End-to-end group tour operations

One system for your whole tour—not a dozen spreadsheets.

Tour Planner Pro is for organizations that run serious group travel: money, logistics, rooming, merch, attendance, itineraries, and comms in a single place—from enrollment through departure.

Collect by card in the app, record what you collect on your own, or use both—without losing the thread.

Explore every module · Pricing & card payments below—or start a free trial when you're ready.

Workspace pricing

for one year

$249

Unlimited access. Unlimited trip creation.

One annual subscription covers your organization’s workspace—run as many trips as you need with the modules your team turns on.

Easy credit card payments

We make it straightforward for families and travelers to pay trip balances by card—without you stitching together one-off payment links or losing track of who paid what.

  • Your organization’s Stripe account

    We can get you set up with your own Stripe account connected to Tour Planner Pro. Successful charges land in your Stripe balance for you to pay out to your bank on Stripe’s timeline—your money, your merchant relationship, without waiting on us to cut a check.

  • Use Tour Planner Pro’s processing

    Prefer not to run your own Stripe account? Your organization can use ours and request paper check disbursements from Tour Planner Pro when you’re ready to move collected funds.

Fees, clearly disclosed

  • 1% platform fee on card payments processed through the product.
  • 2.9% + $0.30 per successful card charge for standard card processing (Stripe).

Workspace free trial

Your card is not charged until the 7-day trial ends. Checkout may collect your card up front; billing begins after the trial.

During trial, platform email (Email Center and email-based invites) and traveler card checkout stay off until your first paid workspace invoice or the subscription becomes active. You can still generate and share join codes manually.

After you are the organization administrator, cancel anytime in Organization settings → Manage or cancel subscription (opens Stripe's billing page).

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.

How the trip workspace works

Each trip is a modular workspace: turn on only the areas this tour needs. Organization staff run the full picture; chaperones, families, and travelers see focused portals with the right level of detail—without maintaining parallel spreadsheets or threads.

Everything in the trip workspace

Each block explains why the capability exists—not only what it does. Turn modules on per trip so your team sees exactly what this run needs.

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 festival block, the return home—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

Transportation

Movement—buses, shuttles, flights—is where groups fall apart fastest when the details live in a side thread. Keeping transportation with the trip and itinerary cuts down on wrong-bus, wrong-time confusion.

  • Trip-linked movement plans instead of a detached spreadsheet
  • Connected to the same legs and stops your itinerary already uses
  • Share transportation detail with travelers when your trip settings allow

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, sections, or activity tracks. Subgroups let you target subsets of travelers for itinerary, transportation, or lodging without cloning the roster. Need the band in a workshop while the orchestra has a performance somewhere else the same afternoon? No problem—each subgroup follows the right stops and movement for its people.

  • Same trip, different places at once: cohorts (e.g. band vs. orchestra) each get the schedule and logistics that match where they actually are
  • Organize sets of groups that reflect how your tour actually moves
  • Target legs, stops, or movement to the right cohorts

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

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”

Enrollment, portals, and organization

These span the whole trip—they are not “one more spreadsheet column.”

Enrollment

Controlled join flows cut manual data entry and reduce duplicate traveler records when families sign up from a link or code.

  • Join links and codes that tie new travelers to the right trip
  • Requests and approvals when you want staff to review before someone is fully on the roster
  • Enrollment windows when you need to open and close signup on a schedule

Family portal

Guardians often pay and sign paperwork—they shouldn't need the full staff dashboard to do it.

  • Link family accounts to travelers you designate
  • Handle payments and trip-facing information in a dedicated experience
  • Fewer “can you resend that?” loops when everything routes through one system

Traveler portal

Travelers need their itinerary, balance, and to-dos without seeing the entire roster or internal staff notes.

  • Secure, traveler-specific access without sharing one password for the whole group
  • What travelers see—itinerary, rooming, transportation, documents—follows your trip settings

Trip settings and modules

Not every tour uses every workflow. Per-trip module toggles keep the interface focused on what this run actually needs.

  • Enable or disable capability areas per trip
  • Less noise for staff; less confusion for travelers and families

Organizations and subscription

Each customer organization gets its own home on the platform—trips, members, and branding context stay separated from other tenants.

  • Multi-tenant structure so your agency, school, or tour company isn't mixed with someone else's data
  • Each organization gets its own home on the platform; invite staff and run trips under one roof
  • Workspace subscription is $249/year—unlimited access and unlimited trip creation for your organization

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

  • 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

Who it's for

The same trip, different roles—each with the right level of detail.

  • 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.

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