For farms storing caravans, motorhomes and boats
Everyone tells you what an acre of spare ground is worth with vans on it. Nobody tells you about year two: sixty renewal dates, sixty insurance certificates, and sixty people who all pay at different points in the year.
Storage Yard Manager is the software for that part. Built by someone who runs a caravan storage yard, and used to run it on a spreadsheet.
Commonly cited industry figures put an acre at roughly 60 caravans, at an average of about £370 a year each — more like £500 and up near a coast or a motorway. So an acre you weren't using is somewhere around £20,000 a year, and a 100-space site closer to £50,000, with very little ongoing cost once the fence and the cameras are in.
That part is true, and it is why so many farms have done it. Here is the part the diversification guides skip.
They didn't all start in January. Every van has its own anniversary, and each one is an invoice you have to remember to raise — or income you quietly lose.
Every van should be insured by its owner. If one isn't when something happens on your land, you will find out about it in the worst possible way. Tracking expiry dates on a spreadsheet works right up until you stop looking at it.
Cash, bank transfer, a cheque from the one who always pays by cheque. Working out who is actually late means an evening with a bank statement and a spreadsheet.
The storage is the side line. It gets done in the evening, in the gaps, and it is always the thing that slips — which is exactly why it needs to nag you rather than the other way round.
For context: on a 100-space site turning over around £50,000, £15 a month is about 0.4% of the income — roughly half of one pitch.
Founding offer — first 10 yards
£15/month
held for as long as you stay subscribed · £39/month after the first ten
Same price, and it's quicker to set up — you'd be moved in inside an hour. Whether it's worth £15 a month at 30 vans is a fair question; try it free for 30 days and decide with your own data in front of you.
Yes. It doesn't much care what's on the plot — caravans, motorhomes, boats on trailers, horseboxes, HGV units. Spaces, customers, money and dates work the same way.
It's built light on purpose — small pages, big buttons, quick on a patchy 4G signal. It installs to your phone's home screen like an app. It does need a connection to save something, so a genuine notspot is a genuine notspot; most of the yard usually isn't.
Up to five logins are included, and you choose what staff can see — the money screens and settings can be kept to owners and admins only. There's also a straight export to Xero and QuickBooks if your bookkeeper would rather stay where they are.
Genuinely outside what I can advise on, and it varies by council — talk to a rural surveyor or your local planning department. The CLA and the caravan storage association both publish guidance worth reading before you put a single van on the ground.
A fully loaded demo yard — 102 plots, real customers, overdue accounts. No signup, no email address, nothing to install.
demo.storageyardmanager.co.uk
email demo@storageyardmanager.co.uk · password demo123
