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Online booking for your campsite on your own website

Campers choose their dates, see what's free and pay a deposit on your website, any time of day. You keep the whole booking, and Hipcamp and Pitchup stay in step.

Made for how a campsite works

Set it up the way your field already runs.

Pitches your way

A field with a set number of pitches where guests take any free one, or numbered pitches guests choose from. Grass, hardstanding or a campervan pitch can each be a stay of its own.

Per-person prices and a pitch fee

Charge each adult and child a night, with a pitch fee on top if you like, and different prices at weekends and in the summer holidays.

Hook-ups, dogs and firewood

Add electric hook-up as an extra with a limit of how many you have, and charge for dogs, firewood or a late departure the same way.

A limit on people a night

Cap the number of people a night for each kind of pitch, such as no more than 120 on the main field.

Tonight's bookings

Let guests book for tonight until a time you choose, so a camper on the road at teatime can still book a pitch.

What they're bringing

Ask whether it's a tent, campervan or caravan, their vehicle registration and roughly when they'll arrive, and see the answers on your arrivals list.

Keep the bookings that come to you

Most campsites keep their Hipcamp and Pitchup listings, because they bring in campers who've never heard of you. The bookings worth moving are the ones from guests who already know you: repeat visitors, word of mouth and people who find you on Google.

On Hipcamp you pay 15% of each booking, including VAT. A campsite taking £20,000 a year through it pays about £3,000. When those guests book on your own website instead, Kipdown costs £490 a year and takes nothing from each booking.

Work out your own figures with the commission calculator, or read what campsite booking software costs across ten systems.

Questions from campsites

Can I keep my Hipcamp and Pitchup listings?

Yes, and most campsites do. Give each one your Kipdown calendar link and add theirs to Kipdown, and a night booked on one closes on the others. Kipdown checks their calendars every 15 minutes.

Can guests choose their pitch?

If you give your pitches names or numbers, guests can choose one on your website, or Kipdown can put each guest in the best free one for you to move on the calendar.

How do I charge for electric hook-ups?

Add hook-up as an extra charged every night, with the number you have as its limit. Guests add it when they book, and it can't be oversold.

Do I need a website?

No. You get a booking page of your own that you can link to from Google, Facebook, Instagram and emails. If you have a website, the booking page can sit on it.

What does it cost?

£49 a month or £490 a year, however many pitches you have and however many bookings you take. It's free until your first guest books online. See pricing.

Take your next booking on your own website

Sign up with a link to your website and see your booking page today. You pay nothing until your first guest books online.

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£49 a month after that, with no commission and no contract.