Services · Mobile app development · Yacht charter apps
We handle yacht booking app development Los Angeles charter companies use to sell sunset cruises, coastal day trips and Catalina runs from Marina del Rey, Alamitos Bay and Rainbow Harbor. Guests pick a yacht and an itinerary, the app assigns a captain and crew who hold the right credentials for that vessel, every passenger signs a waiver, and deposits, balances and refunds follow the policy they accepted. When fog or a small craft advisory closes the channel, your team tells every affected group from one screen.
Codeeo has delivered 200+ projects across the UAE and the US, with a team of 80+ in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi. We have no Los Angeles office; we work remotely with LA clients and run discovery, reviews and demos by video call, with notes after each session.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Inside the app
Charter demand in Los Angeles is spread across a long coastline and very different guests: visitors staying in Santa Monica and Venice who want two hours on the water, locals booking a birthday on a motor yacht, production teams needing a vessel for a day, and groups planning an overnight at Catalina. Each of those trips carries its own passenger limit, crew requirement, deposit and cancellation logic. Selling them through a generic booking widget is where double bookings, unsigned waivers and refund arguments come from. These are the parts we usually build, and discovery decides which of them belong in the first release and which can wait until you have real booking data from a season on the water.
A guest staying near LAX and one staying in Long Beach should not be sent to the same dock. The app shows which yachts leave from Marina del Rey and which from Alamitos Bay or Rainbow Harbor, with parking, gate codes and slip numbers sent once the booking is confirmed.
Guests arrive at the right harbor without calling the office.
Harbor cruise, coastline run toward Malibu, whale season trip or a Catalina day: each itinerary sets its own duration, minimum crew, fuel surcharge rules and eligible vessels. Guests choose the experience, and the app only offers yachts that can legally and practically run it. Overnight Catalina trips can also carry mooring or slip notes for the crew.
Every trip sold matches a boat and crew that can deliver it.
Captain, mate and stew shifts are assigned per trip. The roster stores each mariner's Coast Guard credential, endorsements, expiry dates and drug testing enrollment, warns before anything lapses, and refuses to assign a captain whose license does not cover the vessel or the route.
No trip leaves with a crew member who is not cleared to work it.
An uninspected yacht may carry up to six passengers for hire, while an inspected vessel carries the number on its Certificate of Inspection. Those limits are set per vessel in the admin dashboard and enforced at checkout, so a party of twenty is steered to the right yacht.
Bookings never exceed what the vessel is certified to carry.
The lead guest shares a link, each passenger signs on their phone, adds an emergency contact and acknowledges the safety rules. The captain opens a live manifest at boarding showing who has signed, which helps with a head count before the lines come off.
A complete manifest and signed waiver for everyone aboard.
Morning fog, wind and swell decide many LA trips. Operations can hold one sailing or every sailing from a harbor, notify each lead guest, and offer a later slot, another day or a refund according to the terms they accepted. Holds can draw on National Weather Service marine forecasts so the office sees advisories next to the day's sailings, while the final call stays with your captain.
Weather decisions reach every guest before they set off for the marina.
Deposits lock the date, balances charge on schedule, and overnight or event charters can carry a separate security hold released after the trip. Apple Pay and Google Pay are supported through a PCI DSS compliant processor, so card data stays off your systems.
Money collected on time, with clear release of security holds.
Catering, a photographer, champagne service or a paddleboard package added during booking or afterwards up to a cutoff. Each extra lands on the crew's prep list with quantities, so the stew provisions the right order before guests board.
Extras arrive aboard without last minute calls.
Hotel concierges and event planners book on behalf of guests. A partner portal lets them hold dates, add guests and track commission, while the guest still signs their own waiver and receives their own boarding details. Commission statements are generated each month from confirmed and completed trips only.
Partners sell your trips without phone calls or spreadsheets.
Revenue by harbor, itinerary and vessel, cancellation causes, crew hours and refunds pending. Yacht owners whose boats you manage see their own calendar and statements, and can block dates for personal use.
Clear numbers for each yacht and each owner.
Who this is for
Los Angeles charter businesses range from one captain with a six passenger yacht to companies running inspected vessels for corporate events of a hundred guests. They do not need the same product. A small operator needs speed and a calendar that never double books; a larger one needs crew rosters, partner sales and finance reporting. These four starting points cover most of the companies we speak with, and each one changes what we put into the first release and what we hold back.
You run one or two yachts out of Marina del Rey and sell most trips through marketplaces and Instagram. A focused app with direct booking, waivers, deposits and a simple captain view lets you keep repeat guests and stop paying commission on people who already know you. Calendar sync with your marketplace listings prevents overlaps while both run in parallel.
Small fleet, direct bookings first.
Your larger yachts carry big groups for weddings, launches and company parties. Each event needs quotes, staged payments, a guest list that changes until the last day, and a crew of several. We build quote to booking flows, event checklists and crew rosters sized to the passenger count on the vessel's certificate.
Quotes, staged payments and big crews.
You manage privately owned yachts in Long Beach and Marina del Rey and place them into charter. Owners want visibility and control; guests want one clean booking experience. An owner portal with date blocks and statements sits next to the guest app, and the charter structure is planned with your maritime lawyer so it matches how the boat is legally operated.
Owners and guests in one system.
Visitors book from their phones a day or two ahead, often after seeing the harbor. They need short checkout, wallet payments and clear meeting instructions, and some prefer Spanish. We design a fast guest flow with bilingual content where you need it, plus partner links for hotels and tour desks.
Short notice bookings from visitors.
How we work together
A fixed scope first release suits most charter companies: booking, payments, waivers, crew roster and the admin dashboard, delivered against a written scope. After launch, a monthly retainer covers fixes, store updates and new features through the season. Companies managing many yachts or several brands sometimes prefer a dedicated team that works only on their product. Collaboration runs remotely by video call and shared project tools, and all accounts are opened in your company's name.
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
Guest and crew apps are typically built cross platform in React Native or Flutter, with a web admin, a managed cloud backend and payment processing through a provider that supports Apple Pay, Google Pay and automatic refunds.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Booking, crew scheduling, waivers, payments and weather holds, as a minimum.
The guest side covers harbor and itinerary choice, checkout and passenger waivers. The crew side covers rosters, credentials and boarding manifests. The office side covers holds, refunds, reporting and owner statements. Partner bookings, provisioning and bilingual content are common additions. Discovery sets which parts go into the first release based on where your bookings and problems come from today. A short first release that works through one summer usually teaches more than a long build that misses the season.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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