Free tour booking system for all passionate tour operators
What is online tour booking software?
It is like a flag or an umbrella, it helps you to never lose any participants. Literally, where a flag helps people to keep sight of you in a busy city, booking software helps people to book whatever tour they are interested in whenever they want. You will never lose customers for your tour again.
The software gives your touring business a destination on the web. Anyone can go here and look at the various tours you offer, the pricing, and the available times. And book directly from their own phone or laptop without you having to do anything!
Tour booking software helps you to organize your business, giving a clear overview of which tours are booked and by who.
Which online tour booking system is free?
Next to it being important that the tour booking system is easy to use for both you and your customers, it should also not take a massive cut of your earnings. We understand that, and that is why we have built an amazing tour booking system for anyone to use for free. So the answer to this question can be brief: Vev
Why, you might wonder, do you offer a tour booking system for free? Well, we have made it our mission to create an equal playing field between all types of tour operators. We believe that it was not fair that large tour operators could use the best tooling, while smaller tour operators were stuck choosing between using crappy booking systems or paying hefty fees.
So we decided to offer the best possible tooling (and continuously improving) for the lowest possible fee (free). Only when you want to have certain pro features, like running automated ads in your city, do we ask for a small fee. But you are never forced to pay, that is a promise.
How to best use tour scheduling software?
We decided to ask this question to some of the tour operators currently using our tour scheduling software. These are the 7 steps that they came up with:
- Create a page
- Add your tours, prices, number of slots, and available times
- Give your page some nice colors
- Share your link on social media
- Print out your QR code and hang it in spots where many tourists pass through
- See exactly how many people book which tours and prepare accordingly
- Check the monthly wrapped-email to see this month’s earnings
What is the best booking software for tour operators?
We again asked the tour operators that use Vev as their booking software for their opinion. But that was a bit ridiculous, this is the list they came up with:
- Vev
We could have known, it makes sense that they use us if they believe that we are the best. Anyway, let’s highlight some features that make us loved by many tour operators from all over the world.
- Super easy-to-use dashboard
- Beautifully designed booking website in your colors
- Automatic reminders to your customers to prevent no-shows
- Payment integration
- Monthly wrapped email showing how ticket sales are going
- All customer information easily accessible
Can the booking software also be used by small tour operators?
Yes, Vev booking software is used by tour operators big and small from all over the world. As mentioned before, it is our mission to equal the playing field, offering the best tooling to all tour operators.
Booking software will make even the smallest tour operator look super professional. It gives you all the things that big tour operators always brag about:
- A nice looking booking website on desktop and mobile
- Online booking possibility for your tours
- Online payments
- Email to your customers in your brand colors
- and so much more.
I think the time has come for you to just give it a try. Big or small, the tool is free to use, so why not give it a spin?
Run your business on auto-pilot With your new toolset
Sell
Marketing
Business
Auto pilot
Overview
No-shows
Customers
Add your tours and more
Decide yourself what you offer at your store. Add descriptions for your tours, add an image, and best of all set your own prices.
Your day at a glance
See exactly how much your store makes, what your customers join most and even learn how they made their appointment.
Join again
In just a tap you your customers become regulars. Get the best date and time for the next appointment. No upcoming appointment? You and your customers are reminded to join again.
Sell smart
Add options, durations, variations, preparation time and cleanup time to help your customers join.
Join deadline
Choose till what time customers can join a tour.
Sell
Add your tours and more
Decide yourself what you offer at your store. Add descriptions for your tours, add an image, and best of all set your own prices.
Your day at a glance
See exactly how much your store makes, what your customers join most and even learn how they made their appointment.
Join again
In just a tap you your customers become regulars. Get the best date and time for the next appointment. No upcoming appointment? You and your customers are reminded to join again.
Sell smart
Add options, durations, variations, preparation time and cleanup time to help your customers join.
Join deadline
Choose till what time customers can join a tour.
Marketing
Your own link
Add your link to your website and socials. A link in bio could boost the appointments of your store up to 40%.
Your logo and colors
Makes your store stand out. Literrally everything will get your own style. Your page, dashboard, Wallet passes and every single e-mail.
Join with a QR-code
Include your QR code on flyers, business cards, stickers and other placements in your store to let your customers join tours by scanning it on their phone.
Business
Your overview of tours
See exactly who will get what tour, and at what time the appointment is due.
Your opening hours
You decide when your store is open (or closed) for appointments.
Choose a time and date
Let your customers choose what time works for them. You can decide how strict or flexible you want to be with your time.
Add your breaks
Plan when you want a fixed break. Looking for more flexibility? Turn on smart breaks.
Schedule 'Me time'
Got a personal appointment? With just a tap you can block time off. This way customers can't make an appointment.
Exceptions
Want to open up during public holidays? Or close for a vacation? Your decide when your store is open.
Join deadline
Choose till what time customers can join a tour.
Make your accountant smile
Export data of your store on a monthly basis. Including all the information of your appointments. Giving you the information you need.
Auto pilot
Communication made easy
Every appointment, cancelation, change and reminder is automatically sent to your customers. Emails are sent in your style so they look like your store.
Reminders
On the day of the appointment, your customer receives a reminder from you. It's send automatically and includes all the information of their tour.
Your month wrapped up
Every month starts with an overview of last months' sales, cancelations and revenue. This way you know exactly how your store is doing.
Your own link
Add your link to your website and socials. A link in bio could boost the appointments of your store up to 40%.
Overview
Your day at a glance
See exactly how much your store makes, what your customers join most and even learn how they made their appointment.
Your overview of tours
See exactly who will get what tour, and at what time the appointment is due.
Focus on your customers
Your daily overview of customers. Showing you exactly who's coming, and a way to let you join again.
Delivery view
See exactly where you need to be, in which order and at what time. Everything shown on a map to lay it out perfectly for you.
No-shows
Reminders
On the day of the appointment, your customer receives a reminder from you. It's send automatically and includes all the information of their tour.
Add to wallet
After customers join tours, they get a pass for their digital wallet. When added they get a notification on their phone at the right time. The pass contains all the details like; date, time, location, total cost, payment details and link.
Add to Calendar
Customers can add the appointment to their calendar. This way they receive a notification before their tour. The address, travel time and link to their confirmation page can be found in the event details.
Communication made easy
Every appointment, cancelation, change and reminder is automatically sent to your customers. Emails are sent in your style so they look like your store.
Customer details
For tour guides it's super handy to have all the details of customers at their finger tips. Allowing you to send a text, call or email whenever you need.
Cancelation deadline
Decide until what time customers can cancel for free. Whenever a cancelation is made, customers receive a message including a link to schedule their next tour.
Change the time
Customers can change the time of their upcoming appointment as long as the cancelation deadline hasn't passed.
Customer history
See exactly what kind of tours your customer had last time.
Customers
Customer details
For tour guides it's super handy to have all the details of customers at their finger tips. Allowing you to send a text, call or email whenever you need.
Advanced customer management
With Vev+ you see your customers in the best way. This lets you build relationships and get more appointments. You can search and find your most valuable customers.
Focus on your customers
Your daily overview of customers. Showing you exactly who's coming, and a way to let you join again.
Upcoming tours
Vev shows you the next time you will see your customer. If there's no upcoming tour, you can join again with one tap.
Join again
In just a tap you your customers become regulars. Get the best date and time for the next appointment. No upcoming appointment? You and your customers are reminded to join again.
Customer history
See exactly what kind of tours your customer had last time.
It's your data
It's your data. The customer information is yours. Vev doesn't sell, resell, target or advertise with this data.