For water taxi & boat operators · worldwide

Your own booking engine. Live in a day. Yours forever.

The white-label booking, payment and dispatch platform for water taxi and boat transfer operators. Runs invisibly inside your site. Keep 100% of your fare — a flat 5% is added on top and paid by the customer.

100%
of your fare kept
5%
flat, added on top
Your
own Stripe account
JS
sydneyharbourwatertaxis.com.au/book
John Smith's Water Taxi Service
Same booking engine as Water Taxis Australia
Locked to your boats, rates and service area
Branded as your own water taxi company
Book nowReal engine below

Water taxi

Sydney Harbour

Pickup

Circular Quay

Drop-off

Rose Bay Marina

Request fare
Built in Sydney. Ready for any harbour city worldwide.
SydneyGold CoastWhitsundaysAucklandDubaiMiamiVenicePhuket
Platform

The full stack of a modern booking business — under your name.

Live fares, checkout, dispatch, payouts, refunds, PWA driver app, customer support. Everything a booking business needs to run. All you do is run the boats.

White-label to your brand

We drop in your logo, switch the accent colours and lay the page out to match one of the mock-ups on this page. It's your brand on the front — but it's the same booking engine underneath. We don't rebuild or redesign the engine itself per operator.

Locked to your fleet

Your operator key gates the widget to your boats, your area, your rates. Nothing else.

Flat 5% — on top

Never comes out of your fare. Customer pays 105, you receive 100. Simple.

Your Stripe, your money

You connect your own Stripe account. Every booking is charged directly to you — funds never touch our balance. Stripe pays out on your own schedule (daily by default).

PWA driver app

Skippers install one icon on iPhone or Android. Accept, navigate, one-tap boarding. No App Store.

Deploy anywhere

Multi-currency, timezone-aware, works on any harbour city on earth. Take your brand international.

Drops into every stack
WixSquarespaceWordPressWebflowShopifyCustom HTML
One line of code

Paste it in. Take bookings tonight.

No SDKs, no build steps, no developer needed. If you can update your booking page, you can run this.

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sydneyharbourwatertaxis.com.au/book
John Smith's Water Taxi Service
Water taxi service · Private fleet

This example is a water-taxi-only operator, so the engine shows the water taxi flow across the whole page — no water limo or charter boat tabs. If you run water limousines only, it shows only limos. Charter boats only, only charters. The engine matches whatever fleet you operate.

Book now · Water taxiPowered privately for John Smith's fleet
Sydney Harbour
Type a pickup to preview your route
Sydney Harbour
Type a drop-off to preview your route
Pickup date & time
30-minute slots, 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM AEST. Book up to 6 months ahead. NYE fireworks cruises: see our NYE page. New Year's Day — price on application.
Passengers
4Up to 21 per vessel
your-site.html
<!-- Water Taxis Australia — white-label booking engine for YOUR fleet -->
<iframe
  src="https://watertaxisaustralia.com.au/embed?operator=YOUR-OPERATOR-KEY&brand=John%20Smiths%20Water%20Taxi%20Service"
  width="100%"
  height="1120"
  style="border:0;border-radius:24px;max-width:920px;display:block;margin:0 auto;"
  title="Book a water taxi"
  loading="lazy"
  allow="payment"
></iframe>
Your operator key is your firewall. Only your fleet. Only your service area. Only your rates. No cross-selling — ever.
Real booking engine

This is the exact booking engine your customers use

No fake product screenshots. No pretend form. The operator version is the same live booking engine from our homepage, locked to your boats, your rates and your area.

JS
sydneyharbourwatertaxis.com.au/book
John Smith's Water Taxi Service
Water taxi service · Private fleet

This example is a water-taxi-only operator, so the engine shows the water taxi flow across the whole page — no water limo or charter boat tabs. If you run water limousines only, it shows only limos. Charter boats only, only charters. The engine matches whatever fleet you operate.

Book now · Water taxiPowered privately for John Smith's fleet
Sydney Harbour
Type a pickup to preview your route
Sydney Harbour
Type a drop-off to preview your route
Pickup date & time
30-minute slots, 6:00 AM – 10:00 PM AEST. Book up to 6 months ahead. NYE fireworks cruises: see our NYE page. New Year's Day — price on application.
Passengers
4Up to 21 per vessel

The sample brand shown here is John Smith's Water Taxi Service. In production, the same engine can sit at a URL like sydneyharbourwatertaxis.com.au/book, use the operator's own logo, and only show that operator's fleet.

Your digital ticket

This is what the customer boarding pass looks like

The moment your customer payment clears, we send them a wallet-style boarding pass by email and SMS. Save it to your phone — the skipper scans the QR at the wharf to check you in. The actual operator's name, direct phone number and a live map to your pickup point appear on your paid ticket (we only reveal them once the job is won).

