Buyer's Guide

As the publishing partner of ACA, Healthy Learning develops and produces products that are promoted and distributed through the ACA Bookstore, including books, DVDs and CD-Roms. Healthy Learning also offers brokered products for purchase on the ACA Bookstore website.

In 2000, ACTIVE Network® pioneered online camp management technology to make life easier for both camp directors and families. Our vision was to transform today’s youth into an active generation by providing superb technology tools that empower camp organizers (just like you) to deliver life-changing experiences to children. In 2016, with more than 3,000 camp and youth program customers, the largest team of camp technology experts in the industry, and more than a million camper registrations powered by ACTIVE every year, you and your campers continue to inspire us. We’re more determined than ever to get – and keep – our youth active! ACTIVE’s Camp & Class Manager is an all-in-one online registration, camp management and marketing software solution. Whether you run overnight summer camps, day camps, sports camps and clinics, art classes, educational camps, or other types of programs, our cloud-based software is at your side to lighten your load and help you make smart, data-driven decisions. Camp & Class Manager not only takes care of your registration and marketing so you can stay focused on your business, staff and participants, we’re a partner in your mission to impact lives. Learn more at www.ACTIVEcamps.com

The Work & Travel Program helps businesses fulfill their seasonal shortfall with qualified individuals from all over the world on the J1 Summer Work & Travel visa. International university students will spend their summer break working for your camp as support staff based on your seasonal and business need while getting acquainted with the USA and American culture.

SmartRec™ by Amilia empowers businesses, community organizations and agencies to grow and better serve their community with activities. We make it possible for you to engage your community more and enable them to find, register and pay for their activities effortlessly. As the smartest and easiest way for you to offer, manage and sell your activities online, you’ll save time and get to do more of what you love – it's eCommerce for activities!

BeAKid takes registration, payments, forms, and overall experience of managing the camp to a whole new level. Our goal is to make the parent experience of registration and payments easy and familiar. Our product offers incredible design and UX for parents and the service providers. Manage forms, communication, media, staff, refunds, and so much more. We offer white-label widgets for your website and a white label parent portal, email, and SMS communication.

Camp App is a communication tool to connect parents to camp and enhance the camp experience. Camp App improves communication, assists with marketing, keeps you organized, and can increase fundraising. The Camp App also provides free downloadable camp resources such as camp activity guides, educational handouts, forms, and templates. Sign up free on our website to have full access to the Camp App and downloadable resources. Take your camps to the next level with Camp App!

CampDoc is the most comprehensive solution to help ensure the health and safety of children while they're away at camp. The CampDoc suite includes their flagship (1) Electronic Health Record, (2) Online Camp Registration, (3) Travel and Emergency Medical Protection, (4) One-Way Parent Emails, (5) Text Message Alerts, and (6) Medical Supplies + Epinephrine Auto-Injectors. Designed by camp doctors, nurses and directors, our secure, easy-to-use web-based solution keeps safety at the forefront of camp operations, managing health forms, allergies, medications, immunizations, and illness and injury tracking for your camp throughout the summer.

At Chaco, we believe that outdoor adventure, travel, and community enrich life. Born on the river in 1989, Chaco builds premium footwear and accessories for the outdoor-minded. What originally started as sandals for river guides has evolved into a collection of sandals, shoes, and boots that feature the Chaco LUVSEAT™, a uniquely contoured platform that provides superior support and alignment for all-day comfort. We choose simple, functional designs and durable materials to produce versatile products to enable a lifetime of adventure.

College Outside (CO) partners with ACA to provide group purchasing advantages on outdoor equipment to ACA camps and staff. ACA camps qualify for a free group account to get wholesale pricing on all outdoor gear for camp programming. Admin can also create individual pro-deal accounts for camp staff to get up to 50% off top outdoor brands. CO is the #1 outdoor gear vendor for outdoor education. Their expert team will help you choose gear that will last. Apply now at www.collegeoutside.com/apply.

We focus our efforts on leveraging combined food purchasing needs to secure savings on food orders, while simultaneously adding value to streamline all service-related processes through your food distributor. We are passionate about helping Camps and all of our organizations —that’s why we offer all our services entirely free of charge to our members. Together, we will give your camp the peace of mind of always having more options so that your camp can focus on what's most important; The Kids!

eMed is here to help you confidently return to camp with the first virtually guided, at-home or at-camp COVID-19 rapid antigen test that delivers certified lab results on-demand (no appointment needed!)in minutes. This is the #1 solution to keep your kids safe at camp. EASY ORDERING: Individuals may order tests to be shipped directly to their homes and camp directors can have tests shipped on-site.

