Build Your Own Charter
How Cash Back works.
The Cash Back you earn as a host isn't a commission, a kick-back, or a referral fee. It's a share of the trip's disposable income — what's left after the boat, the skipper, the platform costs, and operator commitments are paid. You earn it for doing the work of building a trip that actually sails.
The simple version
- 1. You host a trip. Friends + likeminded platform crew fill the cabins.
- 2. The trip happens. Customers pay over three stages (reservation hold, deposit at viability, balance at D-60). Everything settles after the trip sails.
- 3. BYOC totals the trip's disposable income — what's left after the operator's all-in boat fee, the skipper hire (~€2,000), payment-processing fees, and BYOC's ops cost.
- 4. You get a percentage of that disposable income, by trip number. We send it via Pay-by-Bank a few days after the trip closes.
The Cash Back rates
Cash Back grows with your reputation. The same rules apply to every host — organising or skipper — and the rules are dictated by BYOC, reviewed annually.
TRIP 1
20%
of disposable income. The starting tier — proves you can host a trip.
TRIP 2
30%
trip two earns a step up. Reputation begins to compound.
EVENTUALLY
50%
for established repeat hosts whose trips reliably reach viability. Hard cap.
A worked example
Take a 4-cabin Lagoon 42 in Croatia, all sellable cabins as couples, priced at €1,250/cabin (€625/person).
Exact disposable income depends on the operator deal, the boat class, and whether you've negotiated a tighter operator price. As a host you see the full math in your Bitrix deal card before the trip closes — no surprises.
When you get paid
Cash Back lands in your Revolut Business account (or whichever Pay-by-Bank endpoint you give us) within 7 days of the trip closing out. "Closing out" means: all customer payments cleared, no refund disputes pending, the trip has actually sailed and disembarked.
Skipper hosts see Cash Back differently — earned progressively at each trip stage (viability flip, deposit collected, balance collected, sailed) rather than as a single end-of-trip payout. The total is the same; the cash-flow timing is friendlier when you're sailing for a living.
Optional: share Cash Back with the crew
Some hosts want to distribute their Cash Back across the crew rather than keep it all — friends-only trips, not-for-profit trips, trips where the host had a co-organiser. Four options:
- Keep — you take the full Cash Back. Default.
- Equal split — divide across paying crew. You pick whether platform guests are included or just your host guests.
- Custom split — you specify per-guest percentages at close.
- Donate — direct your Cash Back to a sailing-related cause.
You still do the building / organising work regardless of which option you pick. The choice is purely about who receives the deferred share.
Ready to host?
Pick the path that fits, fill the register-interest form, Chris replies within the day to walk you through trip setup.
Read the host tiers + register interest →