Booking platform for campsites

Your guest picks their pitch on the site map.

tentacl.ai is a booking system for campsites: your guest picks their pitch directly on the site map, and the system calculates the price, tourist tax and registration form automatically. In daily use on Lake Constance, 154 units, with no booking commission.

No booking commission. Guest data stays with you. One dedicated contact, no call queue.
Site map with glowing available pitches, screenshot from live operation in Allensbach
Pitch selection on the real site map. Only pitches that fit the vehicle and are free light up. Screenshot from live operation.
3Operators in Germany and Switzerland work with us
154Units in live operation
726Photos of units on file
120Features, built and in operation
0 %Commission per booking
4Languages: DE, EN, FR, NL
Try it yourself

Book in five steps, with real data

Availability, photos and prices come live from Allensbach. Click through — payment is switched off in the preview.

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Preview of the booking system
What the guest sees

Booking like on a good travel portal. Just on your own site.

Everything from live operation in Allensbach, no mock-ups.

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Complete site map
The site mapOnly matching, available pitches light up. Occupied ones stay visible, grayed out. Double booking is impossible.
Results list
Real availability, real priceVehicle length, power, dog, children: a motorhome that's too long is never even offered a pitch that's too small.
Alternative suggestions
"Fully booked" becomes an offerDates one to three days either side, a different category, waitlist with a ready-made booking link.
Group booking
Groups without twenty emailsEach unit with its own account, its own payment, its own check-in. School groups with minimum supervision.
Guest account
The guest accountRebook, extend, cancel with a preview. Buy a later checkout. Sign in with Google or Apple too.
Search on the phone
Built for the phone firstThe same search on the phone, not shrunk down but built for it.
What the guest gets

Confirmation, card on the phone, message on the display.

No newsletter plan, no SMS fee, no app install.

Booking confirmation by email
The confirmationPaid, pitch, times, price, check-in code. Invoice and confirmation as a PDF attachment. Real email from the system, name changed.
Booking as a card in Apple Wallet
The card on the phoneApple and Google Wallet. If the booking changes, the card changes. It expires by itself after departure.
Message from the campsite on the lock screen
And you can write to itTo everyone on site, everyone with a card, or a single guest. Appears on the lock screen.
Behind the reception desk

Reception, till, bank, team. One system, no paper.

Reception: the day at a glance
The day at receptionWho's arriving, who's leaving, who hasn't paid yet.
Occupancy plan
Occupancy planTwo weeks, areas, rebook by dragging, blocked periods.
Check-in at reception
Check-in in one minuteScan the code, registration data is already there, tourist tax calculated.
Booking screen at reception
Booking at receptionGuest, stay, people, outstanding amount, history.
Booking overview with payment status
Payment statusPaid means paid, because the payment provider confirmed it.
Bank reconciliation
Bank reconciliationTransactions imported, matches automatic, unresolved cases as a short list.
Guest file
Guest fileVehicles, co-travelers, dogs, invoices, history.
Messages and tasks
Messages and tasksEmails, questions, tasks in one place, not in three inboxes.
Task list on the phone
The team outsideTasks, block pitches, report defects from the phone.

Every morning at eight: the report for the owner

Occupancy, arrivals, revenue, outstanding items, anomalies. As an email, without anyone building a report. For several sites in one report.

Morning report: sample view with fictional sites
Compliance and technology

Registration, tourist tax, till, payment: connected.

We connect all of this to your existing systems. You keep your contracts, your hardware, your terms.

AVSAVS registration

Digital registration form, guest card, submission to the registration system. The guest completes their own data before arrival.

Tourist tax

By your rate, by age, by nights. Auditable for the municipality.

NexiPayment

Nexi or Stripe. Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal. Deposit, balance payment, refund on cancellation.

fiskaltrustTill and TSE

Reception till with fiscal signature, books directly to the guest account.

SaltoBarrier

License-plate recognition or a QR code from the wallet card opens the barrier. Also for sanitary buildings and the lake beach.

Power by meter

Meter reading per pitch, read automatically, billed through the guest account. Or a flat rate, if you prefer.

Open interface

All data via API and export. Your accountant, your website, your next system.

Connected

These are the systems we connect. Your contracts stay your contracts.
AVS registration form
Nexi
Stripe
fiskaltrust
Salto Systems
ASSA ABLOY

Barrier with license plate or QR code, power by meter, registration, till with fiscal signature, and payment. Named brands belong to their owners; we connect their systems, we do not resell them.

The proof

You don't have to take our word for it. Click it yourself.

No provider lets you into a real system without a form. We do. Our reference site is a campsite on Lake Constance — the same platform that would also run your site, in daily operation, with real availability and real prices. Click through. You just can't pay.

What's on this page is built and running. No prototype, no announcement, no slide.
Three operators in Germany and Switzerland work with our software today
154Units in operation
120Features, fully built
25Price rates, self-managed
0 %Commission per booking

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Robert Bückel, founder of tentacl.ai
Who's behind it

We've been building booking platforms for over twenty years.

tentacl.ai develops booking and operations systems for campsites, hotels and holiday rentals. We come to you before rollout, set the system up for your business and are there for the go-live. After that, you reach us directly, with no call queue and no ticket number.

Robert Bückel, founder · robert@tentacl.ai · +49 156 78314317

Reachable when it counts

Same-day reply on weekdays. During the season we're also there on Saturdays, with a dedicated phone number instead of a call queue.

Watchdog around the clock

The booking flow, payment and servers are monitored, at night and on weekends. Anything unusual is in the morning report before a guest notices.

The system adapts

Not the other way around. Your seasons, your rules, your site map. We map out what makes your business special.

