PootlrHost vs Anytime Booking: campsite booking software compared
Anytime Booking and PootlrHost compared for UK campsites and CL sites: what each costs, websites, Pitchup, pitch maps and balances.
Updated . Anytime Booking’s details checked
Anytime Booking is booking and management software from Cornwall for “the outdoor holiday market”: campsites, holiday parks, glamping sites, motorhome hire and holiday let agencies. It has plans for small sites and CLs, connects to Pitchup and Airbnb directly, and offers more payment providers and park equipment links than PootlrHost. PootlrHost is simpler and aimed only at small sites, with a full website, a pitch map and automatic balance collection included at one price.
We couldn’t load Anytime Booking’s own pricing pages when we checked, so its prices here come from its exhibitor listing for the November 2026 Farm Business Innovation show and from the CL Owners Group, neither of which says whether VAT is added. Its features come from its own help centre.
At a glance
| PootlrHost | Anytime Booking | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Small UK campsites, CL and CS sites, pop-ups and glamping | Campsites, holiday parks, glamping, motorhome hire and holiday let agencies |
| Price | £1 a booking, or Pro at £25 a month with no booking fee (or £225 for a year paid upfront); £20 a month for a CL or CS (or £200 for a year paid upfront). No VAT to add | LITE: £10 a month plus 1% of bookings. CL plan: £24 a month after three months free (the CL Owners Group’s 2025 offer). PRO: from £30 a month plus a one-off set-up fee |
| A 5-pitch CL, 150 bookings at £20 | £150 a year | £150 a year on LITE, or £288 on the CL plan |
| A 20-pitch site, 500 bookings at £60 | £300 a year on Pro, or £225 paid yearly | £420 a year on LITE |
| Website | Included: several pages, on a pootlrhost.co.uk address or your own domain | A drag-and-drop website builder (we couldn’t confirm whether it costs extra) |
| Guests choose their pitch | On a map you draw, and it’s theirs if it’s still free | From a list of pitch numbers, with a pitch map at checkout added in March 2026. Interactive maps are quoted for separately |
| Pitchup | By API key | By API, updating every minute |
| Airbnb | By calendar link | By API |
| Hipcamp, Booking.com | By calendar link, read every 15 minutes | By calendar link, read every 15 minutes, with API links announced from October 2026 |
| Deposits | Yes | Yes |
| Balances | Taken automatically from the guest’s saved card before arrival | Reminder emails, with the guest paying online |
| Club membership numbers | Yes, if you ask for them | Yes |
| Group and rally bookings | Several pitches requested together, with one payment link (£1 a pitch on Pay As You Go) | A guest can add further bookings and pay for them together (it suggests no more than five) |
| Card payments | Stripe | Stripe, PayPal, Opayo or Worldpay |
| Texts | Booking confirmations and reminders, at no extra charge for now | 8p plus VAT a text, bought in hundreds |
| Staff logins | As many as you need | No limit |
| Reviews | None yet: PootlrHost is new | 4.8 from 64 reviews on Trustpilot |
Where Anytime Booking is the better choice
- Bigger or mixed businesses. Holiday parks, motorhome hire and letting agencies, with owner portals, an agency module and accounts for several sites.
- A direct link to Airbnb. Anytime connects to Airbnb by API as well as Pitchup, and says its Pitchup link updates every minute. PootlrHost connects to Pitchup by API too, with new Pitchup bookings arriving within a couple of minutes, but to Airbnb by calendar link.
- Your own payment provider. Anytime works with Stripe, PayPal, Opayo and Worldpay, and can take card payments over the phone through Opayo or Worldpay. PootlrHost uses Stripe only.
- Park equipment. Anytime links to number-plate barriers (£20 a month, plus a one-off integration fee) and to CampaVolt for electricity meters. PootlrHost doesn’t.
- Track record. Anytime says it supports “hundreds” of businesses, and has 64 Trustpilot reviews.
Where PootlrHost is the better choice
- A website included. Every PootlrHost site comes with a full website: pages for each pitch type, a gallery, how to find you and your questions, with booking built in.
- A 20-pitch site. PootlrHost Pro is £25 a month (or £225 for a year paid upfront), with no booking fee. Anytime LITE takes 1% of your bookings on top of its monthly fee, which comes to £420 a year on £30,000 of bookings, and PRO adds a set-up fee.
- Pick your pitch on a map, drawn once by you and shown to guests as they book, at no extra cost.
- Balances collected for you. PootlrHost takes the balance from the guest’s saved card before they arrive. Anytime’s help centre describes reminder emails and guests paying online.
- Set up yourself, today. Give PootlrHost your current website’s address and it reads your words, photos, pitch types and prices to start your new site. There’s no set-up fee on either plan.
What it costs, worked through
A 5-pitch CL taking 150 bookings a year at £20:
- PootlrHost: 150 × £1 = £150 a year, or nothing if guests pay the £1 as a service fee. Bookings you take by phone and add yourself are free.
- Anytime LITE: £10 × 12 + 1% of £3,000 = £150 a year.
- Anytime CL plan: £24 × 12 = £288 a year, or £216 in the first year after three months free.
A 20-pitch campsite taking 500 bookings a year at £60:
- PootlrHost Pro: £25 × 12 = £300 a year (or £225 for a year paid upfront).
- Anytime LITE: £10 × 12 + 1% of £30,000 = £420 a year.
- Anytime PRO: from £30 × 12 = £360 a year, plus a set-up fee that isn’t published.
Card fees are on top with both.
Moving from Anytime Booking to PootlrHost
- Bring your bookings and guests across from a CSV file, using our template if you need to. You check every row before anything goes in.
- Build your new website as a draft and keep taking bookings on Anytime until it’s ready.
- Connect Pitchup with your API key, and your other booking sites by calendar link.
- Send your old web addresses to the new pages, and email guests with stays to come to say where their booking now lives.
Switching to PootlrHost goes through each step.
Sources
Anytime Booking’s exhibitor listing for the Farm Business Innovation show and LITE listing, the CL Owners Group on Anytime’s CL plan, and Anytime’s help centre on CL sites, Pitchup, Airbnb, Hipcamp, new channel connections, choosing a pitch, interactive maps, the 2026 change log, balance reminders, club membership numbers, booking more than one pitch, payments, texts, barriers and users, and its Trustpilot reviews. PootlrHost’s prices are on our pricing page.
Anytime Booking’s features on this page come from its own help centre, and its prices from its Farm Business Innovation show listing and the CL Owners Group, checked on 23 October 2026. PootlrHost isn’t connected with Anytime Booking. If anything here is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] and we’ll put it right.
