When you sign up, a short setup guide gets your workspace ready. Here's what to expect.
Sign up with email and password, or by accepting a teammate's invitation. Continue with Google signs you back in to an existing account — if you don't have one yet, it won't work. If you're new to Samba, use Sign up with Google instead — it pre-fills your name and email from your Google account so you can finish registering faster.
The three steps
Create your workspace — your business name, website, team size, country, currency, and timezone. (Country and currency are locked in after setup, so pick the ones you'll bill in.)
Tell us about your business — a few quick questions about your business.
How you run your business today — what booking software and sales channels you currently use, if any.
Finishing the third step creates your workspace — no card required yet. If you signed up with email and password, you'll be asked to verify your email before you can continue; if you signed up via an invite or Google, you're taken straight to your dashboard.
Activating your workspace
Add a card whenever you're ready — that's what activates your workspace and starts your Free plan ($0/month). There's no free trial to expire; you can explore your dashboard and set up your first experience right away, but you'll need to activate before you can publish an experience, create a booking, or accept a booking request. You'll see a reminder banner until then. Only the workspace owner can add the card — if that's not you, ask them.
What's already set up for you
To save you starting from scratch, every new workspace comes with:
Cancellation policies — Flexible, Moderate (your default), and Strict — ready to use or edit.
Payment plan templates — Full upfront, 50/50, and Deposit + balance.
A task library — common traveler tasks like emergency contact and passport details, plus a ready-to-edit legal documents checkbox (for a waiver or rental agreement) that shows up right before checkout is complete.
A sample trip — a draft "5-Day Mont Blanc Trek", complete with a package and meeting point so you can publish it in one click and try the whole flow (once your workspace is activated). Edit it to make it your own, or archive it when you're ready.
What it costs
Samba is free to start — no commission on your first $10,000 in bookings, then 2% after that, on every feature, with no seat or experience limits. See Plans and what's included.
Next steps
Connect your Stripe account so you can take payments.