CampSite

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I have been using Campsite since 2015 and am very happy with it. I use it for camper enrollment and staff applications. Both parents and staff give positive feedback about their experience. Also, customer service is excellent. It was very easy to transitition from my previous camp managment software to Campsite.

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Campsite allows parents to create an account and access it year to year so it allows for easy of enrollment for returning families. For new families, the application is very easy to cmplete. For staff, I can accept application, track progess through the screening and hiring process and once hired, I can do onboarding via Campsite. This simplifies my hiring and onboarding. Campsite has a text message feature which allows me to more easily commincate with both camp famlies and staff.

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Love the functionality, support and roadmap

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We have custom features we'd like to add that we're having difficulty adding on

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We like the ability to put all of our various camp and camp information in one place to make it easier to track registration, payment and for our clients to register as well.

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The main thing is that you have to sign in to the software giving as if you were registering just so you can see what camps are offered.

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All data is located in one place
Customer support is excellent

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Prefer enrollments to all land in order, specific to each location
Prefer less lag-time when refreshing for updates, especially for unarchiving

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This was our first summer using CampSite and it made everyone from our camp families to the camp staff and our parent organization's lives exponentially much easier. This platform houses all the information required for our camp families so they only needed to go to one place to complete their registration and payment. In turn, we only had to go to one place to retrieve campers' information. In the past, we used multiple systems which had its own complications.

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It is taking our camp staff some time to navigate all the features of CampSite. We need to use this platform more frequently to gain a better level of comfortability.

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The modules, the advanced reports, the invoicing and billing system, the forms, really everything!

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Nothing really I could say that I like least about CampSite.

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CampSite has allowed our organization to keep our own application, enrollment, and management processes while at the same time enhancing the way we run those processes. There is a great balance between allowing for a high level of customization while also keeping things organized within the system. This balance coupled with a super-responsive team and professional, clean user portal has truly allowed us to operate our programs at a higher level than before. On top of that, our data reporting ability (and ease of use for staff who don't use CampSite daily) has impacted our fundraising ability (we are a non-profit).

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There are 2 current aspects (that are fairly minor) that would be nice to have more flexibility on: the design of the Admin section of the site is still an older style of design - it would be nice for it to match what they still call the Beta design that has been around for a few years now (surely an ongoing process). There is also one un-customizable aspect called the Checkout page; my organization does not accept payment at the time of registration, so though we have been able to set up the system to work around this, the existence of it is still sometimes confusing to users.

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Campsite provides a robust system for enrollment management, data collection, and information hub for our programs. It is simple to set up a new acquired program in our portfolio alongside existing, and we can see a full history of our accounts, some campers from back in 2017! Campsite's pros for our company is the ease of access for our guardians, form integration, payment processing, and enrollment management.

Our team likes the customization of reports and vastness of data collection the most - it helps us to understand what our families are looking for, what they need in each region, and easy access to shift reports through multiple demographic groups.

Nachteile

For us, our campsite account does hold a large amount of data and users - so our response times can be quite slow if we're all utilizing at the same time. I don't fault campsite as much as our own programs for that. A previous con would have been the external payment processors, but Campsite has since integrated more into their platform - the ability to be able to see those reports alongside normal campsite reports was wonderful when it was live - we hope it comes back!

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CampSite is a robust tool and partner in creating a successful camp experience. Everything from the interface with parents during enrollment to financial summaries to communication to family databases, it is an awesome tool.

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The program can do almost everything! Which is great, but there is so much to learn and every scenario lends a twist to managing the software. We've found that some things don't apply to our needs or misses the mark for our unique camp. We've given feedback to CampSite and they are receptive to passing it along to their development team.

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Bunking Boards. Custom Reports. Customer Service.

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Can't customize statements. Can't print out usable weekly attendance sheets for manual entry.

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I like that a majority of our precamp work can be done using campsite. I love the advanced reports feature. You are able to add filters and fields to customize the reports you need. You can also save them and limit the viewing and editing permissions on each report.

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Parts of the billing system were confusing in the beginning. There are a ton of resources under the FAQ or help center section to help navigate any difficulty. There are also great videos on youtube if you get really stuck!

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Campsite has fabulous customer service. Their team is very responsive and knowledgable!

