This network was built for three kinds of professionals — the charter captain running iron offshore, the party boat filling forty seats on a Saturday, and the guide who never leaves the sand. Same standard, same tools, same earned rank. No one left out.
Not screenshots — the working surfaces, loaded with demo data. Yours activates the day your badge issues. It installs from the browser straight to your home screen; no app store stands between you and your business.
Bay, jetty, nearshore, offshore — if you hold the wheel, this is your lane. The full six-pillar verification puts a badge on your listing that no marketing budget can fake:
Rank is earned by credentials and performance. There is no pay-for-position lane. Ever. Why verification matters — the Coast Guard is boarding illegal charters →
Big boats sell seats, not charters — so IronJetty prices per seat, natively. No workarounds, no "contact for group rates."
Running four or more vessels? The Fleet Partner track gets you negotiated terms and a fleet dashboard.
Land-based shark with kayak bait drops. Surf and wade. On every other platform you don't exist — here you're a first-class category with your own three-pillar standard:
The only platform where you exist — with the same badge, the same booking flow, and the same earned rank as the biggest boat in the harbor.
Marketplace commissions run 10–30% — adjustable, unpublished, and charged again every time a repeat guest books you through their listing. Our ladder is flat and printed on this page. Slide your season and read the difference yourself:
| Season gross (7 fishing months) | — |
| You keep on a 10–30% marketplace | — |
| You keep at IronJetty standard · 7% | — |
| You keep as a Founding 15 boat · 5% | — |
| Kept back in your pocket, per season | — |
Fifteen boats, max three per operator. Nothing upfront — your slot is claimed when verification is complete and your calendar is live within 14 days of your badge. FOUNDER badge permanently, 10 Boost credits, free Verified Pro, and a direct line to the founder.
Everyone after slot 15. Still less than half of what the incumbents take, still no pay-to-rank, still your customers staying yours. The captain who waits pays 7% — forever.
Multi-vessel or multi-port operations get negotiated terms, a fleet dashboard, and the FLEET badge. Renews annually — no lifetime lock, terms that scale with the operation.
Every paying party lands in your Guest Book automatically. Export the CSV any time, take it anywhere, email them your new dates from the console.
Weather call is yours. One tap refunds every booking in full, releases the seats, sends each angler your next open dates, and posts the freed date to the Live Dock.
The calendar sells while you fish — deposits enforced, double-bookings rejected, balances tracked. A missed call is no longer a lost trip.
New booking, new offer, badge change — pushed to your phone the moment it lands. Nothing to check at 2 a.m.; the bell rings you.
USCG, TPWD, insurance, drug consortium — one wallet, expiry alarms 30 days out, and a compliance watch that guards your badge for you.
No auction for the top of the page. Verification and record decide placement — a boost credit moves one Live Dock blast, never your standing.
Three tools nobody else gives a six-pack captain. Every one of them is yours to switch on, price, and approve — nothing sells without your yes.
A group books your private trip and agrees to share. You open the spare seats at a price the site makes you keep under your private per-seat rate. Every seat sold hands 40% back to the original group's balance — and you gross more than the private rate did. You approve who steps aboard.
Nobody booked Tuesday. Open the boat: set a seat price, set the seat count, and let three separate parties fill what would have been a tied-up boat. Same discount rule, same approval control.
Flag any empty date as open to offers and set a floor so lowballs never reach your phone. Anglers name a whole-boat price; you get one email, tap accept or pass. Accept, and they get a private pay link locked at that price. Decline, and they're told politely.
And you rate them back. After every trip you score your party's conduct — on time, followed crew, respected the boat, legal keeps — and whether you'd take them again. Only captains ever see it, and it's what the next captain reads before saying yes. Anglers with a proven record clear onto shared boats automatically; everyone else waits for the captain.
Boat charters: the six pillars — USCG MMC confirmed with the National Maritime Center (type, route, and tonnage matched to the trips you sell), TPWD All-Water Guide License, commercial marine insurance verified directly with your broker (personal-boat policies are rejected), the federal permits your trips require, drug-testing program enrollment, and your existing reputation imported.
Party boats: the same six pillars, checked against your COI/inspected-vessel documentation and passenger capacity.
Land & shoreline guides: a three-pillar standard built for how you actually operate — verified identity and reputation, liability coverage confirmed with the issuer, and TPWD licensing wherever the law requires it. No boat paperwork demanded for an operation that has no boat.
Nothing upfront, no listing fee, no subscription. IronJetty earns a commission only when you get paid: 5% for life for Founding 15 captains · 7% flat standard · negotiated for Fleet Partners. The commission comes out of the booking automatically — you never write us a check.
You do. Every angler who books you is your customer — name, contact, trip history. Rebook them directly, message them, take them with you if you ever leave. We're the dock, not the gatekeeper. The big platforms hide customer contact info so you can't leave; that's exactly the behavior IronJetty was built against.
Through Stripe Express — your own payout account, connected to your bank. The deposit is collected at booking, and the balance is charged automatically the morning of the trip. Money lands on the standard Stripe schedule, with fee-free instant payouts included for Founding captains. Your earnings dashboard, tax paperwork, and payout history all live in the captain app.
You make the call — one tap. Passengers are notified, refunds are automatic and total, your slot is re-posted, and there is no review penalty for calling weather. Gulf weather does what it wants; a platform that punishes captains for prudent calls is a platform that gets people hurt. Ours doesn't.
The real-time feed of cancellations and open seats. When a spot opens, it's pushed to anglers nearby who've searched your species in the last 30 days — a last-minute trip at a last-minute price. It's how an empty Tuesday becomes a paid Tuesday, and it's included for every verified captain.
Yes — natively. Set a per-seat price, seat inventory per departure, and watch the fill-meter climb. Groups can split-pay so one person never fronts forty tickets, every paid seat gets its own QR boarding pass, and undersold departures can blast the Live Dock to top off the rail.
Your identity and reputation, proof of liability coverage, and a TPWD license if your operation legally requires one. That's it. Land-based shark with kayak bait drops, surf, and wade trips list as first-class categories — with the same badge, booking flow, waivers, and weather policy as the boats. You'll be on the only platform where your trade exists at all.
You lose a booking channel — not your business. Your customers and their contact info are yours and exportable. Your money never sits with us: payments flow through your own Stripe Express account. Your credentials are your own documents. IronJetty is built to be hard to leave because it's good, not because it's holding anything hostage.
File the membership application — two minutes, and it stages your verification checklist so the first call is about fishing, not paperwork. Drew reads every submission and replies within a day. There are fifteen slots, max three per operator, and nothing is owed upfront: your slot is locked when verification is complete and your calendar is live within 14 days of your badge. When the fifteen are gone, they're gone.
Thirty seconds. No account, no spam list — submissions go straight to Drew's desk. Ready to join outright? File the full membership application →