What is camp management software?

Camp management software is for the part of the year after the forms are in. It holds camper and staff records, health histories and the medication rounds run from the health center, cabin and group assignments, attendance and check-in and check-out, staff scheduling and certifications, photo sharing and parent messaging during the session, and the reports a director writes the post-season review from. Most products in this category also take registrations, which is why the same names appear under registration software; the distinction is where the product's center of gravity sits — the sign-up, or the eight weeks that follow it.

What does it typically cost?

Pricing in this category takes a few shapes: an annual license scaled to camper numbers or sessions, a per-camper season fee, modules such as the health center or photo sharing priced separately, or quote-only — with payment processing charged on top wherever the product also takes the money. Of the 18 companies listed here, 7 publish a figure of some kind, 10 publish none we could find, and 1 we haven't been able to read yet. We print each figure exactly as the company states it, with the date and a link to the page it came from. We don't average them, and we don't build a range out of two companies' numbers — the shapes aren't comparable. Confirm any price directly with the company.

Camp Management Software — Compare Vendors

ACTIVE Network (Camp & Class Manager)

Camp Management Software

ACTIVE Network is a large activity and participant management SaaS company headquartered in Dallas, whose ACTIVEWorks Camp & Class Manager handles registration, payments, attendance, and marketing for camps, classes, and programs. Founded in San Diego in 1999, it grew through dozens of acquisitions before being taken private by Vista Equity Partners in 2013 and acquired by payments giant Global Payments in 2017. It is among the largest and most acquisitive players touching the camp registration market.

Activity Messenger

Camp Management Software

Activity Messenger is a mobile-first camp and activity management platform that combines registration, payments, digital waivers, email/SMS, and attendance tracking in one tool, with a flexible form builder. Built by founders frustrated by clunky legacy systems, it targets smaller and mid-sized camps and recreation organizations wanting minimal staff training and heavy automation. It positions itself as a lighter, modern alternative to enterprise platforms.

Bunk1

Photo & Parent Communication

Bunk1 is a parent-engagement platform for summer camps in the US and Canada, delivered via web and iOS/Android apps. It provides secure camper photo galleries with automated photo tagging, printed camper mail (Bunk Notes) and replies, daily newsletters and updates, and push/SMS notifications. It operates as a Togetherwork brand alongside sister company CircuiTree.

Camp Network

Camp Management Software· Hampton Roads VA

Camp Network has powered camp registration and management for over 15 years, serving 350+ camps including university programs at Harvard, Yale, FSU, and traditional residential camps across North America. Our platform handles every part of the registration journey: online enrollment, payment processing, parent communications, staff management, and detailed reporting. Built specifically for camps — not adapted from generic event software — Camp Network is trusted by directors who need reliable infrastructure during the busiest weeks of summer. We offer transparent transaction-based pricing with no setup fees, no annual commitments, and dedicated support throughout your season. Whether you run a 50-camper boutique program or a 5,000-camper multi-week operation, Camp Network scales to match how you operate.

CampBrain

Camp Management Software

CampBrain provides cloud-based camp management and online registration software for camps and conference/retreat centers, including day, overnight, faith-based, special-needs, school, YMCA/agency, and conference-center settings. Features span registration, payments, health management, staff hiring, attendance, fundraising, and a camp store. Toronto-based, founded 1994.

Campfront

Camp Management Software

Campfront is a new all-in-one camp management platform built by veterans of Camp Leaders' technology team, applying 25+ years of camp-staffing industry experience to camp operations software. Its feature set spans multi-camp management, activity scheduling, background and social screening, a camper wallet, donations, and a mobile app, with Zapier connectivity to 8,000+ apps. The team frames it as a long-term, employee-owned bet on a better camp management product.

Campium

Camp Management Software

Campium is a Brooklyn, New York-based camp management platform for day camps, sleepaway camps, sports camps, religious camps, and after-school programs. Its software covers online registration, billing and payment plans, attendance, parent communication, custom forms and reporting, and HIPAA-oriented medication tracking. The company emphasizes personal customer support and flexible, toggleable modules.

Campminder

Camp Management Software· Boulder CO

Campminder is a Boulder, Colorado-based camp management platform built for overnight and day camps. Its software brings registration, health records, staffing, financials, scheduling, and family communication into one system, with a parent-facing mobile app for photos, forms, and payments. Long established in the youth-camp market, the company is also known for a workplace culture that has earned repeated "best places to work" recognition.

