Trip statuses help convey important trip information and work in sync with your Automated Messaging and Alert Settings, ensuring your team is informed of the trip’s progress and any required actions.
Each trip saved to your TripWorks account has 1 of 4 possible statuses:
- Draft
- Reserved
- Under Review
- Deleted
Expand the options below to learn about each status.
Draft
The Draft trip status signals to your team that someone (either a customer, team member, or reseller) has begun booking a trip but has not successfully completed the reservation yet
A Draft trip:
- Does not appear on your Calendar or Manifest
- Does not count toward the chosen timeslot's Activity Capacity Limits
- Does not appear in your revenue reports
If a trip remains as a Draft (indicating that the customer did not complete the purchase), one or more Abandon Cart Messages may be queued to send automatically, at prescheduled intervals, to the trip's point of contact. (This depends on your account's Automated Messaging settings.) These messages encourage the customer to return to the cart and complete the purchase.
A trip status changes from Draft to Reserved when either a payment is applied to the trip, or a member of your team manually updates the status from the Trip View.
Reserved
The Reserved trip status tells your team that a trip has been successfully booked, whether by a customer, team member, or reseller
A Reserved trip:
- Does appear on your Calendar and Manifest
- Does count toward the chosen timeslot's Activity Capacity Limits
- Does appear in your revenue reports
When a trip status changes to Reserved:
- Any pending Abandon Cart Messages are canceled on the trip and will not be sent.
- Any Order Confirmation Messages set to send automatically (per your Automated Messaging settings) will be sent to the trip's point of contact.
- Any Event Reminder Messages and/or Event Followup Messages will be queued to send automatically at the times specified in your Automated Messaging settings.
Once a trip is Reserved, it cannot be changed back to the Draft status. However, you can choose to remove individual bookings on the trip, or cancel the entire trip.
Under Review
For each activity in your catalog, you may choose to enable the optional Under Review status. When enabled, this setting causes a trip's status to become Under Review (rather than Reserved) when a customer books a trip.
Want to use the Under Review Status?
For instructions, check out the article on How to Enable the Under Review Trip Status.
The Under Review status signals to your team that a customer has booked a trip for an experience that utilizes this optional setting. This gives your team a chance to confirm that everything needed for the trip is ready to go before manually updating the status to Reserved.
An Under Review trip:
- Does not appear on your Calendar and Manifest
- Does not count toward the chosen timeslots Activity Capacity Limits
- Does not appear in your revenue reports
Once a trip is Under Review, it cannot be changed back to the Draft status. However, team members can manually update the status to Reserved.
Deleted
Trips can be manually deleted by team members if no payment has been applied to the trip. Once a payment has been applied, the option to delete the trip is revoked. This is a measure taken by TripWorks to ensure your reports reflect accurate sales and payment data. For more details, visit Why can't I delete certain items from the dashboard?
Deleted trips will appear in the Sales View
Pro Tip
There are various Alerts you can enable based off of trip status changes. For instance, you can get alerted (via email, SMS, and/or in-app notifications) whenever a Draft trip goes unreserved (this is considered an Abandoned Cart alert), or when a trip's status changes to Reserved or Under Review.
Additionally, valuable conversion and tracking data attached to each trip is preserved. If, for example, the customer originally started their purchase as the result of a Google Ads or Facebook Ad, your reports will capture this lead source information.