The foundation

Old world meets new world.

Underneath the booking flow is not a custom-built standalone system but Odoo: the business software that over 13 million people worldwide work with. On top of that, we build what didn't exist for your business yet.

What the old world already does

Accounting with DATEV export, invoices and dunning, till, inventory for the kiosk and shop, staff and time tracking, reports. We don't have to build any of this, it's there and proven for years. No second program, no manual data export.

What we built on top

The booking flow with the site map, the guest account, the wallet card, tourist tax and registration, groups, waitlist, morning report and the watchdogs that run at night. Everything a business needs that standard software doesn't know.

You're not locked in

Odoo is open. Your data lives in a normal database, fully exportable at any time. Even if you leave one day.

It grows with you

A second site, restaurant, shop, bike rental, more staff: there are ready-made building blocks for that, instead of a request to the vendor.

AI sits on top

Emails are read and sorted, payments matched, reports written. Not as a gimmick, but wherever someone would otherwise be typing.

Price

By features, not by site size

Almost everyone bills by pitch. We don't. Whether your site has fifty units or a thousand makes no difference to us — you pay for what the system should be able to do. No commission per booking.

Reception

Your team works at the desk instead of on paper.

€190per month, net
One-time setup €1,400, then €190 ongoing
without a down payment: €250 for 24 monthsthen €190 — it gets cheaper
  • Bookings and occupancy plan
  • Check-in and guest records
  • Till with TSE
  • Tourist tax and registration form
  • Prices, seasons and rules
  • Invoice, deposit, cancellation
Configure (in German)

Site

Your guest books themselves. No commission to a portal.

€390per month, net
One-time setup €2,400, then €390 ongoing
without a down payment: €490 for 24 monthsthen €390 — it gets cheaper
  • Everything from Reception, plus:
  • Your own booking page with a site map
  • Online payment, your contract
  • Self-service guest account
  • Wallet card with messages
  • Confirmation and waitlist
Configure (in German)

Team

Your team knows each morning what's ahead.

€590per month, net
One-time setup €3,400, then €590 ongoing
without a down payment: €740 for 24 monthsthen €590 — it gets cheaper
  • Everything from Site, plus:
  • Site warden and team app
  • Housekeeping and cleaning
  • Morning report and night watchdog
  • Groups, clubs, school classes
  • Tasks in one place
Configure (in German)

Business

Your site organizes itself.

€890per month, net
One-time setup €4,900, then €890 ongoing
without a down payment: €1,100 for 24 monthsthen €890 — it gets cheaper
  • Everything from Team, plus:
  • Concierge that answers guest questions
  • Accounting and bank reconciliation
  • Reports and advance sales
  • English, French, Dutch
  • Second site in the same system
Configure (in German)
You don't have to take a package.

Every module can be booked on its own, from €30 a month. As soon as a package is cheaper than the individual parts, we automatically bill the package — you never pay more than necessary. In the configurator you see what each building block does, with photos from live operation.

We handle the setup.

Data from your old system, site map, pricing rules, training for your team. You only choose whether to pay it as a single amount or spread it over 24 months. With the spread option, the installment drops off from month 25, and you only pay the base amount from then on.

After 24 months, the setup installment drops off.

This is the part we like explaining best. If you spread the setup over 24 months, you then only pay the base amount — €250 becomes €190, €1,100 becomes €890. The installment isn't extended or increased: it simply stops, because it's paid off. If you pay the setup upfront, you have the lower amount from the first month on.

All prices net, per month. No fee per booking, no tiers by number of pitches. Cancel monthly if you pay the setup upfront.
How the rollout works

For the 2027 season in six to ten weeks

1

On site

We visit you two to three times: seasons, rules, till, registration.

2

Setup

We set everything up: your site map, your prices, your emails.

3

Data migration

We pull guest records and bookings from your old system. Nothing gets lost.

4

Training

We train reception, team and accounting on your real cases.

5

Go-live

We support the first days. After that: a dedicated phone number, morning report, watchdogs.

Demo

30 minutes via Google Meet. Pick a time, done.

Open slots from our calendar. You book it yourself, you'll get the video link by email right away. There's nothing to prepare.

Prefer to talk first?

Book a free 30-minute call below, or write to us directly at robert@tentacl.ai.

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Open time slots

Weekdays, 30 minutes, no sign-up

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Prefer to call? +49 156 78314317 · robert@tentacl.ai

Frequently asked questions

What operators want to know before switching

Who owns the guest data?

You do. Guest records, consents and booking history live in your own tenant on servers in Germany and can be exported in full at any time. Even if you leave one day.

Which payment providers?

Nexi and Stripe, each with credit card, Apple Pay and Google Pay, deposit with a later balance payment, refund on cancellation according to your schedule. PayPal via Stripe.

Is there a commission per booking?

No. A fixed monthly amount, plus the setup once. What your site earns stays with you.

How long does switching take, and what happens to existing bookings?

Six to ten weeks. Existing bookings are carried over; the guest notices nothing about the switch except a better booking page. For founding customers in 2027: go-live by March 15, otherwise no license fee until you start.

Why don't you scale pricing by number of pitches?

Because it makes no difference to us. A business with a thousand units costs us no more work than one with fifty — the same software, the same support. So you pay for what the system should be able to do. If you only want to digitize the front desk, you only pay for that.

Is the bread roll service available without the booking system?

Yes. The bread roll service runs as a standalone product, with Camping.care, with other site software, or without any: €199 setup, then €333 per season or €444 per year. As a module of this platform it costs €49 a month.

For the 2027 season there are ten founding spots.

Go-live guarantee by March 15, data migration included, half license fee in winter. After that, the regular terms apply.

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