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Campaio is a cloud-based booking system aimed at small and mid-sized campsites, built for a broad international market. It covers the essentials: a digital diary, online bookings, card payments and guest messages.
CampSuite™ runs the whole site, bookings, payments, guest messages, arrivals and the daily jobs, from your phone. It's built specifically for the UK market, with direct alignment to the Caravan and Motorhome Club and Camping and Caravanning Club small-site schemes, a free plan for up to 100 pitches, and a mobile-first interface. And it's getting more powerful every month.
For most UK CL, CS and small-to-medium touring sites, CampSuite™ is the better fit and the better value. The UK focus, the free plan and the mobile-first diary are the clearest differences.
Who each one suits best
Choose CampSuite™ if
- You run a UK CL, CS or small-to-medium touring park
- You want free software for up to 100 pitches, with no trial end
- You need direct Club-directory integration workflows
- You want UK-specific tax, invoicing and VAT handling
- You value mobile-first interface for on-site work
Choose Campaio if
- It has a specific feature you need that CampSuite™ doesn't offer
- You're already set up on Campaio and settled into it
- You prefer its particular interface or workflow
- You operate outside the UK and the local fit works better
Pricing
Pricing on both products changes. Always check current rates. As a guide:
- CampSuite™. Free for up to 100 pitches, the full product. Guests pay a small £1.50 fee on online bookings, or cover it yourself with Put it on me at £2 + VAT a unit a month, capped at £99 + VAT. Optional add-ons on any plan: channel management at £10 + VAT a month, and your own web address at £5 + VAT a month. Above 100 pitches, it's a tailored plan. No contracts. See pricing.
- Campaio. Commercial tiers published on Campaio's own website.
The free plan for CL and CS is the biggest structural difference. If you're a smaller site, CampSuite™ effectively costs nothing, free for up to 100 pitches.
Feature comparison
Both tools cover similar ground in terms of day-to-day features:
- Digital booking diary. Both.
- Online bookings. Both.
- Card payments. Both.
- Double-booking prevention. Both.
- Guest messaging and arrival info. Both.
- Pitch types, hook-ups, maps. Both.
- Branded invoices. Both.
- UK Club directory workflow. CampSuite™ is designed for this specifically; you get a shareable booking page link to paste into your CAMC or C&CC listing.
- UK-specific tax and VAT. CampSuite™ handles UK VAT, pricing in GBP, and UK payment processing cleanly.
- Mobile-first interface. CampSuite™. Tested and refined for phone use first.
The UK focus matters
If you run a UK site, lots of small things add up to a smoother experience on a UK-focused tool:
- Your Club directory listing is the single biggest source of bookings for most CL and CS sites. A tool that gives you a clean shareable booking page link to paste there is practical, not abstract.
- Pricing in pounds, VAT handling, invoice numbering that matches UK conventions, none of it is glamorous, but all of it being right out of the box saves hours.
- Stripe Connect for payments pays directly into your UK bank account without additional friction.
- Support hours and language align with when you actually need them.
A tool built for a broad international market can handle some of this, but the UK focus sits at the centre of CampSuite™, not off to the side. For a UK site, that's a real distinction.
Setup and switching
CampSuite™ is optimised for fast setup, about 15 minutes end-to-end, using a wizard that assumes you know your pitches and prices but nothing else. No onboarding call, no training session, no implementation project.
If you're currently on Campaio and thinking about moving, the low-risk approach is to run both in parallel for a fortnight. Enter new bookings on CampSuite™ as they come in, keep the old tool running for existing ones, and cut over once you trust the new system. There's no pressure to pick a day to switch.
Support
CampSuite™ support comes straight from me, Rob, and the small team at WorkBee Limited, based in the UK. You're talking to the people who build it, not logging a ticket into a queue. The person replying to your email has almost certainly met a site like yours.
What you give up with each
With CampSuite™, you give up: whatever specific workflow or integration you may already rely on in Campaio. Most sites don't have one. Everything else, we already do or we're building right now.
With Campaio, you give up: the UK-specific focus, the Club directory workflow alignment, the free CL and CS tier, commission-free direct bookings through your own page, honest month-to-month pricing, and a genuinely mobile-first system.
A practical way to decide
- Are you a UK CL or CS? Try CampSuite™ first. It's free and designed for exactly your situation.
- Already on Campaio? Run CampSuite™ alongside for a fortnight, keep your existing bookings where they are, and see which you'd rather work from.
- Are you comparing tools from scratch? Try CampSuite™ in 15 minutes. If it fits, you have your answer without a deeper evaluation.
Being straight with you
Campaio has its own customers, and this page exists because people search for an alternative and deserve a straight answer. We're not here to knock them. We're here to show you there's a simpler, better-value way to run a UK site, one that's free for CL and CS, mobile-first, and adding features every month. Try both if you like. We're quietly confident which one you'll keep.