StayCraft for Adventure & activity operators

For rafting outfits, paragliding schools, trekking and camping operators who sell a day out. You get your own website built around your trips, an admin that runs your bookings, bills and team, and pings on your phone. Choose it because a guest can pick a trip, see the price per person and the safety rules, and book with a UPI advance on your own site, with no commission to anyone.

What every site gets

These are on every plan, from the smallest up, and never switch off while your plan is paid.

• A listing on the StayCraft Experiences directory (staycraft.co.in/experiences), which links to your own site, once your plan is active.
• Your own website at yourname.staycraft.co.in, in the Rapids design: a full-height photograph with your name, your trips on a dark band with a price per person and a Book button each, and your safety rules in a section of their own. The site moves a little: the first screen opens with a slow push-in, and headings and photos rise as a visitor scrolls. Still for anyone whose phone is set to reduce motion.
• Your trips, bookable online. Each trip has its own page with the price per person, how long it takes, how many people it takes, and what a guest owes if they cancel.
• Bookings with a UPI advance. The guest pays the advance you set by UPI or bank transfer and uploads the screenshot. Nothing is held until you confirm.
• Several trips in one booking, each on its own day, paid with one advance and one screenshot.
• Bills. Confirming a booking puts the trip on a bill for that guest, which you open and settle from the Bills screen, on every plan. If you are GST-registered, the bill becomes a tax invoice.
• Your cover and licence on file. Online booking is open only while your insurance is in date.
• Enquiries, a blog, and SEO & Google tools with a health score and a checklist.
• Monthly report by email: on the 1st, last month's visits, enquiries and (where your plan has them) bookings, payments, QR scans, reviews and top Google searches, against the month before, with one tip and your SEO score. A "Last month" card on the dashboard shows the same. You can switch it off in Settings or with one click from the email.
• Enquiry follow-up: every enquiry moves through New, Replied, Quoted, Won or Lost, with a day to follow up on, a "Follow up today" tab, and one morning ping on your phone when something is due. On every plan.
• A listing on the StayCraft Experiences page at staycraft.co.in/experiences, with the price of your cheapest trip, linking to your own site.
• Google review cards and QR landing pages you design and print yourself.
• Social posts: turn a review, an offer, a nearby place, a package or a festival into a finished picture and caption in your own colours and fonts (a post, a story or a square), in English or Hindi, and share it to your WhatsApp status from your phone. On every plan; nothing is posted for you.
• Visitor numbers: traffic, top pages, and where your enquiries came from.
• Backup: download your whole site whenever you like.
• Staff logins for a booking desk and guides (how many depends on the plan).
• Phone pings for new bookings and enquiries, through your browser (see the app note below).
• No commission on any booking, on any plan.

Plans and prices

Adventure operators buy from the same six plans as homestays. Prices are per year.

Plan	Price per year	Who it suits	What it adds over the plan below
Website	₹9,000 (₹750 a month, billed yearly)	A small operator, often the owner alone, who wants a proper site that takes bookings	Everything in "What every site gets", plus the WhatsApp button, a photo gallery, nearby places and reviews. No staff logins, 1 management user (you). Three designs made for your kind, 1 design change a year. 1 GB.
Basic	₹12,000 (₹1,000 a month, billed yearly)	An operator with a booking desk and a guide or two	Your own brand colours on the site. 3 staff logins, 2 management users. Every standard design, 2 design changes a year. 2 GB.
Growth	₹15,000 (₹1,250 a month, billed yearly)	An operator that also sells multi-day trips	Packages (multi-day trips as priced cards), and Search insights from Google. 5 staff logins, 2 management users, 2 design changes a year. 3 GB.
Plus	₹18,000 (₹1,500 a month, billed yearly)	An operator with foreign groups and its own web address	Your site in 8 languages and your own domain. 8 staff logins, 2 management users, 3 design changes a year. 5 GB.
Team	₹25,000 (₹2,083 a month, billed yearly)	A bigger operator with a team of managers	10 staff logins, 3 management users, 4 design changes a year. 10 GB.
Pro	₹30,000 (₹2,500 a month, billed yearly)	The busiest operator in the valley	Alerts on your phone for every new booking and enquiry. Change your design any time. 20 staff logins, 5 management users. 25 GB.

