Kipdown as an alternative to Bedful

Kipdown and Bedful both let guests book and pay on your own website with no commission. The main differences are the price and how it grows: Bedful charges for each pitch and unit, for calendar sync and for setup, paid a year ahead, while Kipdown is one price of £49 a month whatever the size of your site. Bedful does a few things Kipdown doesn’t yet, such as security deposits, and they’re listed below.

What each costs

For each site we’ve used Bedful’s Plus plan with calendar sync, since that’s the cheapest Bedful plan that keeps Hipcamp and Pitchup in step. Bedful’s prices are before VAT and paid a year in advance.

Site	Kipdown	Bedful (Plus)
A pop-up campsite with 30 pitches	£490 a year	£1,080 a year plus VAT, and £180 to set up
A glamping site with 5 units	£490 a year	£660 a year plus VAT, and £100 to set up
A farm campsite with 20 pitches and 4 units	£490 a year	£1,032 a year plus VAT, and £180 to set up

Kipdown isn’t registered for VAT, and its monthly plan can be stopped at the end of any month. It’s free until your first guest books online. Card fees go to Stripe on both.

What’s the same

Guests book and pay by card on your own website, with no commission.
Deposits, with the balance taken automatically on the date you set.
Calendar sync with Hipcamp, Pitchup, Airbnb and Booking.com.
Extras such as firewood, and discount codes.
Logins for more than one person.

Where Kipdown is different

One price for any size. £49 a month for a single hut or a hundred pitches, with calendar sync, the email to guests who don’t finish booking, and every other feature included. On Bedful that email needs the Pro plan.
No setup fee and no year in advance. Sign up with a link to your website or listing, and Kipdown fills in your stays and prices for you to check.
The price before any form. Guests choose dates and see everything that’s free, priced for their party, before they give any details.
Your season on your phone. Today’s arrivals, what’s owed and the calendar are made for a phone, and cleaners get their own login and changeover sheets.
Gift vouchers. You can make a voucher when you sell one, and guests spend it across one or more bookings.

Where Bedful does more

Security deposits, on its Plus plan.
Payment in instalments, and a connection to Xero, on Pro.
A free trial of 30 days, and a longer history with more reviews.
Hotels and hostels as well as campsites and cottages.

If you need a security deposit, Bedful does it today and Kipdown doesn’t yet.

Moving from Bedful to Kipdown

Most owners switch between seasons, and with Bedful paid a year ahead, a few weeks before your renewal is a good time.

Sign up with a link to your website, check your stays and prices, and connect card payments with Stripe. Bedful keeps taking bookings while you do.
Download your future bookings from Bedful into a spreadsheet, and bring them across into Kipdown with what each guest has paid.
On the day you switch, turn off online booking in Bedful, bring across the bookings made since your first download, and give Hipcamp, Pitchup and your other listing sites your Kipdown calendar links in place of Bedful’s.
Switch on online booking in Kipdown and change the booking button on your website to Kipdown’s.

The switching guide goes through each step in detail.

How we checked

Bedful’s prices and features are from its own pricing, features and help pages on 9 November 2026. If anything here is out of date, email hello@kipdown.com and we’ll correct it.