Half-day charters with captains
Customers pick a time, and a party size where you price per person, pay at checkout and sign the waiver before the boat leaves; staff place the deposit hold at pickup. Captain scheduling is not available.
Boats & Marine
From slip to dock, run the whole day on one engine.
Marinas, charters, fishing boats, jet skis and paddle craft. Availability checked as customers book, hourly to multi-day rates, a waiver signed before anyone leaves the dock, and a deposit hold placed at pickup on the customer’s saved card.
Scenarios
The work your team is already doing, and what GoGo Engine does for it.
Jet ski fleet across two ramps
Two locations on one calendar, life vests and helmets as add-ons or rentable items, and the waiver on each booking. Fuel is charged at return as an amount staff set.
Long-form sailboat charters
Multi-day reservations priced by length, a deposit set per boat, and a move to another boat if one goes down; the deposit hold and signed waiver are not redone. Captain hours and fuel allowances are not available.
Paddleboard / kayak rentals
By-the-hour bookings, walk-up customers booked and paid at the counter, and a clean return that can release the deposit hold on the spot.
Built for boats & marine
What boat and marine rental gets today.
Captain assignments
Not available. There are no captain schedules, hours or certifications; a checkout question can ask the customer for a license number.
Fuel reads + bills
Not available as meter reads. Staff record the fuel level at return and add a fuel charge for the amount they set.
Tide & weather alerts
Not available. Staff can cancel or refund a booking with weather as the reason when a trip cannot run.
Slip and ramp routing
Not available. There is no slip or ramp assignment or morning-of message.
Deposit per boat
Set a different deposit on each boat. Moving a booking to another boat updates the deposit on the booking; a hold already placed is not changed.
Waivers before the dock
Staff can email a waiver link before the trip, and no boat goes out until the waiver is signed.
How we compare
How the tools compare.
We respect every product on this list, and most of them taught us what to build. Here is what each one offers, and where GoGo Engine is still behind.
| Capability | GoGo Engine | Booqable | EZRentOut | Quipli | Spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inventory across multiple locations | Yes | Paid add-on | Multi-Store | Yes | No |
| Customer portal | Yes | Customer accounts | Yes | Yes | No |
| Deposit hold + release on return | Yes | Yes | Up to 7 days | Held for the full rental | No |
| Public REST API + signed webhooks | Yes | API in beta; v4 signed | API; webhooks not listed | Not confirmed | No |
| Seasonal pricing rules | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not confirmed | No |
| Accounting sync (QuickBooks, Xero) | Not available | Xero | Yes | QuickBooks Online | No |
| Built-in customer SMS + email | Yes | Email; SMS via Zapier | Email alerts | Yes | No |
Checked against each vendor’s own website and documentation in October 2026. A feature we could not find there says “Not confirmed”. See methodology →
Other categories
Run a different kind of fleet?
Questions
The things people ask first.
There is no self-serve import today. Locations, items, rates and rules are set up in the dashboard, with templates and duplicates to speed it up.
On top of your flat monthly subscription, we collect a small platform fee on the booking GMV that flows through GoGo Engine. 1.5% on Operator, 1.0% on Studio, 0.5% on Fleet, negotiated on Enterprise. There are no per-booking fees, no Stripe markups, and we never touch the released portion of damage deposits. As you grow into a higher tier, the platform fee rate drops. We’re aligned with your scale.
Because we believe in skin in the game. A flat-only model means we get paid the same whether you do $10k or $10M in bookings, which doesn’t reward us for making your business grow. The platform fee aligns our work with your outcomes. If your bookings go up, ours do too. If they don’t, we’re motivated to fix that.
They may. Booking pages, the customer portal and emails carry your business name. Emails are sent from GoGo Engine’s sending address, and booking pages show a small “Powered by GoGo Engine” line. Widgets can hide that badge.
The hold is released when your team checks the unit back in clean. If there’s damage, staff photograph it and add the charge in the return wizard, and you capture only that amount from the hold. The customer is sent a notice with the amount and the reason, and if they have no email on file or it fails to send, the return screen tells your team so they can tell the customer themselves. You don’t pay Stripe fees on the released portion.
Payments run on Stripe, and email and SMS go out through Resend and Twilio. QuickBooks, Slack, Mailchimp and other integrations are not available. The public REST API and signed webhooks can feed your own tools; API keys are not self-serve today.
Connections to the app use HTTPS, and row-level security in the database limits each signed-in user to their own business’s data. Data lives in a managed Postgres database on Supabase. The security page has the details.
There is no app to install and no offline mode. GoGo Engine runs in the browser: booking pages and the customer portal fit a phone screen, and staff can photograph a return with the phone’s camera in the return wizard.
Live chat with humans on every plan, with escalation to a named CSM on Enterprise. We answer fast because we are a small team and operators ourselves. We know what waiting on a vendor feels like.