CampSite

Camp Management Software

CampSite is an all-in-one camp management platform for resident and day camps, handling online enrollment, payments, medical information, staff hiring, transportation, alumni tracking, and parent communication. It is offered as 'CampSite by EZFacility,' a division of Jonas Software, which operates within publicly traded Constellation Software. That ownership places CampSite inside one of the largest vertical-market software consolidators in the world.

CampWise

Camp Management Software

CampWise is an all-in-one camp management and registration platform serving resident camps, day camps, and conference centers, with an easy-to-use, mobile-friendly interface. It positions itself as focused specifically on the technology needs of camps and conference centers, covering registration, staff scheduling, inventory, and reporting. It competes directly with the other established camp management systems.

CircuiTree

Camp Management Software

CircuiTree is a cloud-based camp management platform with deep roots in the faith-based camp market, originally developed as the technology arm of Kanakuk Kamps in Branson, Missouri. It offers online registration, electronic medical records, staff management, point of sale, and group management for some of the largest camps in the country. In November 2016 it was acquired by Togetherwork, a group-management software and payments roll-up, where it operates alongside sibling camp brands including Bunk1 and ABC Camps.

CSI Software (CSI Spectrum)

Recreation & Class Management Software

CSI Software (CSI Spectrum) is a Houston-based membership and facility management platform founded in 1978, serving health and fitness clubs, campus recreation, parks and recreation, wellness centers, and camp facilities. Its Spectrum product covers accounting, POS, scheduling, facilities, CRM, camp management, and member self-service. It was acquired by Daxko in 2015 and now sits within the Daxko/Club Automation portfolio.

iCampPro

Camp Management Software

iCampPro is a camp management platform from iClassPro that pairs registration with strong camp health and retail tools, including an electronic health record, medication administration, incident tracking, and a cashless point-of-sale camp store with prepaid camper accounts. Built with input from camp health professionals, it offers RFID camper bands, mobile-friendly nurse workflows, and prepaid store balances families fund from the registration portal. It targets camps wanting health management and POS alongside registration.

Jumbula

Registration Software

Jumbula is an online registration and management platform founded in 2013 in Silicon Valley, designed for classes, camps, childcare, and after-school programs across the US, Canada, and UK. It handles day, full-day, drop-in, and overnight structures with grouping, waitlists, check-in/out, and email/SMS, and includes a free homesite builder. It is well-suited to organizations running camps alongside year-round classes, and partners with the ActivityHero marketplace for added visibility.

PerfectMind (Xplor Recreation)

Recreation & Class Management Software

PerfectMind, now marketed as Xplor Recreation, is a cloud recreation management platform founded in 1998 for municipalities, parks and recreation departments, YMCAs, community centers, and camps. It handles registration, scheduling, memberships, facility booking, and citywide point of sale, and offers dedicated camp management tooling. It was acquired by Xplor Technologies in 2020, joining a global software-and-payments group serving 140+ markets.

RecDesk

Recreation & Class Management Software

RecDesk is a cloud-based recreation management platform founded in 2005 in Middletown, Connecticut, serving parks and recreation departments, community centers, schools, and summer camps with registration, facilities, programs, and financial tools. In May 2024 it was acquired by Clubessential Holdings, expanding that group's recreation software portfolio. Its FlexForms builder and contract-free, all-inclusive subscriptions are signature features.

Sawyer

Registration Software

Sawyer is a kids-activity registration and management platform used by thousands of children's activity providers, including camps, to handle scheduling, online registration, and payments. Its business product (Sawyer for Business) targets the children's-enrichment market with a consumer-facing marketplace alongside provider tools. It sits adjacent to dedicated camp platforms, serving the broader kids-activity and class-provider segment.

UltraCamp

Camp Management Software

UltraCamp is a Niles, Michigan-based camp management and online registration platform serving the summer camp industry since the late 1990s. Its tools cover registration, payments and payment plans, staff management, health tracking, and reporting, with a focus on responsive customer support and no long-term contracts.

