the only group-trip feature that respects everyone's wallet.
money kills group trips. someone overspends, someone feels cheap, the host plays accountant. squad budget fit makes that conversation disappear.
the conversation no group has cleanly.
every group has the friend who can drop $400 a night without thinking about it. and the friend who's stretching to be there at all. nobody wants to say the number out loud. so the host either picks a place that makes one half feel cheap, or picks a place the other half can't actually afford. and then the trip dies in the group chat.
tripsquad takes that conversation off the squad's plate.
how it works.
everyone sets their range. privately.
each squadmate picks their per-trip budget range when they fill in their preferences. it's a slider. takes 8 seconds. nobody else sees the number.
scout finds the shared zone.
scout reads every member's range, finds the band where everyone overlaps (or the closest match if they don't), and sets that as the squad's affordable price tier. the math runs on the server. nothing is shown to other members.
picks land in that zone.
hotels, restaurants, activities, even destinations during voting are biased toward the shared zone. options that fit get a "fits squad" pill. ones that stretch get flagged. nobody picks something nobody can afford.
what the squad sees.
one card on stays + eats. four states, depending on how the squad's ranges overlap. nobody's specific number, ever.
everyone's in the same zone. boutique stays in this range work for the whole squad.
mostly aligned. there's a comfortable shared zone for stays and dinners.
close range across the squad. scout will lean toward picks in the middle so it works for everyone.
two zones in the squad. scout will surface options in both so nobody has to stretch.
privacy, in plain language.
- your budget range is stored only on the trips you've joined. never aggregated across users.
- your specific min/max numbers are never shown to other squadmates. they see only the band ($, $$, $$$, $$$$) and whether the squad shares a zone.
- scout uses your range only to bias picks during this trip. it's not used for marketing, not sold, not used to train models.
- privacy nutrition label: other financial info, linked to user, app functionality only, no tracking.
why this matters.
every group-trip app makes you guess at money. tripsquad doesn't. squad budget fit is the difference between the trip that died because the host couldn't pick a hotel everyone could afford, and the trip that actually happened.