Wayward Release Notes: New Features & Enhancements

September 4, 2026

"Four Way Split"

• •Payment plans are live for booking payments: take a deposit at checkout and split the balance evenly across up to four scheduled payments on dates you choose.
• •Guests see their full schedule and pay each installment themselves, with email reminders as dates approach.
• •Added category self-management in console for tourism maps.
• •Better visibility into abandoned carts and checkout states.
• •Bug fixes around registration availability.

August 22, 2026

Routine Maintenance v1.2.3.4

• •Forms functionality updates and bug fixes
• •More tools for managing categories on tourism maps
• •Filter points of interest by tags or subcategories
• •Data protection updates

August 3, 2026

"The Friends and Family Rate"

• •Discount codes are here — create percentage or fixed-amount promo codes from the new Discounts tab on your Payments page. Scope a code to everything or a single experience, limit total uses or uses per guest, set start and end dates, and pause or archive it anytime.
• •Codes that share themselves — add ?promo=CODE to any booking link you send and the discount applies automatically at checkout.
• •Reward the right guests — restrict a code to new customers or returning ones. Anyone who's traveled with you counts as returning, including guests who paid off-platform or joined someone else's group booking.
• •A smarter date picker — a few dates show as one-tap cards; bigger schedules get a clean list with month-and-day tiles, a calendar view, and a compact confirmation card once a date is chosen.
• •Support for custom cancellation policies.
• •Booking links that look like you — booking, balance-payment, and One Link pages all live at book.wayward.travel with your logo, colors, and proper link previews when shared.
• •Faster trip rosters — clicking a date from your calendar now responds instantly instead of pausing on a blank screen.
• •Bug fixes & hardening — confirmation pages now show the exact discounted amount paid; entering a promo code before your email politely asks for the email instead of claiming the code is invalid; and we tightened checkout security.

July 31, 2026

"The Guest List"

• •Contact profiles, reimagined — every guest's trip history, checklist, notes, and waiver status now live on one scrollable page instead of scattered across tabs.
• •A before-departure checklist for every trip — see exactly what's left for each guest (waiver, payment, forms) and send their One Link straight from the checklist when something's still open.
• •A cleaner Contacts page — brought in line with the rest of Wayward's design, with filters that tuck neatly into one button on mobile.

July 24, 2026

"Save My Spot"

• •Availability and Booking are now separate tabs in the experience editor, so each section has room to breathe and is easier to manage as it grows.
• •Add dates two ways — pick specific departures on a calendar, or set a weekly repeat rule across a date range and let Wayward fill in the schedule.
• •Inventory and waitlist settings live right below availability — set spots per date and flip on the waitlist in a couple of clicks.
• •Waitlist for guests — when a date is full and the waitlist is on, guests can join for free and leave a note about their party or flexibility.
• •Waitlist confirmations — guests automatically receive a confirmation email when they join, and a new tab on the trip roster shows every waitlisted guest and the note they entered.

July 15, 2026

"Pick Your Path"

• •Faceted trail navigation — visitors can now filter trails on the tourism map by type and accessibility, from hiking and cycling to horse riding, dog friendly, ATV, snowmobiling, dog sledding, and canoeing.
• •Filters stack with the map view search, so the list always reflects what is on screen and what the visitor is looking for.
• •Improved trail ingestion — new trails can now be suggested into the pipeline for review before they go live.
• •Bug fix — manual trail edits are no longer wiped out when new trail data is ingested.

July 14, 2026

"The Missing Link"

• •One Link — every guest now gets one link, sent the moment they book, that becomes their own personal trip page: itinerary, waiver, forms, balance due, and everything else, wrapped in your brand.
• •A to-do list that does the nagging for you — guests see exactly what's left before their trip and knock it out right there — sign the waiver, pay the balance, fill out a form. No more chasing down stragglers.
• •Guest resources, right where they're needed — pin packing lists, cancellation policies, or meeting-point directions to your brand, a specific experience, or a single date, and they'll show up exactly where guests are looking.
• •Trip details that trickle down — set your guide, meeting point, and accommodation notes once on the experience and every date inherits them automatically. One date different? Override it in seconds.
• •Know who's linked in — track who's opened their page right from the roster, and resend it in one click if they haven't.
• •Bug fixes — smoothed out a rare checkout hiccup where a successful payment could briefly flash an error, and sharpened up receipt accuracy.

July 6, 2026

"Tour Season"

• •Internal Notes: centralize your operations for every trip. Log logistics, vendor contacts, gear lists, and contingency plans your team needs.
• •Attach the receipts, rosters, and reference docs right on the note. PDFs, images, Word, Excel — drag it in or click to browse.
• •Itinerary stops: Stop numbers on the map are optional now. Hide them when you want a cleaner look.
• •Fixed a markdown rendering bug with trip descriptions and stop notes.

July 2, 2026

"Field Trip"

• •Introduced a default dynamic search on the tourism map which filters the list based on the map view
• •Edit experiences right on the page — Update your trip name, duration, trip type, description, and call-to-action inline on the Overview tab. No more pop-up windows — tap a field, make the change, save. Done.
• •A brand-new itinerary editor — Your map now stays front and center while your stops live in a tidy list beside it (and slide up as a bottom sheet on your phone). See every stop at a glance — no more scrolling through a cramped tray.
• •Everything about a stop, in one place — Open any stop to edit its name and description, add a photo, and check its coordinates — then step between stops with the ‹ › arrows or pop back to the full list anytime.
• •Drag to reorder — Rearrange stops with a simple drag; the map pins and numbers update to match.
• •A smarter map view — The map now frames all your stops the moment the page loads, then stays exactly where you leave it as you pan and zoom.
• •Bug fixes — Cleared up a misleading "image too large" message on uploads, and made sure every stop field shows correctly when you're editing on your phone.

