Camp & retreat management

Camp management software built around your camp.

Starling brings registration, retreats, communications, and giving into one place, so you can manage less and camp more. Built by the team that has helped camps market, register, and run for 25 years.

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Now in beta with Glisson Camp & Retreat Center No per-camper fees, ever

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Five founding camps. Then a waitlist.

We build with five camps at a time. The founding cohort is open now. Apply to be considered for a spot that goes live by January 2027.

The problem

Camp software shouldn't make you work around it.

Fees on top of fees

Platform fees, per-camper charges, and a separate donor bill that climbs as your lists grow.

Forms that lose families

Long registration steps send parents to a portal that doesn't look like your camp, and some give up.

Requests lost in a line

Five tools that don't talk to each other, and one change request waiting in a backlog with everyone else's.

How Starling is different

Your camp, your way. Not the other way around.

Built around your camp

Your sessions, forms, and policies, not a system you squeeze into. When you need something new, we build it in weeks, not years.

Built to your budget

Pricing is custom to your camp, designed to cost less than the tools it replaces. No per-camper or per-registration fees, ever.

One place for the whole camp

Registration, events and activity schedules, retreats and lodging, kitchen and dietary needs, camp store, email and photos, giving, and more. One system replaces the patchwork of small tools and services you pay for today.

Switching without the stress

Data migration, training, and a parallel run alongside your current system are included.

Founding-camp feature

Hold a spot in minutes, finish forms on your schedule

A family's spot is held the moment they start registering, then kept when the forms are done within your window. Families don't lose a spot to a long form, and you don't lose families to one.

Concept preview

Spot not held

15:00

Camper information
Health form
Waiver and e-signature
Payment

Your camp sets the window. 15 minutes shown as an example.

Everything under one roof

Earn a badge for every part of camp you switch on.

Turn on what you need, when you need it. Each piece connects to the rest.

Prototype badges. Custom badge artwork and the final feature list come next.

A look inside

Your day, tailored to what you do.

One home screen shows registrations, money, and what needs attention today, without opening six tools. Directors, registrars, and counselors each see a day built around their role, and a broadcast alert reaches families and staff in one tap.

Home

Your day at Your Camp, tailored to what you do here.

Director ▾Broadcast alert

Your camp at a glanceToday's bookings, money taken, store sales, and what's happening on site, without opening every module.

Total revenue$41,250

Summer registrations128

Waitlist count12

Registration velocityNew registrations per day

Camper A.Unassigned roommateRequested a cabin mate, pending

Camper B.Health form incompleteMissing before arrival day

Camper C.Health form incompleteMissing before arrival day

Sample data, not a real camp.

Switching, simplified

Run side by side until you're ready.

We copy your data

Families, sessions, and history move over, cleaned up along the way. Migration and training are included.

You run both

Your current system stays live while the new one runs next to it, so nothing about your season is at risk.

You choose the day

We time the switch around your registration calendar, not ours.

Free guide

Thinking about switching? Start here.

Changing systems is easier than most camps expect, if you time it right. Our free guide covers when to switch, how to avoid auto-renewal surprises, and what to ask any vendor, including us.

Get the free guide

Why us

25 years inside camp.

For 15 of them we've marketed and supported Camp Glisson, and we've worked with Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Summer Camps. We kept running into the same wall: registration and management systems that frustrated parents and staff. So we built our own.

A starling flock moves as one: thousands of birds, each tuned in to the ones beside it, all in sync. That's what a camp looks like on its best day.

Founding camps get

Direct access to the people building it
A say in what gets built next
Data migration and training included
[Founding terms to be added]

Founding cohort

Apply for a founding spot.

Tell us about your camp. We'll follow up to talk through your season and your current setup. No sales pressure.

Questions

Good questions to ask.

What does it cost?

Every camp is different, so we build pricing around your budget, designed to cost less than the tools it replaces. No per-camper or per-registration fees, ever.

Do we own it?

Starling owns and maintains the platform, so updates are never your job. Your camp's version is customized to you, and your data is always yours.

Will it work with our website?

Yes. Registration can live inside your site, or we can help build a new one.

How long does switching take?

We time it around your registration calendar, with your old system running alongside until you're ready.

What can it replace?

Many of the small tools camps pay for separately: email marketing, parent photo sharing, forms and waivers, activity scheduling, donor tracking, QR check-in, and more. Where it makes sense to keep a tool, we'll plan that with you as part of your switch.