Partnering in purpose
Accounting for what matters
Camp accounting is about more than just numbers. We collaborate with camp leaders and staff to see your mission of impacting camper's lives fulfilled.Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping
The secret sauce of everything we do is built upon our tech powered bookkeeping. We take the time to make sure every dollar in and out of your camp are appropriately tracked.
Payroll
Payroll
From year-round staff to seasonal surges, we can scale and handle your complex payroll needs including your summer onboarding support.
Financial Reporting
Financial Reporting
Consistency is key when it comes to delivering financials. We delivery financial reports every single month that offer relevant, concise, and actionable data.
Invoicing and Bill Pay
Invoicing and Bill Pay
We'll work with your team to modernize your invoicing and bill pay processes to maximize the impact of automation.
CFO
CFO
From capital improvements to property acquisitions, equipment and vehicle purchasing, expansion planning, growth strategy and more, our CFO team has you covered for sound and trustworthy fractional CFO guidance.
Spend Management
Spend Management
We deploy tools that fit the unique and fluctuating spending needs of camps that provide management with granular controls for ensuring accountability and security of camp funds.
Who is Bowline?
The finance partner for today's camps.
Bowline HQ, formerly LUCA Camp Accounting, is a finance and accounting partner to camps and outdoor experience brands. We focus on winning back the time and energy of leaders away from the back office and giving it back to the kids whose lives you're impacting every day. Through deep relationships and a hands on approach with our camp clients, our team tailors an service experience that fits your camp's unique team and setup, ensuring that you don't get a "one size fits most" experience but a partnership that creates value to your team and helps facilitate amazing experiences for your campers.
Software Partners
This is accounting designed for you
We get camp operations
The secret power of Bowline is knowing camp operations. We integrate solutions that make daily life smoother and more efficient. This isn't yesterday's accounting. This is modern camp accounting.
Is my camp too small to work with you?
Great question! The answer is emphatically no. We have a very scalable model that creates value from the smallest of camps (but often biggest in heart) all the way to very large camp operations. The beauty of a technology forward process is that we scale to the level that best meets the need presented, and our pricing model scales as well.
How do you charge?
We don't believe in a "one size fits all" model. We individually assess and create a service model that meets the needs of each camp in a unique way, and as such will provide a monthly fixed fee proposal based on that scope of work.
I have a CPA. Do I have to get rid of them?
No way! While we have a very efficient system for handling tax matters, we are happy to work alongside your current CPA providing them all the info and books they need to serve you well. Our focus is first and foremost operational efficiency and improvements to the everyday back office, an area most traditional CPA's don't typically focus. We are a complimentary service to them.
Do you work with non-profit camps?
Not only do we work with non-profits, but we have a specialist on our team just for them! We love working with non-profit camps and have a intricate understanding of the complexities that arise when working with them.
Do I have to pay for an evaluation?
Nope! We perform a baseline evaluation of the current books and operations at no cost to any camp interested in working with us.
That said, we do offer a deep dive assessment solution for a fee that will give you a thorough road map and game plan should you be interested in a more comprehensive service such as that. Fill out our connect card to learn more about these services!
Do you replace UltraCamp or Campminder?
We do not. We actually work to use the features and data in these platforms to enhance data flow to camp decision makers for performance reporting and planning.
Hear from our camps
“Before our partnership with Bowline, our camp finances were a constant headache for myself and the team. It felt like we were just getting by and not maximizing the potential of more thoughtful accounting and financial forecasting. Bowline has come in and professionalized our processes and our overall financial picture. They have given us invaluable insights that have increased our efficiencies and saved us tens of thousands of dollars...."
Hear from our camps
(cont'd) "...Most importantly of all, the folks at Bowline are just good people- they understand the mission of camp and what we are about. To have that kind of missional alignment with our accounting team is priceless. Bowline gets camping! We cannot recommend them highly enough to any other camp looking to level up their financial outlook!” - Austin Ashcraft, Director | Camp Rockmont, NC
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