Offers
Stop chasing passport scans through email.
A departure on Triprant is a public page, an application queue, a document request shaped to that specific trip, a deposit everybody can see the state of, and a signed waiver — ending in one screen that says who is actually confirmed.
From published to locked
Six stages, each of them a state rather than a memory.
- Publish the departure
- Dates, capacity, a join deadline, the currency and what it costs. It gets a public page of its own that anybody can read — including someone who has never heard of Triprant.
- Take applications, not bookings
- Someone applies for a place, for a party of however many people. You decide: accept, waitlist or decline. Every decision reaches them, including being waitlisted — being on the list is news worth having.
- Ask for what the trip needs
- Per offer, name the traveller details required and the ones merely useful. A trek that needs insurance and a blood group asks for them; a city weekend does not.
- Collect the deposit in the open
- A payment request everybody on the trip can see, with a deadline everybody knows, and a record of who has marked themselves paid. No gateway — money moves by transfer as it already does — but the state around it stops living in one person’s inbox.
- Get the terms signed
- A waiver is one traveller’s acceptance of one trip’s terms, covering the whole party they booked for rather than one form per head.
- Lock the roster
- One screen computes readiness fresh from the three things actually tracked — deposits, waivers and the required fields — so it can never disagree with the screens it summarises. Then you say: these are the travellers.
Traveller details
Ask for exactly what the trip needs, and hold nothing else.
Collecting documents is the part of a departure that generates the most email and the most liability. The rules below reduce both — the second one more than operators usually expect, because the data you never receive is data you can never be asked to account for.
- Not asked for is the default. A field you have not asked for has no row at all. It is never fetched, never granted and never shown to you — so there is no “off” position to accidentally leave switched on.
- Two strengths, and you pick per field. Required means an applicant is not ready without it. Optional means it helps if they have it. That is the whole vocabulary, per offer, not a global agency setting.
- The traveller grants; you do not take. Sharing is an explicit consent from the person, listing the exact set of fields it covers. You receive what they granted and nothing adjacent to it.
- A grant is per agency AND per trip. “This agency may see me forever” is not a promise anyone meant to make by joining one trip. A second departure with you is a second grant, and revoking one does not quietly keep the other alive.
- Withheld means absent, not hidden. The read projects only the granted columns, so a field the traveller kept back is not in the payload at all. There is no version of this where a UI bug renders something you were never given.
- Travel details never sit on the public profile. Passport, medical notes, insurance and emergency contact live on their own table with their own rules — nowhere near the handle, bio and avatar that anyone can read.
Who sees it
Everyone here came to travel.
Triprant is a trip planner and an expense splitter. Nobody signs up to browse, to post, or because a colleague sent them a link — they sign up because they are organising a trip or settling up after one. That makes the population a narrow one, and narrow in exactly the direction your departure cares about.
Your offer page and your agency page are public, readable by anyone and by search engines, so the reach is not limited to people who already have an account. But the people who are already here are people with a trip in progress or a trip in mind — which is a different thing from an audience assembled by an ad platform.
Publish a departure and see who turns up.
Set the dates, say what you need from the people coming, and let the applications, deposits and waivers keep their own state.
An agency is created from an ordinary Triprant account, and reviewed before it goes live.