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Ticketing and tour booking sites built for New York's crowds and timed entries.

Codeeo provides tourism booking website development in New York for walking tour brands, harbor cruise and ferry sightseeing operators, observation decks, museums, helicopter tour companies and attraction pass sellers. We build the platform that sells the ticket: timed slots, meeting points instead of pickups, all-in prices that follow New York ticketing law, wallet payments, group orders, waitlists and refunds. A visitor on a Midtown sidewalk picks a time, pays and gets a scannable ticket before the light changes.

New York demand is heavy, seasonal and impatient. Holiday weeks sell out, summer evenings fill early, and a snowstorm can empty a day of departures. The booking platform has to absorb all three without your team working the phones.

Built for
Walking and food tour companies, harbor and sightseeing cruise lines, observation decks and museums, helicopter tour operators and multi-attraction pass sellers in New York City.
Typical timeline
Shaped in discovery over video: we agree the products, integrations and launch season, then put the plan in writing before any design.
What you own
The platform code, ticket and booking data, guest records, payment accounts and domain, all held under your company's own logins.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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Platform features

What a New York tour and ticket platform has to handle.

Visitors in New York rarely need a hotel pickup. They need a precise meeting point near a subway exit, a time slot that is still open, and a ticket on their phone that scans on the first try. Operators, in turn, need to sell thousands of timed entries on peak days, hold back capacity for groups and partners, and refund cleanly when the weather closes the harbor or a deck.

New York also has specific ticketing rules. Since June 2022, sellers of tickets to places of entertainment must show the total ticket price, including fees, before the buyer selects a ticket, and the price cannot climb during checkout. We design the catalog, cart and payment steps around that rule from the start. Below is what our tourism online booking system development for New York usually includes.

Explain your project
  • Timed entry and slot capacity

    Every product is sold in slots with their own capacity, from fifteen-minute deck entries to three-hour walking tours. Capacity can differ by day of week, season and channel, and you can hold back a share for groups, members or partners and release it automatically if it has not sold by a set time. Slot templates copy across a season, so building the summer calendar takes minutes.

    Peak days sold to capacity without overselling.

  • All-in ticket pricing

    Under the Arts and Cultural Affairs Law, the total price including fees is shown before the guest picks a ticket, and the itemized fee portion is disclosed clearly. We lock the price once a ticket is selected so nothing increases at payment, and we keep optional add-ons visibly separate.

    Checkout pricing that matches New York's ticket rules.

  • Meeting points with transit directions

    Each departure carries an exact meeting spot with a map, a photo, nearby subway lines and accessible entrance notes. The confirmation and the reminder repeat it, so a guest walking out of a station in Lower Manhattan finds the guide holding the sign. Guides can post a last-minute change, such as a street closure for a parade, and every booked guest is told.

    Fewer late arrivals and lost guests.

  • Mobile tickets that scan

    Tickets arrive as QR codes in email and can be added to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet. Staff scan at the gate or the pier using a browser on a phone or tablet, with an offline mode that syncs once signal returns near the water. Each scan is logged, so duplicate or shared screenshots are flagged at the door.

    Faster lines at the entrance.

  • Waitlists for sold-out slots

    When a holiday week or a sunset slot fills, guests join a waitlist. Released seats go to the first person in line with a time-limited payment link, so cancellations turn back into sales without anyone at your office watching inventory.

    Cancelled seats resold automatically.

  • Bundles and attraction passes

    Combine a harbor cruise with a deck entry, or sell a multi-day pass that covers several partner venues. Each component reserves its own slot, partner revenue splits are recorded per redemption, and the guest manages every booking under one order. Partners see their own redemptions in a simple report.

    Higher order value from one checkout.

  • Tax rules by product

    New York sales tax can reach some admission charges and not others, and bundled products complicate it. We set tax behavior per product and component, show taxes clearly on receipts, and export reports your accountant can file from.

    Tax treatment decided by your accountant, applied by the platform.

  • School and group bookings

    Schools, tour groups and corporate teams request dates, receive a quote, pay a deposit or settle by invoice, and send a final headcount later. Group leaders get a single confirmation covering everyone, with chaperone counts and accessibility needs recorded. Final numbers can change up to a cut-off you set, with the balance adjusted automatically.

    Group revenue without a manual quoting process.

