Guest Access for Mobile App
Good day fellow travellers, hope your 2024 has been off to jet-setting great start! We've been busy improving Travaa over the past months. One of the newer features is Guest Access for the Travaa mobile app.
This feature is a simple way to share your itinerary with others on their mobile phone/tablet via the Travaa mobile app. All you need to do, is to provide them with a code phrase and pin number, and they can view the itinerary on their phone-app.
With this feature, your travel clients/companions do not need to access the itinerary planner website, nor setup account passwords to access a trip via their mobile device.
To share a trip using Guest Access, do the 2-steps below:
1. Open Guest Access on the planner, and enter any unique code phase and pin number you like.
- Code phase has to be at least 4-words and 16-letters long (in lowercase letters) - e.g. "epic new zealand trip".
- Pin number has to be a six-digit number - e.g. "123456". This is a secret number which will never be shown again in the planner after you exit the trip. So please record this number somewhere and try not to lose it. If you do forget this pin number later, just come back to Guest Access and simply set a new pin number.
2. On any Travaa app on a mobile device, enter this code-pin pair in the sign in screen. Tap Sign in and voila!
Removing Guest Access
To remove guest access for a trip, go to Guess Access. Clear out the code and pin fields, then click Set.
There you have it. With Guest Access, your travel clients / companions will now know what's next and where they are whilst on the road.
This feature complements the other existing features of trip printouts / PDF, published web page, shared web-based planning.
Happy travels!
p.s. In the current version of the mobile app (iOS and Android), users do a swipe down (in the Trips view) to manually refresh and bring all itineraries in the app to the latest copies - ideally in an area with Wifi access. This is an app feature to avoid unnecessary phone battery & cellular network data drain - commonly associated with apps constantly polling the network for updates, especially in rural low cell-signal environments. Of course as battery technology improves and cellular data gets cheaper & more ubiquitous (including in-flight Internet access), this method of manual itinerary refresh could change over time ..