DiveOps · Free forever for dive operators

Free dive booking software, made for the dive industry.

DiveOps replaces the messy spreadsheets, email threads and WhatsApp chains that come with running a dive business. Take bookings online, run your boat manifest, manage your crew and vessels, all in one place. Free forever, no card required, no commission, no per-booking fee.

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We don't take a cut. We don't process payment. You handle money in person with your customers, the way you do today. DiveGigs makes its money on Hiring and Courses; DiveOps is how we give back.

A look inside

See it in action.

Two sides of the same booking, both built for the dive industry.

For your divers

The booking page customers visit on their phone or laptop.

divegigs.com/book/drifline-divers

Step 1 of 5 · Offering

What would you like to book?

Pick the experience that suits you.

Two-tank morning dive

120 min · $95 USD

Boat dive on the house reef. Briefing + 2 tanks.

Discover Scuba Diving

90 min · $95 USD

Guided intro dive for first-timers. No certification needed.

Open Water Course

3 days · $450 USD

Step 2 of 5 · Date

Pick a date

Discover Scuba Diving

‹ June 2026 ›

Wednesday 10 June

10:00

3 left

14:00

4 left

Step 3 of 5 · Divers

Diver details

We'll send the confirmation to the lead diver.

Lead diver name

Sarah Chen

[email protected]

Phone

+44

7700 900123

Cert level

Open Water

Cert agency

PADI

✓ I'll need to rent gear

Step 4 of 5 · Questions

A few details

Help the shop prepare for your visit.

Are you comfortable swimming in open water? *

Yes No

Anything you'd like us to know?

Travelling with my partner for our anniversary, would love to organise some underwater photos if you offer that!

How did you hear about us?

Hotel concierge ▾

Step 5 of 5 · Review

Review

Double-check everything before sending.

Booking

Discover Scuba Diving

Wednesday 10 June · 10:00

1 diver

Lead diver

Sarah Chen

[email protected]

+44 7700 900123

PADI Open Water · Needs gear rental

Your answers

Comfortable swimming?

Yes

Anything we should know?

Anniversary trip · underwater photos…

The shop will review and confirm by email. Request booking

✓

Booking sent to Drifline Divers

We've passed your details to the team. They'll review and confirm by email shortly.

Booking

Discover Scuba Diving

Date

Wednesday 10 June 2026 · 10:00

Reference

BKD-A4F7K2

Divers

Drifline Divers

Email [email protected]

Phone +63 917 555 0142

Customer-facing booking flow

✓

No login or account

Customers click your link and book. No password creation, no app to download.

✓

Mobile-first, calm UI

Tested on phones first because that's where 70%+ of bookings happen.

✓

Live capacity

Slots that are full disappear automatically. Customers can't accidentally double-book your boat.

✓

Confirmation + tracking link

Every diver gets a personal page they can revisit anytime to see their booking status.

For your shop

What you see when you log in to manage bookings.

DiveOps · Bookings

Bookings

2 pending

All Pending Upcoming Past

Two-tank morning dive

Pending

Sarah Chen · [email protected]

Wed 10 Jun, 09:00 · 2 divers · BKD-A4F7K2

Accept Reject View →

Discover Scuba Diving

Pending

Marco Rossi · [email protected]

Fri 12 Jun, 10:00 · 1 diver · BKD-PXMR82

Accept Reject View →

Open Water Course

Confirmed

Hana Yamada · [email protected]

Mon 8 Jun, 09:00 · 1 diver · BKD-Z4TKLA

View →

Your bookings inbox

DiveOps · Schedule

Today Tomorrow Next 7 days

Wednesday 10 June Today

09:00

120 min

Two-tank morning dive

3 / 8 spaces booked · 5 spaces available

▾

Sarah Chen

2 divers · PADI Open Water · needs gear · BKD-A4F7K2

Confirmed

Hana Yamada

1 diver · SSI Advanced Open Water · BKD-Z4TKLA

Confirmed

✉ Email everyone on this slot

14:30

120 min

Discover Scuba Diving

2 / 4 spaces booked · 1 pending · 2 spaces available

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Day-by-day Schedule

Free forever

No trial, no upgrades, no card.

No commission

DiveGigs never sees a cent of your bookings.

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Unlimited bookings

No quotas, no usage tiers.

Booking Engine

Everything you need to take dive bookings online.

Set it up once, then let customers book themselves. You stay in control of every booking, with one inbox to manage them all.

Your own branded booking page

Every shop gets a unique, mobile-friendly booking page at divegigs.com/book/your-shop. Add your logo, your offerings, your schedule. Share the link from your website, Instagram bio, WhatsApp, email signature, or printed flyers. No website needed, but it works alongside any website you already have.