Questions camps ask about this category

What is camp management software?: Camp management software is for the part of the year after the forms are in. It holds camper and staff records, health histories and the medication rounds run from the health center, cabin and group assignments, attendance and check-in and check-out, staff scheduling and certifications, photo sharing and parent messaging during the session, and the reports a director writes the post-season review from. Most products in this category also take registrations, which is why the same names appear under registration software; the distinction is where the product's center of gravity sits — the sign-up, or the eight weeks that follow it.
What does it typically cost?: Pricing in this category takes a few shapes: an annual license scaled to camper numbers or sessions, a per-camper season fee, modules such as the health center or photo sharing priced separately, or quote-only — with payment processing charged on top wherever the product also takes the money. Of the 18 companies listed here, 7 publish a figure of some kind, 10 publish none we could find, and 1 we haven't been able to read yet. We print each figure exactly as the company states it, with the date and a link to the page it came from. We don't average them, and we don't build a range out of two companies' numbers — the shapes aren't comparable. Confirm any price directly with the company.
What should a camp look for?: Work through one real week in August rather than the sign-up flow: who is looking at a screen during a medication round, how attendance is taken where there is no signal, how a cabin change at 9pm reaches the right lists, what a nurse can see and what a counselor cannot, and what the director gets at the end of the season without exporting to a spreadsheet. Ask which of those parts is included and which is a separate module, who does the setup before your first season and what it costs, and how the price moves when your camper numbers move. Ask two or three companies the same questions and compare the answers rather than the brochures. We don't nominate a best one, here or anywhere.

How this differs from the neighbouring categories

Camp management software carries the season itself: camper and health records, cabins and groups, attendance, staff and parent communication. Registration software is the narrower job of taking the enrollment and the payment. Recreation and class management software serves year-round programs, memberships and facility bookings rather than a fixed summer season. 15 of the companies here also appear under Registration Software, and 4 of the companies here also appear under Recreation & Class Management Software. A company can sit in more than one of the three, and several do; the same listing and the same pricing record is used wherever it appears.

What each company charges

Alphabetical, every company included. Figures are condensed from each company's own wording; the full wording sits in that company's block below. Nothing here is a score, a ranking or a recommendation. Confirm any price directly with the company.

Company	What they charge	Payment processing	Source
ACTIVE Network (Camp & Class Manager)	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
Activity Messenger	Light $99 /month; Premium $149 /month; Pro $229 /month; Enterprise Custom Pricing	Not stated	Their pricing page · September 2026
Bunk1	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
Camp Network	Pay-As-You-Go Standard Plan $0/month. Credit Card Fees ~3.95% + 30 cents (Typically paid by the participant)…	Credit Card Fees ~3.95% + 30 cents (Typically paid by the participant).	Their pricing page · September 2026
CampBrain	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
Campfront	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
Campium	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
Campminder	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
CampSite	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
CampWise	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
CircuiTree	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
CSI Software (CSI Spectrum)	—	Not stated	—
iCampPro	iCampPro Pricing — Pricing starts as low as $5 per registration. For complete pricing details, schedule your demo with…	Not stated	Their pricing page · September 2026
Jumbula	Pay As You Go $15 / month ($15 billed monthly; $144 billed annually), First Month Free, *Processing fees may apply…	$144 billed annually), First Month Free, *Processing fees may apply	Their pricing page · September 2026
PerfectMind (Xplor Recreation)	Not published	Not stated	Their site · September 2026
RecDesk	Essential Starting at $3,835 per year; Standard Starting at $6,240 per year; Plus Starting at $10,790 per year…	Not stated	Their pricing page · September 2026
Sawyer	Launch $71 /mo billed annually ($79 /mo billed monthly); Grow $189 /mo billed annually ($219 /mo billed monthly); Scale…	Not stated	Their pricing page · September 2026
UltraCamp	Basic $275.00 Month, 500 Individuals Per Year, $6 per person after 500; Advanced $475.00 Month, 1250 Individuals Per…	Not stated	Their pricing page · September 2026

A dash means we could not load that company's own pricing page, so we hold no reading of it. It is left blank rather than guessed.

Every company in detail

Alphabetical. Inclusion is not an endorsement, and the order carries no meaning.

ACTIVE Network (Camp & Class Manager)

Based in TX. Serves International.

Pricing: No published price found — we checked activenetwork.com/camps, support.activenetwork.com/camps/articles/en_US/Article/CCM-Pricing, support.activenetwork.com/camps/articles/en_US/Article/Per-Registration-Model-Fees (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Also appears under Registration Software.

ACTIVE Network (Camp & Class Manager) on CampBuzz

What those pages say

Their two pricing support articles state no figure. “CCM Pricing: Please contact your account manager for any pricing questions or concerns.” — that article was last updated 27 July 2016. “Per Registration Model Fees” describes the model only — a registration fee per session registration plus a payment processing fee — and refers readers to their account manager for rates. Neither page is login-gated.

Activity Messenger

Serves International (North America).

