Runwae is a group travel coordination platform that lets friends plan, book, and manage trips to events such as festivals, concerts, and weddings in a single app. Users can import links from social media, build shared itineraries, vote on options, split expenses instantly, and earn reward points on bookings, while the service generates revenue through commissions on flights, hotels, and activity reservations.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Product
Problem
Coordinating travel for groups attending events—festivals, concerts, weddings—requires juggling multiple booking sites, spreadsheets, and fragmented chat threads, which leads to misaligned itineraries, unclear expense responsibilities, and missed reservation windows.
Solution
Runwae delivers a unified mobile‑first platform that consolidates itinerary creation, flight/hotel/activity booking, expense splitting, and group communication into a single collaborative workspace. Users can import URLs from social media, add destinations, and vote on options through built‑in polls, while the system synchronizes changes in real time across all participants. Integrated search aggregates inventory from airline, hotel, and activity providers, presenting price‑matched results and enabling direct booking with secure payment processing. Post‑booking, the app tracks payments, automatically calculates balances, and supports peer‑to‑peer settlements without external spreadsheets. A rewards engine issues Runwae Miles for every transaction, redeemable on future trips, and the platform exposes a RESTful API for event hosts and travel partners to embed branded travel hubs. The solution reduces coordination friction, accelerates decision cycles, and captures incremental revenue from event‑driven travel demand.
Target Audience
Primary users are groups of friends or families planning travel to shared events, and event organizers or hospitality partners seeking to capture event‑related bookings through an integrated travel solution.
Features
- Social‑link ingestion: paste Instagram, TikTok, or website URLs and the system auto‑populates itinerary items.
- Real‑time collaborative itinerary with versioned updates, poll‑based voting, and in‑app chat for group decisions.
- Unified booking engine that searches, compares, and books flights, hotels, and activities via integrated OTA APIs, with price‑matching logic.
- Automated expense management: transaction logging, split‑payment calculations, and instant peer transfers through PCI‑compliant payment gateway.
- Rewards module (Runwae Miles) that accrues points on every booking and supports redemption without a credit‑card prerequisite.
- Cross‑platform native iOS/Android apps with offline sync and end‑to‑end TLS encryption for data security.
- White‑label partner API allowing event organizers and hospitality providers to embed a branded travel portal and receive commission on bookings.
- Dashboard analytics for hosts/partners showing booking volume, revenue attribution, and attendee travel patterns.