How much does Bókun cost?

Bókun’s pricing page lists START at $49 a month plus 1.5% per booking, PLUS at $149 plus 1.25%, and PREMIUM at $499 plus 1%.

Does Bókun charge its booking fee on OTA bookings?

On most of them. Bókun’s help centre says the fee applies to direct online bookings, OTAs, Marketplace and Channel Manager. Viator bookings and bookings added manually stay free of the fee on the paid plans.

Who pays the Bókun booking fee?

The fee is billed to the operator, who can pass it on to guests on any paid plan.

Is ARAVIA an alternative to booking software for tour operators?

Yes. ARAVIA covers bookings, payments, capacity, check-in, customers and analytics, so it can replace the current booking system. It is more than a booking engine: it is the platform the whole operation is managed on.

Does ARAVIA have a lock-in contract?

No. There is no lock-in and no minimum period.

Who pays the ARAVIA fee, the operator or the customer?

The operator decides. Azornexus advises operators to absorb it, and it can also be passed to the customer. The fee can be a single flat fee that already includes payment costs, so there is no separate payment fee on top. Offline bookings recorded by the team carry no ARAVIA fee.

Do I have to leave the OTAs to use ARAVIA?

No. Channels that bring customers stay. ARAVIA replaces the booking system, not the distribution.

Bókun pricing explained

Bókun’s published plans and booking fees, which bookings carry the fee, who pays it, and what its pricing pages leave unstated.

Guide · Checked on 13 November 2026

Azornexus builds ARAVIA, a booking and operations platform that competes with the products described here. This guide only reports what each provider states on its own pages.

Quick answers

How much does Bókun cost?: Bókun’s pricing page lists START at $49 a month plus 1.5% per booking, PLUS at $149 plus 1.25%, and PREMIUM at $499 plus 1%.
Does Bókun charge its booking fee on OTA bookings?: On most of them. Bókun’s help centre says the fee applies to direct online bookings, OTAs, Marketplace and Channel Manager. Viator bookings and bookings added manually stay free of the fee on the paid plans.
Who pays the Bókun booking fee?: The fee is billed to the operator, who can pass it on to guests on any paid plan.

Bókun publishes its prices. The model is a monthly subscription plus a percentage booking fee on online bookings. This guide sets out the plans, which bookings carry the fee, who pays it, and what the pricing pages leave unstated.

The plans

From the Bókun pricing page. The page shows a “$” sign with no currency code, and what you see may differ by region.

Plan	Monthly price	Booking fee
START	$49	1.5% per booking
PLUS	$149	1.25%
PREMIUM	$499	1%
FREE	None	“Zero fees on Viator”. The fee on other bookings is not stated on the pages we read

The page summarises the entry point as: “Our plans start from $49/month + 1.5% per booking”.

One inconsistency on the pricing page when we checked: the PLUS card shows “+ 1.25%”, while its feature list says “1% booking fees”. The help centre billing article gives 1.25% for the Plus plan.

Which bookings carry the fee

The fee is not limited to bookings on your own website. The help centre states:

“This includes fees on bookings from all applicable sales channels: direct online (widgets), OTAs (like GetYourGuide and Expedia), Marketplace and Channel Manager. Viator bookings and those added manually directly into Bókun continue to be free.” Bókun help centre

The pricing page confirms the two exceptions:

Viator. “We do not charge Bókun booking fees for bookings made through Viator on our START, PLUS and PREMIUM plans.”
Offline bookings. “Bókun charges 0% booking fees on offline bookings, on every plan.”

Who pays the fee

The fee is billed to the operator, who can choose to pass it on. The pricing page says: “Want to pass the booking fee to your guests? Go for it. You can do that with any paid plan.”

How it is billed

According to the billing article, the fee is “calculated as a percentage of your total online booking value for the month: 1% for Bókun Premium plan, 1.25% for Bókun Plus plan, and 1.5% for Bókun Start plan.”

A worked example

An illustrative calculation, not a quote. It is our own arithmetic on the rates published on the Bókun pricing page, as checked on the date at the top of this guide.

Example with $10,000 a month in bookings eligible for the Bókun fee. It does not include payment processor costs, OTA commissions or other services. The percentage does not apply to every booking: on the paid plans, Viator and offline bookings carry a 0% Bókun booking fee, so they are left out of the $10,000.

