What commission is costing you

Put in what your site takes in a year and how many pitches you have. This works out what every UK booking route would charge you for the same year, from their own published prices, and shows the sum so you can check it.

Your site

Change any figure and the table updates

Bookings taken in a year

In pounds, before any commission. A rough figure is fine.

Typical booking value

In pounds. Used for the systems that charge per booking.

Number of pitches

Every pitch a guest can book, including glamping units.

Booked through a listing site

Per cent. Only the commission rows use this.

VAT registered?

It changes what commission really costs you.

The table below updates as you type.

Pitchup commission

£6,000

on the 100% of bookings you said arrive through a listing site

PitchDesk

£95.88

£7.99 a month, whatever you take

Difference

£5,904.12

left in your bank in the first year

Range across the market

£250 to £6,200

cheapest and dearest of the others, first year

Provider and the sum	First year	Against PitchDesk
PitchDesk £7.99 a month × 12 = £95.88	£95.88	This is us
Outdore Starter 250 bookings × £1 = £250	£250	£154.12 more
Campsite Booking System £25 a month × 12 = £300 2 pitches above 10 × £25 a year = £50	£350	£254.12 more
Bedful £20 a month × 12 = £240 £1 per pitch × 12 pitches × 12 = £144 £100 setup, once, in the first year	£484 £384 after year one	£388.12 more
Anytime Booking Lite £10 a month × 12 = £120 £40,000 × 1% = £400	£520	£424.12 more
HolidayFox £9.99 a month × 12 = £119.88 £40,000 × 5% = £2,000	£2,119.88	£2,024 more
Campsites.co.uk £40,000 × 12% = £4,800 10% plus VAT at 20%, which you cannot reclaim	£4,800	£4,704.12 more
Pitchup £40,000 × 15% = £6,000 15% includes VAT, which you cannot reclaim unless you are VAT registered	£6,000	£5,904.12 more
Hipcamp £40,000 × 15% = £6,000 12.5% plus VAT at 20%, which you cannot reclaim	£6,000	£5,904.12 more
Booking.com £40,000 × 15% = £6,000 This rate is an estimate. They do not publish one.	£6,000	£5,904.12 more
Airbnb £40,000 × 15.5% = £6,200	£6,200	£6,104.12 more
Outdore Standard £31 a month, sites of 16 pitches or more only	Not sold to sites under 16 pitches	n/a
CampManager Not published. You ask for a quote.	No published price	n/a

Sorted cheapest first. That is 250 bookings a year at the booking value you gave. Setup fees are counted in the first year only. CampManager does not publish a price, so there is nothing honest to put in its row, and Booking.com's rate is an estimate because they negotiate it per property and publish nothing.

Prices as published by each provider, checked 20 August 2026. If one of these has changed, tell us at hello@pitchdesk.co.uk and we will correct it.

What this calculation assumes

Everything here is arithmetic on published prices. There is no modelling and no guesswork, so you should be able to reproduce every line with a calculator.

Commission is charged on the share of bookings you said arrives through a listing site. Set it to 100% to see the worst case.
Where a provider quotes commission plus VAT, the figure includes VAT at 20% unless you told us you are VAT registered and can reclaim it.
Pitchup's 15% already includes VAT. A VAT registered site reclaims 2.5 points of it and pays 12.5%.
Monthly software prices are multiplied by twelve. Nobody in the table publishes a discount for paying yearly.
Setup fees are added to the first year and never again.
Card processing is left out of every row, because you pay Stripe whichever route the booking takes. Hipcamp's own worked example shows their 15% and Stripe's 1.7% coming out of the same £100, which is 16.7% of the booking.
Prices were checked on 20 August 2026.

The honest recommendation

If a listing site brings you bookings you would not otherwise have had, keep it. The 15% on a stranger is the cost of finding that stranger.

What is worth changing is the other half: the guest who stayed last year and knows your name. Give them somewhere on your own website to book and pay, and the commission on those bookings goes to nothing.

One thing the arithmetic will not show you

Pitchup, Booking.com and Hipcamp all require your own website to be no cheaper than their listing, so the only lever left is convenience: somewhere to book on your own page, at the same price.

The full argument about running both

The sum does not change once you have seen it

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