CampSuite® began as a fix for a problem Rob Heeley kept hearing about on the campsites he stayed on. It is now the booking and operations system for 55 parks across the UK and Europe, built and supported by a UK company.
For years I toured the UK in a motorhome, and the owners of the sites I stayed on kept telling me the same things. A pitch promised to two families. A deposit nobody chased. A Sunday evening spent with the diary instead of with their own family.
They showed me notebooks, spreadsheets and whiteboards. I had spent twenty years building business software, so I built them something better, from the motorhome, and tested it on the sites it was meant for.
My partner and I are looking for a campsite of our own, so CampSuite is also the software I want running our site on the day we open.
CampSuite now runs bookings, payments, arrivals and the daily jobs for 55 parks. Some are small sites on the free plan and some are parks on paid plans. The software works in seven languages and takes payment in pounds and euros, and there is a CampSuite site for Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy as well as the UK.
We wanted a reliable, easy-to-use yet feature-rich booking system that was reasonably priced. CampSuite has ticked those boxes, and the team have been there every step of the way through the migration process.
Before CampSuite I spent my career designing and building business systems, mostly in .NET and Microsoft technologies, and mostly the kind a company cannot trade without. Three bits of that are worth knowing before you trust your bookings to it.
At Park Holidays I designed the synchronisation that kept holiday bookings and customer records in step between their CRM and their accounts system, so reception and the accounts team were never working from different numbers.
For M.J Quinn I architected and led the build of the Openreach integration that gives 2,000 telecoms engineers their day's work. It handles in the region of 9,000 installation jobs a day.
I co-founded RealCube in 2010 as CTO and wrote the estate agency platform behind it. It grew to a 204-office operation and I sold my stake in 2013. CampSuite is the second product I have taken from a blank page to a live business.
I still work as a solution architect on enterprise systems for water companies, government departments and national service businesses. The work is the same at any scale: get the data right, keep the integrations working, and never lose anybody's booking.
The first version was a booking diary that worked on a phone. Since then it has gained online booking, card payments, the channel manager, guest messages, arrivals, job sheets, reports and a website builder. New features ship most months, and many of them start as a request from a park already using it.
Up to 10 units it is free, which covers a five-van CL. Bigger parks pay a published monthly price, with no contract. See the prices.
CampSuite is a trading name of WorkBee Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 13120552.
Registered office: 2 Eden Bank, Etterby, Carlisle, CA3 9QS. VAT registration number GB367653755.
The registered office is the address on the Companies House register. It is not a visitor address: to reach us, use the contact page, email or telephone.
Development and support are both done in the UK.
For a quick, factual summary of the product, owner, pricing and contact details, see the CampSuite facts page.
It takes about 15 minutes. It's free for up to 10 units, no card needed.
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