Enter your basic trip details:

1. The Trip Name will identify the trip on your public missions page and the trip's page.
2. Destination: enter the City and Country where you plan to travel.
3. Use the Event Code field to help track payments for your accounting team, this field is optional and used for your internal purposes only.
4. Enter the Travel Dates for the actual trip.
5. The Registration Dates will determine when your trip will be open to participants applying. The apply button will disappear at midnight on the end registration date.  
6. Max Headcount: this will determine how many people will be allowed to apply to the trip.
7. Age Range will make stop anyone with a birthdate not within that age range from applying.

8. In the Brief Description field, add a trip description to set goals and expectations and let applicants know more about who they will be serving.

9. Trip Contact Person:  This is who is the contact person at your Church or Organization that both potential participants and current participants can contact.

After filling out the name, phone number, and email address you then have the option to make it public on the Trip Information Page or if you only want it visible to approved participants who will be going on your trip.

**Please note when completing this process if you see a small question mark on the page you may hover over that to get more information about that field or feature.

10.  Affinity Group: If you are using Affinity Groups (optional--see red box for details) then this is where you set that or select none if you are not using this feature. You must select something for this field.

11.  Total Trip Cost: this is the total amount that each participant needs to raise for this trip.

12. Deposit: this is the amount required for the participant to pay either at the time of applying or after they are accepted onto the trip (you will set that rule on the next page)

13. Disable Funding and Fundraising: this is an optional item if you want to have people go through the trip application process but are not requiring them to fundraise or you are handing it outside of the platform. Check this box to disable.

14. Allow Fundraising Past Goal Amount: Many churches and organizations want to allow those who are strong fundraisers to be allowed to raise past the goal amount to help those on their team who are not as strong fundraisers or any other variety of reasons. Check this box to allow that.

15. Hiding Funding Amounts: you have the option to hide fundraising amounts from team members or team leaders. Check either or both to hide.

16. Custom Fields: This is an optional item that not all churches or organizations will use.

If you are using them then they will appear on this Details Page otherwise it will not show.

To setup Custom Fields to Trips --> Trip Components --> Custom Fields

Please review the Knowledge Base Article on Custom Fields to see how to set up this feature.

17.  Funding Milestones:  You can add milestones along the way either by dollar amount or a percentage of the total.

Then the due date will be the one that you choose.

We recommend having these funding milestones correspond with either buying plane tickets or some other fee associated with the trip so that you have your budgets covered.

By added the due date (which is required), it will prompt the platform to start emailing participants about a week out of the due date and send reminders until the funding milestone has been reached.

 You can add as many milestones as needed.

18. This Section will differ based on which ChMS you are using or if you are using one at all.

Each setting is unique to your organization and we suggest meeting with your finance and data teams to determine how to set this area up. 

In our example, it is using Fellowship One but we integrate with several major ChMS Products.

19. Once you have completed all the fields in the Details section, please click on Next to continue.

Select an image to represent your trip (or upload your own), and choose relevant filters for the trip to help others search for it from the overall trips page.

Choose from the available images by selecting the Add Trip Image button and clicking on the desired image.

To select an existing or stock image, click on the image, and continue.

If you prefer to add your own image, click on Upload Trip Image.

Navigate to the files you wish to select from on your computer and make your selection.

An Edit window will appear to help you crop your image to the correct size and proportion.

Rotate the image or drag and resize the crop window to suit your needs, and click Upload to apply the image to your trip.

You'll now see a preview of your sized image for the trip. Click OK to continue.

12. To register or apply for a trip, you need at least one Team Member Type.  We recommend you create a Leader  Type and a Member Type.  Select  Add Team Member Type.

13. Enter the Name and Description of the Member Type.

14. Select if you want the Member type to become a Member or Leader and if you want the Member type to be Invite-Only.  

15. Select an application you would like to associate to your member type.

16. Once you select an application you will have the option to make the description (you would have filled that out when creating an application) to be seen by your applicants or to keep it hidden.

17. Determine when applicants become part of the team.

If you select Yes, they will be automatically added and there is nothing to do.

If you select NO, then your organization would have the option to review the applications and then determine on an applicant by applicant basis who is accepted onto the team.

Upon acceptance, they would then be prompted to begin the process of completing their requirements.

18.  Determine if the Member Type requires a Background Check or References for this trip.

19.  If you are doing a group registration option then you have to select YES to allow your applicants to pay their deposit before they are accepted onto the team.

Otherwise, this is up to your organization and how to want to handle deposits.

This is a great way to handle the concept of a registration fee is to turn this on so that applicants are prompted to pay at the time they apply.

20. Reserved Seating features allow someone to reserve a 'seat' during the application process.

21.  You can manage the group signup process by entering a minimum and a maximum number of applicants you can register at one time.

22. Select Next to continue.

Your trip's Prerequisites and Requirements will comprise all of the things you want your team members to be sure to complete or check off before your trip begins.

These will have already been created in your Requirements Bank.

If you have not created these yet you may do so by going to Admin --> Components --> Requirements    

2. In this step, you'll be selecting which Prerequisites to include as part of this trip.

Prerequisites are simply requirements that you would like your applicants to complete at the time they are applying in order to help you make a decision if they can go on a trip.

A great example of a use for this is if you have a strenuous serving trip and require a medical fitness document. 

If you choose to accept someone to a Team before they complete their prerequisite then it simply becomes a past due requirement.

• If no prerequisites apply to a trip, you may skip this step by selecting NO under the question: Are there any requirements that must be completed before submitting an application?
• To add prerequisites select YES.
• You'll be presented with a list of all available requirements in your requirements bank. Check the box next to each requirement that you want to apply to this trip and select the Next button.

3.  In this step, you'll be selecting which Requirements to include as part of this trip.

• If no requirements apply to a trip, you may skip this step by selecting NO under the question: Are there any requirements that must be completed before applying?
• To add Requirements select YES.
• You'll be presented with a list of all available requirements in your requirements bank. Check the box next to each requirement that you want to apply to this trip and select the Next button. (Just the same as pictured above for the Prerequisite List)
• Your list of selected requirements will now display an L/P option to select who needs to complete this requirement (L= Leaders/P=Participants) and the Due Date field. Assign a due date to each requirement.
• Requirements may be removed from this screen if you change your mind, and additional requirements may be added if you happened to miss one.

4. The next feature to add to any trip is a Checklist.  You may create Checklists in advance by going to Trips --> Trips Components --> Checklists.  To learn more about this feature please visit this Checklists article in our Knowledge Base.

You may also create a checklist in the Trip Creation Process as well.

This will be something your participants can visit an unlimited amount of times and a great place to store Packing Lists or even Sample Fundraising Letters.

Review all of your trip details, and make any necessary edits from the Review screen.

If everything looks good, click the Create My Trip! button to advance to the final step.

Your new trip's Dashboard will appear, and your trip's web page will have been created.

Initially, your trip's status will be in Setup Mode.

You may keep it in this state as long as you need to if you still need to add more documents and requirements or finalize your details.

Once you're ready to activate your trip, select the Status option at the bottom left of your trip's admin view.