What does campsite booking software cost in the UK? We compared 10 systems

Most booking systems for a UK campsite cost between about £250 and £1,100 a year before VAT. Where a campsite lands in that range depends mostly on how the booking system charges, whether that’s per pitch, per booking or one flat price, and on how many pitches and units the site has.

We compared ten booking systems used by UK campsites, glamping sites and pop-ups, using each company’s own prices and terms on 6 November 2026, and worked out what each would cost three typical sites in a year. We make one of the ten, Kipdown, and we’ve priced it in exactly the same way as the others.

How much does campsite booking software cost?

What you’d pay for campsite booking software depends on the size and shape of your site, so we priced three typical ones:

• A pop-up campsite with 30 grass pitches, taking 400 bookings worth £20,000 a year.
• A small glamping site with five units, such as four bell tents and a shepherd’s hut, taking 120 bookings worth £35,000.
• A farm campsite with 20 pitches and four glamping units, taking 450 bookings worth £40,000.

For each booking system we used the cheapest plan that takes card payments and deposits and keeps the calendar in step with Hipcamp and Pitchup, paid in the cheapest way the company allows. Prices are before VAT, so a campsite that isn’t VAT registered pays 20% more on those marked + VAT. One-off setup fees are shown separately.

Booking system	Pop-up, 30 pitches	Glamping, 5 units	Farm, 20 pitches and 4 units	How it’s priced
Anytime Booking (LITE)	£320	£470	£520	£10 a month plus 1% of every booking (VAT not made clear)
Kipdown	£490	£490	£490	£49 a month or £490 a year, everything included, nothing to pay until your first booking (no VAT)
CampSuite (Grow)	£498	£348	£408	£29 a month for 20 units, then £1.25 a unit (+ VAT)
Keydesk	£588	£588	£588	£49 a month per site (no VAT)
Campsite Booking System	£667	£250	£542	£250 a year for 10 pitches, then about £21 a year for each extra pitch on a yearly plan, 12-month minimum (+ VAT)
Inn Style	£718	£816	Not published	A monthly price by size, plus a fee from 0.5% on card payments (+ VAT)
Outdore (Standard)	£720	£420	£648	About £30 a month plus £1 a pitch or unit (VAT not stated)
HolidayFox	£1,000	£1,750	£2,000	5% of each booking taken through it (VAT not stated)
Bookalet (Pro)	£1,056	£439	£966	A yearly price for each pitch or unit, paid in advance (+ VAT)
Bedful (Plus)	£1,080 + £180 setup	£660 + £100 setup	£1,032 + £180 setup	£30 a month plus £1 a pitch and £3 a unit, plus £10 a month for calendar sync, paid a year ahead (+ VAT)

Bedful is the most expensive of the ten for a 30-pitch site. On its Plus plan with calendar sync, a 30-pitch pop-up pays about £1,080 a year, all of it up front, plus £180 to set up. That still doesn’t include the email to guests who don’t finish booking, which needs the Pro plan at £52 a month. One pop-up campsite we know pays Bedful about £1,000 a year.

Why do booking software prices vary so much?

Booking software that charges per pitch gets more expensive with every pitch you add. Bedful charges £1 a month for each camping pitch and £3 for each glamping unit, and Bookalet and Campsite Booking System also charge for each pitch, so a large camping field pays the most on these systems.

Booking software that charges per booking or a percentage is cheapest in a quiet year and most expensive in a busy one. Anytime Booking’s LITE plan takes 1% of every booking and HolidayFox takes 5%, so a site taking £40,000 a year pays £400 or £2,000 in booking fees.

Booking software with a flat price costs the same however big the site is or however busy the season. Keydesk charges £49 a month per site and Kipdown £49 a month or £490 a year, so a 30-pitch field pays the same as a single shepherd’s hut.

Which features matter in campsite booking software?

Every booking system here takes card payments and deposits. These are the nine features where they differ, and what each one does for you.

