All my tours vs FareHarbor: which fits a solo guide? (2026)
Short answer
FareHarbor costs $0/month but adds a booking fee — reported at roughly 6%, never officially published — to your guest's checkout, and it's built for operators running teams, resources and OTA distribution. All my tours is free during early access with no commission at all, but it's a simpler tool: no payment processing, no OTA channel manager, built for one guide running their own page and calendar. Below: real pricing, what each one is actually for, and when FareHarbor is the better call.
Who this is for: Solo guides comparing FareHarbor against a simpler, direct-first tool.
FareHarbor is a distribution-first platform owned by Booking Holdings, built to connect operators to resellers, OTAs and Booking.com itself. All my tours is a booking page built for one guide: your tours, your calendar, direct bookings, nothing else to configure. Neither is "better" in the abstract — they're built for different-sized businesses.
Pricing, side by side
| FareHarbor | All my tours | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $0 | $0 (free during early access — no price set yet, not a permanent guarantee) |
| Fee per online booking | ~6% (reported, not officially published), added to the guest's total | 0% — no commission on any booking |
| Card processing | ~2.9% + $0.30 (US), on top of the booking fee | Not applicable — All my tours doesn't process payments; you and the traveller settle directly |
| Who sees the fee | Your guest, at checkout | Nobody — there's no fee to see |
| Contract | No published lock-in beyond the "FareHarbor Site" hosting | No card required, no trial, no cap |
On an $80 tour, a FareHarbor guest typically pays around $85; at 20 bookings a month that's roughly $96 added to what your guests collectively pay for the booking system, according to reported FareHarbor fee breakdowns. All my tours adds nothing to either side.
Feature comparison
| FareHarbor | All my tours | |
|---|---|---|
| Booking page | Yes (FareHarbor-hosted) | Yes, free, at your own allmytours.com/<your-name> |
| Private (request-and-approve) tours | Yes | Yes |
| Public/fixed-departure tours | Yes | Yes, including free walking tours |
| Two-way Google Calendar sync | Available | Yes, built in |
| Automatic review requests | Available | Yes, built in |
| OTA/marketplace distribution | Yes — Booking.com and other majors via Booking Holdings | No |
| Resource/staff/vehicle management | Yes | No — built for one guide |
| Waivers, manifests, QR check-in | Yes | No |
| Payments/deposits | Yes, built in (that's the fee) | Not yet — you settle with the traveller directly |
| Setup time | Depends on scope | Around twenty minutes |
Who FareHarbor is actually better for
If you're running tours with staff, multiple guides, vehicles or equipment to schedule, or you rely on reseller and OTA distribution to fill seats, FareHarbor's depth is doing real work for you — not sitting unused. Its Booking.com connection through Booking Holdings is a genuine distribution advantage that a solo-guide tool can't match, and the $0 monthly cost means you're not paying for that reach out of pocket in slow months, only per booking.
FareHarbor also already handles payments and deposits, which All my tours doesn't do yet. If collecting money through the platform itself matters to you today, that's a real gap on our side, not a minor one.
How to decide
- Do you need OTA/Booking.com distribution, or resource and staff scheduling? If yes, FareHarbor's feature depth earns its complexity — stay or switch to it.
- Do you want the platform to collect payment for you? FareHarbor does this today. All my tours doesn't yet — you'd still be settling with travellers directly.
- Are you one guide who wants a free page, a calendar that won't double-book you, and nothing else to learn? That's the exact case All my tours is built for, and there's no monthly cost or booking fee either side has to absorb.
If you're currently on FareHarbor mainly because it was the first tool you found — not because you're using the operator features — a simpler switch is worth ten minutes of comparison. See the fuller field in FareHarbor alternatives for independent guides if All my tours isn't the only option you want to weigh.
What switching would actually involve
FareHarbor's own help centre describes leaving a "FareHarbor Site" (the hosted operator website) as a complex process, and FareHarbor also hosts the site itself — a real dependency to check before you commit either way. If you do switch, keep FareHarbor running until your existing bookings clear, migrate your tour list and availability rules, and only cancel once the old calendar is empty.
Frequently asked questions
Does FareHarbor cost anything upfront?
No — FareHarbor doesn't charge a monthly fee. It's funded by a booking fee reportedly around 6%, added to what your guest pays at checkout, not published officially by FareHarbor itself.
Is All my tours really free, or is that a limited trial?
It's free for every guide during early access, with no card required and no booking cap. There's no trial countdown — pricing simply hasn't been set yet, and this isn't a permanent promise.
Can All my tours take payments or deposits like FareHarbor does?
Not yet. Money changes hands directly between you and the traveller, same as it always has. Payment and deposit collection is planned but not live today — don't switch expecting it.
Which one is better for a solo guide just starting out?
If you don't need OTA distribution or staff scheduling yet, All my tours' free page and calendar sync cover the actual job without FareHarbor's per-booking fee or operator-scale complexity.
