School & group travel

One workspace for the whole trip.

Enrollment, balances, itineraries, forms, and what everyone needs to know stay together—so your team can focus on the joy of the experience.

Parents, Attendees, and Chaperones get their own portal with always up to date information; card payments for balances can live in the same place as the rest of the trip.

Explore every module · Pricing · Payments on this page—or start a free trial when you're ready.

Stop stitching spreadsheets together.

When rosters, balances, room lists, and chaperone notes live in different files, someone always pays the price—usually the person running the trip. Keep one operational home for the tour you're responsible for.

  • Traveler roster, money, rooming, merch, and attendance stay connected to the same trip.

  • Staff, chaperones, families, and travelers each get the view they need—without duplicate entry.

  • Email and documents live with the trip instead of buried in inboxes and drive folders.

Card payments and trip budgets

We collect card payments for you and disburse to your organization using the funding method that works best for you. Families pay trip balances in one clear place—each charge stays tied to the traveler it belongs to. You're not handling checks or cash, and accounting is very clear.

  • Each card payment stays tied to the traveler it belongs to, so who has paid (and what's still due) is obvious at a glance.
  • Already use Stripe? Connect your organization's account when you want funds to flow through the setup you already trust.

Budgeting for real trip costs

A trip rarely behaves like a single ticket price. Transportation, merchandise, program fees, and other line items show up at different times—this workspace is built to help you manage that complexity instead of spreading it across files.

  • Track the kinds of costs that actually show up on a run—merchandise, transportation, lodging-related fees, optional add-ons, and more—in context with the same trip your roster already lives in.
  • Customize how charges and installments are set up and assigned: traveler types can carry different pricing rules, and you can apply one-off fees or credits when one person's situation differs from the rest of the group.
  • Set up custom installment payment plans—deposits, monthly draws, or milestone payments tied to real trip dates—so families see a clear schedule, you know what's still due, and collections match when you actually need funds on hand.

Portals and roles

The same tour, different surfaces—each role sees what they need.

  • Organization staff

    Full trip workspace: enrollment, money, logistics, documents, email, and configuration.

  • Chaperones

    Trip-scoped tools aligned with on-the-ground leadership—not the entire back office.

  • Families

    Guardian-friendly flows for linked travelers, payments, and follow-along detail.

  • Travelers

    Personal itinerary, balances, and tasks without exposing the whole roster.

Operational fit

Built for operators who need clear ownership, scoped visibility, and an audit trail. Designed by a school administrator with decades of experience in the complexities of group travel.

  • Role-based access so staff, chaperones, families, and travelers see appropriate detail
  • Archived trips can move to a read-only posture so history stays available without risking edits to past runs
  • Audit-oriented events exist for security-sensitive actions—so operators have a trail when they need it

Trip dashboard

Running a tour means answering “where are we against plan?” without opening ten different places. The dashboard gives you a single entry point into trip status and the modules you rely on.

  • At-a-glance operational context for the trip you're running
  • Quick paths into the areas that need attention
  • Past trips can be archived so history stays readable without cluttering active work

Itinerary: legs and destinations

Long tours are rarely one undifferentiated block. Legs split the tour into time-bound segments—travel days, a multi-day host-city block, the return leg—so dates and locations stay accurate when you span multiple cities or phases. Destinations are the actual stops and activities on the ground so chaperones and travelers aren't guessing what's now versus what's next.

  • Legs structure multi-day and multi-phase tours without forcing one giant schedule
  • Ordered stops and activities with locations and notes staff can rely on
  • You choose what to publish to travelers when you're ready to share the plan

Lodging

Hotels and venues are shared resources. You need a canonical list of properties and room inventory before you can assign people fairly and produce accurate lists for vendors.

  • Lodging records tied to the trip's structure so inventory matches reality
  • Foundation for rooming: know what beds exist before you place travelers

Rooming

Room lists are high-stakes and they change constantly. A dedicated rooming workflow—with a drag-and-drop assignment board—lets you reshuffle quickly as the roster shifts, without maintaining a parallel file that drifts away from your roster and payments.

  • Drag-and-drop travelers between rooms (and from the unassigned list) so last-minute changes stay visual and fast
  • Room-type rules keep assignments sensible while you still move people with the mouse
  • Generate rooming views and reports without retyping names
  • Optionally publish rooming to travelers when you want them to see assignments

Traveler roster

Every other module keys off who is actually on the trip. One roster prevents duplicate identities, mismatched payments, and “which list is correct?” arguments.

