£7.99 a month. That is the whole price.
Any number of pitches, any number of bookings, no commission and no per booking fee. £95.88 a year whether you take £4,000 or £400,000.
30 days free to start. No card until you decide to keep it.
£7.99 a month
£95.88 a year, billed monthly. Nothing is added to it.
- No commission on any booking
- No setup fee
- No charge per pitch
- No contract, cancel from your settings
Then £7.99 a month, if you keep it.
What £7.99 includes
All of it. There is one plan and nothing is held back for a higher tier.
- Unlimited pitches and unlimited pitch types
- Unlimited bookings, every month of the year
- Live availability by night, per pitch type
- Pooled pitches or named pitches the guest chooses
- Seasonal, weekend and bank holiday rates
- Per pitch, per person, or a pitch price with extra person charges
- Minimum stays, arrival days, changeover gaps and booking cut-offs
- Extras: hookup, firewood, dogs, awnings, extra vehicles
- Deposits, automatic balance collection, or card guarantee
- Your own terms and cancellation policy, stored with each booking
- Confirmation and reminder emails in your site name
- A booking page for every guest, with their own link
- The embedded booking form for your website
- A hosted booking page if you have no website
- Your own Stripe account, connected in about ten minutes
- Email support, including help loading the bookings you already hold
What Stripe charges, said plainly
Taking a card payment costs money and we are not going to bury it. Stripe charges you directly, on your own Stripe account. That fee is never paid to PitchDesk and we take nothing on top of it.
On a £180 booking paid by a UK card, Stripe's fee is £2.72 and you keep £177.28. The same booking through a listing site at 15% costs you £27 in commission and you would still be paying a card fee somewhere in the chain.
Stripe pays out to your bank on their normal schedule. If you refund a guest, you do it from your own dashboard or from PitchDesk, and the refund comes out of your balance.
Stripe publish these rates themselves and can change them. We show them here because you should see the true cost of taking a booking before you sign up.
Stripe's published card rates
| Card | Fee per payment |
|---|---|
| UK cards | 1.4% + 20p |
| European Economic Area cards | 2.5% + 20p |
| Cards from anywhere else | 3.25% + 20p |
Worked example on a £180 booking
£180 × 1.4% = £2.52, plus 20p, is £2.72 to Stripe. Your PitchDesk cost for that booking is nothing, because the £7.99 has already been paid for the month.
Thirty days free, then cancel whenever you like
You get 30 days without giving us a card. Put your real pitches and real prices in, connect Stripe, take a live booking from a real guest, and keep the money. If it does not suit you, do nothing and the account stops.
When you do subscribe it is £7.99 a month on a rolling basis. Cancel from your own settings page and it stops at the end of the month you have paid for. Nobody makes you ring up.
Your bookings stay readable after you cancel and you can export them to a spreadsheet. Because every payment was taken on your own Stripe account, cancelling PitchDesk changes nothing about money already taken or refunds still to come.
What we will never do
- Take a percentage of a booking
- Charge you per booking
- Charge more because you added pitches
- Hold your guests' money in our account
- Put your prices on a marketplace of our own
- Require rate parity with anyone
Moving in from another system
Send us the bookings you already hold as a spreadsheet during the trial and we will help you load them, so your calendar is right from the first day you go live. That does not cost anything either.
What everyone else charges
The same site each time: 12 pitches taking £40,000 a year in bookings. Published prices where a provider publishes one, and a mark on the row where they do not.
| Provider | What they charge | A year at 12 pitches |
|---|---|---|
| PitchDesk Booking software |
£7.99 a month, any number of pitches | £95.88 |
| Pitchup Listing site |
15% commission | £6,000 |
| Campsites.co.uk Listing site |
10% commission plus VAT | £4,800 |
| Hipcamp Listing site |
12.5% commission plus VAT, and Stripe on top | £6,000 |
| Booking.com Listing site |
Not published. Around 15%, negotiated per property | £6,000 estimated rate |
| Airbnb Listing site |
15.5% single host fee, VAT included | £6,200 |
| Bedful Booking software |
£20 a month plus £1 per camping pitch, plus £100 setup | £484 £384 after the first year |
| Anytime Booking Lite Booking software |
£10 a month plus 1% of bookings | £520 |
| Campsite Booking System Booking software |
£25 a month for 10 pitches, then £25 a year per extra pitch | £350 |
| Outdore Starter Booking software |
£1 a booking, or nothing if the guest pays the fee | £250 |
| Outdore Standard Booking software |
£31 a month, sites of 16 pitches or more only | Not sold to sites under 16 pitches |
| HolidayFox Booking software |
£9.99 a month for the widget, or £12.99 with a website, plus 5% of direct bookings | £2,119.88 |
| CampManager Booking software |
Not published. You ask for a quote. | No published price |
Commission rows assume every booking comes through that listing site, which for most sites it does not. Put your own share in on the calculator. Commission is shown at what it actually costs a site that is not VAT registered, because a site taking £40,000 is below the £90,000 registration threshold and cannot reclaim any of it. Card processing is left out of every row, because you pay Stripe whichever route the booking takes.
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.
Billing questions
Is there anything on top of the £7.99?
Do I pay more as I add pitches?
What happens if a guest charges back?
Do you take a cut of the deposit?
What if I only open for four months a year?
Can I pay yearly?
Do I need my own Stripe account?
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.
One price, and you can check the arithmetic yourself
Every figure on this page comes from a published price list. Put your own takings into the calculator and see what you are paying now.
£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.