About us

Software should make the work easier.Ours was built to.

Core Registration was built out of frustration with the software our industry was handed: hard to use, disconnected, and too often making the job harder instead of easier.
Our story

Built out of frustration.Shaped by the people who use it.

In this day and age, software is supposed to make our lives easier and our operations run smoother. In the camp industry it often did the opposite. Registration lived in one system, payments in another, health forms somewhere else — and the people running the operation spent their days moving the same information between them.

Running several systems has its benefits, but together they created a lot of undue stress and slowed everything down. It hit hardest at smaller camps, the ones without a full administrative staff just to keep up with the daily processing.

So we set out to build one system instead. Core Registration was envisioned, and then built, with feedback from some of the largest camps in the industry and from nonprofits. Their input formed the foundation: software that is user friendly, feature rich yet easy to use, and customizable, so that every organization can make it their own.

What guided it

Three things we would not give up.

User friendly

Built for the person at the front desk on the busiest day of the season, not for a training manual.

Feature rich, yet easy to use

Registration, payments, health, check-in, staff and communications in one place, without the clutter.

Yours to customize

Your words, your forms, your rules. Every organization sets Core up its own way.

The people behind Core

Three co-founders.One camp director, one engineer, one operator.

Graham Harrison
Co-founder

Graham Harrison

Graham has been a camp director in Tennessee for 25 years and is still a director and partner at Victory Ranch in Bolivar, Tennessee. After running camps on several different software systems, Graham was fed up with the status quo of what was available — and brought the idea for Core Registration to life.

Gray Harrison
Co-founder

Gray Harrison

Gray has spent about ten years building software and putting it to work in operations: consolidating systems where it helps, cutting out inefficiency, and bringing better reporting, better analytics and easier, friendlier tools. Self-taught, Gray came to code from operations, has worked on projects for the federal government and on manufacturing software, and leads the engineering behind Core.

Co-founder

Phil Penton

Phil has been in the software industry for more than 30 years, has brought multiple platforms to scale and has run very large companies nationwide. Phil is involved with several companies today and brings that experience of growing a platform to Core.

Our team

Behind the co-founders is a development staff of software engineers and a technical support team who work with us every day.

Software engineers

A development team building Core alongside us, every module and every release.

Technical support

People who know the product and help your team get set up, move over and keep running.

Come build the next season with us.

Core Registration launches in 2027. Join the waitlist, or book a custom demo and we'll walk you through it.