Adventure Bucket List (ABL) brings the offerings of tour and activity operators online, giving their customers a chance to view real-time availability and conveniently make bookings 24/7.

What OpenTable did for the restaurant industry, we’re doing for adventures and tours.

With ABL's Agenda booking software, operators can smartly manage their bookings, schedule staff, handle payments, and effectively reach a larger audience. Agenda simplifies day-to-day operations so that companies can spend less time on administration and more time running incredible adventures. ABL is building a market network by connecting the tour and activity companies with travel sites across the globe, allowing travelers to discover tours and activities on many of the websites they use to book other aspects of their itineraries.

Mobile, secure, easy-to-use, ABL makes bookings easier for everyone so that the focus can stay on fun.

Most people arrive to their vacation destination without having booked the things they would like to experience. Maybe travelers grab a bunch of brochures at the airport or car rental office, spend their poolside time trying to call local operators to gather more information and check availability – it’s a struggle to discover and book things to do while on vacation. This is largely because 80% of adventure and tour companies manage their bookings offline with pen and paper.

At Adventure Bucket List, we realized that there needed to be a better system for everyone. That is why we built our Agenda booking software.

Instead of relying on the likes of taxi drivers, restaurant servers, and hotel staff for word-of-mouth recommendations, or paying for expensive advertising, businesses can now grow sales directly through their own websites. When someone clicks “book now,” a widget pops up that will guide them through booking. They can select dates, time, compare pricing, read FAQs and more, and complete real-time bookings without ever leaving the site.

When travelers are exploring elsewhere online, on popular sites such as TripAdvisor, they no longer have to wait after reading positive reviews for office hours to make a reservation. They can book immediately in just a few clicks.

ABL affords businesses many new opportunities online. A nearby wine tour company, for example, might integrate their book-now buttons directly onto a hotel website. This secures commission revenue for the hotel and gives the wine tour company extra exposure on the internet – we’ve seen our clients increase their conversions by up to 150%.

Cutting down on the administrative burden can also have a positive effect on sales. Agenda brings all reservations, note taking, booking, and payment processing online. Businesses save upwards of 8 hours per week in administrative work by using Agenda, leading to increases in their website sales on average by 40%.

Both business owners and seasonal staff can master the Agenda booking software with minimal technical skill. This means businesses that have been traditionally offline can effortlessly transition online and attract more customers.

Adventure Bucket List's Agenda booking software is an easy choice for tour and activity businesses because we focus directly on making their operations more efficient. We are not a standard scheduling platform. Our market network effect means that you are now online, catering to clients that find your website. You will also now have your offerings featured on top online travel websites across the globe. All of our features are built based on industry feedback, so every feature on our software is there for a reason – it helps!

Here’s a closer look at the features of Agenda:

Tour and Activity Management
Create and list tours to sell on your website in seconds. Customize your availability to allow your clients to book in real-time. Bad weather? Move your clients to a different day in a few clicks.

Calendar Scheduling
View all your events and bookings in a calendar, add clients to events in two clicks. Blackout dates that you are not working and easily adjust any calendar event.

Customer Reservation Management
Add clients to events in seconds, process payments through our system or your own POS, move clients to different dates, and send automated receipts/confirmation emails. Print daily or event rosters and export all information to CSV or PDF.

Staff Scheduling
Add your staff to the system and send them automated emails and text messages with their shifts. View all past and future shifts for easy payroll.

Booking Questions
Ask your clients specific questions as they check in, to gather information needed for the event. For example: Do you need hotel pickup? Do you have any allergies? What are the names of the attendees?

Coupons
Create a discount code in seconds. Agenda lets you manage when the coupon can be redeemed, what event it applies to and the fixed amount or percentage off. Monitor your campaigns by tracking the amount of times a coupon is redeemed.

Metrics
Breakdown monthly transactions, refunds, taxes/fees, and income. View cash flow or realized earnings. Strategize for the future. Know your most valuable tours and booking channels. Export data with one click.

Online Sales
Sell your offerings online with real-time availability. Booking buttons can be integrated into your website with only 3 lines of code so you can start selling in seconds! We can work with just about any website. Our widgets are compatible on HTML websites as well as many other templates including: Squarespace, WordPress, WIX, Weebly and more.

Mobile Booking
Agenda's checkout works with any type of smartphone or tablet. Fully responsive mobile optimized booking engine, no configuration required. Designed for easy navigation.

Payment Processing
Booking with cash, check, or a deposit is just as easy as using a credit card. We use Stripe as our payment gateway, which brings the credit card processing rate  down to a low 2.25% + $0.30/successful transaction. Supports 160 currencies. Tax calculation based on offering. Process payments in real-time. Funds are sent in a direct bank deposits on a rolling basis.

Security
PCI compliant, SSL certified, Cloud hosting powered by Amazon, Displays last 4 digits of card only.

Hosted in the cloud
Fully scalable bandwidth and processing powered by Amazon, Guaranteed 99.99% up-time SLA (available on request), Proactive hacker security provided by GoDaddy, Stringent information security, privacy and change management procedures.

From dazzling at startups competitions to gaining media coverage, to making customers very happy, Adventure Bucket List has been building unstoppable momentum.

Making Waves
ABL first made a splash in the Canadian startup scene, winning multiple competitions: the UBC Entrepreneur Boot Camp, the Vancouver Startup Showdown, and the Plug and Play Tech Center Fall Expo 2014.

We received investment from the Travel Startups Incubator as well as Plug and Play, Visionnaire Ventures and several Angels. 

Bringing Adventures to a Market Near You
235 companies are now paying monthly subscriptions for the Agenda booking software.

We’ve inked a three-year, region wide enterprise deal (worth over $2,000,000 in annual projected revenue).

Timeline

What People are Saying
Business owners and the press have caught on quickly to ABL. Here’s a listen to what some customers have had to say:

More customer reviews can be found here. ABL has also been featured on the Huffington Post and Go Overseas.

Up next for Adventure Bucket List: Expanding to nearly every country around the globe. Interested in being part of the future of ABL? Please request access to the Business Plan page of this profile!

Ryan Stobie - CEO
Ryan has extensive experience in the travel space as well as international B2B sales. Ryan has negotiated multi-million dollar deals with large corporations such as IBM and Bosch.

Rita LeBlanc - CCO
Rita has expertise in hospitality and tourism, having worked with some of Canada's top luxury hotels and resorts. She also has experience leading sales teams in the advertising and marketing industry.

Blake Pridham - COO
Blake brings experience managing operations in 100+ employee teams and managing companies in tour and activity space.

Kevin Adams - CTO
Kevin is a Cal Berkley graduate who has 15+ years experience managing startup tech teams in the Silicon Valley, including a Y-Combinator Bitcoin company, Buttercoin, and Webroute.

Paul Hecht
Paul ex-President of Expedia.ca. He is an expert in online travel and has a vast professional network.

Gabrial Manjerrez
Gabriel is a four-time startup founder who has built companies from 2 - 1000 employees and raised $100MM + for his most recent startup.

Martin Dudley
Martin was Vice President of Levis, and connected throughout Silicon Valley.

John Lederer
John former CEO of US Foods, Duane Reade, former president of Lablaws and an expert at M&A.