Is your kid's camp still doing drop-off and pickup on paper?

Last summer I dropped my kids off at different camps. What stuck with me wasn't the activities, it was check-in.

Every camp handled it differently, and almost all of it ran on paper: a clipboard, a printed roster, a signature scribbled while a line built up behind me.

Pickup was the same. I kept wondering how staff kept track of everything.

That's the part I ended up building. Campix (campix.io) starts at the door: staff check campers in and out with a scan and see live attendance across groups, pickup is verified against an authorized person list with a PIN, and allergy and medical alerts show up on the roster itself instead of a binder inside the building. Free to start, built solo.

The timing is deliberate. Camps won't change their morning routine halfway through summer, so the off-season is when this work has to happen.

Most people here aren't running camps, but a lot of you are parents. Is your kid's camp still doing drop-off and pickup on paper, or has that changed somewhere I haven't looked?

I've only seen a handful of camps up close, so I don't know how representative my experience is.