Trips

Trips are a Premium feature for planning travel from a weekend road trip to a multi-week vacation. A Trip is a special kind of project with stops, dates, maps, weather forecasts, reservations, and shared expenses. This guide walks through the pieces.

Premium required. Trips are not available on the free tier. To collaborate with someone on a trip, both of you need an active Premium subscription.

Creating a Trip

1. From Projects, tap New Project.
2. Choose Trip as the project type.
3. Give it a name (e.g., "Summer in Italy") and pick start and end dates.

You can edit the dates anytime — if you shorten a trip, stops outside the new range stay in the project but warn you with an out-of-range badge.

Stops

A stop is a place you'll be on a specific date or date range. Add stops one at a time:

• Tap + Stop, search for a city or address (powered by maps), and choose start and end dates within the trip.
• Each stop gets its own day-by-day plan, weather forecast (when within the forecast window), and notes section.
• Stops show on an interactive map with the route between them visible at a glance.

Reorder stops by dragging. Date ranges can't overlap with another stop in the same trip — if you try, the app prompts you to fix the conflict.

Weather

Each stop pulls a weather forecast for its date range when it's close enough to the present (typically about 15 days out). Beyond the forecast window stops show climate normals instead of a real forecast. Forecasts refresh automatically as your trip approaches.

Reservations

Reservations let you track flights, hotels, car rentals, restaurants, tours, and other booked items. Add a reservation by tapping + Reservation from inside a trip, then enter the type, dates and times, location, confirmation number, party size, and any attachments (boarding passes, vouchers, confirmation PDFs). Reservations appear on the day-by-day itinerary alongside your stops.

Day-by-day itinerary

The itinerary view rolls up everything happening on each day — which stop you're at, the weather, scheduled reservations, and any tasks tagged with that day. You can add ad-hoc activities, notes, or to-dos to a day even if they aren't tied to a stop.

Expenses

Trips include shared-expense tracking: log a charge, mark who paid, and split it among trip members (equally or by custom share). The app keeps a running balance of who owes whom and can suggest the minimum number of payments to settle up at the end.

You can scan receipts with your camera and Focal Point will fill in the merchant, amount, and currency where it can recognize them.

Sharing a Trip

1. Open the trip and tap the share icon.
2. Enter the email of the person you want to invite. They need a Focal Point account and an active Premium subscription.
3. Choose their role: editor (full collaboration) or view-only.

Shared collaborators see the same stops, reservations, itinerary, and expenses you do. Changes sync in real time.

Calendar integration

Trip dates and reservations appear on Focal Point's calendar view alongside your tasks and events. If you connect Google Calendar (in Settings → Integrations), trip-related events sync there too.

Common gotchas

• Stop dates must fit inside the trip dates. If you extend the trip, previously-out-of-range stops automatically clear the warning.
• Time zones follow the stop's location. A flight reservation departing London at 9 AM stays at 9 AM local time even if you're viewing the trip from Denver.
• Collaborator Premium status is checked on each open. If a collaborator's Premium lapses, they keep view access but lose edit access until they resubscribe.