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Bunkhouse vs. ACTIVE Camp & Class Manager

Enterprise scale, with your money on their remittance schedule.

ACTIVE Network's horizontal registration platform — camps, classes, universities, YMCAs, and parks & rec at enterprise scale.

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Bunkhouse

$99/mo

Flat. 1% platform fee, published. Your own Stripe account is merchant of record.

ACTIVE Camp & Class Manager

Negotiated

Per-registration or percentage fees set per account; ACTIVE collects and remits bi-weekly by ACH.

Fee models per support.activenetwork.com (Per Registration Model Fees, Flat Rate Model Fees); remittance per the 2026 CCM Bi-Weekly ACH Payment Schedule article. Read 2026-08-23.

FEATURE BY FEATURE

Side by side

	Bunkhouse	ACTIVE Camp & Class Manager
Who holds your money	You — direct charges to your own Stripe account	ACTIVE collects and remits by bi-weekly ACH schedule
Fee transparency	Flat subscription + 1% platform fee, published	Per-registration or percentage fees, negotiated per account, not published
Refunds	Issued from your dashboard on your own account	Reviewers report refund friction, tied to the remittance model
Support	Included	Tiered support packages sold separately
Consumer marketplace listing	None — deliberately; your families are yours	ACTIVE.com / ACTIVEKids listing included

Competitor claims are drawn from their own published pricing pages, fee schedules, help centers, and service terms, verified 2026-08-23. Tell us if something has changed.

THE HONEST ANSWER

Is Bunkhouse a good ACTIVE Camp & Class Manager alternative?

If you're an institution that wants ACTIVE's consumer marketplace listing and enterprise scale, CCM is built for that and Bunkhouse deliberately has no marketplace.

If you're a camp that wants to be the merchant of record, get paid on Stripe's schedule instead of a bi-weekly remittance, know its fees before signing, and have support included rather than sold as a package — Bunkhouse is the alternative.

SWITCHING

Switching from ACTIVE

Our importer reads UltraCamp and CampMinder exports today. From ACTIVE, export campers and households as CSV and talk to us; we'll scope the mapping with you before anything is written.

✓CSV households and campers, honestly scoped
✓Dry run before any write
✓Rollback on every import

WHERE ACTIVE CAMP & CLASS MANAGER WINS

Where they're genuinely stronger

Enterprise scale — tens of thousands of organizations — and consumer distribution through the ACTIVE.com and ACTIVEKids marketplaces
A branded parent app (Captivate) and mature waitlist automation

WHERE BUNKHOUSE WINS

The structural differences

You are the merchant of record: parent payments settle to your own Stripe account, not to a platform that remits to you bi-weekly
Fees are published — a flat subscription plus a 1% platform fee — versus per-registration and percentage fees set per account by an account manager
Support comes with the product, not as a separately sold package

Own the money flow

Connect your Stripe account in the demo and see where the fee line is.

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