Switch from CampLife to ResNexus

Marketing Channels like Expedia, Booking.com, and AirBnb charge anywhere from 6-30% per online reservation booked through their directories. ResNexus doesn’t charge reservation fees for bookings from our online booking engine. We help businesses collect more commission-free reservations and increase their return guest rate.

In addition to their monthly subscription, CampLife charges $3.50 for each reservation taken through their online booking engine. They do offer an "Unlimited" plan to remove this fee. CampLife's booking engine is also a large directory of properties similar to Expedia, Booking.com, and AirBnb.

All ResNexus editions include free setup, data import, and support. In addition, we don’t charge to import your data into ResNexus. Our map builder technology allows you to use your existing map. However, if you would like ResNexus to build a map for your property, our maps start at $499 for 50 sites and then $10 per additional site. The maximum that we charge for a map is $2,500.

CampLife charges your business a $500 to $3,200 implementation fee to get your property set up. They do provide an interactive map, data transfer, and rate setup as part of this fee.

If your guest accidentally closes the browser window or gets interrupted—no problem—Cart Abandonment allows you to collect potential guest information such as name, email, and phone number and send automated, customizable emails to encourage them to complete their reservation. These automated emails happen within minutes of the guest not completing their purchase. In addition, another email is sent a couple of days later. This gives your business the potential to collect even more revenue without you having to lift a finger.

CampLife doesn’t offer automated built-in cart abandonment emails. However, you can view pending reservations on a report and respond to your potential guests who did not book a reservation.

With ResNexus, you can use your current credit card processor–there is no need to switch. In addition, we offer ResNexus Payments which can either match your current rate. Either way, payments are processed and seamlessly funded to your business' bank account. There are no additional fees from ResNexus to process credit cards.

CampLife's credit card processing options include JetPay, Vantiv, Shift4, and CampLife Pay. If you don't have an account with one of their supported payment processors, you might have to switch.

ResNexus can provide your business with a mobile-friendly, SEO-optimized, ADA-friendly website for only $80 per month and setup fees starting at $499. This includes hosting, security, and initial design! Most website companies charge anywhere between $2,500 to $5,000+ to initially build your website. The best part is that your ResNexus Website automatically updates your rates, policies and more—saving you even more time and money.

CampLife adds your property as a page on their online directory alongside other competing properties. If you have an existing website for your property, you can link directly to your CampLife page for booking. Booking directly from your website prevents the competitor listings from showing up.

The ResNexus booking engine is easy-to-use and customizable. In addition, the ResNexus Team makes sure that your online booking engine matches your current website, whether it is provided by ResNexus or not. That means when potential guests go to reserve a site, they don’t feel like they are being sent to a different-looking website. In addition, all reservations that come through the ResNexus online booking engine are commission-free.

CampLife allows limited customization of their booking engine to look like your website. You can change colors, add your property’s logo, and add a custom background image.

ResNexus was designed with your campground guests in mind, because we know that if your guest has a great shopping experience your business will enjoy increased revenue. That’s why the ResNexus booking engine shows your sites or map right from the start—a unique benefit that helps your business increase reservations. Your booking engine is your virtual store, immediately show your guests what they want to buy.

CampLife allows your business to have many required fields and won’t show any inventory until you complete them all. This can disrupt the natural shopping process. Filling out seven or more required fields might be convenient for your business but could be viewed as a hassle by your guests. In addition, a brightly colored countdown clock pressures the customer throughout the process. Guests can add 15 minutes to their time via the Accessibility menu at the top of the page.

When a guest makes a booking online, your property's policies are automatically displayed as a part of the reservation process.

CampLife requires the guest to click to view your policies and terms and conditions. Making your potential guest hunt for the policies can slow down the booking process. CampLife requires your guest to click and agree to your policies whether they have read them or not.

With ResNexus Travel Protection, you can protect your business from revenue losses from last-minute cancellations due to illness, injury, or death. Your guests can simply select the Travel Protection option during the booking process, and if they cancel for one of the protected reasons, both you and your guest will be reimbursed 100% of the booking cost minus the travel protection fee.

