If you are looking at Lueira, you probably run a ski or surf school, an activity centre or a rental shop and want to stop managing everything through WhatsApp and spreadsheets. Lueira and Caranva overlap at that point, but they don't do the same thing.
What Lueira is
Lueira presents itself as management software for schools, rentals and activities: ski schools, water sports (surf, diving, kayaking), multi-adventure, equipment rental and wine tourism. It includes bookings, instructor scheduling, inventory, an online shop, a staff app, invoicing, a CRM and an artificial intelligence agent that answers on WhatsApp. It does not publish its prices: you request them in a demo with its sales team.
Information taken from lueira.com on 11 September 2026.
What Caranva is
Caranva is free booking software (no monthly fee) combined with a sales channel: our websites show up on Google when someone searches for where to rent equipment or take lessons at a resort or a beach, and we send those people to you with the booking already made. We only charge 15% of those bookings.
| Lueira | Caranva | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | On request (not published) | €0 fee; 15% only on the bookings Caranva brings you |
| Designed mainly for | Schools and activity centres with a large team | Rental shops and schools that want more customers |
| Brings you new customers | Its focus is management | Yes, from Google and a marketplace in 6 languages |
| Instructor management | Very comprehensive, with a staff app | Lessons, instructors and schedules from the dashboard |
| Setup | With their team, after the demo | You send us your rates and we set it up in 48 hours |
When to choose Lueira
- You run a large school with many instructors and your biggest headache is juggling schedules, shifts and payroll.
- You want a single, very comprehensive tool for your whole operation and don't mind paying a fee for it.
When to choose Caranva
- What you are missing is customers, especially tourists who don't know you.
- You don't want fixed fees: you would rather pay only when a booking comes in.
- You want to start now, with no demo or onboarding project: you send us your prices and it's ready.
If you run a ski school, also see Caranva for ski schools; if it's a surf school, online bookings for surf schools.
Results from schools and shops that work with Caranva
- We have generated more than €112,000 for one of our rental shops, and €92,000 for another.
- On average, we generate €34,000 for each shop that works with us.
- And another ski rental shop made 65 bookings and €6,480 in a single month, from 12 August to 11 September 2026.
We don't name them because we haven't asked their permission to appear in an article, but we will put you in touch if you want to ask them directly.
Want to try it? Send me your rates (a photo of your price list is fine) at caranvasports@gmail.com and I'll have it set up for you in 48 hours, so you can review it before anything goes live. Or see how it works at caranva.app/para-tiendas.
— Jaime, founder of Caranva
More guides for rental shops
- The 12 questions shops ask us before working with Caranva
- How a shop gets paid with Caranva, with a worked example in euros
- Sell rentals online without losing an afternoon
- A Booqable alternative in Spanish
- Online bookings for surf schools and surf shops
- Ski rental software: 2026 guide
And on caranva.app: software for ski shops, for ski schools, for surf, payments and deposits and booking engine.
