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CampMinder
Camp management for residential summer camps, priced by camper rather than by seat
As of 31 August 2026, CampMinder's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. The established system for mid-sized and large overnight camps in North America, covering registration, health records, staff hiring and parent communication. Softwr lists it under Education. CampMinder is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What CampMinder does
CampMinder covers the operational year of a residential camp: enrolment and waitlists, tuition billing and payment plans, camper health records and medication logs, staff recruitment and onboarding with background checks, cabin and group assignment, transport, and the photo and message tools parents use during a session. What sets it apart from generic registration software is the parts nobody else builds: a health centre module a camp nurse can run daily, a staff hiring pipeline suited to hundreds of seasonal applicants, and a parent-facing experience during session that carries real weight in re-enrolment. Camps consistently report that the parent photo and message tools drive returning families more than any operational feature. Buyers are residential and day camps with a few hundred to a few thousand campers a season, plus camp networks and Jewish and faith-affiliated camp associations where CampMinder has deep penetration. The trade-off is commercial opacity. Pricing is quoted, scales with camper volume, and card processing is charged on top of the licence at a rate the camp is often unaware is negotiable. For a camp collecting several million in tuition by card, the processing line dwarfs the software line.
What people use it for
- An overnight camp of eight hundred campers whose nurse currently runs medication logs on paper and cannot produce records for an insurer
- A camp hiring three hundred seasonal staff a year and losing candidates in an email-based application process
- A camp network wanting consistent enrolment and retention reporting across several sites
- A camp whose parent communication during session is the main driver of re-enrolment and is currently ad hoc
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about CampMinder.
- Pricing is never published and scales with camper volume, so a camp that grows a session finds its renewal quote grows with it, without a published schedule to check the increase against.
- Payment processing is charged separately from the licence and is negotiable, but many camps accept the default rate; on several million dollars of card tuition that decision costs more than the software.
- It is built for the North American residential camp model, so camps in the UK, Europe or Australia find terminology, health record structure and transport tooling assume American practice.
- The interface accumulated over two decades and is dense; new administrators need real training, which matters when camp offices turn over staff between seasons.
- Off-season utilisation is poor: a camp pays for a full year of a platform it uses intensively for four months, which makes the per-camper cost feel high to a board reviewing annual spend.
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Regpack: Where flexible registration and payment plans matter more than camp-specific health and bunking tools
Pricing
What CampMinder costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
CampMinder
On request
- Registration, billing, health and staff modules
- Parent portal with photos and messaging
- Priced by camper volume, quoted annually
- Card and ACH processing charged separately
- Implementation and data migration quoted separately
Capabilities
Features
Enrolment and waitlists
Online applications, session selection, waitlists and enrolment agreements
Tuition billing
Payment plans, deposits, discounts, scholarships and balances
Health records
Camper medical forms, medication administration logs and health centre visit tracking
Staff management
Seasonal hiring pipeline, references, background checks and certifications
Cabin and group assignment
Bunking tools with camper request and conflict handling
Parent portal
Photos, messages, forms and account balances for families during session
Transport
Bus and flight assignment for arrivals and departures
Reporting
Enrolment, retention and revenue reporting across seasons
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
What does CampMinder cost?
It is not published. Pricing is quoted annually against camper volume, plus separate implementation and payment processing costs. Ask for the volume bands in writing so next year's increase is predictable.
Is payment processing negotiable?
Yes, and it is the largest cost most camps overlook. Compare the offered rate against an independent merchant quote before signing.
Does it handle camper health records properly?
Yes. The health centre module with medication administration logs is one of the strongest reasons camps choose it over generic registration tools.
Is it suitable for a day camp?
It can be, but much of what you pay for, such as bunking, transport and health centre operations, is built for overnight camps.
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