For accommodation & camping
Use caseTIDEFORCE lets a guest book the lesson, the course or the camp and the place they stay
Operational effecta room, a bed or a camping pitch
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If a guest comes for a week of lessons, they also need somewhere to sleep — a room, a bed in a shared house, or a pitch for their tent or van. When the stay is booked in one tool and the course in another, you split one trip into two transactions, chase a second payment, and end up with two half-records of the same guest. TIDEFORCE is the Commerce & Operations Platform for Outdoor Sports Schools, and the honest answer to "can I sell accommodation and camping alongside lessons in one checkout?" is yes: accommodation and camping are two of the twelve cart types, so the bed and the lesson go through the same checkout and the same payment.
Because it's one connected system, the stay isn't a separate booking bolted on the side — it's part of the same cart, the same payment and the same guest record as the lesson, course or camp it belongs to. The reminder that goes out, the confirmation the guest receives and the invoice you create all draw on one data layer, so the trip you sold and the trip you get paid for are the same thing.
What it does
The stay and the lesson in one cart
Accommodation and camping sit alongside courses, lessons, rentals, tours, events, camps, shuttles, lockers, add-ons and vouchers in a single real cartA guest books a week of beginner lessons, adds their room or a camping pitch, throws in a wetsuit rental, and pays onceRead moreRead less→
Accommodation and camping sit alongside courses, lessons, rentals, tours, events, camps, shuttles, lockers, add-ons and vouchers in a single real cart. A guest books a week of beginner lessons, adds their room or a camping pitch, throws in a wetsuit rental, and pays once. It arrives in your system as one connected booking, not a course here and a stay over there that someone has to match up by hand.
Cross-sold with the camp, not sold on its own
The point of selling a bed or a pitch in TIDEFORCE is to complete the experience around the camp or coursethe guest books the whole trip in one goRead moreRead less→
The point of selling a bed or a pitch in TIDEFORCE is to complete the experience around the camp or course — so the guest books the whole trip in one go instead of leaving to find somewhere to stay. You add accommodation and camping to the same offer your lessons and camps already live in, and the upsell happens in the same flow. Your team can also add a stay to an existing booking at the desk, so when a guest extends by two nights you capture it instead of losing it.
One connected guest record
Because the stay and the lesson are the same booking, the guest who's sleeping on site is the same record as the guest in your beginner groupnot two contacts in two toolsRead moreRead less→
Because the stay and the lesson are the same booking, the guest who's sleeping on site is the same record as the guest in your beginner group — not two contacts in two tools. Participant details, the booking, the payment and the stay all hang off one guest, so check-in, reminders and follow-up speak to the whole trip rather than half of it.
Confirmations and reminders for the whole trip
Email confirmations and reminders are automatic and cover the booking as a wholea guest who booked a course plus a room gets one set of messages about one tripRead moreRead less→
Email confirmations and reminders are automatic and cover the booking as a whole, so a guest who booked a course plus a room gets one set of messages about one trip. Seasonal pricing (high, mid and low season by date range, per activity and location) carries the accommodation or camping line at the rate you intend, so a high-summer week of camp-plus-bed prices the way you set it. (Capacity controls in TIDEFORCE govern the activity slot, not a room-availability calendar — managing room inventory is not something TIDEFORCE does.)
Invoiced from the same booking
You create the invoice directly from the booking or the paymentthe customer, the lesson, the stay and the amounts already connected and multi-rate VAT carried per lineRead moreRead less→
You create the invoice directly from the booking or the payment, with the customer, the lesson, the stay and the amounts already connected and multi-rate VAT carried per line — so the room and the course can sit on the same invoice at their correct rates. You confirm each invoice before it goes out, so the figures stay under your control.
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| The question | What TIDEFORCE does | What it doesn't do |
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| Sell a stay with the lesson | Accommodation and camping are cart types in the same 12-type checkout | It is not a separate booking or a second tool |
| One trip, one payment | The bed, the camp and the rental go in one cart and pay once | No second checkout, no chasing a separate payment |
| One guest, one record | Stay and lesson hang off the same connected booking and guest | Not two half-records to match up by hand |
| Invoicing | One invoice from the booking, multi-rate VAT per line, you confirm it | Not auto-emailed legal invoices |
| Managing the property itself | Cross-sell beds and pitches with camps and courses | Not a PMS or channel manager — no room inventory, calendar, housekeeping, OTA or Booking.com/Airbnb sync |
Pricing is a take-rate of 6.9% per processed transaction, payment fees included, with no setup or monthly fee. You can import your customers and offer yourself by CSV, or we'll run a full white-glove migration from your previous system with you. Hosting is in the EU on Google Cloud, GDPR-compliant, and your data stays yours. You can go live with your core offer — lessons, camps and the stay that goes with them — fast, with guided onboarding.
Frequently asked questions
01Can a guest book a course and a room in one checkout?
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Yes. Accommodation and camping are two of the twelve cart types, so a guest books the course, lesson or camp and the place they stay in the same cart and pays once. It arrives as one connected booking, not a course and a stay you have to match up afterwards.
02Can I sell a camping pitch alongside a camp?
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Yes. Camping is a cart type just like accommodation, so a pitch for a tent or van can be sold in the same checkout as the camp or course. It's cross-sold as part of the experience booking, in the same flow as your lessons and add-ons.
03Is TIDEFORCE a property management system?
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No. TIDEFORCE is not a PMS and not a channel manager. It does not manage room inventory or an availability calendar, housekeeping, or hotel operations. It lets you sell a bed or a pitch as part of the experience booking, cross-sold with your lessons and camps — that's the whole scope here.
04Does it sync with Booking.com, Airbnb or other channels?
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No. There is no OTA sync, no Booking.com or Airbnb connection, no rate parity and no channel management, and none of that is on the roadmap. TIDEFORCE sells accommodation and camping inside your own checkout as part of the trip the guest books from you directly.
05How does the stay show up on the invoice?
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You create the invoice from the booking or payment, with the lesson, the stay and the amounts already connected and multi-rate VAT carried per line — so the room and the course appear at their correct rates on the same invoice. You confirm each invoice before it goes out; invoices are not auto-emailed as legal documents.
06What does it cost, and where is my data?
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A take-rate of 6.9% per processed transaction, payment fees included, with no setup or monthly fee. Hosting is in the EU on Google Cloud, GDPR-compliant, and your data stays yours. You can import by CSV yourself or have us run a full white-glove migration, with guided onboarding.
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