Zero commission. Flat fee. Guides keep everything.

Get paid
to guide.
Keep it all.

The best trips don't come from travel agencies. They come from the person who's fished that river a hundred times, hiked that ridge every fall, or arrived in a new country and found trails nobody else knows. Setout gives those guides the tools to get paid — with zero commission, ever.

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Marcus Rivera
📍 Deschutes River, OR
Live
Early Season Fly Fishing
May 12 · $140/person · 6 of 8 booked
$840
Collected
6
Booked
$0
Commission
75% full2 spots left
This month's earnings
Updated
3 trips · 22 participants$2,640 kept
Commission taken by Setout$0.00
Platform fee$19/mo flat
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Sunrise Ridge Hike · Tirana, Albania
Referral link active · Earn 1 free month per guide you bring
$0 commission on every booking
Flat $19/mo — unlimited trips
FareHarbor takes 6–8% — we never do
You earned it. You keep it.
The guide economy

"The person who's fished that river a hundred times, hiked that ridge every fall, or arrived somewhere new and found trails nobody else knows — they deserve to get paid. Not after a platform takes its cut. All of it."

Setout handles booking pages, deposit collection, automated pre-trip emails, waivers, and post-trip reviews — so guides can do the thing they actually love. Simple tools. Zero overhead. One flat monthly fee.

Whether you guide from home, from a van, or from a new country every season — Setout goes with you. Build your audience, grow your bookings, and get paid to take people to the places you know better than anyone.

For the organizer
🏕
Going back somewhere you loved?
"Bring friends. Go for free."
Organize the return trip. Charge your crew what it cost you. Cover your costs — or make it your gift to them. A professional booking link, automatic payments, no awkward Venmo requests.
Plan a trip →
For the local expert
🎣
You know this river better than anyone.
"Time to get paid for it."
You've guided friends for free for years. They keep saying you should charge. Now you can — with a professional booking page, gear list emails, waivers, and your money going straight to you.
Start guiding →
For the nomad guide
🌍
Every place you land, you find trails nobody else knows.
"Get paid to explore the world."
You're in Albania this month, the Azores next. You discover routes, find hidden spots, build a following. Setout lets you monetize wherever you are — build your audience, run trips, keep everything you earn.
Guide the world →
The model that's actually fair

Zero commission.
Not a slogan. A promise.

Flat monthly. That's it.
FareHarbor, Peek Pro, and Airbnb Experiences take 6–30% of every booking. On a $2,000 group trip, that's up to $600 gone before you see a dollar. Setout charges one flat monthly fee. Nothing more. Ever.
💰
What participants pay, you receive.
Every dollar your participants pay goes directly to you through Stripe. Setout never touches your booking revenue. The platform fee is between you and us — completely separate from your trips.
📈
Grow without penalty.
Run 1 trip or 50. Take 5 participants or 500. Your fee stays flat. The more you grow, the better the deal gets. We win when you subscribe — not when you earn.
🌍
Works wherever you are.
Guiding in Oregon or Albania, New Zealand or Norway — Setout and Stripe handle the payments globally. One platform, one fee, every country you take people into.
Other platforms take
6–30%
per booking, forever
vs
Setout charges
$19/mo
flat. zero cuts. unlimited trips.
On a $2,000 group trip: competitors take up to $600. Setout takes $0 of it. Your $19 monthly fee is the only thing we ever charge.
Simple by design

From signup to
first booking in 15 minutes.

01
Create your trip page
Choose your activity, set your date, price, and deposit. Your public booking page is live and shareable immediately.
Up in 15 minutes
02
Share the link
Post it to Instagram, drop it in a Facebook group, text it to your crew. Participants book and pay a deposit in one clean flow.
No Venmo. No spreadsheet.
03
Automations fire
Gear lists, permit reminders, weather updates, and waivers go out automatically. You don't type another message.
No chasing. No follow-ups.
04
Build as you go
Post-trip reviews build your profile. Referral links spread your name. Trip cards go viral. Your audience grows with every trip.
Every trip grows the next one

This is what disappears
the moment you use Setout.

"Who hasn't paid yet?" texts
The participant spreadsheet
Copy-pasted gear list emails
Chasing waiver signatures
Venmo / PayPal / cash chaos
"What time do we meet?" DMs
The 6–8% platform tax
Manual weather check reminders
Post-trip radio silence
For guides who think like creators

Your trips are content.
Your audience is your moat.

Every trip you run
builds the next one.

The guides who grow fastest aren't just booking trips — they're building an audience that follows them wherever they go. Setout gives you the tools to turn every trip into discovery, every participant into an evangelist, every location into content.

This is what separates Setout from every other booking platform. We're not just a tool for running trips. We're infrastructure for building a guide business that travels with you.

🃏
Auto-generated trip cards
Beautiful shareable visuals created automatically after every trip. Drop them on Instagram, TikTok, or anywhere your audience is. Your brand. Your trips. Their feeds.
🔗
Referral links that compound
Every guide who joins through your link earns you a free month. Every participant who becomes a guide does the same. The network builds itself.
Review automation
Post-trip review requests fire automatically. Your profile builds with every trip. New participants find you through your track record — not your ad spend.
🔄
Participant → guide viral loop
Every participant who books your trip sees "plan your own trip and go for free" after. The people you take out today become the guides of tomorrow — and you get credit for bringing them.
S
Sofia Andreou
@sofiaroams · setout.guide/sofia
34
Trips run
$0
Commission paid
4.9★
Rating
Accursed Mountains, Albania Full
Algarve Sea Kayaking, Portugal 3 spots left
Azores Volcano Trek Waitlist
Transparent pricing

Guides keep what they earn.

Explorer
$0
forever free · no card needed
  • 1 active trip at a time
  • Up to 8 participants
  • Booking page + deposits
  • Confirmation email
  • Basic waiver
  • Zero commission
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Guide
$19
per month · cancel any time
  • Unlimited trips
  • Up to 25 participants
  • Full pre-trip email sequences
  • Activity-specific templates
  • Custom intake questions
  • Remove Setout branding
  • Review automation
  • Zero commission
Pro
$49
per month · cancel any time
  • Everything in Guide
  • Unlimited participants
  • Auto trip cards for social
  • Referral system
  • Repeat client campaigns
  • Revenue analytics
  • Priority support
  • Zero commission
Outfitter
$99
per month · cancel any time
  • Everything in Pro
  • Up to 5 guide accounts
  • Admin dashboard
  • Custom domain support
  • Branded booking page
  • Dedicated onboarding
  • Zero commission

Every tier. Every trip. Every participant. Zero commission. Always.

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