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Every Trip,Every Student,Every Time.

Teachers plan trips and send permission slips for free. Families sign and pay from their phone. Schools approve, track, and keep every record in one place.

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One trip / Everyone on it

One trip. Everyone on it.

A field trip touches a teacher, a principal, a family, a venue, and a bus. TripSlip gives them all the same plan.

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Schools

Plan it, approve it, count heads.

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Parents

Say yes from your phone.

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Venues

Get booked by groups.

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Transportation

The there and back.

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Phone screen showing who has paid for the trip
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Payments

Nobody misses the trip over a form or a fee.

Families can pay by card, pay cash, or ask for help, right on the slip. Paper slip and cash? Teachers record it in seconds, so every kid is counted the same way.

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Our story

Built by people who've driven the bus.

TripSlip started with Achsha Jones: Detroit educator, former museum group coordinator, and CDL school bus driver. She saw every way a field trip falls apart, from the permission slip to the drop-off. We built the tool she wished she had.

Our story
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How it works

From idea to headcount in one place.

  1. Step 01Isometric illustration of a yellow school bus with blue windows, black side stripes, and red lights on top.

    Plan the trip.

    Pick a place on TripSlip or add your own: date, time, cost.

  2. Step 02Isometric illustration of a rolled white diploma scroll tied with a red ribbon and a gold seal.

    Get the OK.

    If your school uses TripSlip, it goes to your admin for approval. If not, you're good to go.

  3. Step 03Three-dimensional illustration of a silver-gray paperclip casting a soft shadow on a dark gray surface.

    Send the slips.

    Families get a link. They sign, volunteer to chaperone, and pay. No paper in backpacks.

  4. Step 043D illustration of a blue magnifying glass with a transparent lens casting a soft oval shadow below.

    Count heads.

    On trip day, check every kid on and off the bus from your phone.

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Real screens

Children are adorable and unreliable couriers. Let us manage admin for you.

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The research

The trips that matter most are the hardest to pull off.

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Field trips lift critical thinking.

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Students who go show more tolerance.

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Attendance and test scores go up.

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Kids from high-poverty schools gain the most.

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Teachers say cost is the biggest barrier. The bus is the biggest cost.

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TripSlip exists to take the hard part off their plate.

1 Greene, Kisida & Bowen, Education Next (2013); Kisida, Greene & Bowen, Sociology of Education (2014). 2 Erickson, Watson & Greene, Journal of Human Resources 59(3) (2024). 3 Anderson, Kisiel & Storksdieck, Curator 49(3) (2006).

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From our partners

Notes from the road.

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Get started

Your next trip starts here.

Free for teachers. Always.

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