Travelboat

A custom yacht charter booking platform built on the NauSYS API: real yachts, live availability and real prices, bookable online in minutes. Built in partnership with ITEO.

The client

Travelboat is an online yacht charter platform for people who want to book a sailing holiday the way they book a flight or a hotel: search, compare, pay and go. Customers choose from sailing yachts, catamarans and motorboats, with or without a skipper, across popular sailing destinations: Croatia, Greece, Italy, Spain, Turkey, France, Poland and the Caribbean. The platform runs in Polish and English, with prices shown in the customer’s currency.

The challenge

Yacht charter is one of the hardest products to sell online. Every boat is unique, with its own base marina, availability calendar, check-in days, minimum stay, seasonal prices, discounts, extras and security deposit, and all of that lives in the charter companies’ own systems, not in the shop. Travelboat needed to show thousands of boats from many fleets without manual data entry, keep availability and prices in sync, calculate the final charter price exactly as the operator would, and let customers pay online for a confirmed booking instead of sending an inquiry and waiting. An embedded booking widget would have meant weak SEO and no control over the experience, and generic booking plugins are built for hotel rooms, not for yachts.

The solution

The platform is connected to NauSYS, one of the main charter management systems used by yacht charter companies in the Mediterranean. Yachts, specifications, photos, base marinas, price lists and availability are imported and refreshed automatically, so when a charter company updates a boat in NauSYS, Travelboat reflects it without anyone touching a spreadsheet.

On top of that data sits a booking engine designed for yachts: check-in days and minimum stays per boat, seasonal pricing, discounts, skipper options and additional services, plus a clear split between what is payable now and the refundable deposit paid at the marina. Availability and price are confirmed with the charter system before payment, so the offer on screen is the offer the operator honours. User accounts, checkout and online payments form one ecommerce flow that ends with a real reservation in the operator’s system.

Search runs on a synchronised, indexed copy of the catalogue instead of calling the external API on every page view. That keeps filtering by destination, dates and boat type instant, and gives the frontend clean data for indexable yacht, marina and destination pages.

The partnership

Travelboat was delivered in partnership with ITEO. Working as one team across product, design and engineering let us move from idea to a live charter marketplace while keeping the booking experience simple for sailors and reliable for charter operators.

Planning a booking platform on top of NauSYS, MMK Booking Manager or another third-party API? Read our guide to NauSYS API integration or let’s talk about your project.