Calendar with recurring schedules

Set days-of-week, times and capacity per offering. Customers see a clean calendar for the next 60 days (or however long you choose). The Booking Engine generates all the slots automatically and respects your booking horizon.

Manual or auto-accept bookings

Choose how each offering handles new bookings. Manual review lets you approve every booking from one inbox. Auto-accept confirms instantly when capacity is available, perfect for fun dives where every diver is welcome.

Custom questions for safety and prep

Ask the questions you actually need answered: medical disclaimers, swim ability, gear sizes, last dive date, dietary needs. Mark the important ones as required so no booking lands incomplete.

Configurable required diver fields

Decide what divers must provide: phone number, certification level, dives logged, gear-rental answer. The booking page enforces it automatically for every diver in the booking, so you're never chasing missing info.

Day-by-day Schedule view

Open your dive-day prep view and see who's diving with you, when, on what. Each slot expands to show the divers, their certifications, their gear needs and contact info. Doubles as your boat manifest.

Quick-action inbox

Pending bookings show with Accept and Reject buttons right in the list. Click View for full details: diver list, custom answers, certifications, gear needs, audit timeline. Customers get an email automatically when you accept, decline, reschedule or cancel.

Reschedule and cancel without leaving Gmail

Move a booking to another slot in one click. The customer is emailed the new date and the slot capacity is freed. Cancel with an optional reason that goes in the email. The booking engine keeps the audit trail for you.

Optional customer self-cancellation

Let customers cancel online up to a deadline you set (e.g. 24 hours before the dive). Cuts out hand-written email back-and-forth for last-minute changes. After the deadline, they have to contact you directly.

Blackouts for closures, weather, refits

Block off dates when you can't run dives. Slots in the range disappear from the booking page. The Engine protects you from accidentally cancelling confirmed customers, you'll need to reschedule them first.

Email everyone on this slot

Boat cancelled? Weather alert? Meeting-point change? Compose one message, send it to every confirmed and pending lead diver on a slot in seconds. Replaces the bcc-the-clipboard ritual.

Automatic customer reminders

Customers get a friendly reminder the day before their dive: your shop name, your dive details. Reduces no-shows without you lifting a finger.

Lifetime customer tracking page

Every customer gets a unique link they can revisit anytime to see their booking status, the dive details, and the shop's contact info. No password required.

Light-touch CRM

Every diver who books with you appears on your private Customers tab: contact info, certifications, gear sizes (if collected), and full booking history. Each shop's customer list is private to that shop.

Manual payment status tracking

Track payments your way: Not requested, Deposit requested, Deposit received, Paid in full, Pay on arrival, Refunded. Add private notes per booking. Optionally show the status on the customer's tracking page.

Audit timeline on every booking

Every action (confirmation, decline, reschedule, payment update, internal note, bulk email) is logged with who did it and when. Useful for end-of-month reconciliation and resolving customer queries.

Email customers as you, not as us

All customer-facing emails are styled as if from your shop, with your shop name in the From line and customer replies routing back to your shop email. DiveGigs stays in the background.

What DiveOps doesn't do

Take card payments. Ever. You handle payment in person, the way you do today. No card-on-file.
Sell through customer accounts. Customers book via a shareable link. No password, no signup, no friction.
Replace enterprise platforms. If you run 10 boats, 50 staff, and need contractual SLAs and integrations with your accounting suite, DiveOps probably isn't enough. We're built for the small-to-mid operator.
Promise uptime contractually. We host it for free and host it well, but if you need a guaranteed SLA, look elsewhere.

Free dive booking software, set up in 15 minutes.

Replace your booking spreadsheets and email threads today. No card, no commission, no per-booking fee.

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Boat Manifest · Free forever

A proper boat manifest, printable, paper-friendly.

Auto-build today's manifest from your confirmed bookings. Add walk-ins manually, assign crew from your roster, then print a clean A4 manifest with signature lines for the captain. Headcount tracking refuses to close the trip if anyone's still recorded as aboard.

