How Tarn stacks up.
Side by side with FareHarbor, Peek Pro, The Flybook, and Adventure Office: pricing, payments, data ownership, and setup, with the honest version included.
What changes when you move to Tarn.
- Bookings in a list format that get lost in the shuffle
- A third-party waiver app that charges per waiver and doesn't know who's booked
- Chasing balances with 'just following up' emails
- Three browser tabs open for flow and weather
- Hunting through multiple tabs to find customers' info
- Fees buried in every booking you can't predict
- A tool built for salons, gyms, or 'any business'
- A salesperson, tech support, and 'the developers': someone different every call
- Saves the party leaders' contact info only
- A live calendar and daily manifests that show the day at a glance
- Waivers signed in the browser before launch
- Deposits taken and balances paid online
- River flow and put-in weather on every trip
- All your customers' info in one place
- Simple, transparent pricing, all on one page
- Built for river outfitters first, not adapted to them
- You talk to the people who built it
- Captures all participants' contact information
The short version.
The five things outfitters actually switch over, across every platform we've written up. Each column links to the full breakdown.
| How they compare | Tarn | FareHarborFull breakdown | Peek ProFull breakdown | The FlybookFull breakdown | Adventure OfficeFull breakdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | 3% → 2% published, as low as 4.9% all-in | ~6% per booking | ~9% all-in reported | 4% online fee, or 2% of all transactions | Not published; quoted per operator |
| Payments | Your own Stripe account, direct payouts | FareHarbor's processing | Peek's processing | Inside The Flybook | AO Pay / legacy gateways |
| Setup | Self-serve, live in an afternoon | Demo + onboarding | Demo + onboarding | Demo + onboarding | Demo + onboarding |
| Built for | Outdoor outfitters | Tours & activities, broadly | Tours & activities, broadly | Adventure activities + lodging | Adventure companies + POS, lodging |
| Contract | None, no monthly fee | Varies | Varies | Varies | Varies |
Comparison based on publicly available information about each vendor's standard offering as of 2026. Vendors change their terms, so confirm current pricing and features directly with each provider.
See the full rate math →What outfitters are tired of.
“I've switched reservation systems five times in twenty years. I'm done with months of onboarding calls and paid staff training. I just want a system that works.”
“Every support call ends the same way: 'you just have to do this in order to do that.'”
Tarn is built to be the last switch you make: simple enough that a new hire runs the desk by lunch, honest enough that you never find a fee you didn't agree to.
Coming from one of these? Read the deep dive.
Each one covers pricing, payments, data ownership, and setup, and ends with an honest note on where the other platform still fits.
Tarn vs. FareHarbor
The biggest player — owned by Booking Holdings, the OTA giant behind Booking.com — with a ~6% booking fee at your guest's checkout. Tarn is independent, and your bookings live on your own site and your own Stripe.
See the full comparisonTarn vs. Peek Pro
Operators report an all-in cost around 9% once processing is counted. Tarn's published rate is 5.9% all-in on day one and falls to 4.9% as you grow.
See the full comparisonTarn vs. The Flybook
An adventure-industry veteran with real lodging breadth. But pricing is negotiated on a sales call, quotes freeze your inventory, and payments run inside its platform.
See the full comparisonTarn vs. Adventure Office
Two decades of breadth on software from another era: full page reloads, desktop-first, no guest self-service. Tarn's import is proven on 6,900 real AO bookings.
See the comparison + migration pathOn a platform we haven't written up?
Whether you're coming from Xola, Rezdy, RGS, or a spreadsheet and a whiteboard, the move looks the same: your trips and season come over by CSV, your booking link goes on the website you already own, and you run both systems in parallel until you're ready to cut over. Migration help is free.
Your next season starts at the desk. Make it a short visit.
Set up your trips, take your first booking, and get back outside.