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I wish that the development department would be able to implement camp request or suggestions faster.

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Ease of running reports; bunking lists are great; transportation module was wonderful; being able to send mass emails based on criteria to our Camp families

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Nothing major; any minor issues I had were solved with the help of customer service.

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What you get for the cost is exceptional. Their customer service is always extremely prompt and helpful. I get responses very quickly.

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The user experience is not as slick as some of the more-expensive versions, although it does the job very well. For those who are not tech-savvy, on a mobile device a parent may not be able to find the menu bar even though it is there because it doesn't have the words MENU underneath the 3 little bars. So, they assume, the system does not work and call me to complain. The latest version is more attractive than it used to be. However, the gigantic blue tags box makes a lot of parents not bother to scroll down to look for options saying "there are no options for camps listed." It is certainly user error, but an issue nonetheless. Another issue I wish they would correct is that although you can sign one child up for as many camps as you would like, you cannot pick up another child during the process, select all of their camps, and pay for everything all at once. What happens to a family that has 3 children all enrolling in the same camps, because the cost is the same, it sometimes flags a fraud alert. Just charging them all at once would be so helpful. I would also like the option to allow anyone to purchase a credit - like a gift card with a number that can be given to anyone else. Not something we have to pay extra for, and not something we have to manage on the back end. A gift card or gift certificate. Like buying a gift card from Target. Anyone can use it, right? That's a missing element. Give us a University School of Jackson Gift Card purchase option on the main page.

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Campsite Customer Support for me has the best people I have had in contact with throughout my career. They are very responsive, knowledgeable of their product and very helpful. I would like to specifically commend [sensitive content hidden] for her services. She is amazing and I know most of her colleagues are the same.

Nachteile

I am a first time user and sometimes it's a challenge to find some transactions. But once you seek assistance, you will understand the system and proceed without needing any help at all. I can say this is a very impressive portal.

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I think Campsite strongest feature is it's easy to use interface, not only as a Camp Director but from our parents perspective as well. I've received great feedback from our parents, specifically with respect to the ease of enrollment, photo viewing, phone call scheduling and the Campsite one-way email system. If my parents are happy, I'm happy - so to me that's an invaluable advantage.

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None at this time - still learning all that this software can do!

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CampSite provides summer camps with the latest and greatest web based CRM. Features like text messaging, parent dashboard, phone call scheduling and health center management are invaluable.

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No conditional logic on forms and we’d like a way to enroll campers even if their record already exists.

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The software itself is great. We've been using it at our camp now for around 5 years. It has definitely helped us with streamlining the registration process. It is great for handling all of the money so we, (a small camp), don't have to deal with all of that.

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There must be a lot of for profit camps out there using this software, because as a non-profit camp we have a hard time justifying the expense. It's not cheap software, and every year we debate whether we can afford to continue using it.

The other issue is that they lack functionality in the Staff module for dealing with minors as staff. There are many things that we need the parents to fill out and do, but the software gives us no options for dealing with that. We have minors as staff coming and going throughout the summer, and we have no way to allow parent to sign in and fill out medical information on them and so on.

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Having used Campsite on a daily basis for many years I can honestly say that it does everything I need it to do (and more). I mainly use for scheduling and love the fact that I can work from my desk in the office or switch over to my iPad and go mobile, allowing me to engage and interact with the campers while still collecting the data that I need to allow our program to run smoothly.

Nachteile

Genuinely none that I can think of, very good product in all aspects.

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Compared to what we had been using, this is a walk in the park. The Parent user interface is intuitive, and clean. The admin interface is full of functionality. Having the quick and easy reporting functions is what makes this program the best on the market. Every single line is a report-able field.

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While we can make reports in a quick and easy fashion, we would love to see the ability to email those reports on a recurring basis to an email address that we choose. Currently we built temporary admin users, sign in as them, and then create and subscribe to the report. It would be nice to skip a few of those steps.

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I like that the software has so many different features and can be customized to every summer camp. They have thought of everything a camp director needs to fulfill registrations financially and track enrollments. The software provides a range of different reports, which is extremely helpful. It's exceeded my expectations in every way. The customer service is beyond over-the-top, AND they know me by name.

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I haven't figured out how to make cabin lists in the way we need them made.

