Built for guides, charters & lodges

Your own branded booking platform. Your brand on every screen.

GuideStack is a white-label charter and lodge booking system: live availability, online payments, a guest trip portal, and a full operations admin. Not a listing site that rents you traffic. Software that runs your business under your name.

Powering Reel Excitement Charters in Shell Beach, LA Next.js Sanity CMS Square / Stripe PWA, offline-ready

From open dates to confirmed trip in under a minute

This is the guided booking wizard your guests would use, skinned with your logo, your colors, and your trips. It walks them through dates, party size, details, payment, and confirmation without a single phone call.

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Guest checkout
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Pick your date

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Party size and trip

Full-day inshoreMost popular
6 anglers max
Half-day afternoon
4 anglers max
Lodge stay + fishing package
2 nights
Step 3 of 5

Your details

Name · Jordan Miller
Email · jordan@example.com
Phone · (504) 555-0142
Notes · Two first-timers, need rod rental
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Secure deposit

Trip deposit today $200
Card · •••• 4242
Square, Stripe, or the processor you already use. We handle the processor setup for you.
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You're booked!

Confirmation email sent · Booking ref RX-2481
Manage this trip anytime in the guest portal.

Plays automatically. Your brand sits exactly where the logo is.

An admin system built for the morning rush

Every module below is in the platform today. Reservations, money, guests, boats, rooms, packages, content, and people, all in one console under your brand.

GuideStack admin: reservations calendar with drag-and-drop assignment across charter trips
  • Reservations calendar with drag-and-drop trip moves and captain assignment
  • Fleet management for every boat in the operation
  • Lodge and rooms tracked alongside charter trips
  • Packages that bundle trips, stays, and add-ons
GuideStack finance admin with receivables and reconciliation views
  • Finance module with receivables and reconciliation built in
  • QuickBooks sync keeps your books current without exports
  • Payments via Square, Stripe, or the processor you already use; we handle the processor setup for you
  • Users and roles with granular permissions for your crew
GuideStack customers CRM and guest records
  • Customers CRM with full trip and payment history per guest
  • Fishing reports you publish yourself to keep guests engaged
  • Content CMS for marketing pages, galleries, and policies
  • Email templates for confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups
Guest trip portal on the GuideStack platform
  • Booking lookup by email and reference, no password to forget
  • Trip dashboard with times, meeting point, and what to bring
  • Pay balance online before the trip, not on the dock
  • Message the captain directly from the trip page

Guests manage their own trip, you take fewer calls

After booking, every guest gets a self-serve trip page under your brand. They look up their reservation, see the dashboard, pay any remaining balance, and message the captain if plans change.

  • Booking lookup by email and reference
  • Trip dashboard with everything for the day
  • Pay balance online, securely
  • Message the captain without a phone tree
Guest trip portal showing booking lookup, trip details, balance payment, and captain messaging

Every build starts with six documents before a line of code

Your platform is not a template we reskin. Each build runs on the same six-document discipline, so you sign off on what you are getting before implementation begins.

Product Requirement Document

What your platform must do for your guests and staff, in plain language you can hold us to.

Technical Requirements Document

The stack, integrations, and performance bar behind those requirements.

App Flow

Every guest and admin path mapped screen by screen, from first visit to paid trip.

Design Brief

Your brand translated into type, color, and layout rules applied across the platform.

Backend Schema

The data model for trips, boats, rooms, guests, and money, reviewed before it exists.

Implementation Plan

Sequenced milestones with a working deploy at each one, not a big reveal at the end.

Reel Excitement Charters runs on this platform right now

Inshore fishing trips and lodge stays in Shell Beach, Louisiana, taking real bookings and real payments through Square, under the charter's own brand. Same platform you would get, different logo on the dock.

Reel Excitement Charters homepage running on the GuideStack platform: live weather ticker, booking navigation, and coastal hero
See it live at reelexcitementcharters.com, then imagine your brand in the same place.

Bookings for every kind of outfit

The same reservation engine that runs fishing charters runs hunts, lodges, and guide days. Your trips, your rules, your brand.

Duck hunters in a camouflaged marsh blind at sunrise
Waterfowl and upland hunts Party sizes, draw results, season windows, and deposit rules handled at checkout.
Deer hunters waiting for dawn inside an enclosed blind
Lodges and hunts Multi-day packages, lodging add-ons, and balance payments without the phone tag.

Stop taking bookings by phone

Tell us about your outfit: charters, lodges, hunts, or all of the above. We will walk you through the platform live and scope your build.

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