Sharing Your Trip Publicly

Why Public Sharing

Sometimes you want someone to see your itinerary without going through account signup, invitation, and login.

Common cases:

• Sending to family who aren't traveling but want to keep in touch during the trip
• Sharing with a travel agent who's helping you finalize plans
• Sending to a pet sitter or house sitter so they know when you'll be back
• Posting on a group trip chat where not everyone is on Plan Harmony
• Bragging rights — showing off a beautiful trip itinerary

A public link gives anyone with the URL read-only access to the calendar and map.

Turning On Public Sharing

1. Open the trip and click Settings in the left-hand navigation.
2. Scroll to the Sharing card.
3. Toggle Make this trip shareable on.
4. A red reminder appears: "Click 'Save Trip' to make it shareable."
5. Click Save Trip at the bottom of the Trip Information section.

After saving, the public URL appears below the toggle with a copy button. The URL follows this pattern:

https://app.planharmony.com/public/trips/{trip-id}/calendar

Click the copy icon to copy the URL to your clipboard, then share it wherever you want.

What Public Viewers See

The public view shows two tabs:

• Calendar — the full day/week/month/agenda views of events, with event details (title, description, time, location) visible when you click an event
• Map — all event locations and travel routes

Plus the trip header:

• Trip banner image, title, description, dates, destination
• Traveler avatars (first 5) and total guest count
• Days-to-go countdown (when the trip is upcoming)
• Plan Harmony Free / Pro badge

What public viewers don't see:

• Budget
• Travel Documents / files
• Travel Preferences
• Settings
• The Invite Guests / Clone Trip actions
• Agency portal features
• Optional event voting controls
• Event attachments

Turning Off Public Sharing

1. Open Settings → Sharing.
2. Toggle Make this trip shareable off.
3. Click Save Trip.

The public link stops working immediately. Anyone with the URL will see a "This Trip is Not Available" message.

If you toggle sharing back on, the URL is the same — the trip ID doesn't change between toggles.

Featuring a Trip on an Agency Profile (agency members only)

If you're an agency member, the Sharing section has an additional switch: Feature on agency profile. Flipping this on (and saving) adds the trip to your agency's public profile page as a showcase example. Up to 6 trips can be featured at once.

This is useful for showing prospective clients what you've planned before. See the Agency Profile articles for more.

Tips

• Use a URL shortener for social. Plan Harmony URLs are long. Pair a public link with a bit.ly or tinyurl shortener if you're sharing it verbally or in limited-character contexts.
• Preview before sharing. Copy the link and open it in an incognito window to see exactly what your audience will see.
• Remember that links are guessable-ish. Plan Harmony trip IDs are UUIDs — not sequential — so a random guess is effectively impossible. But anyone with the URL has access, so don't paste the link into a public repository or a pastebin.
• Combine with guest invitations. For people who'll actually be on the trip, invite them by email so they can edit, vote, and see budgets. Use public sharing only for read-only spectators.