GST. Plan prices are what you pay. StayCraft is not GST-registered, so no GST is added.

Add-ons. Packages, the 8 languages, your own colours, Search insights and your own domain can be added to a smaller plan as add-ons. There is no public price for them: ask us and we quote for your business.

How paying works. No free trial and no card up front. We agree the plan and the price with you first. You pay by UPI or bank transfer to the account we send you, and we switch the plan on the same day the payment reaches us. A plan does not renew by itself: you choose to renew, and we remind you before it ends.

Changing plan. You can move up at any time and pay the difference for the time left. A move to a smaller plan waits until your current year ends.

Staff logins are counted without the owners. A login you switch off takes no place.

A note on the pricing page. The comparison table is written for homestays. Some lines on it do nothing for an adventure business: "Bookings + payment proof" (your trip bookings work on every plan), "Availability calendar", "Restaurant & bar", "Online card/UPI payments", "OTA channel sync" and "Premium designs". Do not sell a plan on those lines.

Features in detail

Your trips

• My services. Add each trip with its price per person, how long it takes, how many it takes, and what a guest still owes if they cancel. Turn one off to take it off the site without deleting it.
• Where guests find you. The town the Experiences page lists you under, and a bookings phone.
• Your cover. Insurer, policy number, sum insured, licence number and expiry date. Online booking works only while the cover is in date. When it expires, your trips stay on the site and the button says Ask instead of Book until you renew. Nobody has to remember.
• Safety terms. The youngest age you take, fitness and health, and what to bring. Each trip page prints them before the booking form, and so do the booking page and the email that confirms a booking has arrived.
• Packages. Multi-day expeditions or combined trips, shown on your site as priced cards with what is included. Guests ask about a package through your enquiry form or WhatsApp. (Growth and Pro, or as an add-on.)

Taking a booking

• Booking from the trip's own page. The guest picks a day (up to a year ahead), how many people, and leaves a name and a phone or email. Their address is asked but optional.
• The advance. You set the advance percentage once under Settings. The guest pays it by UPI or bank transfer and uploads the screenshot.
• Several activities in one booking. "Add to your booking" lets a guest add rafting on Tuesday and paragliding on Thursday. A bar at the foot of the screen keeps the count and the total, and they pay one advance for all of it.
• Space on the day. In a booking of several activities, each line is checked against your "Max people" for that trip on that day, less the people already confirmed. A full line is marked before the guest sends it.
• Privacy consent recorded. Each booking shows when the guest agreed to your privacy notice, and which version.

Running bookings

• One list, four states: awaiting payment, proof to review, confirmed, declined.
• Confirm puts the trip on a bill for that guest and records the advance if they sent proof. The guest is emailed if they left an address.
• Decline charges nothing. Cancel on a confirmed trip reverses the charge. Money already paid stays on the bill for you to return.
• When one line of a group booking cannot go ahead, the guest chooses on their own booking page: go ahead with the rest, or cancel everything. They are reminded once after a day. After three days the line reads "overdue" and you decide.
• Record money returned keeps the UPI reference of what you sent back.

Bills and GST

• A bill per guest, opened when you confirm. Add any charge, record payments, and print or share the invoice.
• GST tax invoice once you save your GSTIN and state. Your prices stay what they are and the tax is shown inside them. Activities are taxed at 18% by default; every rate can be changed.

Your team

• Desk role. Opens bookings, enquiries and bills. Confirms, declines and cancels bookings, opens the bill, messages the guest on WhatsApp, and gives a booking to a guide. Never sees your trips and prices, your cover, Settings or your takings.
• Guide role. Sees only the bookings you give them: the day, who is coming, how many, and the phone. A WhatsApp button and nothing else. No amounts, and no other guide's bookings.
• Give to a guide on any booking, by you or the desk.
• How many: Website 1, Basic 3, Growth 5, Pro 10 staff logins. If you move to a smaller plan, the logins added last are paused, not removed.