Water Taxis AustraliaTRANSFER
BOOKING REFERENCE
WTA-K7X4M2A
POINT A · PICKUP
Circular Quay
Sydney NSW 2000
Eastern Pontoon
POINT B · DROP-OFF
Rose Bay
Rose Bay NSW 2029
Public Wharf
CLICK HERE for directions to your pickup point

Tap the button — Google Maps opens on your phone and walks you from wherever you are straight to the wharf.

⏱ Don't miss the boat
15-minute grace period at the wharf. After that, A$5/min waiting time is charged to the card on file. Running late? Call the operator on the direct number shown below.
DATE & PICKUP
Fri 2 Jan · 6:30 PM
PASSENGERS
4 · Water taxi · enclosed cabin
PASSENGER
James M.
FARE PAID
A$186.00
OPERATOR
Your licensed operator
Direct phone shown on paid ticket
Scan with your phone camera — no login
watertaxisaustralia.com.au · support@watertaxisaustralia.com.au
Water Taxis AustraliaHOURLY HIRE
BOOKING REFERENCE
WTA-L9P2N8B
POINT A · PICKUP
King Street Wharf 9
Darling Harbour NSW 2000
Sydney CBD
POINT B · DROP-OFF
Sunset harbour cruise
Return to King Street Wharf 9
Darling Harbour NSW 2000
CLICK HERE for directions to your pickup point

Tap the button — Google Maps opens on your phone and walks you from wherever you are straight to the wharf.

⏱ Don't miss the boat
15-minute grace period at the wharf. After that, A$5/min waiting time is charged to the card on file. Running late? Call the operator on the direct number shown below.
DATE & PICKUP
Sat 3 Jan · 4:00 PM
PASSENGERS
8 · Water limo · 2 hr hire
PASSENGER
Priya S.
FARE PAID
A$1,300.00
OPERATOR
Your licensed operator
Direct phone shown on paid ticket
Scan with your phone camera — no login
watertaxisaustralia.com.au · support@watertaxisaustralia.com.au
Clickable turn-by-turn directions

Never get lost finding your boat.

Every boarding pass has one big live Google Maps button: "CLICK HERE for directions to your pickup point."It walks you from wherever you are — hotel lobby, restaurant, bar — straight to the exact wharf, pontoon or berth. If you head the wrong way, Google Maps re-routes you in real time. The map on the ticket already shows A → B, so you can see the full trip before you tap.

Straight to the pickup point

One tap opens Google Maps walking directions from where they're standing right now to the exact pontoon.

Wrong way? Re-routed

Google Maps tracks their direction of travel and corrects them live if they head the wrong way.

Auto-translates

Google Maps shows in the passenger's phone language automatically — great for overseas visitors.

Wharf name shown

The wharf, pontoon or berth is spelled out on the ticket — not just a suburb. No guessing which jetty.

1. Save it

Tap "Open interactive ticket" from the email or SMS. The map, pickup directions and QR open on the same ticket.

2. From your hotel or bar

Booking from your hotel room, restaurant or a bar? Tap "CLICK HERE for directions to your pickup point". Google Maps opens walking directions from wherever you are to the exact wharf and re-routes you live if you head the wrong way — works overseas (auto-translates to your phone's language), works after a few drinks, works for first-time visitors to Sydney.

3. Show the QR

Your skipper scans the QR to check you aboard. The pass turns green with a "Boarded" tick — that's it, you're on your way.

4. Need the skipper?

Tap the Call button on the ticket to reach your operator direct. Their number is only revealed on your paid ticket.

Commission

100% of your fare. 5% added on top.

5%flat · paid by the customer · $0 setup
  • You connect your OWN Stripe account — funds go direct to you, never through us
  • You charge $100 → customer pays $105 → your Stripe balance receives $100
  • Our 5% is auto-routed to us as a Stripe Connect application fee at checkout
  • Surcharges (after-hours, holidays, waiting time) are 100% yours
  • Stripe's own processing fees are billed to your Stripe account as normal
  • No setup fee, no monthly fee, ever

Available for water taxi, water limo and boat transfer operators — Australia and worldwide.

Onboarding

From email to live in a day

Step 01
Send your fleet & rates

One email — fleet, service area, your rate card.

Step 02
Connect your Stripe

You create (or link) your own Stripe account. It stays 100% yours — we never hold your money.

Step 03
Paste one line

Iframe drops into your Wix / Squarespace / WordPress / Webflow site.

Step 04
Take bookings

Live fares. Checkout on your Stripe. SMS to your skippers. Payouts on your schedule.

I've run my own site for years but the booking bit was always email tag. This gave me a proper checkout, a driver app and money in the bank the next morning. The 5% pays for itself before lunchtime.
JR
James Ryan
Owner · Independent Water Taxi Operator, Sydney
FAQ

What operators want to know

Yours. This is a proper white-label — you connect your OWN Stripe account when you onboard, and every booking is charged directly to it. Funds never touch our balance. You keep full control of payouts, refunds, chargebacks and reporting in your own Stripe dashboard.

Turn your website into a proper booking business.

Send us your fleet and rates. We ship your private operator key within a business day. No setup fee, no monthly fee — ever.

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