Plan	Subscription	Booking fee on $10,000	Total for the month
START	$49	$150	$199
PLUS	$149	$125	$274
PREMIUM	$499	$100	$599

The Channel Manager product

Bókun also lists a separate Channel Manager product. The pricing page says: “Individual pricing upon request. Please note: we charge 0.5-1.5% booking fees on Viator for Channel Manager”.

Contract and trial

The pricing page answers the contract question directly: “Am I locked into a 6 or 12-month contract? No, you’re free to cancel anytime.” It also offers a 14-day free trial.

What the pages do not state

The payment processing rate. Stripe Connect is named, with no rate.
Whether Bókun or the operator is the merchant of record.
Payout timing.
The booking fee on the FREE plan for bookings that do not come from Viator.

Questions worth asking before you sign

What share of my bookings arrives through channels that carry the booking fee?
If I pass the fee to guests, how is it shown at checkout?
What payment processing rate will I pay on top?
Which currency will I be billed in?

For how this model sits next to eight other booking systems, see tour booking software fees compared.

Sources

All sources are the providers’ own pages, read on 13 November 2026.

Bókun pricing page. Prices shown with a “$” sign and no currency code. https://www.bokun.io/pricing
Bókun help centre: transaction fee information. Refers to changes on 18 March 2024 and 1 December 2025. https://docs.bokun.io/en/articles/387-transaction-fee-information
Bókun help centre: account billing and passing the fee to the traveller. https://docs.bokun.io/en/articles/257-account-billing-transaction-fee-how-to-pass-the-bokun-service-fee-to-the-traveler

Prices and terms change. If something here is out of date, write to [email protected] and we will correct it.

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How ARAVIA handles the same points

ARAVIA is a booking and operations platform, always evolving, built by Azornexus. On the points this guide covers, it works like this:

Where the booking happens: On the operator’s own website, in the operator’s brand, in about three steps and with no redirect.
Where the money goes: Straight to the operator’s own account. ARAVIA does not hold funds or decide when the operator gets paid.
Who pays the fee: The operator chooses. Our advice is for the operator to absorb it, because a fee added at the end of a booking can send the customer to book on another channel. Operators who prefer to can pass it to the customer.
Payment costs: A booking fee paid by the customer does not, on its own, cover payment costs: in other models the operator can still pay those separately. With ARAVIA the fee can be a single flat fee that already includes them. The operator knows in advance what each booking will pay out, whatever the payment method or the customer’s country.
Offline bookings: No ARAVIA fee. Bookings the team records and takes payment for outside the platform, at the counter or by phone, are not charged.
Contract: No lock-in and no minimum period.
OTAs: There is no need to leave the OTAs. Direct connection to OTAs is in development and is switched on operator by operator.
Price: Set case by case in a personalised analysis, so there is no price list to place in a table like these.
How it starts: With time. We sit down with each operator to understand how they sell and how they work before configuring anything. The aim is for the team to be self-sufficient. If ARAVIA is not the right fit, we say so.
Team management: Built into the CRM: the trips assigned to each person, hours worked and holidays.
A platform that learns: The CRM adapts to the way each operation uses it: the more it is used, the more closely it fits the team’s own way of working. The website improves over time too, continuously optimised for Google and for AI search.
Where it started: ARAVIA began on the operations side, not with a booking button: capacity, check-in, team and customers in one place, so the operation runs faster and simpler.

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Common questions about ARAVIA

Is ARAVIA an alternative to booking software for tour operators?: Yes. ARAVIA covers bookings, payments, capacity, check-in, customers and analytics, so it can replace the current booking system. It is more than a booking engine: it is the platform the whole operation is managed on.
Does ARAVIA have a lock-in contract?: No. There is no lock-in and no minimum period.
Who pays the ARAVIA fee, the operator or the customer?: The operator decides. Azornexus advises operators to absorb it, and it can also be passed to the customer. The fee can be a single flat fee that already includes payment costs, so there is no separate payment fee on top. Offline bookings recorded by the team carry no ARAVIA fee.
Do I have to leave the OTAs to use ARAVIA?: No. Channels that bring customers stay. ARAVIA replaces the booking system, not the distribution.

See how ARAVIA works