📌 Key takeaways
- Headout is a mobile-first platform for booking experiences, attractions and events, with more than 10,000 curated activities across over 80 countries.
- Signing up as a supplier (Supply Partner) is free, with near-instant confirmation: Headout only earns a commission.
- The commission follows a “merchant” model, generally between 15% and 30% depending on exclusivity and volume.
- Becoming a partner means joining the Supply Partner programme, submitting your products through the Headout Hub, then passing a review before going live.
- Headout integrates natively with channel managers: software like Tourbiz syncs availability and bookings in real time.
Are you an activity provider or do you run an attraction, and are you looking to become a supplier on Headout to sell your activities to an international audience? Founded in 2014, this mobile-first OTA lists more than 10,000 curated experiences across over 80 countries and has just raised $30 million to expand to 250 cities. For a provider, being listed as a supplier means reaching travellers who book from their smartphone, often on the spot, with instant confirmation. This guide explains concretely how to become a Headout partner: the commission model, the steps to open a Supply Partner account, the best practices for selling your activities, and finally how to connect the platform to your booking software.
What is Headout and which providers is this OTA for?
Headout is a mobile-first marketplace dedicated to experiences, attractions, tours and events. Its promise: book an activity in seconds from your smartphone, with immediate confirmation. The platform has built a curated catalogue of more than 10,000 experiences spread across over 80 countries, organised city by city. Like other attraction platforms, where you can also sell on Tiqets, Headout acts as an intermediary: it brings the audience, collects payment from the customer and pays the provider the activity price, minus its commission. Its distinctive feature lies in its mobile DNA and a demanding editorial selection of the experiences it showcases. For an activity provider or an attraction, becoming a Headout supplier therefore means adding an international distribution channel alongside direct sales.
What commission does Headout charge its suppliers?
Headout charges neither a sign-up fee nor a subscription: the platform only earns money when you sell. It applies a so-called merchant commission model: Headout collects payment from the customer at the public price, keeps its commission, then pays the net amount to the provider. The rate is not fixed. It generally ranges between 15% and 30% depending on volume, performance and the level of exclusivity granted to the platform. In other words, the more you sell and the more you play the distribution game, the better the terms. To steer your profitability, set up sales tracking per channel before opening a new point of sale.
| Item | With Headout |
|---|---|
| Sign-up | Free, near-instant confirmation |
| Model | Merchant commission (Headout collects, pays the net) |
| Commission | Generally 15 to 30%, depending on volume and exclusivity |
| Catalogue | Curated: products are reviewed before going live |
This commission-based model means you pay nothing until you sell: the cost is directly tied to the bookings actually generated.
💡 Good to know: Like every marketplace, Headout reports the amount of sales made through the platform to the tax authorities each year, and sends you a summary. This is the European DAC7 framework (impots.gouv.fr). Remember to reconcile these amounts with your accounting.
Why sell your activities on Headout?
For an activity provider or an attraction, Headout’s strength lies in its mobile, international audience. The concrete benefits are as follows:
- A global, mobile audience: travellers who book their activity from their smartphone, often on the spot.
- Instant confirmation, which reduces booking drop-offs.
- City-by-city coverage across more than 80 countries, ideal for capturing foreign tourists.
- A curated catalogue, a quality signal that reassures buyers.
As with other marketplaces, the logic is the same as when you become a GetYourGuide supplier: Headout brings you customers you would not have reached on your own, in exchange for a commission. The point is to make it a channel that complements your direct sales.
How do you become a supplier partner on Headout?
Joining Headout as a supplier (Supply Partner) takes three steps, with no entry fee, just like when you want to sell on Funbooker or on another leisure platform.
Step 1: join the Supply Partner programme
From Headout’s partner area, sign up for the Supply Partner programme. Registration is free and confirmation is near-instant. The programme is open to activity organisers, attractions, agencies and ticket suppliers. Prepare before you start:
- The name and type of your experiences or attractions.
- The cities and areas where you operate.
- The languages offered and your capacity.
Step 2: submit your products through the Headout Hub
You then enter your experiences into the Headout Hub, by form or via API: title, description, prices, time slots and availability. This step is still free and prepares your listing for sale. For each product, provide:
- The type of experience (tour, ticket, activity, event).
- Your prices and price categories (adult, child, group).
- The availability calendar and time slots.
Step 3: pass the review and publish
Headout curates its catalogue: your products are checked before they go live. Once approved, they go on sale across more than 80 countries. Publishing is free; you only pay the commission on completed sales. To pass the review without back-and-forth, take care with:
- Quality photos, optimised for mobile display.
- A clear description: what’s included, the duration, the meeting point.
- Practical information and access conditions.
💡 Want to sell on Headout without the extra hassle?
With Tourbiz, connect Headout to your back office, sync your availability in real time and manage all your bookings, across every channel, from a single screen.
Create my free accountHow do you sell well on Headout?
On a mobile-first, curated platform, visibility rewards listings that are polished, up to date and well rated. The goal, however, remains to use it as a relay to sell your guided tours online directly, not the other way round. A few levers really make the difference.
- Optimise your listings for mobile: sharp photos, short titles, essential information visible at a glance.
- Keep a real-time calendar to honour the promise of instant confirmation.
- Collect reviews: the rating weighs on both ranking and the purchase decision.
- Adjust your prices and offer deals to capture demand on off-peak slots.
⚠️ Warning! Selling on Headout in addition to your own site and other OTAs multiplies channels, but also the risk of overselling if your calendars are not synced. An instant confirmation on a slot that is already full means an unhappy visitor and a negative review.
How does Tourbiz simplify connecting to Headout?
Headout offers several connectivity options, including direct integration with channel managers. At Tourbiz, we connect Headout to your back office through our channel manager: an experience created once is pushed to Headout and kept up to date automatically, with no double entry.
Concretely, here is what we automate for our clients present on Headout:
- The real-time synchronisation of availability, to avoid overselling between Headout, your site and other platforms.
- The centralisation of Headout bookings in the same calendar as the rest of your business.
- The creation of products only once, then distributed to the connected channels.
- Sales tracking per channel, to measure precisely what Headout brings you.
🎯 Our tip: At Tourbiz, our clients who juggle several OTAs tell us that the real difficulty is never opening an account, but keeping every calendar up to date. That is exactly what the channel manager does for them, channel after channel.
By connecting Headout to Tourbiz, you add an international, mobile channel without weighing down your operations: availability stays synced, bookings land in a single calendar, and Headout becomes a genuine growth driver rather than one more constraint.
