# RepBud: Sales Companion — For Tourism Professionals > For Tourism Professionals (iPhone/iPad app by Kusa Connect Ltd.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/repbud-sales-companion/id6761446359 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Kusa Connect Ltd](https://appshunter.io/developer/1881063582) - Category: Business, Productivity - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 64 MB - Languages: English - Released: 2026-05-10 - Data updated: 2026-08-13 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/repbud-sales-companion/id6761446359/reviews.md ## What is RepBud? The trade show floor is chaos. Back-to-back meetings, business cards everywhere, conversations blurring into each other. By Thursday you've forgotten who said what. By the time reports are due, it's a scramble. RepBud was built for exactly this. Designed specifically for sales and marketing representatives in the tourism industry — the reps who carry a portfolio of lodges, camps, hotels or destinations and spend their working lives in front of travel agents, tour operators and DMCs — RepBud is the intelligent companion that turns the chaos of the road into a clear, organised record of your relationships. Log a meeting in seconds while it's still fresh. Forward an important email and watch RepBud extract the key details automatically. Walk into your next meeting knowing exactly what was said last time, what's outstanding and what needs your attention today. When the reports for your clients are due, they're already written — all within the date range you need. YOUR DAILY COMPANION Field Log — Capture an interaction with a member of the travel trade in seconds. Type, speak or photograph your handwritten notes. RepBud builds your relationship history automatically so nothing is ever forgotten. The Lantern — Forward emails or WhatsApp messages and RepBud extracts the key details - you can then edit, log the interaction, and your follow-up tasks are created automatically. The Trail — Every action item, follow-up and task in one place. Prioritised, filtered and always visible. Nothing falls through the cracks. Daily Briefing — Start every day knowing exactly what needs your attention. Your meetings, your open tasks, your priorities — delivered fresh each morning. YOUR MEETING INTELLIGENCE Meeting Prep — Pull up everything before a meeting: recent interactions, open tasks, key contacts and what's outstanding. Walk in prepared, every time. Smart Email Finder — Locate professional contact details instantly. No more hunting through email chains or LinkedIn. Pre-Meeting Scan — See what's changed on industry websites before you walk through the door. YOUR UNIVERSE Contacts and Companies — Your full universe, intelligently organised. Every conversation, every company, every contact — searchable in seconds. Reports — When reports are due, RepBud generates them in one tap. No more Sunday night scrambles before your Monday morning call. Every report covers exactly the date range you need. Trip Planner — Plan your sales trips with purpose. Know who you've seen in the past, what was discussed and what's next. Plan logistics and budgets, send your invites and head off. THE REPBUD RESERVE The RepBud Ridge is your headquarters at The RepBud Reserve — the high ground where you see everything clearly. The Reserve is where the travel industry connects — on their own terms, entirely opt-in. RepBud Ready — Set up your profile and be discovered by tourism businesses who are actively looking for representation who have registered as being ready for a rep. When a business finds a rep who matches their criteria, the connection begins. No cold outreach. No chasing. Just the right rep meeting the right product at the right time. RepBuddies — Find and connect with the travel agents and tour operators who can sell your product. Once they agree to connect with you or they have reached out to you first you can share trade dinner and event invitations, and arrange training sessions. Product Managers, consultants and agents can show interest, reps can curate their guest lists or get their training presentation ready. Clean, direct and without the inbox chaos. SUBSCRIPTIONS Economy is free. Paid cabins raise your monthly limits, billed monthly or annually. The term and price are shown in the app before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple Account and renews unless turned off 24 hours before the period ends. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://repbud.app/privacy ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.0 — 2026-08-11 Join and subscribe without leaving the app. • Create a RepBud account on your phone. A six-digit code arrives by email and confirms it on the spot. • Choose your cabin in the app. Premium Economy, Business Class and First Class are available through your Apple Account, with the term and the price in your own currency shown before you confirm. Restore Purchases is there if you change phone. • Put a face to a name. Anyone can upload a profile picture now, and it shows on your connections and in the directories. • Integrations are clearer about what they can do. A sync that cannot read a provider no longer clears the data it already had, connecting one provider does not overwrite another's credentials, and a provider that is not yet supported says so instead of failing quietly. • A mileage trip survives leaving the screen. • A connection request says who is asking. ### 1.2.1 — 2026-08-04 A tidier book, sharper