I’m an early investor in Pana, and they just came out with an exciting new competitor to Google Trips and TripIt. First-of-its-kind features include collaborative group itineraries, automatic flight check-in, and more. Excited to try out for travel this holiday season!
Beautiful design. Suggestion, when tapping lodging or airline itinerary items, user's need to see information like the host name if airbnb, email, phone #, check-in/out time, airline phone # etc. Hope to see that added soon.
@apcommunicate Aaron, thanks, and we're huge fans of your product and design as well. Really like the suggestion, and that's something we're working on. We're building in functionality to match your travel receipts with our database of flights, hotel, and Airbnb data so that we can augment the information that you already know about your trip with new helpful content. Coming soon!
@devontivona That's really cool. A great example would be for Crosby to push me something like: I see you've just touched down at CDG airport in France. Would you like me to email your Airbnb host (Jean Pierre) to let them know?: yes | Ok, what time should we let them know you'll be there?: 14:00 | Perfect! We notified Jean Pierre. Enjoy your trip. | This is something I manually had to coordinate 5/6 times on my last trip and was my largest source of frustration.
@apcommunicate YES! Exactly. The vision is that Crosby is always looking one step ahead and optimizing the travel experience. (Get ready for a shameless plug.) While we're working on making our robots get smarter, you might want to check out Pana Concierge. It's our $49/mo human-powered personal travel assistant service, and we can do exactly what you're describing, plus a bunch more. You can start a trial from within the Pana app.
Hi everyone! Devon here, one of the founders at Pana.
Thanks so much for checking out what we've built. Pana Free started as a side project, but looking at the existing itinerary apps out there—many of which were designed nearly a decade ago!—we saw an opportunity to modernize the experience and up the ante on what a 21st century traveler should expect from a free travel app.
This is our first public release of Pana Free, but we’ll be continuing to iterate on it and make it better. We already have a bunch of exciting updates in the works (including calendar sync, first-in-kind recommendations, and more), but we’re also super receptive to feedback. We’d love to hear what the PH community wants out of a modern travel itinerary.
We’ll be here all day answering questions, so let us know your thoughts. Thanks for being part of such a fantastic community that celebrates and helps improve good products.
@fletchrichman Thanks Fletcher! I remember when we launched Pana 2.0, email sync was a big feature you wanted Pana to have. We're still checking off more of the boxes that you're hoping for in a travel product. (Keep an eye out for automatic travel receipt collection soon!)
@devontivona props to you guys for taking huge, complex features requests and creating products that are so simple and "just work."
excited for automatic travel receipt collection!!!!! i know @_rsamuelson will love that too.
I have used TripIt Pro since there was TripIt Pro. If you're like me, you've noticed TripIt has hardly changed since the Concur acquisition years ago. Pana updates the entire experience and renders TripIt Pro (and the $60/year fee) obsolete. Get it.
Love the idea! Does it allow you to also plan trips in conjunctions with other bookings or only collect all the information together at the time being? Any plan on future Android release?
@calum_webb thanks for the kind words, Calum! We do have other platform releases in the works—we're putting the finishing touches on a web version (that works on mobile as well) that we will release in a couple weeks. (You can sign up for early-access for the web version at pana.com/join.)
With regards to planning trips, currently we don't have the ability to search and book travel within Pana Free, though our own spin on travel booking is coming in the next couple months. If you want additional help arranging/handling the logistics and bookings of your trip (shameless plug alert), I'd recommend checking out Pana Concierge, our $49/mo, 24/7 human-powered travel assistant.
@devontivona Hey Devon, thanks for the response! Fantastic to hear you're looking to move to other platforms soon, signed up for the early-access :). Interesting to hear about Pana Concierge, sounds like a really easy way to plan travel :). I'll definitely check it out and don't worry; there's nothing shameful about a great plug :)
I've been a Pana user for quite some time now, and it's a total lifesaver. Super excited to give these new free features a spin with my upcoming holiday travels! Along with the killer design, it seems like the collaborative group itineraries really set this apart from a competitor like Tripit—can you tell me a little bit more about how the collaboration aspect works in Pana Free?
@janekporter Great question, Katie. We're the first (we believe) itinerary product to provide truly collaborative group itineraries. With TripIt, you can view other people's itineraries, but it won't build a shared view to give you a overview of everyone's travel. (This makes coordinating things like flight arrivals pretty difficult, or making sure that everyone has booked their flight or hotel for a group trip.) With Pana, it is easy to get a clear picture of how everyone's travel plans weave together in a unified itinerary.
I've used Pana for a long time and find it incredibly valuable. I'm overjoyed that it now has TripIt features so I can just use Pana from here forward and ditch TripIt. Much better user experience, customer service and feature set than TripIt anyways...Rock on Pana, thanks!
I'm a Pana user and have been for the last 6 months. We are investors via Techstars. I absolutely love the service and am so stoked to have this addition to the feature set. I've also been a Tripit user for 7-8 years and am eager to move all of my travel info under the Pana roof!
@codysimms Woo hoo! Let us know if you notice any trips that could have been imported better. We're working out all the corner cases, and 7 years of traveling is going to make for a good stress test!
I'm such a fan of this. It's replaced TripIt completely for my travels (that are numerous). Proud to have helped this company from the very early days.
This is what TripIt should have been. As a Pana for Business customer and an early investor, I'm really psyched about Pana Free. Come check it out. If you fly SW, the automatic check-in feature is magic!
@arinewman Thanks, Ari! Since you are a pretty heavy traveler, let us know after you connect your email if there are any trips that we could have parsed better. Turns out, travel plans are pretty complicated!
I have been a fan of Pana since, oh, gosh, I think Sept '15(?), and they've saved my ass on countless occasions both for business and personal travel. Love that they're rolling out a freemium organizer. I was using Pana+TripIt until now and there's no longer a need. (Sorry TripIt.)
I've used Pana for about a year and am a huge fan. I highly recommend it to colleagues. As someone who travels a lot, it saves me hours of time negotiating different travel sites and options. The addition of this new functionality will make it even easier and seamless to use.
Isn't there compliance around declaring you have no dangerous goods in your luggage? How are you able to make this declaration on behalf of a customer?
@sfelsey Sam, curious about the process behind import@pana.com - will this also be automatic parsing like at tripit or will this be done manually (or a mixture of both)? Just forwarded two itineraries about 8 hours ago and still wait for them to show up (or to get some kind of email receipt) anyhow - another great evolvement of Pana - soon, you'll have replaced Tripit for me, as well!
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