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Campsite was written by a "Camp person" who understand our industry and was able to meet our needs based on true knowledge of how camp programs run day to do, season to season.

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Took some time to learn how to run reports, but that was to be expected.

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Eases of customer use when completing camp registration and the ability to make certain fields of family information required before payment.

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Would like to have the ability to block some contacts.

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It has a strong reporting and data collection ability to summarize data for reporting as well as keeping camp organizaed.

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It's slightly rigid in some aspects that would allow it to be easier to do research. I.E. a drop down list for schools instead of keying from families and staff to eliminate the constant scrubbing of miss ordered words and abbreviations.

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It's very straight forward and easy to navigate. Most functions can be figured out with very little exploration and any administrative errors can be easily corrected.

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I haven't found anything to dislike to this point.

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It is a reliable platform that we have had minimal issues on boarding our customer families onto. It handles many of the trickiest parts of camp registration (medical forms, parent communication, multiple enrollment years) with ease.

Working with their support is also a pleasure to walk through any questions or concerns we have. In our experience they have always been incredibly prompt.

Nachteile

That the modules don't all interface -- specifically, we have a custom activity form that does not help us to popular the program module, which makes for a lot of manual work.

It can be cumbersome for first time users, and the admin side notation abilities do not have enough permission levels -- we'd like people to be able to view but not add, or to add but not delete, but its all or nothing.

We have to use a separate platform for groups/conference registrations, but would love if they someday could be integrated. The current offerings are not robust enough for our needs.

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CampSite makes camp management seamless. It’s easy to navigate, with smooth registration, detailed reports, and great communication tools. As a marketing and communications staff member, I love how effortless it is to keep parents informed and share photos of their children. Anything I can’t figure out is just a quick phone call away—support is always helpful. Highly recommend!

Nachteile

Though security on our camp management software is vital, I do with their was an alternative secure sign in method that didn't require me to change my password every month. For example, a 2-step verification instead.

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It’s easy to use. I love the customer service reps. They are wonderful, patient and quick to respond when I have a question. Issues are very rare.

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I have no issues. Most of my questions can be answers with their FAQ section.

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We've been using Campsite since 2015 and consistently the responsiveness of the support team has been fantastic!

Nachteile

The customer-facing and back-end interfaces are not as easy to use as I'd like but it gets the job done and has for 9 years.

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What I like most about Campsite is how easy they make setting up and customizing your program to what you need. I like that before you start customizing what you need they have classes and they walk you through it. Also any questions you have you can either look it up or get in touch with customer service and they will get back to you that same day. I can't say enough about Campsite. Truly worth it.

Nachteile

The only feature I can think of for our business would be an attendance count on top of the Attendance Tab.

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All in one program save a lot of time. Emails and communications to customer base is much easier.

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The cost of the system and addons is still very high for a smaller non profit.

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CampSite enabled us to scale our small nonprofit but simplifying the registration and participant management process. With Campsite we are able to register students as well as collect forms and payment in an efficient way.

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Overall, I love Campsite. I think the user facing side could be improved especially with respect to making it easier for parents to navigate. In particular, having a way to customize directions for downloading and uploading forms would be helpful.

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Very easy to understand they have everything you need for your camp.

Nachteile

There is nothing negative I can say about Campsite

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I like how the platform is easy to navigate through different dashboards from Campers to Staff and then over the Admin and the Conference & Events dashboard. I love that you can adapt most features on the platform to better suit your needs such as custom forms, custom medical questions etc.

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I wish there were more features and customization available under the Medical Dashboard.

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One of the best things about Campsite that we've found compared to other camp softwares is the ability to customize reports on your own and how easy it is to manipulate the data based on how you register each camp individually. The other thing we've come to learn that is unique about Campsite is the ability to create your own forms and have staff be able to fill them out in their profile. Other competing softwares didn't have this functionality.

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At times I have wanted to make it easier for parents to register all of their campers in one checkout but I've come to realize that this makes it harder to use the campers individual data the way we want to use it for grouping, reports, rosters, emails, etc.

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Ease of use, functionality, cost, and support

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API routines have to expancd to allow data flow in both directions.

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I like how the user interface can match our organization's branding, it looks nice, and comes with an abundance of training and support.