Published on their site as of September 2026: Light $99 /month; Premium $149 /month; Pro $229 /month; Enterprise Custom Pricing (their pricing page). Flag a correction

Also appears under Registration Software.

What's one thing you'd tell a camp director that isn't a sales pitch?

Take a look at your registration process from a smartphone and ask yourelft if it's really ideal. Account creation, having to scroll through many options to find the right camp and a clunky design might be losing your revenue.

What's changed in the last year or two that camps should know about?

Parents want a simple way to register online from their smartphone. They also want a camp that can easily communicate with them by text and the can automate the right messages at the right time as well as have simplifed and secured attendance tracking.

Activity Messenger on CampBuzz

Bunk1

Based in Atlanta, GA.

Pricing: No published price found — we checked bunk1.com, bunk1.com/pricing, bunk1.com/plans (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Also appears under Photo & Parent Communication.

Bunk1 on CampBuzz

What those pages say

Read the public site directly. The site describes products and asks camps to request a demo; no figure is stated on any page we could reach. /pricing, /plans and /camp-pricing return 404.

Camp Network

Based in Nashville, TN.

Published on their site as of September 2026: Pay-As-You-Go Standard Plan $0/month. Credit Card Fees ~3.95% + 30 cents (Typically paid by the participant). Enterprise & Nonprofits — Contact Us if you process over $250k/year (their pricing page). Flag a correction

Also appears under Recreation & Class Management Software and Registration Software.

What's changed in the last year or two that camps should know about?

Many modern registration platforms charge monthly or annual subscription fees. However, there is no need to pay these upfront costs. Look for companies that waive subscription fees entirely, relying instead on small per-ticket or processing fees. The only exception is if you are hosting free events and not processing payments, in which case the platform will charge a flat software fee.

What should a camp look for when comparing options in your category?

Ensure all agreements include transparent, all-inclusive pricing. To avoid unexpected costs, watch out for recurring subscription markups, premium support charges, non-refundable credit card fees, and site-maintenance fees.

Camp Network on CampBuzz

CampBrain

Pricing: No published price found — we checked campbrain.com, campbrain.com/pricing, campbrain.com/plans, campbrain.com/about-us (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Also appears under Registration Software and Fundraising.

CampBrain on CampBuzz

Campfront

Based in TX. Serves National (United States).

Campfront is a new all-in-one camp management platform built by veterans of Camp Leaders' technology team, applying 25+ years of camp-staffing industry experience to camp operations software.

Pricing: No published price found — we checked campfront.com, campfront.com/pricing (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Campfront on CampBuzz

What those pages say

Read the public site directly. /pricing returns 404. Dollar amounts appear only inside product screenshots of a camp's own fees, not as the price of the software.

Campium

Based in NY. Serves National.

Campium is a Brooklyn, New York-based camp management platform for day camps, sleepaway camps, sports camps, religious camps, and after-school programs.

Pricing: No published price found — we checked campium.com, campium.com/pricing (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Also appears under Registration Software and Photo & Parent Communication.

Campium on CampBuzz

What those pages say

Their /pricing path redirects to a contact form.

Campminder

Based in Boulder, CO. Serves National.

Campminder is a web-based camp management platform for summer camps of all sizes, from day camps to sleepaway camps. It offers 20+ camp-specific tools including online registration, health management, staffing, transportation, billing, communication, and a parent mobile app (Campanion).

Pricing: No published price found — we checked campminder.com, campminder.com/pricing, campminder.com/suites (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Also appears under Registration Software and Photo & Parent Communication.

Campminder on CampBuzz

CampSite

Based in NY. Serves National (North America).

Pricing: No published price found — we checked campmanagement.com, campmanagement.com/pricing (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Also appears under Registration Software and Photo & Parent Communication.

CampSite on CampBuzz

CampWise

Serves National (North America).

CampWise is an all-in-one camp management and registration platform serving resident camps, day camps, and conference centers, with an easy-to-use, mobile-friendly interface.

Pricing: No published price found — we checked campwise.com, campwise.com/pricing (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Also appears under Registration Software.

CampWise on CampBuzz

CircuiTree

Based in MO. Serves National (North America).

CircuiTree is a cloud-based camp management platform with deep roots in the faith-based camp market, originally developed as the technology arm of Kanakuk Kamps in Branson, Missouri.

Pricing: No published price found — we checked circuitree.com, circuitree.com/pricing (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Also appears under Registration Software.

CircuiTree on CampBuzz

CSI Software (CSI Spectrum)

Based in TX. Serves National (United States).

