For CL and CS sites

Five vans, members only, and a telephone that rings while you are getting the tea on. There are over 2,100 Certificated Locations in the United Kingdom and most of them are still taking bookings by hand. PitchDesk is £7.99 a month, which is less than one night’s pitch fee.

What changes on a Tuesday evening

At the moment somebody rings, you find the diary, you work out whether Thursday to Sunday is free, you read the postcode out twice and you write their name in pencil. Then somebody else rings about the same nights while you are at the shops and you have no way of knowing.

With a booking page, they look at the nights that are actually free, put their van in and pay a deposit. You get an email. The diary is on your phone. Nobody is double booked and nobody rings at nine at night to ask whether you have space.

You still get to say no. Bookings only appear for the nights you have opened, on the pitches you have listed, at the prices you set, and you can close a week because the family is visiting.

Things a CL needs that most systems ignore

A five van limit that the calendar actually enforces
A membership number asked for at the time of booking, with your own wording next to it
Vehicle registration and unit type, if you want them
A maximum unit length, so a 25 foot van does not book the corner pitch
Arrival times, because you are not opening the gate at eleven at night
A closed period, so the site is not bookable out of season
Somewhere to write the bit about the tap and the gate that everybody asks about

You do not need a website

Every site gets a page we host, at pitchdesk.co.uk/book/your-site. Put the link on your club listing where it asks for a website, on your Facebook page and in the text message you send people back.

If you do have a website, one line of HTML puts the booking form on it.

Start free for 30 days

No card. £7.99 a month afterwards.

What it costs to run for a year

£95.88, whether you take fifteen bookings or two hundred. There is no per pitch charge, so five vans costs the same as fifty.

A five pitch site, priced

The systems a CL owner is normally choosing between, at five pitches, across three levels of takings.

You take a year	Pitchup	Campsites.co.uk	Bedful	Campsite Booking System	Anytime Booking Lite	Outdore Starter	PitchDesk
£3,000	£450	£360	£400	£300	£150	£50	£95.88
£6,000	£900	£720	£400	£300	£180	£100	£95.88
£10,000	£1,500	£1,200	£400	£300	£220	£167	£95.88

First year cost at 5 pitches, on a typical booking of £60, including any setup fee. Commission rows assume every booking arrives through that listing site. Commission is shown at what it costs a site that cannot reclaim VAT, because a site of this size is below the £90,000 registration threshold.

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.

Outdore Standard is missing because its £31 plan is only sold to sites with 16 pitches or more. Put your own takings in.

Read the Outdore Starter column before you sign up with us

At £1 a booking, a CL taking fifty bookings a year pays them £50 and pays us £95.88. They are cheaper until you pass about 96 bookings, and they will let you pass the £1 on to the guest.

We would rather you knew that now. What you get for the difference is a price that never moves as the season fills, and a booking form on your own website with the payment going into your own Stripe account.

Setting it up in an afternoon

Add one pitch type
Call it what you call it. Hardstanding, grass, or just "pitch". Say there are five and put your nightly price in.
Set your season
The dates you are open, the days people may arrive, the minimum stay and the latest arrival time.
Write your rules once
Dogs, awnings, no ball games in the paddock, the bit about the water tap. It goes on the booking page and into the confirmation email.
Connect Stripe
About ten minutes with your bank details. Deposits then land in your own bank account.
Put the link where people look
Your club listing, your Facebook page, and a note on the gate.

What it will not do for you

It does not put your CL in front of new members. Your club listing does that, and you should keep it.

It does not update anyone else's calendar, so if you also list somewhere that takes bookings, you close those dates there yourself.

What it will do

Stop the double bookings, take the deposit before the van arrives, and give you an evening back. £7.99 a month, cancelled from your own settings page whenever you like.

Questions CL owners ask

I am not very good with computers.

Setting up is five short forms and you only do it once. After that, the day to day is reading an email when a booking comes in and looking at a calendar. If you get stuck, email us and we will set the site up with you.

Can I still take bookings on the phone?

Yes. Add them yourself in a minute and they sit in the same calendar, so the online form knows those nights are gone.

Do I have to take a deposit?

No. You can take the full amount, a deposit, or nothing at all with a card held as a guarantee against a late cancellation.

What about the five van rule?

You tell it there are five pitches and it never offers a sixth. If you also have a tent pitch that does not count towards the five, make it a separate type.

I only open from March to October.

Set the season and the site closes itself. You can also cancel the subscription over the winter and start it again in the spring. Your pitches and prices are still there.

Is £7.99 really all of it?

Yes. £95.88 a year. The only other cost is Stripe's card fee, which is 1.4% and 20p on a UK card and is paid by you to Stripe.

Take the diary off the kitchen table

Thirty days free with no card. Set your five pitches up, put the link on your club listing and see how the first weekend goes.

£7.99 a month

£95.88 a year. Any number of pitches. No commission on anything you take.

Start free for 30 days How it works

No card to start. Cancel from your own settings page.