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I wish there was a way to upload documents that can be electronically signed.

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I haven't used CampSite for that long but have had an excellent experience so far. CampSite automates so much of what we used to do manually which increases our capacity to provide a service we believe in and grow. I wanted to write a review at this stage to express how helpful their support team is. The onboarding process was interactive. The system is refreshingly usable for our staff and users so far.

Nachteile

The text editor doesn't work seamlessly with the rest of CampSite although it does get the job done.

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I love that everything is organized. If you have any question the support is amazing. They have videos to help with learning the features on the site.

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None...I was able to use most of the features and now in the off season I am learning the details that I didn't know about.

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customer service, during camp season it is very easy to use and is helpful

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wish they had a video library that from the site could show what you need

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Campsite is easy to use for all of our camps, easy to set up and the customer service is UNMATCHED.

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With 7 camps and 7 platforms- it's very hard to streamline all our reports and tracking in one area.

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This platform is built for camps which makes it easy to use.

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I am not sure, I do not often encounter things that are difficult to use.

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From a user standpoint, it is very easy to navigate.

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I didn’t come across any negative aspects when using Campsite.

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We have a VERY flexible summer program and after doing a demo with active, regpoint, camp minder and a couple other ones this was the ONLY one that could manage all of our complicated needs. I love that there is a work around for everything and that their support hotline is there anytime I need their help.

Nachteile

There are a few things that can take a little bit of additional time, but the fact that I can manage such a complicated problem through this software is amazing.

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No software meets all the unique needs of each individual camp, but this software meets more than others we have used or tested. The Advanced Reports/Filters combinations allow us to access and manipulate our information in a quick and easy manner. The setup is very customizable, so that we can most of the time gather just the necessary information.

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We are a large camp, so limitations of 1000 on both email and filters is often frustrating. There are several limitations - lack of conditional questions, easy to use events registration (but our events program is so flexible in pricing and registration changes that some of the problem stems from us not them), some hitches in the staff module. Still, overall we find it superior to all the other registration programs we have used or tested.

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The ever-evolving interfaces that are mobile-friendly, as well as the very customizable advanced reports. Also like the analytics for emails sent, however I wish I could easy re-send to people that never opened the email.

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I need an attendance feature for staff. I also need better snapshot views of camper enrollment by week/division, as well as overall bus counts by week. There is no simple solution to either of these problems, so I have to resort to downloading advanced reports and creating my own pivot tables in excel. It's ridiculous that I have to do this! The email client is TERRIBLE and very user unfriendly. 90% of my communication with current and prospective families, as well as staff, is done by email BUT the ability to format the email with graphics, styles, etc. is ridiculously difficult and the source code is easily screwed up, which makes the email look extremely unprofessional in the end. It's truly embarrassing that I can't email a more higher quality communication to my customers. Constant Contact is a perfect example of what I should be able to do, but at a bare minimum it should be as friendly as gmail.

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It does not appear to be an Internet hog. We have poor internet at our camp and our financial software struggles but CampSite has not. We have been able to configure and customize CampSite for almost every existing business process. It was not without a lot of effort but we like the end result.

Nachteile

There needs to be an automatic population of spending money when money is provided through a registration option. There are several areas within the software that are not consistent. Some features available on the camper side are not available in the event side but should be available...it's all the same "stuff".

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CampSite is a use-friendly management site that allows our programs to centralize information and communication, and the forms feature is very useful!

Nachteile

Sometimes there are niche features that would be valuable for our programs, which we are easily able to submit suggestions to the support team.

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The system provides the basics, plus, to run our camp efficiently and smoothly. It's easy to use and to navigate for different technical levels of personnel. We particularly like, for the most part, that it's an 'all-in-one' system where we can manage our camper registrations, staff applications, medical information and camp blog.

Nachteile

For our particular camp, it doesn't cover our year-round cabin and Lodge rentals quite the way we need it to, so we have not utilized it for that purpose. The Conferences & Events isn't setup for our that part of our camp operations run. However, it would be nice to someday be able to move everything on to the same system.

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We have a very complicated system and they were able to put everything together. It was a very smooth process. Training was very good and customer service is wonderful.

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I don't think there is anything I don't like about Campsite. They are able to delivery on everything I have needed.