Put in a trip's price and group, how you pay guides, the tips and the direct costs. The calculator shows what each guide takes home, the effective share of revenue that represents, and what the business keeps.
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Enter a trip as it usually runs. Change the pay basis to see how the same trip looks on a revenue share, a day rate, or a per-guest rate.
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Each guide takes home
$480
$400 in pay plus $80 in tips, on a $1,000 trip.
With several guides, pay divides evenly. Tips are not counted as revenue. In Treka the same split is recorded against the booking when the guide is assigned.
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Guide services pay guides in three common ways: a percentage of the trip revenue, a flat day rate per trip, or an amount per guest. Each one behaves differently as the group fills. A percentage scales with the booking, a day rate makes a full boat very profitable and an empty one painful, and a per-guest rate sits in between. Tips are separate from all three and usually go to the guides in full.
The calculator applies the basis you choose to one trip and separates guide pay, tips and the business's margin after direct costs. The effective share line converts whatever basis you use into a percentage of revenue, which is the number to compare across trips and seasons.
In Treka a guide is assigned to a trip date, and a payout is recorded against that booking with its split, so the number the calculator gives you is the number the portal carries from assignment to payment. Payouts show their status, method and reference, and guide payout data exports as CSV for 1099s and your accountant.
Once the split works on paper, set it up once in the portal and stop recalculating it after every trip. A demo on your own trips takes thirty minutes.
FAQ
Something else? Ask the people who built it.
Talk to usTreka records each guide's payout against the booking and tracks it to paid, with the method and reference. How the money moves is up to you: Stripe payouts, your bank, or cash, all recorded in the same place.
Yes. Payouts are recorded per guide and per booking, so a lead guide and an assistant can carry different amounts on the same trip.
Tips can be recorded with the payout so the guide's total for the day is in one place and exports with everything else.
Treka's pricing is public: 30 days of Core free, then Core at $99 a month or $79 a month billed yearly, Pro at $399 a month or $329 a month billed yearly. A 3% booking fee is added at checkout and paid by the guest, and Stripe's card processing (2.9% + 30¢) is billed at cost with no markup.
See it on your own trips
Deposits, waivers, guide pay and the policy you just wrote, running on your trips rather than in a calculator.
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