intelligence, and steadier reports. • Park a client you're not working with and bring them back when you are. Current and Past lists keep your book tidy, and parked clients stop being offered for new work. • The Lantern reads your mail more carefully — real due dates, true interaction dates, and threads matched on who is actually in them. What it learns from an email now stays attached to the interaction. • Reports you generate on your phone arrive readable, drawing on the right client's tasks. You are no longer charged for a report that doesn't start, or twice for the same log. • Task reminders for dated items on the Trail, so a follow-up doesn't slip. • Send files straight from your phone with Relay. • Follow-up emails go out signed with your name. • Steadier throughout: a crash on one screen no longer ends your session, empty screens explain themselves, and there are fixes across connections, upgrades, the scanner and the keyboard. ### 1.2.0 — 2026-07-14 Your books, and the miles you drive to fill them. • Revenue — your accounting workspace, now on every paid plan. Raise branded invoices, reconcile the bank, and prepare your year-end Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet without leaving RepBud. • Scan a receipt with your phone. RepBud reads the merchant, date and total, and you can split one receipt across several clients — that shared lunch finally lands on the right books. • Live mileage tracking. Start a trip and RepBud measures the distance while you drive, even with your phone in your pocket, then turns it into a mileage claim at HMRC or SARS rates. Tracking runs only while a trip is running, and stops the moment you tap Stop. • Reconnect — host meetings and webinars with your trade partners, straight from RepBud. • The Lantern is sharper: it no longer mixes up contacts from different companies, you can correct a match yourself, and it recognises notes from RepBud meetings. • Plus a long list of fixes across the Brief, Companies, Clients and social posts — and deleting your account now removes your data properly. WHY THIS BUILD USES BACKGROUND LOCATION RepBud is a CRM for travel-industry sales reps, who drive to client sites and claim the mileage against tax. "Track mileage" (More > Revenue > Track mileage) records the distance of a trip the user starts explicitly, so it can be turned into a mileage claim at the official HMRC / SARS rates. Background location is required because the phone is in a pocket or on a dash mount for the length of the drive; a foreground-only measurement would stop recording the moment the screen locks and the claim would be wrong. Location is collected ONLY between the user tapping "Agree and start tracking" and tapping "Stop". It is not collected at any other time, it is not used for advertising, and it is not shared with third parties. iOS shows the blue background-location indicator throughout (showsBackgroundLocationIndicator is enabled). HOW TO TEST BACKGROUND LOCATION 1. Sign in with the demo account. 2. More > Revenue > Track mileage. 3. Choose a company and vehicle, tap "Start trip". 4. A disclosure screen explains what is collected; tap "Agree and start tracking" and allow location. 5. Background the app and simulate movement (Xcode > Debug > Simulate Location, or walk/drive a short distance). The distance increases. 6. Return to the app and tap "Stop & review" — the trip is priced at the mileage rate and saved to the user's books. CAMERA The camera is used for two things: capturing a business card (existing), and photographing a receipt so an expense can be logged in Revenue (new in this build). The purpose string has been updated to cover both. REVENUE AND RECONNECT Both are RepBud features rendered in an embedded web view on our own domains (revenue.repbud.app, reconnect.repbud.app), signed in with the same account — they are not external browsers or third-party services. ACCOUNT DELETION Profile > Delete Account removes the account and its data (Guideline 5.1.1(v)). ### 1.1.3 — 2026-06-14 Discovery, connections, and polish: • Find fellow members of the Reserve — the RepBuddies and Reps directories list people again, and Who's Nearby shows members who've chosen to be visible at an event, by name. • Pending connection requests now show who they're from. • Respond to a meeting request right in the app — accept it, or suggest a time that suits you better. • Meeting times show in your own timezone, clearly labelled. • A refreshed Watering Hole, clearer profile setup, and a fix for a navigation issue where tapping a tab could leave you on the wrong screen. ### 1.1.2 — 2026-06-04 This update brings improvements to contacts and profile sharing: • Contact search now matches on full names — type a first and last name together and the right person comes up. • Edit a contact's company directly from their detail screen. • More reliable profile sharing — your RepBud handle stays consistent when you forward your profile to someone. • Smoother sign-in — the password field no longer auto-capitalises. • Stability and behind-the-scenes improvements. ## More apps by Kusa Connect Ltd - [Kusa Connect](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kusa-connect/id6759833677) - [Annual Africa Tourism Evening](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/annual-africa-tourism-evening/id6767036731) All apps by Kusa Connect Ltd: https://appshunter.io/developer/1881063582 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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