What's the best booking app for a tour business?

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner is seeking a booking app for their tour business with specific requirements: date/time selection, participant count, ticket types (adult/child), and pickup location options.

Recommended Apps:

  • BookThatApp (supports tours/activity widget with required features)
  • Cowlendar
  • Appointo
  • Easy Appointment Booking (offers group/private bookings, Google Calendar integration, SMS reminders)
  • Sesami
  • Experiences

Discovery Tools Suggested:

  • Detectify’s app detector and Koala Apps’ Shopify App Detector were recommended to analyze competitors’ app choices

Key Features Highlighted:

  • Quick setup processes
  • Automatic confirmations and reminders
  • Multiple location support
  • Calendar integrations
  • Check-in capabilities

Representatives from BookThatApp and Easy Appointment Booking provided direct support with demo links and setup guides. The discussion remains open with multiple viable options presented but no final decision indicated.

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Hello Fellas!

Can you recommend me a good working booking app for my business please?

I sell tours, so I need a booking app where people can book the tours choosing date, time, number of people, type of ticket (adult, child) and place to pick them up.

I will apreciate a lot your help.

Thanks in advance.

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Yeah, apps or sales channels to integrate to my store

Hello @DSJ7

Glad to help you today.

You might take the apps into consideration such as:

https://apps.shopify.com/cowlendar

https://apps.shopify.com/appointo-appointments-and-bookings

https://apps.shopify.com/bookthatapp

https://apps.shopify.com/experiences

https://apps.shopify.com/appointments-and-bookings

I hope the above is useful to you.
Best regards,
GemPages Support Team

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You can check the apps that your competitors are using with Detectify’s app detector.

Hi there,

Albert here from Bookthatapp!

Just checking if you still need any help with your tour bookings, Bookthatapp definitely supports the booking requirements that you’re looking for and you can use our Tours/Activity widget to accommodate it, please see this demo HERE.

Setting up the booking widget is also pretty straight forward and you get to be all set in a breeze.

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Cheers!
Albert

Hello @DSJ7 ,
You can use the Shopify App Detector to find booking apps that your competitors are using. Once you’ve identified potential apps, read reviews and check out their features. Here are a few specific apps: BookThatApp, Sesami, and Easy Appointment Booking.

Cheers,

Hi @DSJ7

I’m Ray from Easy Appointment Booking. We have a quick and easy way to create your experiences. You can also add one-off dates, integrate your Google Calendar, and check customers in as they arrive. Other notes that might be helpful

  • The app is quick to get started and sends automatic confirmations and reminders (SMS support as well)
  • Multiple locations are supported by adding a new team member or resource. The locations are added right into the email confirmations and Google calendar invites
  • You can offer private or group bookings, here’s an example with winery experience: https://yogababble.myshopify.com/products/scenic-winery-tour

If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to reach out!

Thanks,
Ray

You are right but I think some of services are still good as I experienced just before some days. Hunza Tour Packages are providing a nice service.

Try Rozefs Tourism

Hello @DSJ7

You can use the SLOT Appointment app for allowing your customers book the tours with flexible scheduling options. Here’s the Shopify link: SLOT Scheduling Booking App - Shopify Appointment Booking App | Best Booking System 2025 | Shopify App Store

Our Slot app can handle your tour booking needs!

With the SLOT app, you can

  • Create tour products and link them to the booking system. Customers can select from available dates and times.
  • Allow multiple people booking. You can Set “Number of Appointments per Time Slot” to “Limited” and configure your maximum tour capacity. This allows multiple people to book the same tour time slot until you reach capacity.

Setup Process:

  1. Choose “Link to a product” and select your tour product from the dropdown

  2. Configure capacity limits per time slot for group bookings

  3. Set your tour schedule and availability

For prepayments, you should set ‘payment is required‘ when setting this up:

Hope this helps!