What the agency tier unlocks
Six features beyond the agent tier.
Custom domain
Run on youragency.com instead of madeby1891.com/travel/your-slug. We handle the DNS swap. SSL is automatic. Your brand, full stop — visitors never see ours.
Multi-advisor dashboards
Each advisor logs in with a magic link and sees only their own clients, leads, and bookings. Permissions are simple: advisor, agency owner. The owner sees everything; advisors see their book.
Lead routing
Incoming leads from your public site, your blog posts, or your Travel Buddies group pages can be routed by destination expertise, advisor capacity, round-robin, or a manual queue. New advisor onboarding doesn't mean "I'll forward you the email."
Travel Buddies — group trips, moderated
A group-trip page with a capacity cap, a payment plan, a moderator queue for who can join, and a shared comments thread the agency moderates. Built for runDisney chapters, fan groups, multi-family Disney runs, alumni trips, school music tours. Skip down to the Travel Buddies detail →
Agency-wide reporting
Owner sees bookings-per-advisor, average commission, time-to-close, no-show rate, top destinations this quarter, top sources of new leads. Numbers, not vibes.
Stripe Connect for the agency
Client payments land in your agency account. Advisor commission splits stay on your books — the platform doesn't try to be your accounting system, but it does export every transaction in a format your bookkeeper will recognize.
Travel Buddies — for tribes and fan groups
Built originally for runDisney groups. Now available to any tribe that travels together.
A "tribe" is anyone who travels in a group with a shared identity: a runDisney chapter that ships the same fifteen runners to every race weekend, a Deaf cruise community that fills two ships a year, a college alumni board doing an annual reunion trip, a marching band on a competition tour, a fan group going to a convention together.
Travel Buddies is a feature inside the Agency tier that lets you run group trips properly:
- Capacity caps. Twenty staterooms, no more. Sixty race bibs, no more. When the page hits cap, it shows a waitlist.
- Payment plans. Deposit now, three balance payments before the trip. The platform tracks who's paid and who's behind.
- Moderator queue. New joiners get reviewed before they're added — important for groups where shared identity matters. The Deaf cruise group, the alumni-only trip, the family-friendly fan trip.
- Shared comments thread. Group chat without dragging everyone into a private Facebook group. The agency moderates.
- The advisor of record. Each group trip has one advisor who's responsible. Other advisors can help on tasks, but the commission and the relationship are clear.
This was originally built for Fairytale Dreamers Travel's runDisney following — multi-family Disney runs where the families don't all know each other but want to coordinate. It worked. So now it's available to any agency on the Agency tier.
Travel Buddies — open trips
runDisney Princess Half · Feb 2027
Deaf-Friendly Disney Cruise · May 2027
Alumni Tour · Mediterranean 2027
What tribes use it for
- runDisney chapters (chapter members get a private trip page)
- Annual Deaf community cruises (moderator-only joins)
- Family Disney runs across multiple households (one cabin per family, shared meal reservations)
- College alumni reunion trips (alum-verified joiners only)
- Marching band and choir tours (parent-chaperone moderator)
- Fan-club conventions with travel attached
- Wedding-adjacent group travel (rehearsal-dinner weekend cruises, milestone-anniversary cruises)
If your group is a tribe — shared identity, shared destination, recurring travel — Travel Buddies is the feature.
Why this instead of TravelJoy / Tres / a Salesforce build
Three honest reasons.
- Your records sheet stays your source of truth. Existing CRMs lock the data inside their database; if you ever leave, the export is painful. 1891 Travel writes to a records sheet that's yours. You can open it tomorrow morning and see every record. You can hand it to your accountant. You can hand it to your replacement.
- The platform doesn't take a cut. The big group-trip platforms (you know which ones) take 3–8% of every booking on top of card-processing. We charge a flat monthly fee and zero on bookings. At an agency moving real volume, that's a thirty-thousand-dollar swing every year.
- One person in Frederick reads every support email. The platform isn't venture-backed and there's no offshore tier-one queue. When something breaks, you get a human reply from the person who wrote the code.
Run your agency on infrastructure that fits.
Multi-advisor. Custom domain. Lead routing. Travel Buddies. Stripe to your account.