Tracking bookings
Who booked what, without asking in the group chat
Every item on the plan is either a suggestion or a booking with somebody's name on it — so the question is answered by looking, not by asking the organiser again.
The single most common way a group trip goes wrong is not that somebody books the wrong thing. It is that a plan exists in everyone's head and a booking exists in one person's inbox, and there is no place where those two things meet.
So somebody says they will sort the Saturday activity. Three weeks later nobody remembers whether they did. Asking feels like nagging, so nobody asks, and the group arrives to find the one thing everybody was looking forward to was never confirmed.
Why a group chat cannot do this job
Not because people are careless — because of what a chat is.
The answer scrolls away
A confirmation posted in March is unreachable by June. The information still exists, but finding it costs more than asking, so everybody asks.
Intentions read like facts
"I'll book the boat" and "I've booked the boat" look almost identical three weeks later, and the difference is the entire trip.
Nobody owns the overview
Four people each booked one thing. Each of them knows about their own. Nobody, including the organiser, can see all four in one place.
Chasing is socially expensive
Asking a friend whether they did the thing they promised reads as distrust. A shared list that shows the state without anybody asking removes the need to.
What the plan shows instead
The booking state lives on the itinerary, next to the thing it refers to.
Suggestion or booking, never ambiguous
Each card on the plan carries its state plainly. There is no third reading where something looks arranged because it has been discussed.
A name against every booking
Whoever marked it booked is recorded, so a question about it goes to the right person first time.
Anyone can book, not just the organiser
Four people booking four different things still produces one list the whole group can read.
Changes are attributed and visible
When somebody swaps a restaurant or removes an afternoon, the group sees that it happened and who did it — so the plan cannot quietly diverge from what people think it says.
Booking through the app, honestly described
Worth stating plainly, because plenty of tools are vague about it.
Activities link straight through to the supplier for your destination. You complete the purchase on their site — we are not the seller and never take the payment — and then mark it booked here so the rest of the group can see it. Where that link earns us a commission, it comes from the supplier and does not change your price.
Because supplier deep links carry tracking parameters only, your dates and party size do not travel with the link. The card shows both next to it as a reminder to set them, rather than implying they carried across. It is a small thing that saves somebody arriving at a checkout for the wrong date.
Questions people ask
- How do you keep track of who booked what on a group trip?
- Put the bookings on the itinerary rather than in a chat. Each item on the plan should say whether it is confirmed and whose name it is under, so anyone can check without asking. A group chat is the worst place for this, because the answer scrolls away and the question gets asked again.
- What is the most common group trip booking mistake?
- Two people booking the same thing, or nobody booking it because each assumed the other had. Both come from the same cause: the intention to book was stated once, out loud, and never recorded anywhere the group could look at later.
- Can several people book different parts of the same trip?
- Yes, and it is the normal case. Anyone on the trip can mark an item booked and their name goes against it, so a trip where four people each booked something still has one place showing all of it.
- Does the app book things for us?
- Activities link straight through to the supplier — usually Viator — for your destination. You complete the purchase on their site and then tell the app it is booked, so the rest of the group can see it. Sí Listo is not the seller and never handles the payment.
- Why do activity links not carry our dates and party size?
- Because supplier deep links carry tracking parameters only, and their terms do not permit adding others. So the card shows your dates and party size next to the link as a reminder to set them on the supplier's site, rather than pretending they carry across.
- What about restaurants?
- They stay as suggestions. A table for twelve is usually a phone call, and an app that implied a restaurant was booked when it had only been suggested would be worse than one that stayed out of it. Mark it booked once you have made the call.
Put the bookings where the plan is
One shared itinerary showing what is confirmed, what is still an idea, and whose name is against each one. Free to start.
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