DiveOps · Manifest

Wednesday 10 June 2026

09:00 · Two-tank morning dive · Sea Turtle II

Open 5 divers, 2 crew, 7 total

Divers

Sarah Chen

Open Water Needs gear

Marco Rossi

Advanced Open Water

Lena Kowalski

Rescue Diver

Crew

Alex Reyes

Skipper

Maya Chen

Instructor Staff account

All confirmed bookings auto-imported. Print PDF

Manifest editor, auto-built from bookings

Boat Manifest

Wednesday 10 June 2026
Departs 09:00

Drifline Divers

Two-tank morning dive
Sea Turtle II · Reg BC-1042
Skipper · Alex Reyes

5 divers, 2 crew, 7 total

Dive site(s)

Divers

#	Name & cert	Post-dive & time
1	Sarah Chen Open Water	Time
2	Marco Rossi Advanced Open Water	Time
3	Lena Kowalski Rescue Diver	Time

Name & cert

Pre-dive

Post-dive & time

Sarah Chen

Open Water

Time

Marco Rossi

Advanced Open Water

Time

Lena Kowalski

Rescue Diver

Time

Crew

1	Alex Reyes		Time
2	Maya Chen		Time

Skipper signature

Date / time of return

Manifest by DiveGigs.com · free tools for dive operators

Printed manifest. A4, signature columns, signed off by the captain

What's in it

Built for daily use on the boat. Easy to update, easy to print.

Auto-built from your bookings

Every confirmed booking on a slot becomes a row on the manifest automatically. Re-sync any time to pull in late additions without losing manual entries you've already made.

Add walk-ins manually

Got a diver who paid cash on the dock? Add them in two clicks: name, cert, gear flag, done. They go on the same manifest as your booked divers.

Crew roster + vessel fleet

Maintain a private crew roster (skippers, instructors, divemasters, deckhands) and a vessel list with registration numbers. Assign per-trip in one click. Staff with company logins are auto-added.

Headcount + missing-person guard

Each diver has Aboard / Returned check-ins. When you close the trip, the system refuses if anyone's still recorded as aboard. Explicit override required, with the unaccounted names logged on the record.

A4 paper-friendly PDF

Printable manifest with name & cert, gear flag, signature columns for pre-dive briefing acknowledgement and post-dive return. Black & white printer compatible. Skipper name in the header, vessel registration on the page.

Vessel auto-pick

If you only have one boat, every manifest pre-fills it. Multi-vessel shops set a default per offering and override per-trip when you're swapping boats.

Closed = locked

Once you close a trip the manifest becomes a read-only audit record. Useful for incident reviews and end-of-month reconciliation. No accidental edits to historical records.

Private trip notes

Free-text notes per manifest, shop-internal only. Never printed on the PDF. Perfect for crew briefings, pricing notes, or things you want to remember next season.

Dive-site write-in

Captain writes the dive site name on the printed page once they decide on the day. No need to commit to a site in advance.

Local-time stamps

Generated-at timestamp on every printed PDF reflects the captain's local timezone.

Two modules, zero cost, one account.

Booking Engine + Boat Manifest, working together. Set them up once, then run your boat days from one place.

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More modules on the way

DiveOps grows with the industry. Each new module clicks in alongside the Booking Engine and Boat Manifest.

Coming soon

Gear Locker

Track rentals by serial, last service date, and customer.

Coming soon

Daily Roster

Who's on shift, who's leading which trip, in one view.

Frequently asked questions

Everything dive operators ask before they switch from email or spreadsheets to DiveOps.

Is the DiveOps Booking Engine really free?

Yes, completely free. No trial, no card required, no upgrade tier, no per-booking fee, no commission. DiveGigs makes its money on Hiring (paid job listings) and Courses (paid lead unlocks). DiveOps is how we give back to the industry.

What's the catch?

There's no catch. We hope that running your bookings on DiveGigs every day makes us your default place to also hire dive staff or list a professional course later. You're under no obligation to do either.

Who is DiveOps for?

Anyone who runs a dive business and currently relies on email, spreadsheets or WhatsApp to take bookings. That includes dive shops, resort dive centres, liveaboards, freelance instructors, conservation NGOs, training centres, and tour operators. The bar is set at being better than email; for small-to-mid operators (typically 2 to 8 staff), that's a clear win.

Do I need a website to use it?

No. Your DiveGigs booking page is fully self-contained. Share the link from your Instagram bio, WhatsApp business profile, Google Business listing, email signature or printed flyer. If you do have a website, just add a Book Now button that links to your DiveGigs booking page; no plugin or code required.

Does DiveOps process card payments?

No. Payment is handled in person between you and the customer, the way you do it today. We don't take cards, don't charge customers, and don't see a cent of your booking revenue. You can track payment status manually inside DiveOps if you want a record (deposit received, paid in full, etc.), but the money never touches us.

Can customers cancel their own bookings?

Optionally. You decide per offering whether self-cancellation is enabled, and how many hours of notice you require. Outside that window, customers have to contact you directly. By default, only you can cancel.

How does it handle capacity and overbooking?

Each slot has its own capacity. The Booking Engine tracks how many divers are booked in real time and stops accepting new bookings on a slot once it's full. There's no chance of accidentally double-booking the same boat.

