RoverPass vs Newbook:
Campground Reservation Software Comparison
RoverPass and Newbook at glance.
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Which Is The Best Campground Reservation Software For You?
Last Update: August 2024
In today’s fast-paced and competitive campground industry, having the right tools and technology is essential to stay ahead of the curve and outshine the competition. But with so many options available, how do you know where to start? That’s where we come in. RoverPass has created this comprehensive guide to highlight two leading campground management tools: RoverPass and Newbook. Let's explore each platform’s unique features, strengths, and capabilities to help you choose the best solution for your campground or RV park.
Price
Online Booking
Website Building
General Store
User Interface
Marketplace
Real-Time Support
Zapier Integration
Quickbooks
Integration
$3/res $99 monthly fee
Yes
Yes
Yes
Modern
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
$2/res min $150 monthly fee
Yes
No
No
Modern
No
Yes
No
Yes
Standout Features:
RoverPass and NewBook share some similar features that you’ll find across many reservation management platforms. However, RoverPass takes the cake when it comes to price, ease of use, and driving more bookings thanks to the online
Marketplace (more on that below).
Campground, RV Parks and Glamping Specific Management Tools.
Personalized communication with travelers.
Support for Multiple Payment Methods.
Premium Website development solution
Long Term Reservations features like: Recurring Invoices, Autopayments, ACH transactions and Flexible Check Out dates.
Direct integration with OTAs
+6k integrations throughout Zapier
Marketing Solutions for Guest Management
Automated Marketing Campaigns
Payment Gateway Integration
Mobile-Friendly Booking Engine
Keyless check in and check out
Rich third-party integration tools(including connecting to OTA's)
Overview: NewBook
Skip to RoverPass overviewFounded in 2010 and headquartered in Australia, NewBook offers a comprehensive suite of hardware and software property management solutions for various types of accommodation businesses, including RV parks and campgrounds. Their tools are designed to help owners digitalize the booking process, streamline operations, and increase overall bookings and revenue. While NewBook aims to achieve similar goals to other reservation systems in the industry, its Australian roots and unique approach provide distinctive advantages and features.
Let’s explore some of NewBook's standout features and see how they compare with the solutions offered by RoverPass.
Newbook Reservation Management Software
With a user base of over 55,000 across different industries, NewBook has established itself as a significant player in the hospitality management software market. Their suite of tools is designed to help owners not only digitize their booking processes but also increase overall bookings and revenue—goals similar to other reservation systems in our industry. NewBook's solutions include integrations with most third-party OTAs, an activity/day pass tool, dynamic pricing tools, site lock features, and more, all aimed at increasing revenue (just like RoverPass).
Campground Management System
As mentioned, NewBook’s system is robust, providing the tools campground owners and managers need to book more in less time. Since NewBook serves other accommodation companies other than campgrounds/RV parks, they’re able to aggregate tons of usage data to see what people need right now.
Third-Party Integrations
RoverPass and other reservation management platforms offer third-party integration tools (like the OTAs we mentioned). However, NewBook’s third-party integrations are a bit more robust as they can connect with hundreds of tools.
Inventory items reporting
Arrival and departure summaries
The only issue is that many of these features were designed for the hotel industry at large and not specifically for the small RV park or campground, leaving NewBook vulnerable.
Revenue Driving Features
NewBook’s system offers great features that help increase revenue at your campground. Features include built-in options for creating marketing campaigns and interactive promotions, booking add-ons, abandoned cart tracking, gift voucher use, and more. They claim that utilizing their suite can help parks generate upwards of 50% more revenue.
Activities & Day Passes
Like
RoverPass Daily Rental solution, NewBook offers RV park and campground owners the ability to sell and manage passes for activities and events going on at their facilities. This is a great feature that helps owners earn more revenue per booking while cutting time on selling campsites and tickets separately.
Difficult To Use
Users find NewBook’s system more difficult to use. Reviews from verified users claim that small, simple actions in NewBook’s bulky system can take many steps and can actually add to the time it takes for a task to be accomplished.
NewBook Is More Expensive
More features (even ones you don’t use or don’t need) means more money. Although NewBook features a commission-free booking engine, setup costs between $1,000 up to $3,000 depending of your business' needs. With monthly fees starting at $150 per month. Sounds like they take commission upfront.
Onboarding Bottlenecks
The RoverPass onboarding process takes two days. That’s all! Unfortunately, NewBook’s onboarding process is as cumbersome as some of its features. The average time to build takes approximately two weeks and then six one-hour training sessions (we said it was difficult to master!) making the onboarding process take upwards of a month.
You could miss out on getting a head start on marketing campaigns, holidays, and other events from onboarding alone.
Hard To Train
NewBook’s large list of features also makes it harder to train. Their system can take months to master, whereas the RoverPass system is easy to understand and use – mastering the suite takes a mere couple of hours.
No Marketplace
NewBook has solid revenue-driving features, but none as powerful as the world’s largest directory of bookable RV parks & campgrounds offered by RoverPass with over 30 million annual visitors.
Let’s learn more about RoverPass and how the platform (and Marketplace) compares to the industry giant.
Overview: RoverPass
Founded in 2015, RoverPass Campground Reservation Software (CRS) and industry-leading Marketplace Solutions are feature-rich, robust, easy-to-use, reach a wider range of travelers, and are specifically designed for better campground management.
