Boat & jetski hire bookings,
from first launch to last light
GoodKeen is a boat and jetski hire booking system built in New Zealand. It sells hourly jetski slots and half-day or full-day boat hire online, collects a signed waiver from every rider before they reach the jetty, and takes 0% booking fees — free up to 25 bookings a month.
All prices NZD. No credit card to start.
One Saturday, start to finish
The shape of a summer Saturday when the bookings look after themselves.
Print the run sheet with the coffee
The Daily Manifest is one page per day: every departure, guest counts, phone numbers, booking notes and a check-in column. Pin it up in the shed and the whole crew knows the day before the first trailer backs down the ramp.
First riders scan in at the dock
Every confirmation email carries a QR ticket — scan it with any phone’s browser to check the group in. Nothing to install, and your weekend deckhand gets their own login (two-factor included), not your password. Waivers were signed at booking, and anyone who doesn’t front gets marked a no-show automatically.
A walk-up wants the 1 o’clock bowrider
Point them at your booking page on their phone. The moment they start checkout, the slot is held for 15 minutes with a countdown — the group queuing behind them can’t buy it out from under them. If they bail, the hold lapses and the slot frees itself.
The forecast turns for tomorrow
Southerly due by mid-morning? Refund tomorrow’s early hires in full or in part straight from the booking screen, or drag them to Sunday on the calendar — capacity is re-checked as you drop. Cancelled guests get an email without you writing one.
Sessions that mirror how you actually hire
Most jetski hire booking software is a tour platform squinting at a dock. GoodKeen builds sessions from your rate card instead: each hire type is its own activity with its own weekly schedule, capacity and pricing tier. (Searching for boat rental software? Same job — New Zealand just says hire.)
| On the water | Session pattern | Pricing tier |
|---|---|---|
| Jetskis × 3 | Hourly slots, 9am–5pm, capacity 3 | Flat rate per machine, per hour |
| Runabout, half-day | 9:00am and 1:30pm starts | Flat rate per boat |
| Pontoon boat, full day | One 9:00am start, capacity 1 | Flat rate per day |
| Guided harbour ride | Scheduled sessions, capacity 6 | Per-person |
Capacity is simply what’s tied up at your dock: three machines means three bookings an hour, and the 15-minute checkout hold makes a double-sale impossible.
Gift vouchers for the summer ahead
Issue gift vouchers from your admin — over the counter or by email — and guests redeem them against any hire at online checkout. Balances support partial redemption, refunds return to the card first, and NZ’s 3-year minimum expiry is hard-coded in.
Promo codes for the quiet edges
Percentage or fixed discounts with usage caps, minimum spend, date windows and first-booking-only rules — and you can limit a code to specific activities, so a March midweek deal fills the jetskis without discounting the charter boat.
The straight answer on fleet tracking
GoodKeen tracks sessions and capacity — not individual hulls. There’s no per-vessel maintenance log, engine-hour meter or asset register, and if that’s the thing you need most, a dedicated rental asset system may fit you better. But if the question is “how many boats are out at 2pm?”, capacity answers it from one calendar — and a boat hire booking system should earn its keep on bookings, waivers and payments first.
Kayaks and SUPs off the same beach? See our kayak & SUP hire booking page.
Waivers matter most where the concrete ends
Every participant signs at booking with a real drawn signature — before anyone is standing on your jetty holding a set of keys. Each signed waiver is stored with the exact text as it stood that day, a cryptographic hash, and the signer’s IP, device and timestamp. Export any of them as a PDF whenever you need to.
We won’t tell you a waiver makes you bulletproof — in NZ, nothing does. You can’t contract out of Consumer Guarantees Act protections, health-and-safety duties can’t be waived, and ACC reshapes what waivers are for. What a waiver does do is show you communicated the risks and conditions, and that every rider gave informed consent — in a record nobody can quietly edit afterwards. General information, not legal advice.
- Every participant enters a date of birth at booking — it’s required, not optional.
- The server rejects any participant under 18 — the booking simply can’t be completed.
- So before anyone arrives, you know every participant is over 18 and has a recorded DOB.
GoodKeen doesn’t administer maritime rules — briefings, licence checks and skipper calls stay yours. It just means age surprises never happen at the jetty.
Hourly jetskis add up fast — so do guest fees
A busy dock turns over dozens of slots a day all summer. On a platform funded by a checkout fee, your guests pay for every one of them.
FareHarbor
6–8%
typical guest checkout fee — not published, set per agreement
GoodKeen
0%
booking fees — to you and your guests, on every plan
GoodKeen plans
NZ$0–79
/mo flat, no lock-in — free forever up to 25 bookings/mo
Worked example: take NZ$24,000 of hire across January. At a typical 6–8% guest fee, that’s NZ$1,440–1,920 added to your customers’ checkouts in one month. On GoodKeen it’s NZ$0 in booking fees — you pay your flat plan plus Stripe’s standard processing fees, which go to Stripe, not to us.
Coming off another platform? Import your customers from a CSV — template included — and we’ll help you move your vouchers. Talk to us.
FareHarbor’s guest checkout fee is typically 6–8% — not published, set per agreement (per an analysis by rival platform CaptainBook, captainbook.io). Checked Aug 2026 — check each provider for current rates. Card processing (Stripe) is charged separately by your payment provider.
Frequently asked questions
Get the fleet online before Labour Weekend
Free forever up to 25 bookings a month. 0% booking fees to you and your guests — no credit card to start.