  • Security under the SHIELD Act

    New York's SHIELD Act requires reasonable safeguards for private information and sets breach notification duties. We use hosted payment fields, encrypted storage, two-factor admin sign-in, role permissions and audit logs, and we hand over a written incident plan at launch.

    Safeguards documented, not assumed.

  • Weather closures and refunds

    Snow, high winds and summer storms close piers, decks and heliports. One action cancels a slot, messages every affected guest and offers rebooking, credit or refund according to your policy, and the reason is logged for chargeback disputes. Guests who choose credit can redeem it on any later date from their confirmation link.

    A closed afternoon handled in one step.

Where this fits

New York operators we build booking platforms for.

New York's visitor economy runs on volume and timing. The right booking platform depends on whether you sell a few small group walks a day or tens of thousands of timed entries a month. These are the operators we most often work with across the five boroughs. Every project runs remotely, with discovery, reviews and acceptance testing by video call. If your business mixes several of these models, such as a cruise line that also sells deck entries, we plan one inventory that serves them all.

01

Walking, food and neighborhood tour brands

Tours through Greenwich Village, Harlem, Chinatown or Brooklyn sell in small groups with guide limits, dietary questions and private tour requests. We build fast product pages, guide calendars, private booking quotes and tipping after the tour, with ratings requests timed for the evening after. Private tour requests arrive with date, group size and interests, and your team replies with a payable quote from the admin rather than a long email thread.

Guide availability controls what can be sold.

02

Harbor cruises, ferries and boat tours

Boat operators sell by vessel and sailing, often with assigned piers, boarding times and sunset or holiday premium sailings. Their platform needs passenger categories, vessel swaps when a boat goes out of service, weather holds and boarding scans at the pier. We also connect partner resellers in Times Square booths and hotel lobbies to the same inventory. Holiday and fireworks sailings can carry their own pricing, inventory and cancellation terms.

03

Observation decks, museums and attractions

High volume venues need timed entry, member sign-in, capacity buffers, combination tickets and box office tools. Speed matters most: product pages must load quickly on crowded mobile networks, and checkout has to survive a holiday rush. We plan load testing before every peak season. Members sign in to book included visits, and resident or student pricing can require proof at the door.

Load tests run before peak weeks.

04

Helicopter and specialty experience operators

Helicopter flights over Manhattan and other premium experiences carry weight and seating rules, ID checks and frequent weather changes. The booking flow collects passenger details privately, holds seats until flight confirmation and moves guests to the next available flight when conditions force a change. Preflight safety notes and arrival times go out the evening before each flight.

Six stages to a New York booking platform that sells on day one.

  1. 01Inventory and rules workshopRun by video call: products, slots, capacities, partner allocations, fee structures, tax treatment and refund policy captured in one written scope.
  2. 02Ticket flow designTourism booking website design New York visitors can complete standing up: date, time, ticket type, total price, wallet payment, and a ticket in their inbox.
  3. 03Payments and partnersProcessor accounts in your name, wallets, partner revenue splits, reseller and channel manager links, and accounting exports agreed with your bookkeeper.
  4. 04Build with real productsThe engine, admin, scanning screens and reminders built against your actual catalog and calendar, so testing reflects a real peak day in New York rather than a demo.
  5. 05Load testing and launchSimulated rushes, refund and closure rehearsals, accessibility checks, URL redirects from the old site, then launch outside your busiest weeks.
  6. 06Season planningBefore each holiday and summer peak we review sell-outs, waitlist data and abandoned checkouts, then adjust capacity rules and pages.

Technology

What we build this with.

We choose a booking engine that copes with timed entry at volume, a front end built for speed on congested mobile networks, a processor that supports wallets and partner payouts, and an admin your staff can run during a rush. Content, prices and slot calendars stay editable by your own staff, and consent-aware analytics report which products and channels bring in revenue.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

04Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions New York operators ask before building.

Volume, product complexity and integrations.

A small walking tour company with a handful of products needs far less than an attraction selling timed entries at scale with partner bundles, waitlists, scanning and load testing. Channel manager links, reseller portals, multiple languages and accounting exports add to scope. We price after discovery, with the first release written down and later phases listed separately. If timing is tight, we suggest which features can wait so the core ticket flow launches before your season starts.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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