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Focused guides on the questions campsite operators actually ask.

• An honest answer for Austrian campsites.The easy thing would be to write a page implying Grondia handles Ortstaxe and Meldezettel. It does not. Not yet. Here is what genuinely works for an Austrian site today, what is Swiss-specific, and how to decide whether that adds up for you.
• The tourist tax, worked out from the booking.Counting nights off a spreadsheet at period end is a job nobody chose. It exists because the guest data and the tax calculation live in different places. In Grondia the tourist tax is calculated per stay from the booking itself, so the figure on the guest’s bill and the figure in your report are the same number. Here is what that covers today, and what it does not.
• Sell every pitch from your own site, and never sell one twice.A booking system has two jobs: turn a visitor into a paid reservation without handing them to someone else, and make it structurally impossible to promise the same lakeside pitch to two families. Most systems do one of those.
• Campsite software compared 2026: what actually mattersCompare campsite software and you find vendor pages, forum threads and little that is concrete. This guide sorts it out: which functions a site really needs in 2026, the ten questions to put to every vendor, who actually sells in the German-speaking market, and why “free” is almost always the more expensive option. It ends with Grondia’s answers to the same ten questions, so you can check them directly.
• Channel Manager for your campsite: your channels, no double-bookingsList your pitches on the portals you choose and keep them on the same live availability as your own booking page. Sell a pitch anywhere and it disappears everywhere: the same atomic lock that prevents double-bookings on your own site guards every channel.
• Every direct booking, commission-freeGrondia puts a real-time booking widget on your own website (included in every plan), so guests book their exact pitch straight with you. There is no per-booking commission on any of those bookings, and the guest relationship stays yours from the first click.
• Grondia is not free, and that is exactly the pointThere is no free tier here, and we will not pretend otherwise. What there is: published, fair pricing and no per-booking commission, so unlike the "free" tools, we never take a cut of the bookings you worked to win.
• Move to Grondia without losing a booking or a recordOnboarding takes about two weeks: we import the data from your current system, configure Grondia for your pitches and rules, and train your team. No IT knowledge required, and if you ever leave, you get a 90-day export window to take your data with you.
• Guests arrive already checked inWith Grondia’s online check-in, guests complete and digitally sign their registration before they reach the barrier, so arrival day is a quick greeting and a guest card, not a queue at reception.
• A campsite website that takes real bookings on day oneGrondia includes a website builder with an embedded booking widget in every plan, so the site you publish and the engine that sells your pitches are the same product, not a page bolted onto a plugin. No IT knowledge required.
• Keep your RKSV till. Let Grondia run everything else.The practical split for an Austrian campsite: your Registrierkasse keeps the counter (it signs the cash transaction and issues the Beleg the way Austrian law requires), and Grondia runs the booking, the pitch map, the front desk, self-check-in, the payments and the website. That is the same division most sites already run, and it means you can modernise the ninety percent of the operation that is booking and guest experience without touching the till. Ask us where RKSV fiscalisation stands against your go-live date.