can move a booking to another date or issue a full or partial refund from the admin panel.
Refunds and rebookings follow the written policy every time.
Card payments run through a provider that supports 3D Secure, so high value charters pass SCA checks without failed payments. Large balances can also be settled by bank transfer or Open Banking where your provider offers it.
High value payments clear first time.
One view shows every vessel, skipper and deckhand across the week. Crew see only their own shifts, and the office can see which boats need cover before a slot is offered for sale.
Every booked slot has a vessel and crew assigned.
Who this is for
A London booking site has to serve very different buyers: a PA booking a team evening between meetings, a family planning an August week abroad and a tourist looking at a sunset cruise on a phone. The right build depends on which of these pay your wages. Here is how we approach the four we see most. Many businesses fit more than one, and the platform can serve each audience with its own route through the site.
You run one or several vessels from piers or marinas along the river and sell parties, corporate evenings and sightseeing hire. The priority is a fast slot calendar, clear capacity per boat, catering extras and a checkout that works on a phone in under a minute. We also make sure the site states boarding points, timings and what happens on days the Port of London Authority restricts movements.
Fast slot booking matters more than a long brochure.
Your clients are in London, the yachts are in the Mediterranean or the Caribbean. You need a site where clients can browse a curated fleet, check which weeks are open, place a paid hold, and then pay the balance and any provisioning advance in stages. Contracts and preference details are handled through the secure client area, not attachments in email. Commission and owner payouts are tracked against each booking so your accounts reconcile.
Agencies booking boats for product launches, client entertainment and staff parties need quotes for larger groups, a way to hold dates while a client approves, and invoices in the client's company name. We build agency logins and quote to booking conversion so a confirmed quote becomes a paid reservation in one step. Agencies can also see the full extras menu and lead times, which saves a round of emails per event.
Many London operators started on a generic booking widget that charges per booking, looks out of place on the site and cannot handle extras or crew. We move your products, future bookings and customer list across, keep existing URLs working, and give you a platform that follows your own rules.
Future bookings are migrated before the old widget is switched off.
How we work together
Most London operators begin with a fixed scope build that covers the booking engine, payments and the admin area, then keep a monthly retainer for new features before each summer season, such as a new vessel type, a gift card product or an agency portal. Larger brokerages with several brands sometimes take a dedicated team that stays with the platform year round. Every arrangement is agreed in writing after discovery, and all work is done remotely with you by video call and shared project boards.
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 choose the stack around your fleet size, your payment provider and the people who will run the site. Typical builds use a modern web framework, a hosted database in a UK or EU region, and payment providers that support 3D Secure and refunds through an API. Your staff edit vessels, prices and pages themselves without a developer.
01Web
02Commerce
03Data and cloud
04Marketing and tracking
It depends on the number of sale types and integrations, and we agree it after discovery.
A Thames operator selling fixed slots on two or three boats needs less than a broker handling overseas weeks, staged payments and contracts. Once we know your vessels, rules, payment provider and the systems we connect to, we write a schedule with milestones for design, build, testing and launch. Most clients aim to go live before their busiest months, so we plan backwards from that. We also look at the extra demand around big London dates, such as summer weekends and the run up to Christmas, and whether your booking rules need to change for them.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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