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Camp Solutions

We're not your everyday accountants. We are solutions oriented partners creating a streamlined camp office.

Modern Solutions

Preserving Traditions While Looking Ahead

The beating heart of camp is tradition. It's no secret that the beloved nature of the camp experience is rooted in generational legacy and the impacts that have been passed down in the lives of campers, summer after summer.

But tradition isn't always the best answer when it comes to the camp back office and operations. For these, we need to look forward, not backwards. Our approach is simple:

  • Modern, sophisticated, affordable tools.
  • A dedicated team-based approach with camp operations experience.
  • A constant re-evaluation of processes and platforms to ensure every efficiency is found.

Not sure where to start?

Don't sweat it. Check out our assessment service.

Just like with our personal health, sometimes the best place to start with your camp's financial health is with a checkup. Our assessment service is just that! Click to read more and see a sample report.

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Modern Bookkeeping

We Build the Right Foundation

Gone are the days where paper receipts, manual spreadsheets, and file cabinets of saved documents get the job done right. The ways of the past steal away precious time from campers and drain staff of resources that could be applied to investing in the camp experience.

  • We keep books on cloud-based platforms that will integrate with all of your critical softwares like CampMinder, Ultra Camp, and others.
  • We implement digital document management to move towards a paperless future.
  • We keep books on a regular monthly basis so information is timely and relevant for decision making, budgeting, and forecasting.
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Spend Management

Controls and Accountability for Camp Funds

Traditional debit and credit cards are great in many cases, but don't always fit the unique nature of camps spending needs, seasonal staff, and on the go work/life style. These can lead to vulnerability in security, lack of transparency in spend, and don't forget those pesky receipts that are constantly lost. 

That's why we partner with Ramp. Ramp is a free to use modern spend control platform that replaces traditional credit cards with a peace of mind that your camp's dollars are well protected. 

  • Card level controls on spend limits and approved vendors. 
  • Digital receipt capture via SMS and email.
  • Instant sync and auto-coding to Quickbooks, Xero, and more.
  • Custom approval workflows for amounts exceeding your defined thresholds.
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Flexible Payroll

Unique Problem Meets Creative Solution

Possibly the largest seasonal challenge to the camp back office is the payroll function. From onboarding a high volume of summer staff to the growing changes in enrollment platforms, verification processes, withholdings setup, plus helping younger staff navigate their potential first direct deposit experience....and this is all if everything goes smoothly!

We have a unique, hands-on approach to solving the camp payroll experience that turns a headache into well oiled machine, and we tailor each onboarding setup to your camp's unique situation.

  • Onsite onboarding team available
  • Flexible and modern platform for processing
  • Live support from our in-house specialists

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Camp CFO

Preserving History and Planning for the Future

Whether you have 100 days or 100 years of camp history, one thing is certain: preserving your camp for generations to come is the goal.

Our Camp CFO service is designed to partner with you in that goal. 

  • Capital improvement project tracking
  • Modeling and forecasting
  • Custom KPI dashboards
  • Budget building
  • Tax planning liaison

We're ready to serve you

It's our greatest honor to serve camps like yours who create generational impacts in the lives of campers. Click "Get Started" and we'll get in touch to share with you what partnering looks like. 

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Our relational approach to working with camps always starts with that first connection call. It's completely free to explore and discuss the ways Bowline can partner with your camp to win back your time to your purpose. Click the button to connect.

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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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