KADEPAY FOR FISHING & BOAT CHARTERS
A half-day inshore trip at 6 AM, a full-day offshore run on Saturday and a small craft advisory for Sunday. KadePay handles trip requests, charter deposits, signed waivers and balances due before departure, so the money is settled before the lines go in the water.
Pay-As-You-Go starts at $0 per month. Usage and payment fees apply.
Sound familiar?
Captains rig, fuel, find fish and keep guests safe, then answer booking texts late at night. These are the money moments charter operators mention most, and how KadePay handles them from your phone.
Someone books a June offshore trip in January, promises a check, and you hold the date for weeks before the envelope shows up.
With KadePay
Send a charter deposit as a fixed-amount link with questions for trip date, party size and trip type, or take it over the phone with New Charge while the caller is still on the line.
Payment links and QR codesThe wind is up, the trip is off, and now four guys from out of town want to know about their deposit and next weekend.
With KadePay
Write your fishing charter cancellation policy into the form guests sign. When you make a weather cancellation, guests request a new date through your booking link and you confirm it, or you refund the deposit.
Appointment bookingCollecting the balance due at the dock means a card machine, a weak signal and a guest who left their wallet in the truck.
With KadePay
Send the balance as a bill with reminders a few days before the trip, or charge the card the guest authorized. You leave the slip with the trip already paid.
Card on fileThe organizer booked a half-day charter for the group, and now everyone wants to pay their own share through a different app.
With KadePay
Send each angler a bill for their share, and record any Venmo or Zelle they send with no KadePay fee. Private notes on the organizer's profile track who has paid.
Venmo, Zelle and cardsSpouses call in May wanting a charter gift certificate, and a paper certificate with a handwritten amount feels flimsy for a $700 trip.
With KadePay
Issue business gift cards from KadePay. The recipient sees the gift card on your branded page and requests a trip date through your booking link when the season opens.
Payment links and QR codesHow it fits your week
Guests request a half-day, full-day or sunset trip through your booking link and answer questions about party size and experience. You confirm the date.
Send the deposit link and the liability waiver together. Each guest signs on their own phone, and a parent signs for any kids coming aboard.
A bill with reminders goes out before the trip, so boat charter payments are settled before anyone steps aboard at the marina.
If you call the trip, guests request a new date and you confirm it, or you refund the deposit from the app. Notes keep the history straight.
Upload catch photos to a shared Gallery folder for the organizer, and let guests tip the mate from a flexible-amount link if they want to.
Every way your anglers pay
Availability depends on your account setup and eligibility. You confirm Venmo and Zelle payments after checking they arrived.
Built in
Each tool writes to the same angler record, from the first booking request to the receipt.
KadePay for fishing charters
Fishing charter booking software often starts with the calendar and stops there. For a one- or two-boat operation, the harder part is the money around the trip: the deposit that holds the date, the balance before departure, the weather call and the gift trips that sell in May. KadePay is built around those moments.
A clear fishing charter cancellation policy covers who calls the weather, what happens to the deposit and how much notice a guest owes you. Put it in the waiver or a short policy form guests sign, and the conversation at 5 AM on the dock stays short and friendly.
Deposits for a half-day charter are often a flat amount, such as $100 or $200, with the balance due at the dock or before. Sending the balance as a bill a few days ahead keeps the morning about fishing, and guests can pay by card, phone wallet or bank transfer from home.
Boats get gifted. A charter gift certificate in May or December is real income for the slow months, and gift cards in KadePay are tracked like any other payment, so you know what is still out there.
CLEAR ANSWERS
A small charter needs trip requests, deposits, waivers, a balance before departure and an easy weather reschedule. KadePay handles those from your phone and keeps each party's trips, signed waivers and payments together on one profile.
Many captains take 20 to 30 percent of the trip price, or a flat amount, to hold the date. Send it as a fixed-amount link with questions for date and party size, and put your refund and weather terms in the form guests sign.
You decide when to call a trip, and your policy decides what happens next. Ask the guest to request a new date through your booking link and confirm it, or refund the deposit from the app. A note on the profile keeps the history.
Yes. Send the waiver to each guest. They sign in, complete and sign it on their own phone, and a parent or guardian signs for minors. Signed waivers stay on each guest's profile, ready for their next trip.
Yes. Share a flexible-amount link or a printed Pay Direct QR on the boat, and guests enter what they want to give. Tips arrive with your other payments, and you share them with the crew the way you always have.
Charters can begin on Pay-As-You-Go at $0 per month, and payment and usage fees apply. Team at $10 a month and Pro at $35 a month add crew logins with permissions and recurring billing. See the pricing page for every fee.
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