Replies to every customer. Books more trips. While you fish.
Shipmate is the smart inbox for fishing charters. It answers every customer message in your voice, books the trip, takes the deposit. You stay on the water.
Shipmate replies to your customers in their own language, around the clock.
What Shipmate does
Three jobs Shipmate does for you.
In your voice. In any language. Around the clock.
Replies to every customer message
Across Instagram, WhatsApp, SMS, email, and your Facebook page. Drafts every reply in your voice. Sends in your customer's language.
Books the trip and takes the deposit
Customer picks a date, pays the deposit, gets a confirmation in your voice. Payouts hit your bank while you're on the water.
Handles the trip and brings them back
Trip prep the morning of with the weather. Follow-up after they're home. Reminds them when it's time to book again.
Try it
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Real questions a captain would receive. Real fleet.
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How it works
Four steps to an inbox that runs your business.
Step 1. Set up in five minutes
Connect your channels. Shipmate imports your last 90 days of customer messages, from Instagram, email, or a WhatsApp export, learns your voice, and pulls out your pricing, schedule, gear, and policies.
Step 2. Shipmate replies automatically
Every customer DM gets an instant reply in your voice, in their language. Approve while it learns, then switch autopilot on.
July 18 is open. Full day for 4 is $1,400, gear included. Want the booking link?
Step 3. Customer books and pays
Customer picks a boat and date, pays the deposit through Stripe, gets a confirmation in your voice. Payouts land in your bank. Shipmate takes 1%.
Step 4. Trip happens, they come back
Trip prep the day before with the weather. Follow-up after they're home. Back when they're ready to book the next one.
Turn autopilot on from day one or keep approval on until you're happy with how Shipmate sounds. Pause autopilot completely with one tap, anytime.
Your website
Your charter website. On Google. Included.
Every captain on Shipmate gets a real, indexed website. Your boats, your prices, your voice. Customers find you, book direct, you keep 99%.
Salt Addiction Fishing
Charter fishing in Fremantle, WA · ★ 4.9 (47 trips) · 2 boats
Salt Addiction
from A$1,800
Salt Obsession
from A$1,400
- A real charter website, not a directory listing
- Ranks on Google for your city and your species
- Your boats, your prices, your photos, your voice
- Inline booking with deposits straight to your bank
- A chat widget that lands new enquiries in your inbox
- You own the brand. We just power it.
See it in your inbox
One inbox. Every channel. Every language. Your voice.
What's a full day on July 18 for 4 of us?
July 18's open. Full day for 4 is $1,400, gear and bait included. Dhufish has been on. Want the booking link?
In your voiceWhat's a full day on July 18 for 4 of us?
July 18's open. Full day for 4 is $1,400, gear and bait included. Dhufish has been on. Want the booking link?
In your voiceIn your voice
Shipmate drafts every reply the way you'd write it. Trained on your past DMs, it sounds like you on your best day.
¿Cuánto cuesta el día completo el 18 de julio?
El 18 está libre. Día completo $1,400 para 4, equipo incluido. ¿Te paso el enlace?
In your inbox: “July 18 is open. Full day $1,400 for 4, gear included. Want the link?”
In any language
Your customer writes in Spanish, Italian, Arabic. Shipmate replies in their language and shows you the conversation in English.
You pick what runs on autopilot. Pause anytime.
Captain in command
Switch any message type off. Pause autopilot with one tap. The captain always has the wheel.
Multi-boat
Every boat. Every booking. One calendar. One inbox.
July 2026
Pricing
One price. No tiers. No surprises.
Try Shipmate free for 30 days, counted from the day it starts working for you. No card to start. If it doesn't fill your calendar, walk away. No questions, no charge.
30 days free from the day Shipmate starts working. No card to start. Cancel anytime.
- Replies to every customer. In your voice. In any language. On every channel.
- Books trips, takes deposits. Booking page + Stripe payouts to your bank. 1% on bookings.
- Handles trips, brings them back. Trip prep, post-trip follow-up, repeat-booking reminders.
- Multi-boat calendar. One calendar across every boat in your fleet.
Questions
The stuff captains ask before signing up.
- Yes, because it learns from your past replies. When you connect a channel, Shipmate imports your last 90 days of customer messages and picks up your tone, your pricing, your boat, your species. Instagram, Gmail, and Outlook import automatically; for WhatsApp you upload a chat export. You can leave approval on for the first batch of drafts and edit anything that doesn't land. Every edit sharpens it further.
Why we built this
Built by fishermen. For fishing captains.
Shipmate started because we watched too many good captains lose trips to a buried inbox. Every message that hits your Shipmate inbox reads like it was written by someone who has been on the water, because it was.
Questions about the boat you run, the channels you reply on, or what you wish existed, we want to hear them.
Auto-reply to every customer. In your voice.
Try Shipmate free for 30 days.
Sign up in 90 seconds. Connect Instagram. Shipmate replies from there.