What happens if I have to cancel a dive?

Cancel from the booking detail or the schedule view. Affected customers are emailed automatically with your reason (if you provide one), and the slot capacity is freed. You can also send a free-form bulk message to everyone on a slot, useful for boat-cancelled or weather-alert situations.

Can I use DiveOps in my language?

Currently English-only. We'll add languages as the dive operator base grows. Customer-facing emails use the language you write them in (the bulk-email message is free-form), so you can already communicate with customers in any language.

How do customers find my booking page?

You share the link wherever your customers find you. The booking page itself is unindexed; search engines won't surface it directly because it's meant to be a destination from your existing channels (your website, social, WhatsApp, in-store flyers).

Can I migrate from another booking system?

There's no automated import yet, but setup is fast: most shops have their offerings, schedule and questions configured in under 15 minutes. From there, you just point your existing channels at the new booking link.

How does this compare to paid dive booking software?

Paid platforms typically charge per booking or per month and add features like multi-shop dashboards, accounting integrations, and dive-site databases. DiveOps is intentionally simpler: a focused booking engine that does what most small-to-mid operators actually need, with no lock-in or cost. If you outgrow it, that's fine; you can leave at any time and take your customer list with you.

Is my customer data private?

Yes. Your customer list is private to your shop. We don't share customer data between shops, and we don't sell or rent it to anyone. You can export or delete it on request.

Do I need a DiveGigs account to use the Booking Engine?

Yes, a free DiveGigs employer account. It takes 30 seconds to create. The same account also gives you optional access to post jobs and list courses on DiveGigs, but neither is required.

How do I get started?

Create a free account, enable the Booking Engine from the DiveOps page, set up your first offering with its schedule and capacity, then share your booking page link with your customers. The setup guide walks you through every step.

What is a boat manifest?

A boat manifest is the official record of who's on the boat for a given trip: divers, crew, vessel name, departure time, dive site. Captains use it for pre-trip briefings, headcount safety checks (ensuring everyone returns), and as a paper backup when there's no signal at sea. Most diving authorities and insurance providers expect operators to keep manifests on file.

Is the Boat Manifest module free too?

Yes. Like the Booking Engine, the Boat Manifest is part of DiveOps and free forever. No per-trip fee, no usage caps, no credit card required.

Do I need the Booking Engine to use the Boat Manifest?

Yes, the Boat Manifest builds on top of confirmed bookings from your DiveOps Booking Engine. If you're not yet using the Booking Engine, enable it first (it's free and takes about 15 minutes to set up). Walk-ins can still be added manually to any manifest.

Can I print the boat manifest on paper?

Yes, every manifest exports as a clean A4 PDF designed specifically for print. Includes diver name, certification, gear-rental flag, and two signature columns (pre-dive briefing acknowledgement, post-dive return time). Crew gets the same treatment. Designed to print cleanly in black & white on any office printer.

How does the missing-diver safety check work?

Each diver row on the manifest has an Aboard and a Returned check. When you close the trip, the system refuses if anyone's still recorded as aboard but never checked back. You can override (e.g. for a no-show), but the unaccounted names are logged on the record. This catches the most common boat-day mistake: assuming everyone's back when they're not.

Can I add walk-in divers who didn't book online?

Yes. The manifest editor has an Add diver manually button: name (required), email (optional), cert level, gear flag, notes. They appear alongside auto-imported bookings on the same manifest and on the printed PDF.

Do crew members need DiveGigs accounts?

No. Crew live in your private shop roster: skippers, instructors, divemasters, deckhands. No login, no email, just a name and role. They get assigned to trips in one click. If a crew member also has a staff account on your DiveGigs company (via the team invite flow), they're auto-added to the roster, but the reverse is never true: adding crew never creates a login.

Can I track multiple boats?

Yes. Maintain a fleet of vessels in your shop's vessel list, each with name, registration number and capacity. Set a default vessel per offering, override per-trip when you swap boats. Capacity warnings fire on the manifest if booking + crew exceed the vessel's pax limit.

Does the manifest replace my dive logbook?

No. The manifest is for trip-day operations: who's on the boat, headcount, signed briefing, return tracking. It's not a dive log: depth, bottom time and air pressure go in your divers' personal logbooks. Treat the two as complementary records.

Is the manifest information private?

Yes. Each shop's manifests, crew roster, and vessel fleet are private to that shop. Never shared between shops, never visible on customer-facing surfaces. Customer emails on the manifest are pulled from their bookings only.

Ready to take bookings without the email chaos?

Free forever, set up in 15 minutes, no credit card. If it's not better than what you do now, just go back to what you do now.

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