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

• Encrypted at rest. Sensitive fields — full name, document number, date of birth — are encrypted before they're stored. No shared passwords.
• Biometric lock. Viewing your documents in the app requires your fingerprint, face, or device passcode.
• 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. You choose how long that access lasts — and the clock doesn't start until the organizer actually opens your documents for the first time, so a grant you make a week early doesn't burn its window while you wait. From that first view, access runs for the duration you set and then expires on its own. There's also a hard outer deadline: if the organizer never opens the documents within seven days, the grant lapses regardless. Until the organizer opens them, your view shows "Not opened yet", and you're notified the moment they're granted and can revoke access at any point. 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 at rest, viewing them requires 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?

Sensitive document fields are encrypted at rest and access is restricted and logged. Viewing a document in the app requires your device's biometrics or passcode. Like any service that isn't fully client-side end-to-end encrypted, we technically hold the means to access this data on our servers — we don't, and access is limited to what's necessary to run the service. See our Privacy Policy for the full picture.

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.

When does the access window start counting?

Not when you grant it — when the organizer first opens your documents. Until then your view shows "Not opened yet." From that first view, access lasts for the duration you chose, then expires on its own. A grant that's never opened lapses after seven days.

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.