For FareHarbor tour companies
FareHarbor keeps your calendar and bookings. We design the tour pages and everything around the booking on your own domain, so guests know what they are booking before they click Book.
You see your new homepage before you pay for anything.
The usual trouble
FareHarbor’s help says the embedded calendar’s colours and fonts are “not currently customizable”.1 FareHarbor’s own blog says some parts of the booking keep a standard FareHarbor design.2 On “certain mobile devices”, or where a platform does not support the overlay, guests are sent to a fallback page instead.3
FareHarbor’s own GA4 guide says purchase events may not be recorded in GA4 if the Lightframe sits in a custom iframe, if developers modify it, or if traffic links to it directly.4
The guest pays the Booking Fee, shown at checkout, on top of the activity price. FareHarbor says it is “generally non-refundable”, also when a booking is partly refunded.5
The teardown
FareHarbor’s help pages describe two paths: the overlay on your page, and a fallback page. Step 1 happens every time. The other steps depend on the device and on how the booking is added to your site, and each one is marked with when.
To see a year of your platform and booking fees next to your own site, try the booking fee calculator.
Booking teardown
When it happens, and who controls it
A Lightframe booking, from the first click
Every bookingA guest opens the tour page on your site.
Your pageWhere the overlay worksThe Lightframe opens on top of your page, and the guest can finish “without ever leaving your site”.3
OverlayCertain mobile devices, or where the overlay is not supportedThe guest is sent to the fallback page, which is the Lightframe loaded directly as a webpage.3
Fallback pageEmbedded calendarIt uses “enclosed checkout”, and its colours and fonts are “not currently customizable”.1
Standard designCustom iframe, changes or direct linksPurchase events may not be recorded in GA4.4
AnalyticsOn your own pages, you design everything around the booking.
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We design the tour pages and everything around the booking on your own site. How deep the booking step itself can go depends on what FareHarbor approves for your account. We ask FareHarbor with you before we start, and the thirty business days count from that answer.
Proof
Eagle’s Nest Atitlán · Retreat center, Guatemala
98%
Stay booking value up, September 2026 vs September 2025.
Measured in their booking system. Ads, prices and the season play a part too.
Kalart · Rural coliving, Catalunya
4 to 18
Room applications a month.
Our cases so far are a retreat center and a coliving. We have no FareHarbor case yet.
It depends on what FareHarbor approves for your account, so we do not promise it. FareHarbor grants External API access “on a case by case basis”. You ask through your Account Manager or FareHarbor Support.6 FareHarbor’s partner page is about API distribution partners: online travel agencies, the FareHarbor Distribution Network and affiliate tools. It has no category for an agency building an operator’s own website.7 FareHarbor’s developer docs offer the External API to Affiliates and Software Partners, and requests are reviewed for eligibility.6 FareHarbor’s pages do not say how long approval takes. So we ask FareHarbor with you before we start.
Not much. FareHarbor’s help says what you can change is which view opens: an item, the calendar or a list.3 The embedded calendar’s colours and fonts are “not currently customizable”.1 For a more branded look, FareHarbor’s own blog points to FareHarbor Sites.2 We work around it: the pages and everything around the booking are designed with you, on your own domain.
FareHarbor’s help says its links “will not function properly if they’re set within an iframe embed”.3 Its GA4 guide adds that purchase events may not be recorded if the Lightframe sits in a custom iframe.4 We do not wrap FareHarbor in an iframe of our own. How the booking step connects is what we ask FareHarbor about, with you, before we start.
Yes. Your account, calendar and bookings stay in FareHarbor. We build the website guests see and use around it.
No. The guest pays FareHarbor’s Booking Fee at checkout.5 FareHarbor’s Terms also say a provider may be charged an API Fee for bookings made from third-party websites through the API.8 What FareHarbor charges is FareHarbor’s call, not ours.
In three payments: a part up front, a part at launch, and a last part 90 days after launch, which you pay only if your website booked more than in the same 90 days last year. We go through the numbers on the call. First we ask FareHarbor, with you, how far the booking step can go for your account. That answer is in FareHarbor’s hands. Once we have it, your site is live within thirty business days.
Yes. We design a homepage for your tours for free and show it to you on a call. You decide after.
Yes. Read more about websites for tours and activities and websites for adventure trips. Comparing systems? See our pages for Rezdy and Bókun.
Every fact about FareHarbor on this page was read on FareHarbor’s own pages on 2 November 2026. FareHarbor changes its pages, so check yours before you decide.
How we build, what it costs and our results are ours, not FareHarbor’s.
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