Create a trip

A trip is the container for everything in Limbo: plans, ballots, chat, expenses, and Pitch In jobs all live inside one. Any member can create a trip, and creating one makes you its owner owner: you control voting settings, the invite link, edit access, and organizer promotions for that trip.

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   On Home, tap Add trip above the trip list.
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   Fill in the form below. Only name and destination are required.
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   Tap the checkmark in the top-right corner (or the back button to discard).

If anything required is missing, an error banner appears at the top of the form telling you what to fix.

Already have an invite code? Tap Have an invite code? → Join a trip at the top instead. Your create-trip fields are not submitted.

The fields

Trip name (required): what your crew sees on trip cards, invites, and notifications.

Destination (required): start typing and pick a suggestion from the list. The destination powers the trip's cover photo, the map of your plans, and location suggestions later on.

Start and end dates (optional): set them now or skip them; you can add dates later from the trip's Overview tab. The Itinerary tab uses them to lay your plans out day by day.

Tap a date field and Limbo slides up a calendar in a bottom sheet, pick the day right there (same on iOS and Android). If a plan needs a time, the usual time picker handles that part.

Timezone: pre-filled from your device. Plan times across the trip display in this timezone, so set it to the destination's zone if you want the itinerary in local time.

Default currency: the currency for budget totals on the trip's Budget tab. Costs you enter on plans roll up into this currency.

Description (optional): a short blurb about the trip for your crew.

Crew

The Participants row shows who's on the trip so far. Tap it to open the participants sheet, where you can:

• search your existing crew members and add them to this trip,
• give any non-organizer crew member the Edit permission (so they can add and edit plans),
• share the trip's invite link (owner only).

You don't have to sort the crew out now; you can invite everyone after the trip exists. The full options, including join codes and organizer roles, are in Invite your crew. The sheet also holds the optional cost split setup (equal or custom percentages) if you plan to settle expenses through Limbo.

The voting toggle: what it actually means

Switching Voting on turns the trip into a ballot box:

• Anyone with edit access can flip a toggle on a new plan to propose it instead of just adding it.
• Proposals open as ballots: the crew votes Yes, No, or Abstain before the plan lands on the itinerary.
• New ballots are sealed by default: who-has-voted is visible while voting is open, but nobody sees the choices until the reveal.

Tap the settings button next to the toggle to tune the rules: pick a preset, or set the approval threshold, a minimum participation level, the Ballot Privacy switches (Sealed votes and Anonymous voting), and the deadline style: a rolling window of 1–30 days per proposal, or one fixed date for the whole trip.

When the trip is ready to become official, the trip owner owner opens the trip gear and chooses Confirm trip. The app explains the one-pass confirmation before anything is spent; the full walkthrough is in Plan your first group trip.

Leave voting off and the trip works like a classic shared itinerary, plans just get added. You can change your mind later, but only the trip owner owner can switch voting on or off and edit the voting settings after creation.

Permissions

member Any member can create a trip. The creator becomes the trip owner owner. Owner-only powers on this form and later include the invite link, voting settings, edit-access grants, and organizer promotion.