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Viking Bookings started inside our own kitesurf school. We needed a better way to handle bookings, planning, payments and customer communication, so we built it ourselves. What began as a solution for our own team has grown into software used by watersports businesses around the world.
I started Viking because I knew the problem firsthand. I loved watersports and teaching people to kitesurf, but as our own school, Kiteboardschool.nl, became busier, more of my time disappeared into phone calls, emails, planning and keeping everyone up to date.
We tried the software that was available, but it never really fitted the way a watersports school works. So together with a team of developers, we started building our own system around the problems we were dealing with every day.
It worked. We spent less time organizing, had a better overview of the school and could focus more on our customers and the water. Other schools recognized the same problems, and Viking grew from an internal tool into the platform it is today.
That origin still matters to us. We build Viking around the reality of running a watersports business, because that is where it started.
Thijs, Founder of Viking Bookings
Viking is still shaped by the people who use it every day. We work closely with watersports businesses to understand what slows them down, what changes in practice and what can be made simpler. That feedback continues to guide how we develop the platform.
Viking started in 2015 as a custom booking platform for our own watersports center. Since then, it has grown into a complete booking and management platform built around the day-to-day reality of watersports businesses.
When bookings, lessons and customers depend on your system, getting help matters. Our team knows the watersports business and supports Viking users through our knowledge base, chat and email when they need us.
We are not trying to build generic booking software for every industry. Viking is focused on watersports businesses. That means we develop around the things these businesses actually deal with: lessons, rentals, instructors, changing schedules, online bookings, payments and customer communication. Our goal is simple: make the daily work easier without taking away the flexibility watersports businesses need.
Built from real experience. We build around problems we know from running a watersports school ourselves.
Built for the complexity of watersports. Generic booking systems only go so far. Viking gives watersports businesses the flexibility and control they need to manage the way they actually work.
Stay close to the water. We listen to watersports businesses and keep developing Viking around the way they actually work.
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Viking can take off your plate
See how Viking handles bookings, planning and rescheduling for a watersport center like yours - and ask Dirk anything along the way.