Taking the balance automatically

The guest’s saved card is charged on the date you set, so you don’t have to ask for the rest. Bedful, Inn Style, Keydesk, Outdore and Kipdown do this. Campsite Booking System mentions it only for seasonal pitches.

Keeping Hipcamp and Pitchup in step

A night booked on one site closes on the others when they next check, so you’re unlikely to sell the same pitch twice. Eight of the ten name both Hipcamp and Pitchup and include it in the prices above. Bedful’s costs £10 a month for up to ten units and £1 for each unit after that, which is in its price above.

Emailing guests who don’t finish booking

Guests who choose their dates but stop before paying get a reminder, which wins back bookings that would otherwise be lost. Keydesk and Kipdown do this as standard, and Bedful on its £52-a-month Pro plan.

Selling extras such as firewood

Guests can add firewood, a fire pit or a late check-out when they book, which adds to each booking with no extra work. Every system here sells extras except HolidayFox, though Anytime Booking’s LITE plan allows only five.

Discount codes and gift vouchers

Discount codes help fill quiet midweek nights, and gift vouchers bring in money over the winter. Bedful, Bookalet, Campsite Booking System, Inn Style, Outdore and Kipdown offer discount codes, and Bookalet, Inn Style and Kipdown offer gift vouchers.

Logins for staff

A partner, warden or cleaner gets their own login instead of sharing yours. Every system here allows more than one user except, as far as its pages say, HolidayFox.

Paying monthly with no minimum term

You can leave at the end of any month if the system doesn’t suit you. Bedful and Bookalet are paid a year in advance, and Campsite Booking System has a 12-month minimum.

A booking page that works without a website

Guests can book from your Google listing, Facebook page or an email, even without a website. Bedful’s booking page is on its own address, Bookalet sells a website builder separately, and Campsite Booking System needs a WordPress website.

Which booking systems include each feature

This is what each company says on its own pages. A dash means the company doesn’t mention the feature, which doesn’t always mean it’s missing.

Booking system	Balance taken automatically	Hipcamp and Pitchup sync included	Email to unfinished bookings	Extras	Discount codes	Gift vouchers	Staff logins	Monthly, no minimum	Own booking page	Out of 9
Kipdown	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	9
Keydesk	✓	✓	✓	✓	–	–	✓	✓	✓	7
Inn Style	✓	–	–	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	7
Outdore (Standard)	✓	✓	–	✓	✓	–	✓	✓	✓	7
Bedful (Plus)	✓	✓	–	✓	✓	–	✓	–	✓	6
Anytime Booking (LITE)	–	✓	–	✓	–	–	✓	✓	✓	5
CampSuite (Grow)	–	✓	–	✓	–	–	✓	✓	✓	5
Campsite Booking System	–	✓	–	✓	✓	–	✓	–	–	4
Bookalet (Pro)	–	–	–	✓	✓	✓	✓	–	–	4
HolidayFox	–	✓	–	–	–	–	–	✓	✓	3

How does price compare with features?

This chart puts each booking system’s yearly cost for the 30-pitch pop-up against how many of the nine features it includes in that price. Booking systems towards the top left include more for less.

Kipdown and Keydesk sit in the top left, with the most features for under £600 a year, and Kipdown is the only one with all nine. Bedful sits furthest to the right: it’s the most expensive of the ten for a 30-pitch site, because it charges for each pitch and for calendar sync, and the unfinished-booking email needs a more expensive plan.

What do listing sites like Hipcamp and Pitchup charge?

Listing sites charge a share of every booking they send you rather than a monthly fee, and on £20,000 of bookings that comes to between £2,400 and £3,100.

Listing site	What the owner pays	On £20,000 of bookings
Hipcamp	12.5% plus VAT, so 15%, and 10% of extras	£3,000
Pitchup	15% including VAT, taken as the guest’s deposit	£3,000
Campsites.co.uk	10% plus VAT, so 12%, on bookable listings	£2,400
Airbnb	15.5% for most hosts, taken from the payout	£3,100

Most campsites keep their listings because listing sites bring in guests who’ve never heard of them. The saving from booking software comes from repeat guests and people who find the site on Google booking on its own website instead: if a pop-up taking £20,000 a year moves a quarter of its bookings from Hipcamp to its own booking page, it saves £750 in commission, more than most booking systems cost in a year.

