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Love to give this a shot if anyone has a referral. Probably my major pain point is my team booking travel together. We'll put it on a clunky excel file or sharepoint page, people block out what they think is the travel date, factory times move and we all have to rebook or just go early/late, etc. Being able to block reschedule a group of individuals would be cool too, like grouping these individual accounts for certa…
Congrats on the launch guys, let's get bubble tea again sometime in the future :) I think I mentioned this before in person, but I'd like to repeat myself just so that others can chime in with whether they feel this pain point too: a lot of travel revolves around other travel arrangements (not necessarily flights) on the same day. These other arrangements are often slightly time-customisable too, but the number of co…
You're so right, there are no solutions that focus on point A -> B door-to-door, and we've found that the reason for that is that most solutions don't know their end customer. They don't include information like home address and office addresses. The only solution that we can see handling end-to-end is Google Flights since they can easily integrate with Google Maps, for us, a very important goal is to help people manage their day of travel, not just their bookings :)
Adding automation to this workflow seems like an exciting problem to solve! I’m interested in seeing how you end up dealing with inaccuracies that arise in a almost-safety-critical operation. E.g, in your example, returning at 9 (even ignoring delays) would make the traveler miss their meeting.
I want to put a date range and get the cheapest plane tickets.
Big range, I want to find the cheapest time of the year to fly and plan my vacation.
Nobody lets you do this.
Adding automation to this workflow seems like an exciting problem to solve! I’m interested in seeing how you end up dealing with inaccuracies that arise in a almost-safety-critical operation. E.g, in your example, returning at 9 (even ignoring delays) would make the traveler miss their meeting.
You're right, flights/travel is so mission critical that we don't see "AI" taking over this workflow anytime soon. There will be a real person verifying every decision for the near and medium-term future. The automation component helps these real-people make decisions faster (ideal case is 30 seconds or less once it gets really good)
How much does this cost? I don't see any pricing information. > We book travel on your personal card so you can get all the points. Do you bill the charges directly to the customer's card or do they get billed by you and then you separately purchase the flight/hotel/etc? Curious how that works regarding card data storage as you'd need likely need the full card number, expiration, and CVV to run each charge and it can…
> How much does this cost? I don't see any pricing information.
Carry is free for individuals and small teams. We don't charge for just booking travel, but we do have upgrades available for larger teams (admin panels, constraints, etc.). What are you interested in using Carry for? Seems like you work at a large company, feel free to email me at tejas [at] carry [dot] travel.
> Do you bill the charges directly to the customer's card or do they get billed by you and then you separately purchase the flight/hotel/etc?
At the moment, most of our transactions are done the latter way (get billed by airline/hotel/etc and then separately charge the customer), but we're looking into some ways to avoid this, particularly - Tokenization: Spreedly/TokenX - Using something like VGS, https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/
Let us know if you have thoughts here! Payments are a very interesting topic
This reminds me of that robo company that you could text anything you wanted to and they would book/figure it out for you. Love that you are honing your focus in to Slack and Travel. Goodluck!
(Both were booking appointments at government agencies with awful reservation systems that often were overbooked or limited availability — TSA global entry appointments and DMV appointments. It cost about $30 each time.)
Here's a killer feature everyone wants: I want to put a date range and get the cheapest plane tickets. Big range, I want to find the cheapest time of the year to fly and plan my vacation. Nobody lets you do this.