My posting was due to this being posted by someone else:
"If Active Captain wants to setup a reservation system..."
My point was that ActiveCaptain is not setting up a reservation system. We license our data to Furuno too but that doesn't mean we're making radars.
If you don't like what Dockwa has created, don't use it. They have the best financial model and their system is quite good technically (my opinion). Most every other company doing this type of thing charges marinas 20-30%. Dockwa charges 3.5% but handles the secure credit card transaction part removing those fees from the marina. They make their money from marinas by providing optional services. If the marina doesn't want those services, they pay nothing. This is very similar to ActiveCaptain's model which has worked exceptionally well and hasn't caused dockage fees to increase.
There's no devil here - you don't have to use Dockwa - you can always call the marina.
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