Why CampFind takes 0% commission — the honest breakdown
“0% commission” is easy to say and hard to believe until you see the actual numbers. Here's exactly how CampFind makes money, so you can judge for yourself whether it adds up.
Most booking platforms take 10–15% of every booking off the top. On a £600 week-long pitch, that's £60–£90 gone before the owner sees a penny of it — and it's taken every single time, forever, for as long as the listing stays on the platform. It adds up to a genuinely large chunk of a small campsite's income over a season.
How CampFind actually charges
Owners pay a flat subscription — £12.99 a month or £120 a year — for the listing, the dashboard, and the tools. That's it on the owner side. There's a 30-day free trial before any charge, and no charge at all if you cancel within it.
The money that actually funds CampFind's booking technology comes from the camper, not the owner: a small booking fee, capped at 5% and never more than £4.99, added at checkout when a camper books through the platform. It's shown to the camper before they pay, it's capped so it can never scale up with an expensive week-long stay, and none of it comes out of the owner's pitch price.
What that means in practice
If you don't take a single booking through CampFind — you only use it as a discovery listing and handle enquiries your own way — you still pay the flat subscription and nothing else. If you do take bookings through the platform, the fee structure means a busy month doesn't suddenly cost you more in commission the way a percentage-based platform would.
You're also never locked into using CampFind's booking system at all. Plenty of owners use CampFind purely for discovery and visibility, then send campers to their own website, phone number or existing booking system — see the FAQ on not needing to book through CampFind for how that works.
Why we built it this way
A subscription-plus-capped-fee model is less lucrative for us than taking a cut of every booking would be — that's a deliberate trade. It means our incentive is to make the platform genuinely useful enough that owners keep paying the subscription, not to maximise the value of any single booking. We think that's the healthier alignment for a directory that's meant to work for small, independent sites rather than optimise for its own take.