Service for Hotels - We monitor your hotel rate and if it drops, rebook you.

@scotty_mcq we used to work that way... the reason we no longer do it is, it's much more burden on the end user, who has to remember to forward us confirmation emails, let us know when they cancel reservations, and (sometimes) forward us airline correspondence. We want to serve you without having to do anything - we can only do that with inbox access.

@schneider, why not both?

@zappe because we want to provide a seamless user experience, serve the user without them having to do anything.

@scotty_mcq @schneider why not be an add-on to tripit.com ? or have it with both options?

@scotty_mcq @yosun good idea ;)

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@schneider Didn't know that, thanks. What are you doing that's different?

@ebsalberto we are much more automated than they were... we use software to do nearly everything, they used humans for a lot of it.

@marcogurnari thanks. If you use the app you’ll see even more wizard ;)

@marcogurnari I totally agree. The wizard is fantastic

Daniel, I understand some people are hesitant about inbox access. We have industry standard security protections in place and in addition we don’t store your password or any of your emails other than flight and hotel confirmations. Ie. If “doomsday” happened and someone had access to Service, they would *not* have access to your email account.

@swetzequity Sure! It's either 30% of whatever we get you, or $49/year up front, and you keep 100% of what we get you.

@schneider how do you ensure compliance on the 30%? As in, how do you ensure you’ll get paid?

@swetzequity we take a credit card up front.

@codecamcode for now simply hotels, but the software we've built could easily be adapted to other things like packages in the future.

@kyunbit mostly using software vs humans to do the job. and a superior user experience.

@yosun yes, we track special rates and can rebook them too.

@schneider what if it's a nonrefundable after 24 hour rate

@yosun the rate has to be changeable and refundable. Once the rate passes the cancellation deadline, whenever that is, we stop tracking it.

@schneider so i was really excited to try it... except it's gmail/hotmail only? what if people have their hotel sent to their corporate emails? why not just do a tripit integration?

@yosun if the corporate email is tied to a gmail account it will still work. Otherwise you can forward your confirmation emails to a gmail and connect that and it will work. We are working on expanding support for other email account types.

@rmagrino soon! We’re working on it.