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Pana Free — Automagically organize and share all of your travel plans
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@anthonymarnell Thanks for the kind words. Looks like you signed up for Pana Concierge and your trial expired. I've changed your user to a free account on our side—if you quit the app and restart you should be good to go! Let me know if you run into any snags.
@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.
Big fan of Pana since my friend Halim introduced me to the product a few months ago. It's helped me plan everything from my honeymoon to a funeral in those months. This has been the feature I've been waiting for so I can officially ditch Tripit! It had been frustrating that only some of my plans for a trip were within Pana, and some were in email/ Tripit/ Evernote, etc. Think I'll be able to ditch it all now!! Well done guys!
Been waiting this for a while! The team at Pana never disappoints, beautiful and functional UI and a great product.
@alsocolor Thanks for the kind words! Glad to finally provide the functionality you (and everyone) has been requesting for a while :)
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'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.
@seanpower thanks for all the support Sean! We really appreciate it. Looking forward to hearing what you think of the new release.
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?
I'm a Pana for Business customer and love what they do. You should definitely check out this great update.
Beautiful product with thoughtful features, just what I would expect from Pana. Can't wait to use it on my next trip!
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.
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 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.
NIce app but very similar to tripit. Any plan to integrate office365. Any chance to send travel plans via email? Price point for the pro version is very high compared for example to tripit. Which airlines do you support with the auto check-in feature? Just installed, waiting to see how it will work with parsing the travel plans.
@massironzitti similar, but you have TripIt Pro features free in Pana Free -- sharing itineraries in detail is simple.
@boulderidea I have been a Tripit pro user for years till a couple of months ago. SInce their move to Concur the nearly stopped investing on the service and travel parse went a lot worse. I moved to CWT to go which is far more precise. Auto sharing is definitely something I am missing even if I can share manually any trip from CWT to Go. Which other Pro features are in Pana free? No SMS alerts I imagine, no seat guru integratiion. Effectively, is Pana API compliant?
@massironzitti We're working on Office365, the API is a bit more obtuse than others. It is pretty hard to compare our pro version vs. TripIt Pro, they are very different products. Our free product includes most of TripIt Pro's features, whereas our paid product (Pana Concierge) is actually a human-powered personal travel assistant.
Pana Concierge gives you 24/7 on-demand access to your own team of personal travel assistants, who can help with any part of travel that you want to offload—research, booking, changes, small tasks, etc.
@massironzitti @boulderidea Massi, to answer your second question, we're working on making Pana have 100% feature parity and more with even the paid itinerary apps on the market. Pana does support SMS alerts, as well as auto-sharing (we call them co-pilots). One huge differentiator with Pana Free is that if our automatic parsing fails to import a confirmation email, you can email us your confirmation and our team will import it for you. No more manually dealing with TripIt forms!
@sfelsey Understood thanks. As a business user, booking and other amenities are managed by the company, all the rest is something i'm interested but I don't see so much difference from the crowd in the market. Missing the past trips import, a more social feature like auto sharing on linkedin/facebook/twitter etc..
@scotty_mcq you sure can! Once you've created your account you can forward emails to import@pana.com.
@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!
@lagom82 it's a combination of both. We first try to parse automatically and if we can't our concierge team will take care of it.
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.
@robbyk Thanks Rob! Glad that you've enjoyed your Pana experience and that we can keep improving it for you, and all the members.
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 :)
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