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Checkfront
Checkfront Overview:
What Is Checkfront?
Checkfront is the most flexible online booking platform that allows rental, activity, tour, and accommodations operators to take more bookings, maximize your resources ,and run your business efficiently. Checkfront's comprehensive booking system helps owners and operators increase revenue, get booked to capacity, and easily manage their operations in one powerful tool.
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https://www.checkfront.com/book-a-demo/
Who Uses Checkfront?
Checkfront is built for Rental companies, Tour & Activity operators, Accommodation providers, or Adventure Experience providers of any size.
Where can Checkfront be deployed?
Cloud-based
On-premise
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Reviews sentiment
Positive
90%
Neutral
6%
Negative
4%
Starting Price
US$225,00
Per User, Per Month
Free trial
About the vendor
- Checkfront
- Founded in 2008
Checkfront support
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
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Australia, Belgium, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada
Countries available
Countries where the product is available. Note: Customer support may not be accessible in that country.
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Canada
- China
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hungary
- India
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Portugal
- Spain
- Sweden
- Thailand
- US Virgin Islands
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
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Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English
Languages
Languages that the product is available in.
- Arabic
- Chinese
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Thai
- Turkish
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Jesse
Associate General Manager in US
Hospitality, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
"Good starting tool"
07 May 2025
Overall good but could be more intuitive without sacrificing on quality of content.
Pros:
The amount of information I have access to viewing is definitely a plus. I don't have to dig too far.
Cons:
Sometimes slow. When I'm slammed, the amount of info on one screen can be disorienting.
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Glenn Charles
Real Estate Broker in Philippines
Real Estate, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
"Making booking as easy as 1 2 3"
19 February 2024
Im very satisfied and will recommend it with friends and family
Pros:
As someone who makes decision on the last minute, i like to have the option to book last minute or probably make a booking in advance if we have planned everything early. Checkfront offers that and I love that. It makes booking convenient even for older people. And I love that I can use Apple pay as a mode of payment.
Cons:
So far Im enjoying using it, couldnt think of anything that I dont like.
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Matthew
Owner Manager in France
Leisure, Travel & Tourism, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
"Unannounced price increase"
28 October 2025
It has worked very well for my business for the last 7 years. A bit time consuming to add special events, but ok once averything is set up. But now, unnecessary price increases.
Cons:
I just received an invoice for next year, 2026. They have increased the price of my annual subscription by 20% and that is in addition to a 25% increase the same time last year. No warning, just a revised invoice for the next 12 months. That's no way to treat existing Customers ... There's no way those price increases are justified - the booking software is still exactly the same as 7 years ago with just minor upgrades. I'm looking for alternatives for next year.
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Checkfront Response
04 November 2025
Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re sorry to hear that the pricing update came as a surprise - we always send an email notification 30 days prior to pricing changes, but understand how easily those can be missed. Like many software providers, we’ve had to adjust some legacy plan pricing due to increased operational costs and economic conditions. These changes help us continue improving Checkfront’s reliability, security, and features for all customers. We truly value your long-term partnership over the past several years, and our team would be happy to review your account to ensure you’re on the best plan for your needs. Please don’t hesitate to contact our support team — we’re here to help. — The Checkfront Team
Krista
CFO in US
Recreational Facilities & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
"Not very user friendly to set up but works well once implemented."
17 July 2025
We've been with Checkfront for almost 9 years and have regularly compared pricing and benefits with other vendors. It is the one that consistently comes out on top, but it seems it's moving more and more to %fee option which is what we were avoiding with competitors. It works well once set but isn't super easy to set up.
Pros:
Once it's working it is a pretty stable product, and works well on the user side. Once it's set it's mostly set it and forget it.
Cons:
Checkfront is not intuitive to set up new items for booking. I don't feel like it's our business model, I think it's a complicated set up that they did many years ago and haven't updated to make it a better user experience. Once set up, it works well but adding a new item for booking takes longer than it should.
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Mark
Director in UK
Health, Wellness & Fitness, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
"So bad I wrote a review."
10 February 2025
I was recommended Checkfront by another activity company in the UK. Onboarding was fairly smooth but then things started to go wrong. Customer support wasn't great (aside from having to wait til the end of the day (GMT) before they we're available) with workarounds for bugs being the order of the day. Actual solutions or fixes were a rare thing.
Some sample issues:
A bug prevented editing users - workaround found but didnt work.
A bug prevented payments - was fixed after 12 hours of waiting for Canada to wake up.
A bug showing incorrect prices - workaround: turn off visible prices(!). The clincher:
A bug rendered the booking widget unusable (it showed no availabilty to customers). Tech Support said they'd know about the bug for 'weeks' and that the dev team were working on it but there was no timeline on a fix!!! I would've liked to have known the system's customer-facing widget wasn't useable before I spent many, many hours transitioning over to Checkfront. I can't risk the key element of my booking system failing so had to pull the plug on Checkfront and return to my previous provider. Honestly one of the worst experiences with a service provider I've ever had. Checkfront has just been through a massive merger and investment and I can only speculate that the changes have completely overwhelmed the company and quality has dropped off a cliff. One staff member alluded to this and hoped things might start to improve in 'a few months'. Right now my advice to anyone considering Checkfront would be to run far away.
A bug prevented editing users - workaround found but didnt work.
A bug prevented payments - was fixed after 12 hours of waiting for Canada to wake up.
A bug showing incorrect prices - workaround: turn off visible prices(!). The clincher:
A bug rendered the booking widget unusable (it showed no availabilty to customers). Tech Support said they'd know about the bug for 'weeks' and that the dev team were working on it but there was no timeline on a fix!!! I would've liked to have known the system's customer-facing widget wasn't useable before I spent many, many hours transitioning over to Checkfront. I can't risk the key element of my booking system failing so had to pull the plug on Checkfront and return to my previous provider. Honestly one of the worst experiences with a service provider I've ever had. Checkfront has just been through a massive merger and investment and I can only speculate that the changes have completely overwhelmed the company and quality has dropped off a cliff. One staff member alluded to this and hoped things might start to improve in 'a few months'. Right now my advice to anyone considering Checkfront would be to run far away.
Pros:
Clean design, apparently smooth booking flow, low fees.
Cons:
Bugs. Bugs in the backoffice and bugs in the booking widgets.
If you're Europe-based you need to know that Tech Support are in British Columbia so are 8 hours behind Europe and they work 9-5 Pacific Time... They're only available at night!
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