Tools

Run the numbers on your own site.

Three free tools for UK campsite, park and glamping operators: what OTA commission is costing you against taking the same bookings direct, what manual booking admin costs in staff hours, and a twelve-KPI scorecard for your operation. They run in the browser, and none of them asks for an email address.

Free to useNo sign-upWorks with any booking system
Calculator
What is commission actually costing me?

Direct booking vs OTA commission calculator

Put in your own booking volume, average booking value, commission rate and how much business you think you could shift to direct. It returns what each channel really costs across a season.

  • Annual commission paid
  • Cost of the same bookings taken direct
  • Value of a realistic channel shift
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Calculator
What are the hours costing me?

Booking admin cost calculator

Manual booking admin rarely shows up as a line in the accounts, so it never gets managed. This turns the hours your team spends on it into a number, with a seven-day method for measuring it honestly.

  • Weekly and annual admin hours
  • Labour cost of that time
  • A worked example to sanity-check yours
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Scorecard
Where is my operation actually weak?

Outdoor accommodation operator scorecard

Score twelve practical KPIs across direct revenue, pricing, booking admin and data readiness, then take the templates away and re-score next season.

  • A score across 12 operational KPIs
  • Free PDF and Excel templates
  • A repeatable annual benchmark
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After the number

A figure is only useful if it changes what you do next.

Whichever line came out largest, there is a guide for what to do about it.

Commission is the big number

Fix the direct booking journey before buying more traffic.

Read the guide

Admin hours are the big number

A 30-minute weekly review that stops the inbox winning.

Read the guide

Still on a spreadsheet

Move future bookings across without losing any of them.

Read the guide
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About these tools

Tools FAQ

Are these tools free?

Yes, and there is no sign-up. The calculators run in your browser, and the scorecard templates download as a PDF and an Excel file without asking for an email address. Nothing here is a lead-capture form wearing a calculator costume.

Do I need to be a Keydesk customer?

No. The calculators are about your business, not our software. The commission calculator works whatever booking system you use, and the scorecard is deliberately vendor-neutral so you can re-run it next season regardless of what you are running on.

Where does the data go?

The calculators work in the page and we do not ask you to submit your figures to use them. Treat the outputs as your own planning numbers.

How accurate are the results?

They are as good as the figures you put in, and they are planning estimates rather than accounts. Each tool shows its assumptions so you can check the working, and the admin calculator includes a seven-day measurement method precisely because most operators underestimate the hours on first guess.

What should I do with the numbers?

Use them to size a decision before you spend on it. If commission is your biggest line, the direct-booking guides are the next step. If admin hours are, the peak-season triage guide and the spreadsheet migration guide are more useful than any software demo.

Index reviewed

If the numbers point at your software.

Set up your accommodation, pricing and booking rules for free, and see what Keydesk does with them before you take a live booking.

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