WTF is Origin?

Origin is the only booking and guide scheduling platform built for outdoor guiding companies.

Spend Less Time Scheduling Guides For Trips

Eliminate the time-consuming process of scheduling your Guides. Stop worrying about over-booking trips or not having a Guide to lead, Origin handles it.

Hands-Off Guide Scheduling

Your Guides now have a personal calendar. You’ll always know who’s available and Guide calendars sync with trips automatically, so you can spend your time growing your business.

Assign Guides Based On Skills Automatically

Add your Guides’ experience levels and Origin’s tools rank your Guides by seniority/skill so they’re assigned to trips within their scope.

Streamlined Client-to-Guide Ratios

Keep groups safe using Origin’s Guide Ratio tool that automatically adjusts open spots based on Guide availability.

Get Started With Origin

Use a scheduling and booking platform actually built for your outdoor guiding business. Sign up and start processing bookings within an hour.

Save Time With Origin’s QuickBooks Integration

Sick of spending hours on accounting? Origin’s QuickBooks integration tracks payments and refunds quickly and determines what bookings they belong to. You’ll be able to create Custom Rules to route payments to different accounts automatically. Plus, you’ll be able to easily calculate what you’re spending so you make sure you have cash to cover expenses.

Give Your Clients The Best Experience Possible

Whether it’s a trip of a lifetime or becoming a guide themselves, your job is to keep them safe, but also make sure they have the best dang time of their life.

Within Origin, you’ll view your guests’ previous trips, current skill levels, preferred meals, rental gear size, and any other information a guide leaves post-trip. This helps you better understand your client’s needs, provide a seamless customer experience, and develop customer loyalty.

Automate Post-Trip Guide Reports

Improve communication among you and your staff with automated post-trip guide reports so you can provide top-notch customer service.

Origin sends Guides a post-trip report link at the end of every trip. You can automatically collect any information you want from your guides: trip date, guide names, customer booking information, and anything critical for your operations. Admins and Guides can view reports as needed and use this to offer a truly personalized outdoor experience.

Work Smarter. Get Back Outside.

Start using a booking and scheduling platform built for outdoor guiding businesses that completes tasks for you while you’re leading trips.

Free Built-In Digital Waiver System

Access everything you need from one platform, including your customers’ waivers. 

Every participant receives your liability waiver link when they book. Automatic emails and texts remind guests of any unsigned waivers before the adventure and review request emails are sent post-trip.

Plus, Origin’s CRM collects their contact details, so you can easily encourage guests to return for more adventures with your company.

Keep Track Of Inventory, Gear, And Equipment

When you run everything from introductory to advanced trips and courses, someone’s bound to need gear—and you need to make sure it’s available.

If you offer rental equipment, you need an easy way to manage it all. With Origin, you’ll see which customer is using what gear and what Guide is driving which vehicle, from the same system that schedules and tracks it all.

In a few clicks, you can hide vehicles or equipment from the calendar when they need repair or service. Using Origin’s Inventory Tracker, you’re never short on what you need.

Testimonials

“We were running multiple systems, and I hated that. Origin is an all-inclusive platform for your waivers, guides, scheduling, and booking on board. I only have to use one system, which obviously I prefer.”
—Charlie Faust, Operations Manager of Basecamp Ouray
Giving guides that autonomy [with Origin] to have access to this, where I can be like, “Hey, by this deadline, you have to give me your availability. If you don't, I'm going to assume you're not available, and that's going to affect your income.” That's been really, really helpful and taken a lot off of my plate as far as worrying about the availability."
—Charlie Faust, Operations Manager of Basecamp Ouray
“New platforms can be intimidating, but the Origin team is super hands-on and has worked through anything I have ever needed, had questions about, and has listened to any suggestions I have given to them.”
—Stephen Balogh, Owner/Operator of Riffletrip Outfitters
“Every now and then I'll check our reviews and they're super authentic. They're people who wanted to leave a review and I really appreciate the authenticity rather than harassing them for a review. I think it's really cool that Origin takes care of it and I don't do anything. People are just leaving reviews because they had an awesome time, and the platform is really sweet.”
—Ryan Scott, Owner/Operator of Atlantic Climbing School
“[Life before Origin was] very disorganized. We were unable to assign guides a schedule on our booking platform, so we had to use 2 different systems that in turn did not make our life easy. Origin makes everything streamlined from booking clients to scheduling guides on a daily basis. We are very happy to be an Origin partner.”
—Sarah MacGregor, Guide at San Juan Expeditions

Ditch The Old Systems And Switch To Origin

Upgrading from an outdated booking system to Origin is easier than chopping wood with a sharp axe. Sign up and start processing bookings within an hour.