Phase 1 — Current focus
Pilot testing
The current priority is real-world testing with teachers and school groups.
Focus areas:
- onboarding and first-use experience
- stability across multiple trips
- teacher feedback
- student usability
- communication flows
- trip switching
- account-level Pilot experience
- performance with larger groups
- payment and upgrade reliability
Authentication and email
Professional transactional email infrastructure is being prepared for:
- signup confirmation
- password reset
- email changes
- teacher invitations
Custom SMTP will replace the limited default Supabase mailer.
Android
- complete Google Play rollout
- verify production parity with iOS
- test messaging, maps and media handling
Phase 2 — School accounts
The next major development area is school-wide access.
Planned:
- school organization accounts
- annual school subscriptions
- multiple teachers under one school
- shared trip templates
- shared resources
- school logo and branding
- centralized teacher management
- school-level trip overview
- school analytics
- school-wide emergency templates
The goal is to make TripControl suitable not only for individual teachers but for entire schools.
Phase 3 — Teacher planning and reporting
Planned improvements to the Web Admin include:
- stronger desktop-first planning experience
- easier schedule editing
- better student overview
- improved task management
- clearer trip progress overview
- PDF exports
- Excel exports
- downloadable trip summaries
- improved analytics and reporting
- reusable trip structures
- more customizable templates
Phase 4 — Communication and safety
Further development is planned around real-time coordination:
- improved notification controls
- push notification preferences
- clearer group communication controls
- improved teacher coordination
- additional emergency tools
- optional emergency location sharing
- better attendance and check-in workflows
- safer handling of unexpected situations
Phase 5 — Eco Travel Impact
Core
- travelers, origin, destination and transport method
- automatic distance estimation
- CO₂ calculation
- total and per-traveler emissions
- basic visualization
- AI-generated contextual explanation
Enhanced insights
- mixed transport routes
- comparison with alternative travel methods
- lower-impact suggestions
- improved educational explanations
- sustainability context cards
Educational tools
- student-friendly explanation mode
- trip scenario comparison
- Eco Score
- suggested actions to reduce emissions
- integration into trip planning
Advanced
- multi-segment itinerary impact
- operator-specific sustainability data where available
- downloadable sustainability report
- shareable student/parent summary
- cross-trip school analytics
Phase 6 — Integrations and institutional growth
Longer-term possibilities include:
- calendar integrations
- transport and travel APIs
- Microsoft/Google school integrations
- school system integrations
- municipality or district accounts
- advanced organization analytics
- dedicated onboarding
- institutional support
- broader language support
Long-Term Vision
TripControl aims to become a dedicated platform for educational travel and group coordination: a structured, privacy-conscious alternative to fragmented messaging apps, spreadsheets and paper-based trip management.
The product direction remains:
Plan → prepare → travel → communicate → respond → reflect → report
TripControl is built by a teacher, for teachers.
Every feature should answer one question:
Does this make school trips easier, safer and more structured?
If not, it does not need to be built.
Digital tools for real education. 