For campsites and touring parks
Twenty pitches or two hundred, a season that pays for the year, and a commission bill that grows every time you get better at filling the site. PitchDesk is £7.99 a month at any size, with the payment going into your own Stripe account.
The bill that grows with your success
Commission is a strange way to pay for software. The better your marketing works, the more the listing site earns from bookings it had nothing to do with. A good August costs you more than a wet one, and none of that extra money buys you anything you did not already have.
A flat £7.99 a month does the opposite. Fill the site and you keep it. £95.88 a year is the whole bill at 20 pitches and at 200.
Running a field that is genuinely full
Pooled pitch types mean the calendar counts spaces rather than assigning a patch of grass to a booking made in February. That is what stops a bank holiday weekend ending up with three unbookable holes in it because nobody could take Friday and Saturday on the same pitch.
When pitches genuinely differ, name them. Hardstanding with electric as one type, the six pitches a big van fits on as another with a length limit, the field for tents as a third. The allocation page explains when each one is right.
What a touring park uses most
- Seasonal rates, weekend rates and bank holiday rates on the same type
- Minimum stays that change with the season
- Saturday-only arrivals in high season, any day in the shoulder
- Deposits, with the balance collected automatically before arrival
- Electric hookup and extra vehicles as priced extras
- Closures for the weeks the top field is too wet
- Maximum unit length and awning rules per type
- Your cancellation policy shown and stored with each booking
What a season of commission looks like
A 25 pitch park, at three levels of takings, if every booking came through a listing site.
| You take a year | Pitchup | Campsites.co.uk | Bedful | Campsite Booking System | Anytime Booking Lite | Outdore Starter | PitchDesk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £25,000 | £3,750 | £3,000 | £640 | £675 | £370 | £156 | £95.88 |
| £50,000 | £7,500 | £6,000 | £640 | £675 | £620 | £313 | £95.88 |
| £90,000 | £13,500 | £10,800 | £640 | £675 | £1,020 | £563 | £95.88 |
First year cost at 25 pitches, on a typical booking of £160, including any setup fee. Commission rows assume every booking arrives through that listing site. Commission quoted plus VAT is shown including VAT. Above the £90,000 turnover threshold you have to be VAT registered, and you can then reclaim the VAT element, which lowers the commission rows.
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.
Moving across without a gap
Nobody should change booking systems in July. Do it in the winter: set your pitches and prices up during the free 30 days, send us the bookings you already hold and we will help you load them, then put the booking form on your website when next season opens.
Keep the listing sites running while you do it. The point is not to switch anything off, it is to give your own guests somewhere to book that costs you nothing.
Be honest with yourself about channels
We do not have a channel manager. If you sell the same pitches on Pitchup, Booking.com and Airbnb at once, you will be closing dates by hand in each of them. On a park running three or more channels, that is a real cost and you should count it before you decide.
What we would suggest instead
Hold back a block of pitches for direct booking and leave the rest on the channels. You keep the commission on the block, the calendars never disagree, and you can grow the block each season as the direct bookings come.
Fill the field and keep what it takes
Thirty days free with no card, then £7.99 a month whatever the season does.
£7.99 a month
£95.88 a year. Any number of pitches. No commission on anything you take.
No card to start. Cancel from your own settings page.