Hidden costs of campsite booking software

• Card fees. Every booking system here uses Stripe or a similar company, and the campsite pays its fee: 1.5% plus 20p on a standard UK card, 2.5% plus 20p on a European card and 3.15% plus 20p on an international one. On £20,000 of bookings that’s about £380 a year, or about £460 if guests pay a deposit and the balance separately.
• Fees on top of card fees. Inn Style adds a fee from 0.5% on card payments taken through it, on top of Stripe’s.
• Paying a year ahead. Bedful and Bookalet are paid a year in advance. Bedful charges 15% more to pay quarterly, and Bookalet’s fees aren’t refundable.
• Minimum terms. Campsite Booking System has a 12-month minimum even when you pay monthly, and leaving early makes the rest of the year’s fees due straight away.
• Calendar sync charged extra. Bedful charges £10 a month for calendar sync with Hipcamp and Pitchup for up to ten units, and £1 a month for each unit after that.
• Percentage fees. Anytime Booking’s LITE plan takes 1% of every booking, including those from listing sites, and HolidayFox takes 5%, so their cost rises with every good season.
• Setup fees. Bedful charges £100 to set up a site with five units or fewer and £180 for more, and Inn Style charges £100 if you cancel before going live. The others don’t charge for setup.
• Being listed on a marketplace. Every campsite on Outdore is added to the Outdore app, which takes 10% of a first-time guest’s booking and £1 from a repeat guest.
• Needing a website first. Campsite Booking System runs on a WordPress website with WooCommerce, so you need one before you can use it.
• VAT. Most of these prices are before VAT, so a campsite that isn’t VAT registered pays 20% more: Bedful’s £1,080 becomes £1,296. Keydesk and Kipdown don’t charge VAT.

Which booking system is best for your site?

• A small pop-up or certificated site taking a few hundred bookings a year pays least on Anytime Booking’s LITE plan, at about £320 a year, as long as it can do without the balance being taken automatically. Kipdown costs £490 a year with all nine features, and nothing until the first booking.
• A camping field with 25 pitches or more is best on a flat price, because per-pitch pricing grows with every pitch. Kipdown and Keydesk both cost under £600 a year for any number of pitches, and Kipdown includes all nine features to Keydesk’s seven.
• A glamping site with a handful of units pays least on Campsite Booking System, at £250 a year, if it has a WordPress website and is happy with a 12-month minimum. Otherwise Kipdown, CampSuite and Outdore all come in under £500 a year.
• A busy site should work out what percentage fees come to. At 1% plus £120 a year, Anytime Booking costs less than Kipdown’s £490 until a site takes about £37,000, and HolidayFox’s 5% costs more than £490 once a site takes about £9,800. Kipdown and Keydesk cost the same whatever the site takes.
• An owner who wants it running quickly is best on Kipdown, which fills in your stays and prices from your website when you sign up and imports your existing bookings. CampSuite also moves existing bookings across for free.

Kipdown is £49 a month or £490 a year with all nine features included, and nothing is charged until your first guest books online.

How we worked out these figures

We read each company’s own price page, terms and help pages on 6 November 2026, and where a page used a calculator we used the calculator’s figures. For each booking system we used the cheapest plan that takes card payments and deposits and syncs with Hipcamp and Pitchup, paid in the cheapest way allowed. Per-booking and percentage fees use the bookings listed for each site, and a glamping unit counts as one unit.

The feature score counts the nine features in the table, one point each, from what each company says on its own pages. A feature a company doesn’t mention scores nothing, and a feature that costs extra on top of the plan we priced scores nothing too. We scored Kipdown on the same list from what it does.

We also checked Freetobook, Beds24, Lodgify, SuperControl, Bookster and GlampManager, which are mostly built for holiday cottages, B&Bs or glamping and price per property, and eviivo and CampManager, which don’t publish their prices.