Your website

• Rapids design, made for operators: no rooms, no dates bar, your trips first, and your rules in "Good to know".
• Its own touches. The enquiry form is styled the design's own way (ruled lines, soft cards, ink outlines, paper, glass or a stamp), a small hand-drawn mark of the design's own sits between the sections and draws itself in as a visitor scrolls, and facility icons are drawn in the design's own hand. What the form asks and does stays the same.
• Start from a demo. A new site can begin from a ready demo of a rafting outfitter on the Ganga, so it is not empty on day one.
• Photo gallery, reviews, area guide and map sections. (Gallery, reviews and nearby places are on every plan.)
• WhatsApp button on every page. (Every plan.)
• Your own colours. (Basic and up, or as an add-on.)
• 8 languages. Your site translated automatically into English, Hindi, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Hebrew, with a one-tap switch. (Pro, or as an add-on.)
• Your own domain, such as yourrafting.com, with HTTPS set up for you. Your staycraft.co.in address keeps working too. (Pro, or as an add-on.)
• Site visibility switch. Take the site offline yourself for a redesign or before launch, with a "Coming soon" type message.

Found on Google

• SEO & Google with a health score: page title, description, local details and map, area guide, how to reach you, best time to visit. Your sitemap goes to Google every week by itself. (Every plan.)
• Search insights. What people typed into Google to find you, which pages they landed on, clicks, impressions and your position, 16 months of it, updated daily. (Growth and Pro, or as an add-on.)
• Blog for posts like "Best months for rafting on the Ganga". (Every plan.)
• Homestays nearby can show your trips. A homestay on StayCraft can choose your trips for its own "Things to do" section, while your insurance is in date. Its guests ask the homestay about them; there is no checkout on the homestay's site.

On your phone

• The admin works on a phone and can be added to your home screen like an app.
• Pings. Turn on pings under Settings, Notifications, on an Android phone, a computer, or an iPhone (Safari, added to the home screen). A ping arrives for each new booking and each new enquiry; tap it and the record opens. New bookings also arrive by email.

What it does not do (yet)

• No card or gateway payment for trips. Guests pay the advance by UPI or bank transfer and upload a screenshot. You check that the money has arrived before you confirm.
• No automatic refunds. Money going back is sent by you, from your own UPI or bank. StayCraft never holds the money.
• No time slots. A trip is booked for a day, not for 7 am or 2 pm.
• A booking of one trip is not checked against the day's space. Only a booking of several activities is checked against "Max people" for each day. Watch your numbers for single bookings.
• No booking button on a package. Packages are shown with their price; guests ask about them.
• Guides get no pings, and nobody is told when a booking is given to them. Tell them yourself.
• One design. Rapids is the only adventure design today.
• Homestays cannot sell your trips for you. They can show them and pass on the enquiry, but there is no checkout or commission split for trips.
• No link to booking marketplaces or activity booking apps.
• The Android app is not on the Play Store yet. Pings work today through the browser.

Good to say to a customer

• "Do you take a cut of my bookings?" No. Not on a booking, not on an enquiry. You pay the plan once a year, and every rupee a guest pays goes to your own UPI or bank account.
• "What happens if my insurance lapses?" Online booking pauses by itself on the day your cover expires. Your trips stay on the site and the button says Ask instead of Book until you enter the renewed policy. You never take an uninsured booking by mistake.
• "Can a group book rafting one day and paragliding another?" Yes. They add each trip for its own day, pay one advance with one screenshot, and you confirm or decline each line. If one day is full, they choose to go ahead with the rest or cancel everything.
• "Can my staff use it without seeing the money?" Yes. A Desk login handles bookings and bills but never sees your prices, takings or settings. A Guide login sees only the groups you give them, with no amounts.
• "Is there a trial?" No trial and no card. We agree the plan and price with you first, you pay by UPI or bank transfer, and it is switched on the same day. You can move up a plan whenever you need to.