The one where it is free until you want to leave
FareHarbor charges you nothing and builds your website for nothing. Both of those are true, and both of them are why it is on this page.
It is genuinely good at what it does
Widely used, well supported, and strong on distribution if selling through resellers and third parties matters to you. Plenty of tour operators are happy on it and have reason to be.
The no-subscription model is real. There is no monthly bill.
How much does FareHarbor cost?
Around six percent of each booking, added to your customer’s total rather than billed to you. That is how the platform can be free to use. Your customer pays it, so on a seventy dollar ticket they see about seventy four.
From 1 October 2026 that stops being something you can pass on in Australia. The fee does not disappear. It moves onto your side of the ledger, and six percent of your annual online takings is usually a bigger number than operators expect when they finally work it out.
Who owns my website if FareHarbor built it?
They will build your site at no charge. It is a genuinely good deal until the day you want to move, at which point the site you have spent years getting ranked is not yours to take.
We do not build your website and we do not want to. Yours stays yours because we never touched it.
| FareHarbor | Venue Harmony | |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | No subscription published. Fee described as a booking fee at checkout | 1% of online revenue, capped at $99 per venue, on the pricing page |
| Who pays the fee | Added to the customer's total, around six percent | You, and it stops at the cap |
| After 1 October 2026 in Australia | Cannot be passed on at checkout in the same way | Unchanged. It was never on your customer |
| Your website | Built free by them, owned by them | We do not build it and do not own it |
| Reseller distribution | A core strength | Not something we do |
| Payments | Handled through the platform | Your own gateway. You stay merchant of record |
| Contract | Not published | Month to month |
| Getting your data out | Not published | Full export, any time, no charge |
Checked 22 August 2026 against FareHarbor's own published material at fareharbor.com/pricing and their published website terms. FareHarbor does not publish a rate card, so the approximate six percent figure is the booking fee operators report at checkout rather than a confirmed published rate. The 1 October 2026 change is the Australian surcharge ban. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Should I stay on FareHarbor?
Stay if distribution through resellers is most of your business, you are happy with the arrangement, and the October change does not affect you because you are not in Australia.
Talk to us if you have just worked out what six percent costs you annually, if you want your website back, or if you would rather pay a capped fee than a percentage.