Campsites Holiday Parks Updated May 2026 10 min read

Campsite Booking Software UK: CampManager, Anytime Booking, ParcVu and Alternatives Compared

Campsite, holiday park, and glamping site operations have different software requirements from holiday cottages and apartments. Pitch types, site maps, electric hook-up metering, seasonal pricing matrices, touring versus static versus glamping pod management, and integration with listing marketplaces like Pitchup and Hipcamp. Standard holiday let software does not cover these. The UK campsite software market is smaller and more specialised, with fewer options and less transparent pricing.

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What campsite software needs to do

A campsite is not a hotel, and it is not a holiday cottage portfolio. The booking model is fundamentally different. You are managing a grid of physical spaces (pitches, pods, static caravans, tent areas) with different attributes (size, hook-up availability, proximity to facilities, dog-friendly status, views). Pricing varies by pitch type, season, day of week, and sometimes by the number of occupants or vehicles.

At minimum, campsite booking software needs to handle:

Pitch and unit management. Multiple types (touring pitch, hard standing, grass, electric hook-up, non-electric, tent only, motorhome, static caravan, glamping pod, bell tent, shepherd's hut). Each with different attributes, capacity, and pricing.
Site map integration. Guests want to see where they are pitching. A visual site map showing availability, pitch types, and proximity to facilities significantly improves the booking experience and reduces phone enquiries.
Seasonal pricing matrices. UK campsites typically have four to eight pricing seasons (low, mid, high, peak, bank holiday, school holiday, festival period, shoulder). Each pitch type may have different rates in each season. Minimum stay requirements change by season too.
Electric hook-up metering. For sites that charge by consumption rather than flat rate, the system needs to record meter readings at check-in and checkout, calculate usage, and add the charge to the invoice.
Extras and add-ons. Firewood, barbecue hire, hot tub sessions, bike hire, activity bookings, late checkout. These need to be bookable during the reservation process and added to the invoice.
Online booking with real-time availability. Commission-free direct booking through your own website, showing real-time availability by pitch type and date.
Marketplace integration. Connections to Pitchup (15% commission), Hipcamp (12.5% + VAT), and potentially Booking.com and Airbnb for glamping units. Availability must sync across all channels.
Arrival and departure management. Who is arriving today, which pitch are they on, have they been checked in, which pitches need turning around, who is leaving.
Payment processing. Deposit collection on booking, balance payment before arrival or on arrival, damage deposits, extras charges, and refund handling.

CampManager

CampManager (campmanager.com) is a UK-based cloud system for caravan parks, campsites, and holiday parks. The platform handles booking management, commission-free online booking through your website, and is designed to scale from small sites (15 pitches and 1 rental unit) to group parks with over 1,000 private owners.

Pricing is not publicly listed. CampManager uses custom quotes based on the size and requirements of the site. This makes it difficult to budget without a sales conversation, but it also means the pricing should reflect what you actually need rather than paying for features designed for a different type of operation.

CampManager's strength is its focus on the UK outdoor hospitality market. It is designed for UK campsites and caravan parks specifically, rather than being a generic holiday rental tool adapted for camping. The commission-free online booking system means every direct booking avoids Pitchup's 15% cut.

Best suited to: UK campsites and caravan parks of all sizes, particularly those wanting to move from manual booking processes (phone, email, paper diary) to an online system. The lack of public pricing is a friction point for comparison shoppers.

ParcVu (powered by Booking Experts)

ParcVu (parcvu.com) has been serving UK holiday parks for over 35 years. It is one of the most established names in the market, covering parks from 50 pitches to 20,000+ pitch resort operations. ParcVu has recently been integrated with Booking Experts, a Dutch park management platform, creating a combined system that covers PMS, CMS, booking tools, owner management, and holiday home sales.

Pricing is custom and not publicly available. Given the platform's target market (established holiday parks and resorts), costs are likely higher than smaller tools like GlampManager, but the feature depth matches.

ParcVu's integration with Booking Experts gives it access to a wider ecosystem of channel connections and booking tools than a standalone UK platform. For larger parks that sell and manage private holiday home ownership alongside letting, ParcVu's owner management module is a differentiator that most competitors lack.

Best suited to: Established holiday parks with 50+ pitches, particularly those with private holiday home ownership and sales operations. Over-engineered for small campsites and glamping start-ups.

Anytime Booking

Anytime Booking (anytimebooking.co.uk) is a UK-based provider of booking and management software for campsites, glamping sites, motorhome hire, and holiday parks. The company positions itself as flexible and fully supported, with pricing that depends on site infrastructure, support requirements, and number of units.

Like CampManager and ParcVu, Anytime Booking does not publish pricing publicly. The flexible pricing approach means the cost should match the site's actual needs, but again, it requires a sales conversation to establish what you will pay.

Anytime Booking covers both campsites and glamping operations, which is useful for sites that mix traditional camping pitches with glamping pods or other accommodation. The UK focus means support operates in UK time zones and the team understands UK campsite operations specifically.

Best suited to: UK campsites and glamping sites that want a dedicated booking system with hands-on support. Worth evaluating alongside CampManager for sites in the 20-200 pitch range.

GlampManager

GlampManager (glampmanager.com) is purpose-built for glamping sites and has the most transparent pricing in this market. Three tiers are available:

Essential: £20/month + £2 per unit/month (annual billing). 1 user account, booking management, commission-free online booking, email confirmations, Glampsites.com integration.
Professional: £25/month + £2 per unit/month (annual billing). 5 user accounts, phone support, discounts and promo codes, automated emails, widget calendars, iCal channel management (unlimited outbound, 15 inbound included).
Premium: £50/month + £2 per unit/month (annual only). Unlimited users, invoices and accounts, analytics and statistics, tailored booking pages.