Also appears under Recreation & Class Management Software.

CSI Software (CSI Spectrum) on CampBuzz

iCampPro

Based in TX. Serves National (United States).

Published on their site as of September 2026: iCampPro Pricing — Pricing starts as low as $5 per registration. For complete pricing details, schedule your demo with a representative today! (their pricing page). Flag a correction

Also appears under Registration Software and Health & Medical.

iCampPro on CampBuzz

Jumbula

Based in CA. Serves International.

Jumbula is an online registration and management platform founded in 2013 in Silicon Valley, designed for classes, camps, childcare, and after-school programs across the US, Canada, and UK.

Published on their site as of September 2026: Pay As You Go $15 / month ($15 billed monthly; $144 billed annually), First Month Free, *Processing fees may apply; Rise $150 / month ($1,440 billed annually); Ascend $285 / month ($2,736 billed annually); Enterprise — tailored solutions, contact-based (their pricing page). Flag a correction

Also appears under Registration Software.

Jumbula on CampBuzz

PerfectMind (Xplor Recreation)

Serves International.

PerfectMind, now marketed as Xplor Recreation, is a cloud recreation management platform founded in 1998 for municipalities, parks and recreation departments, YMCAs, community centers, and camps.

Pricing: No published price found — we checked xplorrecreation.com, xplorrecreation.com/pricing, nextrec.com (September 2026). Tell us if we missed it

Also appears under Recreation & Class Management Software and Registration Software.

PerfectMind (Xplor Recreation) on CampBuzz

RecDesk

Based in CT. Serves National (North America).

Published on their site as of September 2026: Essential Starting at $3,835 per year; Standard Starting at $6,240 per year; Plus Starting at $10,790 per year; Enterprise Starting at $16,250 per year (their pricing page). Flag a correction

Also appears under Recreation & Class Management Software and Registration Software.

RecDesk on CampBuzz

Sawyer

Serves National (United States).

Sawyer is a kids-activity registration and management platform used by thousands of children's activity providers, including camps, to handle scheduling, online registration, and payments.

Published on their site as of September 2026: Launch $71 /mo billed annually ($79 /mo billed monthly); Grow $189 /mo billed annually ($219 /mo billed monthly); Scale $379 /mo billed annually ($399 /mo billed monthly); Enterprise — contact our team for pricing. Software fees are quoted “+ processing fees”. Marketplace fees 30% (required) / 20% (opt-in) / 15% (opt-in). (their pricing page). Flag a correction

Also appears under Registration Software.

Sawyer on CampBuzz

UltraCamp

Based in Niles, MI. Serves National.

UltraCamp (UltraCamp, LLC) is cloud-based camp management and online registration software for camps and conference/retreat centers.

Published on their site as of September 2026: Basic $275.00 Month, 500 Individuals Per Year, $6 per person after 500; Advanced $475.00 Month, 1250 Individuals Per Year, $4 per person after 1250; Enterprise $975.00 Month, 3500 Individuals, $2 per person after 3500 (their pricing page). Flag a correction

Also appears under Registration Software.

UltraCamp on CampBuzz

Nothing above compares these companies to each other, because a directory entry is not a basis for that comparison. What it is good for is knowing who exists, who says they work with programs like yours, and who is willing to answer a question in public. Start there, then ask the two or three of them the questions your own year actually turns on.

Last updated 8 October 2026. Pricing is either what a company told us in its own words, or what its own published page states on the date we recorded it, linked in each case. One pricing record per company, used on every page that company appears on. We never estimate a price, infer one, or combine two figures into a range. Prices change: confirm directly with the company before you budget on it. Companies are listed alphabetically; the order carries no meaning.

Camp Management Software Companies

ACTIVE Network (Camp & Class Manager)

Activity Messenger

Bunk1

Camp Network

CampBrain

Campfront

Campium

Campminder

CampSite

CampWise

CircuiTree

CSI Software (CSI Spectrum)

iCampPro

Jumbula

PerfectMind (Xplor Recreation)

RecDesk

Sawyer

UltraCamp

Questions camps ask about this category

How this differs from the neighbouring categories

What each company charges

Every company in detail

ACTIVE Network (Camp & Class Manager)

Activity Messenger

Bunk1

Camp Network

CampBrain

Campfront

Campium

Campminder

CampSite

CampWise

CircuiTree

CSI Software (CSI Spectrum)

iCampPro

Jumbula

PerfectMind (Xplor Recreation)

RecDesk

Sawyer

UltraCamp