CampLife does not currently provide a limited warranty trip protection integration. If a guest has to cancel last-minute due to illness or health condition, your property must fall back on your own cancellation policies, which could result in a loss of revenue depending on the strictness of your terms and conditions.

ResNexus allows you to easily display retail items, specials, and packages alongside your sites while the guest is browsing. In addition, ResNexus separates your retail items as it's own page with large pictures so that your guest can't miss them. Add-ons can give your business thousands of dollars in additional revenue and enhance your guests' stay.

CampLife does not have a way to display retail items to guests until after they have already selected a site.

ResNexus is the highest rated product in the Campground Management Software category on Capterra, with similar ratings on Software Advice. Our highly trained staff is ready to answer your call–quickly. We also provide emergency support if your business runs into problems after hours and have an extensive library of support videos. We are one of the highest rated companies in the campground industry!

CampLife has positive reviews on Capterra and Software Advice. We recommend you check out both companies user reviews found on these sites. CampLife's reviews on Google and Facebook are hard to find or not enabled. They do have call-in support, chat and a video library.

ResNexus is here to help your business grow. That why each month we offer educational webinars that discuss everything from developing trends in the hospitality and campground industries to new ResNexus features to help your business operate more easily. We also share news about issues that affect your business on our website and facebook. In addition, we have an annual training conference called ResNexus Academy.

CampLife posts articles on facebook and occasionally presents at various conferences. They provide webinars and a training video library for their users.

Our system meets a specific standard of security set by multiple credit card companies called PCI. Because our system includes security features that require password updates, and deletes credit card information automatically, our customers guests are more safe. Not only that, we pay a company to come audit our system and our company to make sure we meet these high standards. They give us a certificate to prove it! We’ve been in this industry for 18 plus strong years, and your security matters to us.

CampLife uses self-assessment to determine their PCI compliance. Any software that records, inputs or collects credit card data, whether tokenized or not, should have a qualified 3rd party audit their system and procedures.

ResNexus is one of the fastest growing campground reservation softwares in the industry! We have grown to over 850 campground and glamping properties since 2014. ResNexus has a long history (since day one) of being in the cloud and we understand how to do it well. Our cloud is designed with redundancy, security and speed in mind. Over 3,600 hospitality properties trust us with their business. Our mission is to "Elevate Industries, one business at a time, through service, innovation, and education."

CampLife started as a cloud-based kiosk software for campgrounds. After 17 years in the industry they have over 645 campground clients. Like ResNexus, they continue to grow in clients.

Not only does ResNexus have the best looking Welcome and Thank You emails, we take your business further with Birthday, Anniversary, Holiday emails and Newsletters. The best part—we set them all up for you as part of our Red Carpet Service.

CampLife does offer automatic email templates which can be branded to match your property, but you have to set everything up yourself.

ResNexus displays your top retail offers and specials to potential guests right from the start. In addition, your retail items are shown again on a separate callout page once the guest selects a campground or site.

CampLife doesn’t have retail sidebars on the first landing page of their booking engine. As mentioned previously, retail items, specials, and packages are inaccessible until after site selection.

ResNexus developed innovative automatic yield management capabilities in late 2013. You can increase your revenue by changing your rates based on occupancy, date of booking, and weekday. Plus, ResNexus goes further with expiring minimum nights to enforce longer stays or not require them based on your season. In addition, ResNexus makes it easy to set daily, weekly and monthly rates.

CampLife does allow properties to institute minimum night restrictions, as well as daily, weekly, and monthly rate options. Like ResNexus, CampLife also provides lock fees and yield management based on occupancy.

ResNexus directly connects to a wide variety of marketing channels such as Booking.com, Expedia, Spot2nite and TripAdvisor. In addition, ResNexus has a unique direct connection to VRBO that does not use ical. This helps prevent double bookings from having to manually enter in reservations from VRBO. ResNexus does have a commission-free pricing option to connect to the OTA's.

CampLife has its own marketing channel and directory, and does not allow you to connect to other marketing channels and directories such as Booking.com, Expedia, and Airbnb. The CampLife Unlimited option does not charge commissions for online reservations.