For a 10-unit glamping site on the Professional plan, the monthly cost is £45 (£25 base + £20 for 10 units). That is £540/year, which is reasonable for a dedicated booking and management system. The iCal-based channel management is worth noting: it is simpler than a full API-based channel manager, which means sync speed between platforms may be slower (iCal feeds typically update every 15-30 minutes rather than in real time).

Best suited to: Small to medium glamping sites (5-30 units) that want an affordable, purpose-built system with transparent pricing. The iCal-based channel sync may be a limitation for high-demand sites where real-time availability is critical.

Pitchup

Pitchup (pitchup.com) is a marketplace, not a management system. It is the UK's largest campsite booking platform with over 3 million users. Listing is free. Pitchup takes a 15% commission on bookings (12.5% net if you are VAT registered in the UK). The commission is taken as a deposit at the time of booking, so you cannot take a separate deposit from the guest.

Pitchup is a marketing channel, not a replacement for booking management software. It drives bookings to your site (which is valuable, especially for new or smaller sites building visibility), but it does not manage your operation. You still need a booking system to handle direct bookings, manage pitches, track arrivals and departures, and handle extras and payments.

The 15% commission is substantial. On a £200 three-night booking, Pitchup takes £30. If Pitchup drives 30% of your bookings and your annual revenue is £100,000, the commission cost is £4,500 per year. A direct booking system that can capture even half of those bookings saves you £2,250 annually.

Hipcamp

Hipcamp (hipcamp.com) is a similar marketplace to Pitchup, originally from the US and now active in the UK. Free to list. Commission is 12.5% + VAT on bookings, plus a Stripe processing fee of 1.4% + 20p per transaction. Qualifying hosts receive up to $1 million in liability insurance.

Hipcamp's audience skews towards unique outdoor experiences (wild camping, farm stays, woodland sites) rather than traditional caravan parks. If your site offers something distinctive, Hipcamp's customer base may be a good match. For standard touring pitches, Pitchup's larger UK audience will likely drive more bookings.

Side-by-side comparison

Platform	Type	Pricing	Site map	Channel sync	Best for
CampManager	PMS + booking	Custom quote	Yes	Yes	UK campsites, 15-1,000+ pitches
ParcVu	PMS + booking + owner mgmt	Custom quote	Yes	Yes (via Booking Experts)	Large holiday parks, 50-20,000+ pitches
Anytime Booking	PMS + booking	Custom quote	Yes	Yes	UK campsites + glamping, flexible sizing
GlampManager	PMS + booking	From £20/mo + £2/unit	Limited	iCal-based	Glamping sites, 5-30 units
Pitchup	Marketplace only	15% commission	No	N/A (listing only)	Marketing channel for all site types
Hipcamp	Marketplace only	12.5% + VAT commission	No	N/A (listing only)	Unique outdoor stays, wild camping

What the market does not serve well

The dedicated campsite software market is small, and it shows. There are real operational requirements that none of the current options handle comprehensively:

Electric hook-up metering at scale. Sites that charge by consumption need meter reading management, automated usage calculations, and integration with the invoice. Most platforms either do not support metering or handle it as a basic manual field.
Mixed operations. A site running touring pitches, static caravans, glamping pods, and a small campsite shop needs different booking logic, pricing structures, and reporting for each. Off-the-shelf tools are designed for one type of operation, not a mixed business.
Seasonal staffing and task management. Most UK campsites scale their team seasonally. A system that handles cleaning rotas, maintenance requests, groundskeeping schedules, and casual staff coordination alongside booking management is rare in this market.
Owner management for private caravan parks. Parks with privately owned static caravans need owner accounts, pitch fee invoicing, sub-letting management, and compliance tracking for each owner's unit. Only ParcVu addresses this, and at a price point that excludes smaller parks.
Revenue optimisation. Dynamic pricing for campsites is less mature than for holiday lets. Weather-responsive pricing (dropping rates when rain is forecast, increasing when a heatwave is coming) is technically straightforward but not offered by any current platform.

The commission maths

If you list on Pitchup and Hipcamp alongside your direct bookings, the marketplace commissions become a significant cost over time. Consider a 40-pitch campsite generating £150,000 in annual revenue:

If 40% of bookings come through Pitchup (15% commission): £9,000 per year in commission
If 10% come through Hipcamp (12.5% + VAT): £2,250 per year in commission
Total marketplace commission: approximately £11,250 per year

Over five years, that is £56,250 in marketplace fees alone, not counting the cost of your booking management software. A direct booking system that shifts even 20% of marketplace bookings to direct bookings saves £11,250 over that period.

The marketplaces are valuable for discovery (new customers finding your site), but the economics favour building your direct booking capability as strongly as possible.

The case for a bespoke campsite system

Three of the six options listed above do not publish pricing and require a sales conversation. The one with transparent pricing (GlampManager) is limited to glamping sites. The two marketplaces are marketing channels, not management systems. This is a market where the off-the-shelf options are either opaque, limited, or both.

A bespoke system built around your specific site gives you pitch management that matches your physical layout, a pricing engine that handles your exact seasonal matrix, direct booking that eliminates marketplace commission on your own traffic, electric hook-up metering if you need it, integration with Pitchup and Hipcamp for marketplace bookings without double-entry, and reporting that shows you what you actually need to see.

For a 40-pitch campsite spending £500/month on software and commissions, the five-year cost is £30,000. A bespoke system at £20,000-30,000 pays for itself within three to five years and eliminates the per-booking commission on direct bookings permanently.