RoverPass focuses all its resources on the campground and RV industry, which ensures that although the solutions are packed with cutting-edge features, every feature is 100% relevant to the unique needs of owners and travelers in the space, today, tomorrow, and as the industry evolves. Plus, RoverPass does it at a lower price point.
RoverPass Marketplace
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Top Tier Integration Partners
RoverPass works with top-tier partners like Hipcamp, AAA, BookOutdoors, Spot2Nite, Expedia, Airbnb, and many others to provide campground owners with unparalleled visibility. By listing your campground with RoverPass, you gain access to a network of leading travel platforms that reach millions of potential guests. These strategic partnerships ensure that your park is showcased across various trusted platforms, increasing your exposure and attracting more travelers. Being part of this extensive network enhances your campground's online presence, driving bookings and elevating your business in the competitive hospitality industry.
Roverpass Campground & RV Park Management Software
RoverPass has an impressive marketplace with a large reach and high customer ratings, but where RoverPass truly shines is in the Campground Reservation Software (CRS). The CRS is loaded with similar features to RMS, with a focus on ease of use, customer support, and a few more tricks up our sleeve designed to increase your customer loyalty and revenue, while saving you time and money. All for only $3 per reservation!
Long Term Reservations
RoverPass offers a robust solution for your
long-term reservations. Owners can use the solution to effortlessly handle property management functions for guests staying longer than 28 days.
Recurring Billing
Owners can create & manage invoices, split payments, add utility fees such as water and electricity, set due dates, set late fees, and more — all set to reoccur monthly.
Site Lock
Owners value choice. The RoverPass Site Lock feature enables campers to pay a pre-set fee to guarantee a specific campsite. Campers are happy with the security, and your park can make more money per reservation.
Channel Management
With the Channel Management optimizer, you no longer need to update your OTA listings across every channel whenever a traveler books a spot at your RV park or campground. This feature eliminates issues like duplicate bookings and other unnecessary headaches while ensuring maximum visibility for you!
Optimized Site Assignment Logic
Optimized Site Assignment logic automatically selects the optimal site in your park based on the dates of each new booking. The feature reduces gaps in your calendar that are hard to fill while keeping longer gaps in your calendar open for longer bookings.
Marketing Automation
RoverPass enhances its marketing automation capabilities with Zapier integration, allowing campground owners to streamline communication and build stronger customer relationships. With mass mailing and SMS solutions, you can easily send personalized messages and promotional offers to guests, ensuring they stay informed and engaged. Zapier integration also allows you to connect RoverPass with a wide range of marketing tools, facilitating targeted campaigns, automated follow-ups, and seamless data management. This flexibility enables you to optimize your marketing efforts, increase guest satisfaction, and drive revenue growth effectively.
Automated Check-Out Process
Quick and easy to follow checkout process for guests that can be customized to the needs of any campground.
Daily Rental Solution
With RoverPass'
Daily Rental Solution, rent out equipment, or provide day passes to sponsored activities
Premium Website Solution
This is a one-of-a-kind feature that you can only get through RoverPass. RoverPass offers
website building and integration that’s hosted and managed by RoverPass. Not only will RoverPass build or upgrade a user-friendly website for your campground, but we will also integrate our online reservation tool seamlessly into the website. That way your business is completely streamlined, and your processes are smooth and efficient.
Point-Of-Sale Solution
The RoverPass General Store helps you make more money while keeping track of your inventory. It’s fast and simple to add or remove products, edit pricing, control stock, and attach a purchase to an existing reservation.
Point - Of - Sale System Solution also provides reports that help you decipher what’s selling and what isn’t.
Interactive Maps
Interactive park and campground maps to aid in quick site selection, reporting, and more.
Reports and Analytics
RoverPass offers easy-to-use reports and an intuitive dashboard, allowing you to quickly monitor bookings, revenue trends, and occupancy rates. Our analytics provide valuable insights without complexity. Plus, our dedicated support team is always available to help you maximize your results.
Additional Services From RoverPass
At the end of the day, you can’t go wrong using any of the powerful cloud-based reservation systems on the market, although based on a side-by-side comparison, most RV parks and campgrounds can benefit greatly opting for RoverPass’ complete set of features designed to simplify your life & help you increase your bottom line. But, to differentiate RoverPass even further from the competition, here are a few benefits unique ONLY to RoverPass.
Unmatched Customer Support
Campground Channel Management
With RoverPass
Channel Management Optimizer technology, you no longer need to update your OTA listings manually across every channel whenever a traveler books a spot at your park.
The Channel Management service helps you…
Be in more places and increase your distribution network & advertising awareness
Eliminate the possibility of duplicate bookings or overbooking your business
Have total confidence in your calendar
Premium Website Building
If you don’t already have a website or you want to start accepting online bookings ASAP, then you want the RoverPass Premium Website Solution.
Learn more.What’ll It Be?
Clearly, NewBook is a solid product. Plenty of robust internal features, rich integration with third-party applications, and a large user base are attractive benefits of a campground management system. However, that leaves you with software that is harder to use and train, takes much longer to onboard, and costs a lot more than average, too.
Thankfully, RoverPass offers many of the same benefits in a more user-friendly package, plus a Marketplace like no other in the industry. Both are great platforms with their strengths and weaknesses, and ultimately, the choice is yours. Don’t wait any longer, start increasing reservations and bookings today with RoverPass. Fill in the form below to book a free demo!
These statements are based on our investigation as of August 2024. If you find any inaccuracies or have updates, please email corrections to marketing@roverpass.com
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