The Trip Binder charges for one thing: trips that stay away overnight. Day trips stay free at any size; ninety students on three buses costs the same as nine.
What needs Pro
- Publishing an overnight trip to chaperones and families.
- Publishing one trip with several travel days, such as a season of competitions.
- Adding hotels and rooms, from the first hotel.
On the website, an overnight trip's home page shows a banner, This is an overnight trip, with an Unlock Pro button.
What stays free while you decide
You can create the trip and build almost all of it: import the roster, build the schedule, assign buses and groups, upload documents and set up the family portal. Nothing is lost and nothing is deleted while you decide.
What counts as overnight?
A trip that comes home on a later day than it leaves. Leave at 5 a.m. and get home at midnight, and it is still a day trip.
Expected a day trip?
Check the trip's dates. A return date one day after the departure date makes it overnight, and a typo there is the usual cause. Fix the date and the trip becomes a free day trip again.
Running many separate day trips? Separate day trips are always free. Only combining several travel days into one trip needs Pro.
What it costs
Pro is $149.99 a year and covers every trip you create that year. There is no per-trip purchase. See How to upgrade to Pro.
Who pays
Only the person who created the trip. Chaperones, co-organizers and families never pay for a trip they were invited to.