A TripIt Alternative Built for Group Trips

TripIt perfected one habit: forward the confirmation email, get an itinerary. Its weakness is the other half of your search — "for groups." Here’s an alternative that keeps the forwarding habit and puts the result where the whole crew can see it.

What TripIt gets right — and where groups hit the wall

TripIt's email parser is the best in the business, and for a solo business traveler it's close to perfect. But TripIt is built around your trips: sharing means sending someone a view of your itinerary, co-planning is awkward, and there's no concept of a group — no shared roster, no roles, and no answer at all for who paid for the Airbnb. For a friends trip, everyone ends up forwarding emails into separate silos.

Keep the habit: forward the email, it lands on the trip

Every GroupCation trip gets its own private forwarding address (yourtrip@in.groupcation.net, one per trip, with copy and share buttons in the app). Forward a confirmation and it lands on the shared board:

• Hotel confirmations — Marriott, Hilton, Booking.com, Airbnb, and Vrbo formats parse into reservations with dates and confirmation numbers.
• Flight confirmations — bookings from major airlines parse via airline-code lookup, record locator included.
• Anything it can't parse soft-fails into a review queue on the trip — it never vanishes. You can also paste a subject and body manually.

The difference from TripIt isn't the parsing — it's the destination. The reservation doesn't land in your silo; it lands on the board everyone sees.

The group layer TripIt never built

• One plan, whole crew: everyone's flights and bookings merge into a single day-by-day itinerary instead of five private ones.
• Roles: organizer, collaborator, viewer, advisor — so the co-planner can edit and the tag-along can't delete the spa reservation.
• The money: the same board carries the expense ledger, split math, and settle-up — the entire category of problem TripIt doesn't touch.
• The no-app crowd: a read-only guest link covers parents and Android friends.

Honest comparison

If you're a frequent solo flyer who lives on delay alerts, keep TripIt Pro — that's its home turf. If the trip is a group, the shared board wins.

How to move a trip over

1. Create the trip in GroupCation with dates and destinations.
2. Copy the trip's forwarding address from the Imports card and forward your existing confirmation emails to it.
3. Invite the group — one link in the group chat; everyone joins free.
4. Let everyone forward their own bookings. Each confirmation lands on the same shared itinerary, with a review queue catching anything the parser wasn't sure about.

Frequently asked questions