Enrollsy is the enrollment operating system for camps. Enrollsy automates online enrollment/registration, payments, customer communication, e-signatures, and more. Enrollsy apps for customers and instructors, allow for: attendance taking, SMS messaging (from a company number), payments and payment method updating, printing statements and receipts, and more. Integrate Enrollsy with Quickbooks and save hours of manual work. Not everything easy is affordable. Not everything affordable is easy. Our lofty promise at Enrollsy is to give you a solution that's both. Ask about ACA member discount.

Don't Let Your Camp Go Dry - Choose the WaterMonster Sustainable Hydration System! Now COVID-19 Ready! With a hot sun and lots of fun outdoor activities, your campers have to stay hydrated, with proper social distance and hands-free use. Trying to keep up with thirsty campers will keep your staff constantly chasing down and refilling water coolers. Your staff and campers will love you for upgrading to the WaterMonster! With a capacity of 125 gallons (equal to 1,000 water bottles) the patented WaterMonster is quick to setup and easy for your staff and campers to stay hydrated. Optional accessories add convenience, 6 self-serving spigots ensure no lines and fast refills, all in a hands-free hydration solution. Watermonster helps your camp go Green and be sustainable. New for 2020, WaterMonster is Covid-ready and offers hands-free hydration with the UltraSpout water dispenser, foot activation, and more. Our touch-free systems are perfect for limited contact situations. We even created a manifold system for 6' of social distancing between dispensers.

Revolutionary Registration and Management App. Designed to help businesses operate 10x Faster, 10x Smarter, and 10x FUN!

Kodiak Testing mindset is one many camp directors can agree with. Camps don't need the additional pressures that come with planning and implementing a COVID-19 testing program. What camps DO need is a dedicated planning and implementation team to take on all of the heavy lifting. Unlike many testing companies, we don't expect/rely on camp directors and staff to do the work for us. We collect the data from Campers, we field questions and concerns, we staff the arrival testing. We do it all.

MOD-U-DOCK is a maintenance-free, modular dock system offering a full complement of accessories including gangways, ladders, benches, mooring components and kayak launch systems. Whether floating or stationary, all modules meet ADA standards for slip resistance and combine safety and aesthetic appeal with a 20-year warranty. Our free engineering and quotation services insure a dock design that meets your functional needs and budgetary criteria.

Picnic Tables, Benches, Charcoal Grills, Campfire Rings, Wheelchair Accessible Tables and Benches and Grills and Firerings, Trash and Recycling Receptacles and Lids, Animal Proof Trash Containers, Pet Waste Stations, Bike Racks, Lantern Poles, Flag Poles, Utility Tables, Traffic Barriers, Planters, Hot Coal Ash Disposal Bins, More. Please contact Customer Service for information, quotations and orders. ACA Business Affiliate for 20 years!

Over the course of the past two decades, Synergo has become an internationally recognized leader in the Aerial Adventure and Challenge Course Industries. Undoubtedly, much of our success comes from the high caliber products we deliver—be they custom installations, training support services, gear sales, course inspection or program delivery. However, the primary reason for our exponential growth over the past 25 years is our insistence on and commitment to putting people and relationships first.

Redwoods uses caring to create change. We provide insurance and management consulting to socially responsible, youth-serving organizations. Our work is to serve, and our purpose is to transform. We use data gathered through insurance to guide behavior through consulting. So that together with our customers, we bring prevention to the forefront and healing to all.

Trinity/HPSI is a free national purchasing group where member camps can access aggressive pricing contracts with vendors across multiple industries. Significant savings are available with 15 broadline foodservice distributors throughout the country as well as multiple janitorial suppliers. As an ACA/Trinity/HPSI member, you will also be able to save on purchases from great companies like Lowe’s, Staples, Office Depot, John Deere, Pepsi, Sherwin-Williams, Leslie’s Pool Supplies, FedEx, T-Mobile, Ecolab, Network Services, Waxie, HD Pro Institutional, HD Supply, Direct Supply, Guest Supply, Grainger, The Original Mattress Factory, Farmer Brothers, Cushman/EZ-GO, NE Camp Discounter, R&W Rope and many more! As the ACA’s official GPO partner, Trinity/HPSI collectively saves ACA members millions every year! There are no obligations with free membership in Trinity/HPSI, and the setup process is simple. Contact us for a free cost analysis or to learn more about available programs. Join today and start saving!