Your passport details. Encrypted, not screenshotted.

Every group trip reaches the moment where the organizer asks everyone to "just send your passport details for the booking" — and suddenly ID photos live forever in a WhatsApp chat. Vacationist replaces that with an encrypted travel document vault built into the trip itself.

How the document vault works

• AES-256 encryption. Documents are encrypted before they're stored — passport numbers, ID details, and travel documents are never saved in plain text.
• Biometric unlock. Your documents open with your fingerprint or face, on your device. No shared passwords.
• Per-person, per-trip. Each traveler manages their own documents and decides what to share, with whom, for how long.

Organizer access — with consent and revocation

Group bookings genuinely need one person to have everyone's details: flights, hotels, rental cars, ski passes. The problem was never the need — it's that the sharing happens over chat and can never be undone.

In Vacationist, you grant the trip organizer temporary access to specific documents. They see what they need, when they need it, for the booking. When the trip is booked — or whenever you like — you revoke access and it's gone. No copies floating around anyone's camera roll.

Why this matters for real groups

• Families — parents keep the whole family's passports and IDs in one secured place, ready at every check-in counter, instead of digging through email attachments at the gate.
• Bachelorette and large groups — one organizer books for twelve people without twelve ID photos landing in a group chat that still exists three years later.
• Privacy-conscious travelers — your documents are encrypted, you hold the keys via your device's biometrics, and access is something you grant and revoke — not something you lose control of the moment you hit send.

Offline, like everything else

Your documents are available on your device even without a connection — exactly when you tend to need them: at borders, on planes, in basements with no signal.

Frequently asked questions

Can Vacationist read my documents?

Documents are encrypted with AES-256 before storage. Decryption happens for you, gated by your device biometrics — the vault is designed so your travel documents aren't sitting readable on a server.

What happens when I revoke the organizer's access?

They immediately lose the ability to view the document. Unlike sending a photo in chat, sharing in Vacationist is an access grant, not a copy — revoking it actually ends it.

Which documents can I store?

Passports, ID cards, and other travel documents — the details a group booking typically requires. Each family member or traveler manages their own.

Is this feature free?

The document vault is part of the app; check the current plan details in the app. What matters for security: encryption and biometric unlock apply to everyone, on every tier.