FareHarbor API
FareHarbor documents an External API at developer.fareharbor.com covering bookings, availabilities, items, and customers. No self-serve signup exists; keys are provisioned manually after approval into the Affiliate or Software Partner program. Webhooks cover only Booking and Item events.
Frequently asked questions
FareHarbor scores D+ on the API Report Card. FareHarbor documents an External API at developer.fareharbor.com covering bookings, availabilities, items, and customers. No self-serve signup exists; keys are provisioned manually after approval into the Affiliate or Software Partner program. Webhooks cover only Booking and Item events.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
FareHarbor is an all-in-one online booking and business management platform for tour, activity, rental, and attraction operators.
Tours, Activities & Attractions (sometimes called the 'TAA' or 'in-destination experiences' vertical) - a sub-segment of travel/hospitality. A tour operator embeds FareHarbor's Lightframe booking widget on their website. End consumers select a date/time/headcount/add-ons, pay via integrated card processing, sign waivers, and receive confirmation emails/SMS.
8/10 within its niche. FareHarbor is widely considered the largest reservation platform in the tours-and-activities vertical in North America, with 20,000+ operator deployments per company claims.
Yes - for the tour/activity/attraction operator, FareHarbor is the system of record for revenue.
13 years old (founded 2013, acquired by Booking Holdings 2018). The Dashboard is a mature web app; Lightframe is the consumer-facing embedded checkout that has been iterated on but is widely critiqued for performance.
No public/self-serve developer signup - integrators must email FareHarbor partnerships and be approved into the Software Partner or Affiliate program before receiving X-FareHarbor-API-App and X-FareHarbor-API-User credentials. Two-header authentication scheme (X-FareHarbor-API-App + X-FareHarbor-API-User) is non-standard and forces every consuming app to roll a bespoke auth integration vs. dropping in an OAuth client. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Peek Pro, Xola, Rezdy, Bokun (Tripadvisor/Viator), Checkfront, TicketingHub. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial FareHarbor API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write FareHarbor data. See the FareHarbor integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/fareharbor-api.