The booking system built for dive operators — boat capacity, fun dives and course bookings in one place, ready for divers booking from anywhere. Free for you; guests pay 1.8% at checkout.
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The coordination behind every boat and every course — and why generic tools miss it.
Across Tioman, the Perhentians, Bali, the Gilis, Koh Tao and the dive sites of the Philippines, dive operators run on boat capacity, tides and course schedules — not open-ended slots. A boat seats a fixed number, fun dives leave on a schedule, and a course runs over several days with the same divers each session. Most guests are visitors booking from overseas long before they reach the shop, and a no-show on a fuelled, crewed boat is money gone. The booking is easy. Filling the boat and the course with paid, certified-where-needed divers is the hard part.
Generic booking software is built for appointments — one customer, one slot. A dive operation is the opposite: scheduled departures with a hard capacity, multi-day courses, divers booking far ahead from other countries, and certification or experience details you need before anyone boards. Kong is built around how boat-based, course-driven operations actually run.
What a boat-based, course-driven operation needs from its booking system — on the web or the Kong app.
Set the seat limit for each trip and Kong stops taking bookings once the boat is full — so you never oversell a departure that’s already fuelled and crewed.
Sell a multi-day Open Water or Advanced course as one booking that holds the diver’s place across every session — not a one-off slot you have to stitch together by hand.
Guests book and pay by card in their own currency, any time zone, without WhatsApp — so divers planning a trip before they fly in can lock a place instead of looking elsewhere.
Kong takes payment when the diver books — deposit or full, via Stripe or Xendit — so you fill the boat and the course with paid divers and cut last-minute no-shows.
Certification level, dive experience and medical notes come in with the booking, so you match divers to the right trip or course before they reach the shop.
A confirmation email on booking and a reminder before the dive or course day — fewer no-shows on a boat that leaves on schedule regardless.
Every booking lands on the right departure, so each boat’s seat count and each course’s roster build themselves. Block out a day for rough seas or maintenance in one click — your booking pages stop taking bookings for it instantly.
No sign-up fees. No monthly subscriptions. No lock-in contracts. We charge a small 1.8% booking fee to the guest at checkout — you keep 100% of your tour price.
Stripe or Xendit payment processing fees still apply.
Kong is processor-agnostic. Connect Stripe or Xendit — whichever you already use, or whichever fits your market. Kong never holds your money.
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