FareHarbor alternative

The FareHarbor alternative built in New Zealand

Flat monthly price. 0% booking fees — to you and your guests. NZD pricing, on an NZ-law agreement.

Free forever up to 25 bookings a month. No credit card required.

“Free” software, paid for by your guests

FareHarbor doesn’t charge you a subscription. Instead, your guests typically pay a 6–8% booking fee at checkout — the rate isn’t published; it’s set per agreement. In New Zealand, where advertised prices are GST-inclusive and the sticker price is the price you pay, that means your guest sees a bigger number at checkout than the one you advertised.

Guest checkout fee

6–8%

typical — not published, set per agreement

Effective total cost

10%+

at volume, per an analysis by rival platform CaptainBook

GoodKeen

0%

to you and your guests, on every plan

Worked example: take NZ$10,000 of bookings in a busy month. At 6–8%, your guests pay roughly NZ$600–800 in checkout fees. On GoodKeen they pay NZ$0 — a NZ$100 hire costs your guest exactly NZ$100, and you pay a flat plan from NZ$39/mo.

Want the numbers at your volume? Try the booking-fee calculator.

FareHarbor’s guest fee is typically 6–8%, set per agreement and not publicly listed; the effective-total-cost estimate is from an analysis by rival booking platform CaptainBook (captainbook.io), checked Aug 2026 — check each provider for current rates. The checkout fee isn’t the only line, either: FareHarbor’s published API fee terms (fareharbor.com/legal/api-fee-terms) add a separate percentage fee on bookings that arrive through OTA and API partners, applied per market. Card processing (Stripe) is charged separately by your payment provider.

Read the fine print before you renew

None of this is hidden — it’s all in FareHarbor’s published terms and public information. But it’s worth knowing before your next renewal date.

Your “free website” may not be yours

Under FareHarbor’s hosted-site terms, the custom code, templates and styles remain FareHarbor’s intellectual property and can’t be moved to another platform — so leaving means rebuilding your site, or paying FareHarbor to keep hosting it. GoodKeen embeds a booking widget in your website — it stays yours, whatever you do.

A Dutch-law contract

For New Zealand operators, FareHarbor’s provider agreement is governed by Dutch law. If anything ever goes wrong, that’s the legal system you’re dealing with. GoodKeen is a New Zealand company on an NZ-law agreement.

Annual renewal, 30-day notice window

The agreement renews annually, and cancelling means giving notice within a 30-day window — miss it and you’re in for another year. GoodKeen is month to month, cancel anytime; even our yearly option (pay for 10 months, get 12) stays cancel-anytime.

Support served from Sydney

FareHarbor’s support for New Zealand operators is served from Sydney. GoodKeen is built and supported in New Zealand — when you email us, you’re talking to the people who make the product.

Per FareHarbor’s provider terms of service, hosted-site terms and data processing agreement (fareharbor.com/legal), checked Aug 2026 — read the current documents before signing or cancelling.

FareHarbor vs GoodKeen, honestly

FareHarbor is a genuinely capable platform — a huge, mature feature set, an established global business, and a distribution network (FHDN) that connects operators to OTAs and agents. The question isn’t whether it’s good. It’s whether it’s built for how you sell.

	FareHarbor	GoodKeen
Software cost	Free — funded by guest checkout fees	Free ≤25 bookings/mo, then NZ$39 or NZ$79/mo
Guest checkout fee	Typically 6–8% — not published, set per agreement	0% — to you and your guests, ever
Public rate card	None published	Three NZD prices, on a public pricing page
Feature depth	Huge, mature feature set — a real strength	The booking essentials, done well — sessions, capacity, group bookings, promo codes
OTA & agent distribution	FHDN network — a genuine strength	None — built for direct bookings
Digital waivers	Included	Included — signed at booking, versioned, exportable
Gift cards	Yes	Yes — NZ gift-card-law compliant, 3-year minimum expiry
Your website	Hosted site — template is FareHarbor IP per the Oct 2024 hosted-site terms	Widget embeds in your own site — it stays yours
Contract	Dutch law; annual renewal, 30-day notice window	NZ law; month to month, cancel anytime
Support	Served from Sydney for NZ operators	Based in New Zealand

If OTAs fill your calendar, stay with FareHarbor

Honest answer: if you’re a tourism operator who depends on OTA and agent bookings, FareHarbor’s distribution network serves you well and GoodKeen doesn’t connect to OTAs. GoodKeen is for locals-facing operators who sell direct from their own website — bike hire, kayak hire, classes and sessions — where every booking fee comes straight out of a local customer’s pocket.

Comparison based on FareHarbor’s published legal terms and publicly available information, checked Aug 2026 — check each provider for current rates and terms. Card processing (Stripe) is charged separately by your payment provider.

Switching? Export before you cancel

FareHarbor has self-serve exports — your data isn’t locked in. But per its data processing agreement, provider data is deleted 12 months after termination, so do the exports first.

1

Export your bookings and customers

Use FareHarbor’s self-serve exports to download your full booking history and customer list while you still have dashboard access.
2

Export your outstanding gift cards

Unredeemed gift cards and vouchers are liabilities you must honour after you switch — export codes, balances and expiry dates. (New Zealand’s gift-card law now requires a 3-year minimum expiry — see our guide.)
3

Check your renewal date

The agreement renews annually with a 30-day notice window — put the window in your calendar so a missed date doesn’t cost you another year.
4

Mind the 12-month deletion clock

Per FareHarbor’s data processing agreement, provider data is deleted 12 months after termination. Everything you didn’t export is gone after that.
5

Then bring it all to GoodKeen

We’ll help you move — import your customers from a CSV, and we’ll migrate your gift cards and vouchers with you. Talk to us.

Get help switching — talk to us

Data-retention terms per FareHarbor’s data processing agreement (fareharbor.com/legal), checked Aug 2026 — confirm the current terms before you cancel.

Frequently asked questions

FareHarbor doesn’t charge operators a subscription — the software is funded by a booking fee your guests pay at checkout, typically 6–8%. The rate isn’t published; it’s set per agreement. An analysis by rival platform CaptainBook puts the effective total cost at volume north of 10%. GoodKeen is a flat NZ$39–79/mo — free up to 25 bookings a month — with 0% booking fees for you and your guests.

No. GoodKeen charges 0% booking fees — to you and to your guests — on every plan. The price you advertise is the price your guest pays, which is how GST-inclusive pricing is meant to work in New Zealand. The only card cost is Stripe’s standard processing fee, which goes to Stripe, not to us.

Honestly, no. If OTAs and agents fill your calendar, FareHarbor’s distribution network is a genuine strength, and GoodKeen doesn’t connect to OTAs. GoodKeen is built for locals-facing operators — bike hire, kayak hire, classes and sessions — who sell direct from their own website.

Yes — FareHarbor has self-serve exports for bookings, customers and gift cards. Do it before you cancel: per FareHarbor’s data processing agreement, provider data is deleted 12 months after termination, so export everything — especially outstanding gift-card balances — while you still have access.

Under FareHarbor’s hosted-site terms, the custom code, templates and styles remain FareHarbor’s intellectual property and can’t be moved to another platform — so leaving means rebuilding your site, or paying FareHarbor to keep hosting it. GoodKeen takes the opposite approach: a booking widget that embeds in your own website, which stays yours.

We’ll help you move — import your customers from a CSV, and we’ll migrate your gift cards and vouchers with you. Talk to us.

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