The booking system built for snorkelling operators — boat capacity, scheduled trips and prepaid seats in one place, ready for guests booking from anywhere. Free for you; guests pay 1.8% at checkout.
Island reef · Southeast Asia
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The coordination behind every boat — and why generic tools miss it.
Across the Perhentians, Redang, Bali, Boracay, Phi Phi and reefs all over the region, snorkelling operators run on boat capacity and tides, not open-ended slots. A boat seats a fixed number, trips leave on a schedule, and a lot of guests are visitors booking from overseas before they ever reach the jetty. A no-show or an unconfirmed payment leaves you holding seats on a boat that’s already fuelled and crewed. The booking is easy. Filling the boat with paid guests is the hard part.
Generic booking software is built for appointments — one customer, one slot. A snorkelling trip is the opposite: a scheduled departure with a hard capacity, often booked far ahead by international guests, with group sizes that change right up to the day. Kong is built around how boat-based, capacity-capped operations actually run.
What a boat-based, capacity-capped 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.
Guests book and pay by card in their own currency, any time zone, without WhatsApp — so visitors planning a trip before they fly in can lock a seat instead of looking elsewhere.
Guests choose how many join and the price updates — a couple or a group of six — so you stop quoting per-head totals by hand.
Kong takes payment when the guest books — deposit or full, via Stripe or Xendit — so you fill the boat with paid guests and cut last-minute no-shows.
A confirmation email on booking and a reminder before the trip — fewer no-shows on a boat that leaves on schedule regardless.
Run a low-season discount, or sell trip vouchers guests redeem later. No notebook required.
Every booking lands on the right departure, so each boat’s seat count and guest list 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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Built for Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam.
Every feature came from a real operator's pain point. Here's what a few of them say about working with us.
What snorkelling tour operators ask before getting started.
