Recover the charters your engine bins today
Every wrong-length or wrong-day search comes back as three priced offers instead of a bounce.
See how alternative-date search works →Built for houseboat fleets
Your houseboat was free. Your booking engine said it wasn’t.
Fixed departure days and multi-night minimums make most searches "fail", so a family ready to pay gets "no availability". Accommador shows them the three nearest dates they can book.
- Fixed departure days and minimum nights, enforced
- Bonds held on the card, not in a cash tin
- The whole fleet on one plan — $500/mo
The problem
What it’s costing you right now
Houseboats run on rules no hotel has. Boats leave on set days. Minimums stretch to three, four, seven nights through the holidays. Every vessel keeps its own calendar and rates.
Almost every casual search breaks one of those rules. A family types in a Friday-to-Sunday, your engine checks the three-night minimum, and answers "no availability" — for a boat sitting empty that exact week.
They don’t ring the office. They book a riverside cabin instead, and you never know they came. Meanwhile more of the bookings you do get arrive through a booking site taking 15–25% of a multi-thousand-dollar charter.
Two leaks at once: the searches your engine throws away, and the commission on the ones it doesn’t.
The Accommador way
One login instead of thirteen tools
Accommador’s booking engine was built for properties with rules like yours.
It takes any dates a guest types, even ones that break your rules. Then, instead of a dead end, it shows the three nearest windows they can actually book on each boat, priced, and true to your departure days and minimums. The family who searched the impossible weekend books the one beside it — direct, on your own site, with no booking fee from us.
Because it’s one system, the same screen holds the bond, keeps your listings in sync, runs your guest messages and lands every charter in Xero.
How it works
Set up once, then it runs
- 01
Load your fleet and your rules
Every boat, every season’s minimum nights, every departure day — enforced exactly, with no workarounds.
- 02
Guests search any dates on your site
A rule-breaking search comes back with the three nearest bookable windows per boat, priced — not "no availability".
- 03
The bond holds itself
Stripe or PayDollar reserves your bond amount on the guest’s card at booking or before arrival. Never charged, no cash to handle, released on its own after a clean return.
- 04
Everything reconciles
Charters, bonds and payouts flow into Xero on their own, while your 50+ booking-site calendars stay matched to the minute.
What you get
All of it in the one plan
Bonds without the awkward chat
The damage bond is reserved on the guest’s card rather than charged, through Stripe or PayDollar — and it releases itself, so good guests never chase a refund.
One calendar per boat, one screen for the fleet
Each vessel keeps its own rates, minimum nights and turnaround days, and you see the whole fleet’s availability at a glance.
Seasonal rules that set themselves
Three nights in shoulder, seven in January — set the minimums by season once and the engine holds the line everywhere.
Direct charters keep their full value
No booking fee from us on a direct charter, so the 15–25% commission you escape on a high-dollar stay stays in the business.
Marketing that fills the quiet months
Built-in email and text campaigns bring last summer’s families back for the shoulder season — and you can see which ads actually filled the boats, long after browsers stop tracking.
Your listings keep working
50+ booking sites stay live and in sync while your own site wins a bigger share.
Why it’s different
The usual setup, and this one
Built for one-night hotel stays. Against fixed departures and multi-night minimums they fail searches all day — and answer "no availability" every time.
Built so properties with rules win. It converts the searches others reject, holds the bond, keeps your listings in sync and lands the money in Xero — one system, one bill.
Try this before you book any demo
Search dates that break your minimum-stay rule
Most booking engines answer "no availability", and a guest who was ready to pay is gone. Accommador answers with your three nearest open dates, each priced — so the near-miss becomes a booking instead of a bounce.
See how alternative-date search works →Pricing, in the open
One plan. One price. Everything included.
$500/mo
or $5,000/yr prepaid · per location · everything includedSiteMinder charges about $250 a month just to keep your listings in sync. Accommador includes that, plus the fleet calendar, the booking engine, bond-holding payments, Xero and the marketing. Up to 30 vessels, so most fleets run everything for the flat $500 a month.
One plan: $500 a month, everything included — or $5,000 a year, about two months free. Every room is included, whatever you run. Moving you across costs nothing — we do it for you on the yearly plan, and our AI walks you through it step by step on monthly.
See the full pricing breakdownLocked-for-Life operator offer — first 10 operators only
$5,000 a year, held at the price you join at for life, and we move you across free — behind the guarantee: more direct bookings in 90 days, or we keep working free until you get them. Still not there, money back.
Book a 30-minute demoFAQ
The questions operators ask
Yes — that combination is exactly what the engine was built for. You set departures and minimums per boat, per season, and it only ever offers dates that comply.
The bond is reserved on the guest’s card through Stripe or PayDollar — $500, $1,000, whatever you set per boat. It is never charged unless you claim, and it releases itself after departure. No cash tins, no manual refunds.
Yes — vessels count as rooms, and the plan includes up to 30. Most fleets run the whole operation, marketing included, for the flat $500 a month.
Two ways. The engine wins more of your peak demand direct, with no commission, and the built-in campaigns invite past guests back for shoulder dates — with proof of which one produced the charters.
No. Your 50+ booking-site listings stay live and in sync. You’re not leaving them — you’re winning back the guests who land on your own site first.
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Houseboat fleets — where we see this most
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Find out what "no availability" is costing your fleet
Free either way, built from your live listings. The first 10 Locked-for-Life operators also get a free move-over and the 90-day guarantee.