See every site. Know who’s paid. Keep your season simple.
Your notebook got you this far. PineRoster puts the property map, seasonal guests, and payment status in one place, with a clean public website when your campground needs one.
01 One quoted setup02 $60 a month, hosting included03 No licence to renew
A practical upgrade, not a new way to run your business
The system you have probably works. It also lives in one person’s head.
A notebook, spreadsheet, and memory can run a seasonal park for years. The trouble shows up when someone else needs an answer, a payment gets separated from the site list, or your website still cannot tell guests the basics.
STOP 01 / PROPERTY
A live map of the whole campground
Open and occupied sites stay visible, and the map colors itself from each site’s paid-through date: paid, due soon, overdue, or no date set, the same four colors you will see in the demo. Nobody keeps those colors current by hand.
STOP 02 / PEOPLE
The record comes back with the guest
When last spring’s camper returns, you reactivate the record you already have instead of typing a second guest with the same name. Rig, contact details, and payment history carry forward. Household notes stay attached to the person, not just the site they happen to be on this year.
STOP 03 / PUBLIC
A clean website that answers questions
Rules, amenities, location, contact details, and your seasonal model are clear before the phone rings, and a seasonal-site request form drops new names into your inquiry queue, ready to rank onto the waiting list.
Management software, not booking software
Your campground is not a hotel.
Rent by the season or the month and you are running a storage business with trees: rigs, records, and money that stay connected for months at a time. A nightly reservation calendar lies to you all season, with fake five-month bookings and check-out dates that never happen.
A spreadsheet will hold the names and amounts. It will not draw the property, send reminders, or handle month-end date math without someone remembering the formula. PineRoster does, starting with the questions you actually ask:
Which sites are open or occupied?
Who is paid up, due soon, or overdue?
What did this guest pay, and when?
Who is on the waiting list?
ONE PROPERTY / TWO SIDES
One package: the side guests see and the admin side you use
The guest-facing side and the private management tools are set up together by one person, so there is no stack of services to piece together and no question about who to call. In most cases that guest-facing side is a new website built alongside the software; if you already have one worth keeping, it stays exactly where it is and PineRoster runs on a subdomain of your domain.
Public website
Clear before clever
Mobile-friendly pages for amenities, rules, location, and contact
Loads fast, with no plugins to keep updated or break
Written and tagged so search engines can tell what you are and where you are, in plain MN, ND, and SD terms
A private balance page for each camper, opened from a link you send, with no guest account to create
Private admin
Your season at a glance
To-scale site map colored by payment status
Drag a rig to a new site when someone moves
Automated payment reminders and an overdue call list
Guest, rig, agreement, and payment records, electric meter readings billed from usage, and a change history that names the staff member who made each entry
Signed agreements and exemption certificates scanned onto the guest’s own record
Its own login for each person in the office, in a manager or administrator role
Files you own on ordinary website hosting, with CSV exports and backups
North woods, prairie edges, and seasonal operations
PineRoster starts with seasonal campground owners in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. The software is remote-friendly; the business understanding is local.
MN
Minnesota
Seasonal lake and woods campgrounds where the same guests return to the same sites.
ND
North Dakota
Owner-run parks that need practical tracking without buying an enterprise platform.
SD
South Dakota
Seasonal and monthly operations that value a clear website and simple private tools.
FROM FIELD NOTES TO YOUR OWN SYSTEM
How it works
START
Show me how you run it now
Your map, site list, payment rhythm, paper forms, and the questions guests keep asking.
FIT
I set it up around your property
The private map, terminology, site layout, and starter data are fitted to your campground, and the website too when the project includes one.
OWN
You own it and keep running your park
You get the files and data, a straightforward handoff, and a person to call when something needs attention.
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Take the map for a walk
Click around before you call
The demo runs on a made-up campground and resets itself back to its seed data every few hours, so nothing you click can break anything. Open a site, record a payment, then drag a rig onto an open site to move a guest. Two minutes is enough to know.