HIGHLIGHTS

As the app has continued to evolve — and more of you create multiple trips in Finch — we wanted to add more functionality to trip cards. You’ll now be able to complete trip-level actions, including inviting participants, setting destination and dates, creating polls, starting bookings, and sending messages, directly from trip cards.

We also made improvements to the cards’ look and feel, removing inline editing, making text styles consistent, and improving the spacing between trip tiles. Sub-items are now stacked vertically, which fixes an issue where the destination was sometimes cut off. Additionally, we’ve limited trip titles to 30 characters (they will be truncated if they’re longer). 

A few more look and feel updates: Unscheduled blocks will now be highlighted, so you can see at a glance which blocks are free. Also, when you expand a summary tile on a particular day, you’ll now see the underlying booking detail activity. Event blocks have a cleaner look, displaying just the start time and end time, as well as three lines of description.

We also made a few important updates related to how calendar authentication works. You’ll now see which accounts have been granted editing permissions, and be able to remove permissions for specific providers or set the preferred provider. Also, if you revoke access to a calendar, related events you created will not be deleted. Note that permissions are workspace aware, so if you authenticate a calendar in one workspace, it will not automatically be authenticated across all your workspaces. 

5 IMPROVEMENTS

1. Today, organisers can see all expenses allocated to the trip, but they don’t have an easy way to see just their own expenses without seeing those of other people. Now, trip organisers can filter to only see their own expenses.
2. Workspace Admins can now set a default currency for the workspace. You can find this setting on the currencies tab in the workspace setting. When a default workspace currency is set, all newly created trips will use this currency.
3. AI is great, but it can make mistakes. We made it possible for users to correct booking details that have been ingested incorrectly. On the booking detail screen, you’ll be able to edit individual booking details to correct dates, times, and locations. This edit is activated from the booking detail page by clicking an edit icon close to the relevant booking detail in the transit group of the page.
4. We made some further improvements to expenses: You can now export your trip expenses to a spreadsheet, and you can also manually upload receipt files from the app. Additionally, from the trip expenses list you will now be able to edit an expense and update its core fields as well as delete expenses from a trip. 
5. We improved how we handle categorization of bookings that are missing start and end dates.

6 BUGS

1. Long trip titles were messing up the UI, making the save button not visible. This has been fixed, and trip names will now be capped at 30 characters.
2. When expenses were created by assigning bookings or receipts to trips, the api/ trip-expenses-services was not populating the date field. Now, for receipt-backed expenses the date will be copied from the receipt date field, and for booking-backed expenses, it will be set to the booking creation date.
3. Calendar sync UUID’s didn’t contain the workspace ID. This has been fixed.
4. There was an error when saving updated booking details without times. From now on, a time will now be required to save a booking.
5. Before, when you clicked through to a trip from your inbox, you would land on the expenses page. It’s been fixed, so you’ll now land on the trip itinerary page.
6. When someone was invited to a trip, the trip welcome email did not include the correct URL. This has been fixed and now contains the correct URL with the relevant workspace ID.