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CampWorks not only pays for itself, but can actually bring additional profit to your business.  Below are some examples of how CampWorks can help increase your sales as well as reduce the cost of running your operation.

Increase Sales
 

CampWorks has several features aimed at helping to maximize the utilization of your rental spaces.

• •Use Camper Night and utilization by rental space type reports to understand how well each space and space type are being used.  Reports can tell you if you should convert more tent sites to full hookups or build more cabins.
• Use the How Found Out report to determine your advertising effectiveness.  Determine what advertising is working for you and what isn't.  Put your money into ads or advertising methods that are yielding results and improve sales.

Financial Benefit Example:

If by eliminating advertising methods that aren't working and putting those savings into other methods that work gained 20 camper nights per year.  If the average spend by the guest is $40 per day at your campground then the total increased revenue for 20 additional camper nights would be:

20 nights x $40 per night = $800

This example would increase your sales by $800 per year!

• ••Guest profile management:  Keep complete records of your guests including stay history, credit card information, rig & vehicle information, and notes about them.
• Use guest lists and mailing labels to send out newsletters, special mailings etc to inform past guests of events to entice them back.
• Employee tracking & change logging provides valuable sources of information to eliminate errors and catch mistakes before the guest is affected eliminating customer problems.
• Black list management keeps profit destroying guests out:  More return visits by guests due to your quiet and relaxing campground.

Financial Benefit Example:

Get 5 guests to come back for an average of 3 days for a total of 15 extra camper nights / year by improving guest satisfaction.

5 reservations x 3 days per reservation @ $40 per day = $600

Another easy way to increase your sales by $600 per year!

CampWorks has teamed with Friend Communications to take online reservations.  Through Friend's alliances with key travel sites like Orbitz and Travelocity, now if you purchase our online module and sign up with Friend, more potential customers will be able to find you and make reservations online.

Financial Benefit Example:

Get 10 new reservations per year for an average length of stay of 5 days.  If the average spend per day minus Friend commissions is $30 then the increased revenue would be:

10 reservations x 5 days per reservation x $30 per day = $1500

This example alone would more than cover the cost of CampWorks for a 150 site campground in 1 year!

Reduce Cost

CampWorks can also reduce the cost of running your operation.  With the efficiency you gain by using CampWorks and using the integrated features such as credit card processing you will save time and money.
 

Use integrated credit card processing

CampWorks has integrated credit card processing with our partner X-Charge.  Using a simple USB credit card scanner and POS printer connected to your PC, you can process credit cards directly from your PC and CampWorks and eliminate monthly credit card processing equipment rental.  X-Charge also has great rates and can save you money on credit card processing fees.  In greater than 90% of cases X-Charge will be able to offer a lower credit card processing rate and save you hundreds of dollars per year.

Financial Benefit Example:   Reduce monthly credit card fees by an average of $30 per month and save $360 per year.

Reduce labor costs

CampWorks has many features which save time for reservationists and managers.  With CampWorks you should be able to reduce labor costs or free up some of your own time.  Here are just a few of the ways CampWorks will save you time.

• Faster End Of Day Closing - Consolidated campground and store POS daily accounting reports bring all of your totals together into one report, making it easy to reconcile receipts & transactions.  One touch, definable End of Day Report printing simplifies your hardcopy backup methods. 

• Automatic software backups eliminate the need to manually backup your system.

• Reduced Troubleshooting Time - CampWorks has integrated transaction logging by employee so you can quickly find out who made what change & when to get to the bottom of issues faster and avoid confusion / rework.

• Faster Check In/Check Out - Quicklists provide immediate access from the main CampWorks screen to common lists of reservations.  For example use, the Guests Left To Check In quicklist to quickly retrieve reservations at check in and speed through the check in process.

• Reduced Tax Preparation Time - Tax & accounting reports over any specified periods generate necessary information to complete tax work.  One button accounting export transfers daily summary information from CampWorks to QuickBooks Pro.

• Real time reservation optimization (maximize feature) - By using the grid and maximize feature, open spaces are virtually eliminated real time, reducing the amount of time required later to re-optimize reservation sites to improve utilization.

• Mass Monthly Billing:  Prepare & Print all bills automatically (saves hours / month)

• Mass Meter Entry:  Auto calculate meter billing (saves hours / month) 

Financial Benefit Example:   Eliminate 1 labor hour per day of paid employee time for 6 months:

1 hour per day @ $7 per hour x 180 days = $1120 in labor savings

Reduce postage cost

As more and more households / RVers go online, email is quickly becoming the preferred method of communication for many people.  Using CampWorks built in emailing capability is a great way to reduce postage cost for confirmation letters, thank you letters, deposit request letters, and cancellation letters.  CampWorks also has built in list management to enable emailing of newsletters and other special announcements.

Financial Benefit Example:

Reach your customers through email campaigns instead of sending traditional mailings and save big money each year:
(500 pieces at $0.25 per piece bulk rate 4 times per year) = $500

Email confirmation and other letters instead of traditional mail and save even more:

For a 100 site campground running at 50% utilization and an average stay length 1 week there would be 50 reservations per week x 52 weeks = 2600 reservations x $0.41 per stamp x 50% of guests have email = $533.  If most of your guests have email addresses the savings could be nearly $1000!

Get paid by VisualWorks

With our customer referral program, we will actually pay you to bring new customers to us.  Get $100 back for each referral who purchases CampWorks.  For example:  bring us 3 sales per year and earn $300.

These are only a few of the ways you can increase your profits using CampWorks.  There are many more!

If you only were able to realize 50% of the above examples and found no other savings, you would still increase your profits by over $3500 per year!

Can you afford NOT to use CampWorks?