What's the best activity booking software in 2026?

Resova is built for attractions that sell time slots: a 6 pm escape room, a 15-minute karting heat, a six-seat pottery class. Its pricing is the model most owners go looking for after a year of paying per booking: a monthly subscription and no commission on your bookings. You pay for the software and your payment processor's fees. That's it.

The three plans are split by volume. Lite covers 100 bookings a month and 2 team members, Pro 300 bookings and 5 members, Premium 600 bookings and 10 members. Prices show in USD (and EUR, GBP and CAD), starting at roughly $40 a month on annual billing, with up to 20% off for paying yearly. Go over your quota and each extra booking costs $0.20, so a busy summer weekend never locks your calendar.

The add-ons are where the plans really differ. Custom gift vouchers come with Pro. Digital waivers (the liability form guests sign before a risky activity) come with Premium. API access, which lets other software read and write your Resova data, is an extra $150 a month.

The catch, according to escape room owners who use it: guests get one of the cleanest booking flows around, but the back office takes time to learn for a team that isn't used to software, and reporting stays basic. If you run your business on detailed numbers, plan on exporting to a spreadsheet.

Checkfront keeps it to one plan: $99 a month, plus 3% on every booking made online. Bookings your front desk enters, or takes by phone, cost nothing extra. You can absorb the 3% or pass it to the guest, and there's no setup fee.

Distribution is the reason to pick it. Checkfront connects to Google Things to do (the module that puts a booking button in Search and Maps), Viator, GetYourGuide and what it describes as 20k+ resellers, with no extra Checkfront fee. The API is included at no charge, and waivers are built in.

It handles every format you'd expect from a tour operator: timed slots, full-day, multi-day and flexible bookings. Resource management prevents double booking: once your two tandem kayaks are gone, they stop selling on your site and on every OTA. Payments run on cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, iDEAL and Alipay, and you get four booking widgets (the embeddable checkout you drop on your site), one of them for React sites.

The limit is the math. At $99 plus 3%, Checkfront gets more expensive than a flat subscription as your online revenue grows, if you absorb the fee. On $60,000 of online sales a year, 3% is $1,800, on top of $1,188 in subscription.

Bookeo is the veteran of this list, and the cheapest. Its Tours and activities product, the one that covers escape rooms, guided tours and excursions, starts at $14.95 a month on Solo. Standard, at $39.95, gives you 20 guides or vehicles, 20 logins and 1,000 bookings a month. Large goes to 2,000 bookings for $79.95, X-large to 3,000 for $119.95.

The headline: Bookeo takes no commission on your payments. Only your payment gateway charges its fees. And a booking for three people counts as one booking against your quota, which favors group activities (a team of six in an escape room, a family of four at paintball).

Extras are billed separately. Digital waivers run from $9 a month for 200 signatures to $249 for 10,000. SMS is sold in credits: 40 texts for $5, 250 for $25, 1,100 for $100. Do the math first: a reminder text the day before each session, at 600 bookings a month, burns through the small packs quickly.

The downsides come up again and again among owners: the interface feels dated, phone support is mostly for sales, and one operator reports losing their customer database through a misclick. Export your customer list every month. The pricing page says nothing about gift vouchers or Google, so ask before you commit if either matters.

Rezdy comes out of Australia and targets tour and activity operators. Three plans: Foundation at $49 a month, Accelerate at $99, Expansion at $249, excluding Australian GST. On top: 3% per online booking (absorb it or pass it on) and a fee on offline and agent bookings, $1.00 on Foundation, $0.85 on Accelerate, $0.70 on Expansion.

Its strength is indirect sales. OTA, agent and reseller connections are unlimited on every plan. Gift cards and vouchers start on Accelerate. API and webhooks (a webhook pings your other software the second a booking lands) come with Expansion. Nonprofits get 15% off.

The catch is that fees pile up. Rezdy is the only tool here that also charges for bookings taken over the phone. If your front desk keys in a lot of bookings by hand, those 70 cents to a dollar add up fast. The 21-day trial with no card is the longest in this list: use it to run a real month.

Xola is a US booking platform for tours, attractions and escape rooms. Its pricing is built around a service fee and who pays it. The Flex Standard setup takes 6% on online card transactions, either added at the guest's checkout or absorbed by your business. Accounts that meet Xola's eligibility requirements can move to Flex Level, where the fee drops to 3%: on card transactions only if your business absorbs it (Company Pays), or on every payment, cash included, if the guest pays it (Guest Pays).

That choice is the whole reason to look at Xola. You can start on Guest Pays to protect your margin, then move to Company Pays once your prices cover the fee. Ask support which tier your account qualifies for before you compare Xola with a flat-rate tool: 3% and 6% of a year's sales are very different bills.

The catch is trust. When Xola changed its fee model, a lot of escape room owners were unhappy, and some moved to flat-rate tools like Bookeo. Before you sign, get the current fee for your setup in writing, and ask how much notice you'd get before a change.

bookingkit targets leisure and tour providers, and prices in euros. Starterkit costs €49 a month, annual commitment only, with 3% plus €0.60 taken on each ticket. Businesskit costs €99 a month on annual billing (€119 monthly), with 2% plus €0.60 per ticket. Prokit is on quote.

The detail that matters for outdoor businesses: Businesskit lets you pause the contract in the off-season. A kayak rental that closes from November to March doesn't pay five months for nothing. Businesskit also adds resource management, channel management, 16 languages and 10 users.

bookingkit also connected Reserve with Google, so guests book and pay without leaving your Google listing. For a tourist activity, where people search "zip line near me" on their phone, that's a real advantage.

The catch is stacked fees. Three fees stack: the booking percentage (3% on Starterkit, 2% on Businesskit), the €0.60 per ticket, and a 3% online payment fee on every plan that covers the payment provider. On a €25 ropes course ticket paid online on Businesskit, that's €1.85, or 7.4% of the price. Compare that with a flat subscription plus your own payment processor's fees.