How to add a booking confirmation to a trip

It is already in your inbox or your camera roll: a boarding pass, a hotel voucher, an OpenTable email. Screenshot it or paste the text, and Arriv reads the dates and times and shows you a preview before anything saves. The flight organizer doubles as a hotel planner, so the same drop covers either.

A place-name screenshot is a different job, since your friend's text with three restaurants in it becomes pins, and that path is screenshot to map, which sits on the free monthly allowance. A booking confirmation carries more, because it has a date, a time, and often a flight number or a room night. Those become the spine of the day, the way planning by day starts from the reservation that already has an hour on it.

One drop handles a flight, a stay, or a timed dinner, which is more range than it sounds. United BOS to LIS on Friday sets your trip dates, an Alfama hotel for those nights pins the stay, and Prado at 9pm lands on Friday evening. All three go through the same box, because Arriv tells them apart before it saves anything.

Arriv does not search fares and does not sell tickets, so you should buy the flight wherever you already buy flights. Cheapest time to book is the research page: domestic six to eight weeks out, international two to five months. Then drop the confirmation here, and the itinerary has the hours before you land.

A dinner confirmation goes in the same way a boarding pass does, and what changes is what it anchors. A flight sets arrival and departure, a stay sets the nights, and a reservation sets one hour on one day, so the flexible stops fill in around those three.

Friday: UA 260 lands in Lisbon, the Alfama hotel is the first night, and Prado at 9pm is dinner in the same neighborhood, which is the geography-first rule with a real booking attached. Saturday and Sunday stay a loose list until you add more places, because the flight and the table already sit on the right days.

Lisbon weekends stall for a dull reason: the 9pm table is in somebody's notes app, the arrival time is in somebody else's email, and nobody has both. Filing the confirmations first puts the landing time where the whole group can see it, and a Lisbon couples weekend gives the flexible stops a shape to sit in once that spine exists.

Guest and free accounts can drop place-name screenshots within a monthly allowance, while booking confirmations are Pro: flights, stays, timed dinners. The preview still runs either way, so you see what it found before you decide. On a free account you will hit the limit, and Pro is how you carry on, which is the same split screenshot to map states.

There is no inbox ingest and no Gmail forward, so the working path is a screenshot of the confirmation, or a paste of the email body, on the flight organizer. Capture takes images and pasted text, which covers most of what a confirmation arrives as.

Once you have bought, the research is over. When to book the flight will not remember your times, though the confirmation will. Drop it, check the preview, and the dates and the 9pm table are on the shared itinerary.

Worked weekend: UA 260 BOS to LIS on Friday, an Alfama stay for those nights, Prado at 9pm. Drop each one and the trip dates, the hotel pin, and Friday dinner all appear on one itinerary once the preview is confirmed. The flexible Lisbon stops, a miradouro and Pastéis de Belém, wait until that spine exists, while restaurants you have not booked stay on the free screenshot path.