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Case study

The canal-tour marketplace that runs Amsterdam's water.

BoatLocal curates the best independent boat operators in the city and sells their tours in one place — with live availability, instant confirmation and a back office the operators actually use.

BoatLocal.nl homepage
Client
BoatLocal
Sector
Travel & booking
What we built
Booking platform + operator dashboard
Live at
boatlocal.nl ↗
The challenge

Great boats, invisible online.

Amsterdam has dozens of small, excellent boat operators. Almost none of them have a way to be found and booked online — tourists default to the eighty-seater tour boats, and the good captains lose the business.

The operators who did take bookings were running them through WhatsApp threads and a shared spreadsheet: double bookings, no deposits, and no way to know what a Saturday actually looked like until it arrived.

Before
✕Bookings in WhatsApp, availability in a spreadsheet
✕Payment on the day, in cash, sometimes not at all
✕No English-language presence for a mostly foreign audience
✕Every operator competing alone against the big tour fleets
What we built

One place to find them, one place to run them.

◆

Curated marketplace

Every tour listed with real photography, group size, duration and what's on board. Filterable by date, party size and budget.

━

Real-time booking engine

Live availability per boat and time slot, instant confirmation, deposits taken up front, free cancellation windows enforced automatically.

○

Operator dashboard

Captains manage their own calendar, prices and capacity, and see the day's manifest on their phone at the jetty.

●

Payments & payouts

Card payments at booking, automatic operator payouts, refunds handled by policy rather than by argument.

▢

Built for visitors

English-first with Dutch alongside, prices in the visitor's currency, and a mobile flow that survives a canal-side 4G connection.

▭

SEO that actually ranks

Static rendering, structured data on every tour, and landing pages for the searches people actually type.

Choosing a date and time — the moment the booking is won or lost.
Choosing a date and time — the moment the booking is won or lost.
The result

Amsterdam's most trusted boat platform.

0+
Tours booked
5.0
Average tour rating
0
Double bookings since launch
24/7
Bookings taken without a human
Under the hood
Next.jsTypeScriptNodePostgresStripeVerceli18n
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