How to use TripZei
Short walkthroughs for the jobs you actually do. Each one is a few minutes, and you can do them in any order — though the first makes the rest quicker.
🏁 Set up your workspaceTen minutes once, and every trip you create afterwards inherits it.
- 1Add your business details
Settings → Business & branding. Your name, logo and tax details appear on every invoice, receipt and payment page your customers see.
- 2Create a payment plan
Settings → Payment plans. Start from a ready-made one — 25% on booking, balance before travel — or build your own from percentages, flat amounts, or “whatever's left”. Mark one as your default.
- 3Write your cancellation policy
Settings → Cancellation & refund policy. A standard one is already filled in — edit it or save it as-is. It prints on every invoice automatically.
- 4Invite your team
Settings → Workspace → Team. You can limit someone to specific trips, and promote a colleague to admin so they can manage the team too.
🗺 Run your first tripFrom an empty screen to a trip that knows what it costs.
- 1Create the trip
Trips → New trip. Give it a name, destination and departure date. Nights and days set the shape of the itinerary.
- 2Build the itinerary
Open the trip and add a night for each stop — or import the whole thing from a spreadsheet. Each night holds the hotels for that stop.
- 3Add hotels per night
Click any day in “Hotels — rooms per night” to add the hotel, rooms held and cost. Anything on hold shows a countdown before it lapses.
- 4Add your cars and inclusions
Cars carry rental, driver cost and seats. Inclusions — breakfast, permits, a guide — get priced per person and attach to every booking automatically.
- 5Reuse it next season
Done well? Use “Run this itinerary on new dates”. Every night, hotel plan and price copies across with the dates shifted.
◈ Get paid without chasingThe part that decides whether a good month is a good month.
- 1Add the booking
From the trip, add the party with their price. Your default payment plan is applied straight away — no extra step.
- 2See what's owed
Payments → Who owes you. Each customer shows what's due right now and their full remaining balance. Sort by whoever owes most.
- 3Send the reminder
Tap Remind. WhatsApp opens with the amount, the due date and a link — from your own number, so it reads like you wrote it.
- 4Record the payment
Log it under the booking, or let the customer confirm it themselves through the link and approve it under “To approve”.
- 5Send the receipt
Payments → Payment receipts → Share. A branded receipt goes out on WhatsApp in one tap.
💸 Track what a trip really costsSo the profit figure means something.
- 1Log every spend
Costing → Add a spend. Tag it to a trip — or to a specific hotel or car — and attach the supplier invoice. Untagged spends count as overhead.
- 2Handle personal spends
When someone pays from their own pocket, tick “paid from personal money”. It shows as owed to them until settled.
- 3Reimburse in one go
Costing → Reimburse personal spends. Tick everything you're settling, record the transfer reference, and they're all cleared together.
- 4Read the real margin
The trip's cost includes rooms you haven't booked yet, so the profit shown is the profit you'll actually keep — not a flattering half-picture.
🧾 Close the tripInvoices, tax and the paperwork nobody enjoys.
- 1Generate the invoice
Once the trip is over, Bookings shows a Generate invoice button. Numbers are sequential and gap-free per financial year.
- 2Send it
Share on WhatsApp, or download the PDF. Your cancellation terms are printed on it already.
- 3Mark tax as remitted
The booking's tax tile has a button to record that you've paid it across, so you can tell at a glance what's still outstanding.
- 4Export anything
Bookings and Payments both have Download CSV, if you or your accountant would rather work in a spreadsheet.
⚡ Work at speed with Quick entryThe habit that keeps everything else accurate.
- 1Use it from anywhere
The Quick add button sits on every screen. A payment, an expense, a booking, a hotel, a customer or a whole trip — logged without navigating away from what you were doing.
- 2Or just type it
On the dashboard, write it the way you'd say it: “Riya paid 40k upi”, or “add trip Goa Getaway to Goa, 4 nights, 20 seats”.
- 3Check the morning list
“Needs you today” on the dashboard shows overdue money, trips departing this week, visas in progress and invoices ready — each one tap from the thing itself.
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