With several boats running at once, a full calendar is only useful if everyone knows their assignment. Departure plans, guest groups and captain schedules need to stay aligned across the fleet.
Bring charter reservations, staff scheduling and trip details together in Digital Sportsman, giving your office and crews a shared view of upcoming departures.
Your next customer is looking for their next adventure—make sure they can find you. Digital Sportsman offers a robust online marketplace where guests can discover and book their charters in just a few clicks.
I have already increased my repeat bookings with a few simple marketing campaigns. It took just a few minutes to set up using the DS templates and tools.
My clients love how easy the Digital Sportsman app makes booking their trips, and I’m thrilled that I can offer online bookings without needing to accept credit cards. Finally, a platform designed to work the way I run my business.
DS Pro has completely changed the way I operate, giving me more time to do what I love, creating unforgettable experiences for my clients.
Assign captains and mates and track their trips and pay.
Stay in control of your bookings, finances, and customer interactions—no matter where you are. Digital Sportsman keeps everything organized in one place and accessible from any device.
With GuideWaiver™, you can:
Fleets with several boats and captains need dispatch, not just a calendar. Digital Sportsman matches every booking to the right boat and captain and shows the whole fleet at once.
Assigning a boat and captain automatically from fleet-wide availability speeds up booking, but a captain's familiarity with a particular route, a regular guest's preference, or a boat needing maintenance can all override that automatic match, so dispatch staff still review assignments before confirming them, especially during peak weekends.
Tracking trip counts and commissions per captain gives a clear picture of workload, but fair rotation also depends on factors a count alone misses, like trip length, difficulty and tip potential, which means a manager still balances the schedule by hand rather than purely by trip volume.
Revenue and utilization reports by vessel highlight which boats are earning their slip fees, but a boat with lower utilization might be reserved for larger charters or kept as backup for maintenance days, a strategic choice the raw numbers don't capture. Maintenance downtime has to be blocked from booking before, not after, it's scheduled.
Yes, multi-boat bookings reserve all boats together.
Captains can view assigned trips from the mobile app.
Live availability, booking details and the operating information behind fleet-wide availability stay together, helping staff avoid conflicts and prepare each reservation accurately.
Yes. Operators can keep reservations, payment records, guest details and the requirements behind captain scheduling in one workflow, with mobile access for the team handling arrivals.
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