  • Traveler types and enrollment tied to the same person record
  • Profiles and program-required forms and documents in one place—without turning the marketing page into a medical checklist
  • Import and roster maintenance workflows that scale past a single classroom list

Subgroups

Large tours split and rejoin: different buses, concurrent venues, or parallel activity tracks. Subgroups let you target subsets of travelers for itinerary, transportation, or lodging without cloning the roster. Need one cohort in a museum program while another is across town for a site visit the same afternoon? Each subgroup follows the stops and movement that match where its people actually are.

  • Same trip, different places at once: parallel cohorts each get the schedule and logistics for their own track
  • Model how your tour actually splits and merges—buses, venues, or chaperone teams—not a single flattened grid
  • Target legs, stops, or movement to the right cohorts without duplicating roster rows

Chaperones

On-tour leaders need clear responsibility and tools that match group travel—not a generic contact list. Chaperone workflows connect people to travelers and to on-the-ground tasks. A quick, easy way for chaperones to log student attendance cuts down on confusion and makes accountability easy.

  • Simple attendance flows from the chaperone view—fewer mixed signals about who was present, clearer accountability for staff and leaders
  • Assignments so everyone knows who is responsible for whom
  • Trip-scoped access appropriate to chaperone roles
  • Connects naturally to traveler-facing views where you enable them

Financials

Trip supervisors need confidence that planned amounts, installments, and what was actually collected stay aligned—whether money arrives by card, check, cash, or another method. Real programs don't bill everyone the same way: traveler types, one-off fees, and merch policy all need to fit the trip you're actually running.

  • Different cost calculations for different traveler types so installments and balances match how each cohort is priced
  • Individually assessed fees when specific travelers owe something the rest of the roster doesn't
  • Merchandise money either way: travelers pay for what they order, or you embed those costs into the trip price—your call
  • Payment plans and installments tied to the traveler roster
  • Line items and a ledger so adjustments don't live only in someone's notebook
  • Optional in-app card collection when your organization is set up for it
  • Publish balances to travelers when you're ready for them to see amounts due

Budgeting · Expenses · Payment tracking

Clothing and merch

Uniforms and trip merchandise are real operations: sizes, deadlines, and fulfillment lists—often as fiddly as a small retail run. Running it beside the roster keeps orders honest.

  • Define items and capture traveler selections in one system
  • Staff visibility into who ordered what
  • Reports and exports to support ordering and distribution

Documents

Permission slips, PDFs, and trip files die in email chains. Trip-scoped documents with role-based visibility keep the right version attached to the right trip.

  • Staff upload and organize files where travelers and chaperones expect them
  • Control who can see what by role
  • Downloads tied to the trip—not lost in a personal inbox

Email center

Broadcasts and templates belong with the tour so you can answer “what did we tell families?” without searching three inboxes.

  • Templates and sends grounded in the trip you're running
  • History stays with the program instead of scattered threads

Attendance

On multi-day tours you need a shared record of who was present for activities—visible to chaperones and admins alike, not trapped in one person's notes.

  • Log participation in context of what the group is doing
  • Chaperones can participate in capturing attendance where you allow it
  • Aligned conceptually with itinerary stops so “where we were” matches “who was there”

Student data and privacy

We built Tour Planner Pro with education-sector expectations around student and family information in mind—how it is collected, who can see it, and how little you can carry while still running a safe trip.

  • Fields that may hold personally identifiable information are encrypted so stored data is not sitting in plain text.
  • Your organization can tailor which data you collect and require on forms and profiles, so you can align with data minimization practices and your own policies.
  • Scoped portals and trip-level visibility mean families and travelers are not handed more access than their role needs.

Who it's for

Built for groups that can't afford a disconnected pile of files.

  • Organizations that run group tours

    Tour operators, schools, faith groups, sports programs, and anyone moving a cohort from enrollment through departure—without spreadsheet chaos.

  • Program leaders and trip supervisors

    Replace stitched-together workbooks with one system that matches how you actually operate on the road.

  • Families and travelers

    Clear enrollment, payments, and day-of detail—fewer surprises and fewer "which version is right?" moments.

Take a free trial run

Take 7 days to explore the workspace—set up your organization, open a trip, and see how roster, money, and portals feel for your team.

While you're getting oriented, a couple of capabilities are staged for after you upgrade: built-in trip email broadcasts and traveler card checkout turn on once your workspace is on a paid plan. You can still invite people with join codes and walk through the rest of the experience together.

Cancel anytime during the free trial. Use Organization settings → Manage or cancel subscription (opens your billing page) if you're an organization admin.

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