# RepBud: Travel Sales CRM — Trade show notes & follow-ups > Trade show notes & follow-ups (iPhone/iPad app by Kusa Connect.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/repbud-travel-sales-crm/id6761446359 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Kusa Connect](https://appshunter.io/developer/1881063582) - Category: Business, Travel - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 65 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-05-10 - Data updated: 2026-09-05 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/repbud-travel-sales-crm/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. RepBud is a CRM and sales companion for reps in the travel and tourism industry — the people who carry a portfolio of lodges, camps, hotels or destinations and spend their lives in front of travel agents, tour operators and DMCs. MEETINGS AND FOLLOW-UPS Field Log — Capture an interaction in seconds. Type it, speak it, or photograph your handwritten notes. The Lantern — Forward an email or a WhatsApp message and RepBud pulls out the key details. Edit them, log the interaction, and your follow-up tasks are drafted. The Trail — Your action items and follow-ups in one place, prioritised and in front of you. Daily Briefing — Start the day knowing what needs your attention: meetings, open tasks, priorities. BEFORE YOU WALK IN Meeting Prep — Recent interactions, open tasks, key contacts and what's outstanding, before you sit down. Smart Email Finder — Find professional contact details without hunting through email chains. Pre-Meeting Scan — See what has changed on an industry website before you walk in. Prospect intelligence — Background on a company you are meeting for the first time. CONTACTS AND CLIENTS Contacts and Companies — Your people and their businesses, intelligently organised and searchable in seconds. Business card scanning — Photograph a card and RepBud reads the name, company, email, phone and job title. Intelligent Reports — When client reports are due, RepBud generates them in one tap over the date range you need. No more Sunday night scramble. Client Knowledge Base and Looking Forward — What a client needs to know, and the pipeline ahead. Trip Planner — Plan a sales trip with purpose. See who you met before and what was discussed, plan logistics and budgets, send your invites and head off. GETTING IN TOUCH Native Email — Send and receive without leaving the contact record. Reach — Run a campaign to a segment of your book, not a spreadsheet. Social posts and Newsletters — Draft the trade update you mean to write. Relay — Send large files as a link that expires, not an attachment that bounces. Respond — Put a form in front of a client and collect the answers in one place. Reconnect — Meetings and webinars with your trade partners. Revenue — Your accounting workspace: invoices, expenses and business mileage, beside the relationships they came from. THE REPBUD RESERVE The RepBud Ridge is your headquarters at The RepBud Reserve, where the travel industry connects — on their own terms, opt-in throughout. RepBud Ready — Set up your profile and be discovered by tourism businesses looking for representation. When one finds a rep who matches their criteria, the connection begins. No cold outreach, no chasing. RepBuddies — Connect with the travel agents and tour operators who can sell your product, then message them directly, invite them to trade dinners, and arrange training. Who's Nearby — At a show or on a sales trip, see which members of the Reserve are close by. You stay invisible until you choose otherwise. RepBud Rover — Bring a colleague into the Reserve and Rover rewards you for it. RepBud is designed to assist, not replace, your professional judgement. Feature availability and usage limits vary by subscription plan — see repbud.app for details. SUBSCRIPTIONS Economy is free. Paid cabins raise your monthly limits, billed monthly or annually. The term and price are shown 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) ### 1.4.0 — 2026-09-04 Your phone's contacts, in one pass. • Import from the contacts already on your phone. Choose the ones that belong in your book — nothing is copied until you say so. • Who's Nearby now tells you how near, and the chip row stays put instead of growing down the screen. • A reply carries what its thread was about, so a threaded conversation reads as one thing. • Reports no longer treat a test message as a live enquiry, and an image that could not load stops pretending it might. • Faster to get where you are going: the Field Log, Reports, The Trail, your contacts and the Reserve directories all open straight from a link. ### 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. ## More apps by Kusa Connect - [Kusa Connect](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kusa-connect/id6759833677) - [Annual Africa Tourism Evening](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/annual-africa-tourism-evening/id6767036731) - [Confidence Africa Tours](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/confidence-africa-tours/id6780297217) - [Wildtouch Tours & Travel](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wildtouch-tours-and-travel/id6799978227) All apps by Kusa Connect: https://appshunter.io/developer/1881063582 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-05.*