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How to plan a group trip in Roamer

Seven steps from an empty trip to a plan the whole group can see — the itinerary, the money, the photos and the chat, all in one place.

FIRST, SET IT UP

Create your trip

Give it a location and dates and you're done — the trip appears on your home screen, ready for everything else. Upcoming trips sit at the top, past ones stay below, and everything you add from here lives inside this one place.

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Roamer home screen showing upcoming trips
Roamer trip screen showing the people on the trip and their RSVP status
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Invite your friends

Send an invite and they can RSVP and see every trip detail in real time. You get a notification the moment someone joins, so you always know who's actually coming.

Do this early, before the plan is finished. A trip everyone can watch take shape gets more input than a finished itinerary dropped into a chat.

THEN, BUILD THE PLAN

Put your plan on the map

Fill in your itinerary with accommodations, transportation, points of interest and any other activities you have planned — or will plan. Every stop with a location shows up pinned and in order, which is usually the moment someone spots that two things are on opposite sides of the island.

All the important details — dates, addresses, confirmation numbers, tickets — are stored in the app and accessible any time, even offline. Upload a booking PDF and autofill reads the details out of it for you.

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Roamer trip map with itinerary stops pinned
Shared packing lists and a private note in a Roamer trip
Every document and link in the trip, labelled by where it came from
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Get organised

Notes and lists for packing, organising group dinners, games to bring — plus all your important documents and links saved in one place, attached to the stop they belong to.

Notes can be shared with the group or kept private, so the packing list everyone edits and the thing you're only telling yourself can live side by side.

AND ON THE TRIP ITSELF

Split the expenses as you go

Log what you paid and choose how it splits — evenly, by share, or itemised. Roamer keeps the running total and works out exactly who owes whom, so nobody is reconstructing a week of receipts on the last night.

Start with the very first deposit, months before the trip if that's when it was paid — the person who fronted the accommodation shouldn't have to raise it on the last night.

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Roamer expense summary showing the trip total and your share
Roamer settle-up balances showing who owes whom
A Roamer trip gallery with sixteen shared photos
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Share the photos in one gallery

Everyone's photos land in the trip's own album as they're taken, so you get the whole trip from six angles instead of four camera rolls and a shared album nobody gets round to making.

It's also the part people come back to months later, which is a quietly good reason for the trip to still exist somewhere after it ends.

Keep the conversation in the trip

A full group chat with photo sharing, GIFs, reactions and polls — in the trip itself. Anything with more than two options becomes a poll, so the answer is a tap instead of a thread, and it stays visible next to the plan rather than scrolling away.

This is the step that decides whether the rest sticks. If the group is still talking in a separate chat, the plan and the conversation drift apart — and the plan loses.

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Roamer group chat with a poll, a reaction, a shared document and photos

Start with step one

Make the trip, invite the group, and the rest of this list has somewhere to live. Free to use, for everyone you invite.

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