checkfront.com

What It Is

Checkfront is online booking management software for tours, activities, rentals, and accommodation businesses. It is positioned as more than just a “Book Now” button: it helps operators sell experiences, manage resources, and streamline day-to-day operations. Typical customers include kayak rentals, ATV tours, boat charters, axe throwing venues, adventure parks, escape rooms, and other experience-based businesses.

Core Features

The product focuses on flexible booking and resource management. It supports multiple booking formats, including daily, multi-day, timeslots, and flextime bookings, with real-time availability calendars to reduce double bookings. Resource management can cover assets such as vehicles, seats, equipment, and rooms. It also supports email/SMS notifications, digital waivers, seasonal pricing, discounts, group pricing, deposits, Buy Now Pay Later, public/private bookings, and Booking Widgets. On the channel side, it can connect with OTAs and distribution networks such as Google Things to do, Viator, GetYourGuide, and MyAllocator, and it also offers API and integration capabilities.

Pricing

The official website lists pricing at $99 per month plus a 3% online booking fee. There are no setup fees or hidden costs, and offline bookings are free of charge. The 3% fee can either be absorbed by the merchant or passed on to guests. Overall pricing transparency is fairly good, but merchants with high transaction volumes should calculate how transaction fees may affect margins.

Pros and Cons

The strengths are its wide range of booking types, strong resource management, support for payment methods including credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, iDEAL, and Alipay, plus OTA and channel expansion capabilities. The drawbacks are that publicly available materials do not show detailed SLA information, Chinese-language support, or clear self-service trial details; many key aspects of the experience need to be confirmed by booking a demo.

Who It’s For

Checkfront is suitable for experience-based businesses that need to sell across multiple resources, time slots, and channels, especially operators in tours, activities, rentals, and accommodation. Businesses that rely mainly on offline bookings may also benefit from the model where offline bookings are not charged.

Access from China

The crawled content did not provide information on availability from mainland China, so this is currently rated as unknown.