ACTIVE Network (Camp & Class Manager)
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
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.
Camp Network
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
iCampPro
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.
UltraCamp
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.
Bunk1
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.
CSI Software (CSI Spectrum)
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.
Jumbula
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)
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
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
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.