June 29, 2026

"Party of four"

• •Group booking emails — Each guest in a multi-person booking now gets their own confirmation email. Additional guests receive a clean note letting them know payment has been handled by the lead booker
• •Printable receipts — Guests can now open and print a formatted receipt after booking, showing the experience details, guests, amount paid, and booking reference
• •Cleaner roster view — Participants from the same booking are visually grouped in the event roster, and payment details are only shown for the lead booker
• •Contacts from group bookings — Additional participants are now automatically added to your contacts when a group booking is confirmed
• •Email history on contact pages — The email history section on a contact's profile now populates immediately after a confirmation is sent, without waiting for delivery tracking
• •Smarter booking flow — If an experience only has one available date or one booking type, it's selected automatically so guests don't have to
• •Trip type field — You can now label experiences with a trip type (e.g. "Backpacking", "Day hike") which appears on the booking card and experience page
• •Bug fixes — Resolved an issue where the receipt showed $0 for the amount paid; fixed the booking option label showing as "Package" instead of "Booking type"

June 20, 2026

"Redwoods"

• •Faster, smoother photo uploads — Images are now automatically compressed in your browser before uploading, so uploads are quicker and use less data, especially on mobile
• •Clearer upload errors — Uploading an iPhone (HEIC) photo in an unsupported browser now shows a helpful message instead of failing silently
• •Easier password recovery — Added a "Forgot password?" link on the login screen and made the password reset flow more reliable
• •Richer trail content — New tooling lets us import trail routes from GPX files, bringing more accurate, higher-quality trails into your experiences
• •Performance improvements — Completed a major upgrade of our core platform and tooling for better speed, security, and stability across the board
• •Bug fixes — Resolved various issues, including more dependable event reminder emails and a fix for team invitations occasionally failing

May 28, 2026

"Payday"

• •The complete payments experience is here, from booking form to earnings dashboard, with lower processing fees than the big platforms
• •Branded guest booking and checkout at book.wayward.travel; participant details, waiver, and payment in one session. Optimized for conversion
• •Deposit support, with automated balance collection closer to the trip date
• •Offline fallback keeps checkout working even if Stripe is disconnected
• •New Payments dashboard: gross revenue, fees, and net payout, with a per-booking breakdown
• •Self-serve Stripe management - connect, disconnect, reconnect, or switch accounts right from settings
• •Cancel a booking or an entire trip date with automatic Stripe refunds, full or partial
• •Guests get email refund notifications, with a typed confirmation step before anything goes through
• •Contacts now reflect full payment and cancellation history across all bookings

May 20, 2026

"Baseball season"

• •Allow users to suggest edits to trails
• •New POI suggested edits page to manage suggested changes
• •Trails synchronized daily with Open Street Map will be added as suggested edits
• •Brands can customize trail operators
• •CRM v1 // Contacts list release

Apr 16, 2026

Tourism Map Trails Update

• •Made trails more visual when selecting them
• •Improved filtering and zooming of trails and all categories
• •Added approved use indicators to the trails cards
• •Reduced size of POI dots
• •Improved OpenGraph data on trails listings

Mar 27, 2026

Sunset of Wayward Mobile App

We're sunsetting the Wayward mobile app for live tracking. Support and updates will end as of April 1st, 2026. Current users can continue to use the app for tracking trips, however performance may be degraded as it will no longer be supported.

• •All previous trips remain accessible - view maps, download GPX files, and save trip images.

Mar 2, 2026

Digital Asset Management

Introducing a new media repository for all of your brand's content.

• •Collect all trip content, experience images and points of interest media on a single page
• •Search, filter and download images for use on social media
• •Available on Tourism, Premium and higher plans.

Feb 20, 2026

"Banana Slugs"

• •Improvements to POI editor for the tourism map
• •Better handling of 'Stop' to POI conversion
• •New floating panel on tourism map for POI details
• •Sortable experiences on brand page and map dropdown
• •Improved urls slugs, metadata and open graph tags for seo and readability improvements

Jan 20, 2026

"Tourism Maps"

Introducing a map-centric platform for Tourism, CVB's and DMO's

• •Display all of your experiences and points of interest on a single map
• •Fully white labelled and customizable
• •Optimized for desktop and mobile
• •Fast map loading across all platforms
• •Builds on top of existing content across your Wayward network

October 28, 2025

"New Feature: Add Routes to Experiences"

Operators and brands can now add, edit, and display routes directly on their experience maps. This major update makes it easier to showcase detailed itineraries and guide visitors through key waypoints.

• •Show itinerary routes on maps
• •Add and edit routes using a new context menu
• •Add waypoints to routes, including halfway markers for easier route building
• •Improved marker collision handling for smoother map interactions
• •Manage Points of Interest (POIs) directly from the console

July 1, 2025

"Waivers"

You can now create, send, and manage digital liability waivers - right inside Wayward.

• •Easily create branded liability waivers and agreements for your customers to sign before their trip
• •Collect typed signatures, initials, and emergency contact information
• •Progressive disclosure: reveal key waiver sections step-by-step, requiring initials at each stage
• •Best practices built-in: capture IP address, browser, device info, and timestamp for every submission
• •Full version control: track changes and keep records of which version each participant signed
• •Mobile-friendly signing - no app or login required for guests
• •Store all waivers securely in the cloud and access them anytime from your dashboard

May 29, 2025

"Under the Bridge"

v3.12 on iOS and Android

• •Improved syncing of location data
• •Improved real-time location updates for group trips
• •Added a dynamic user icon list for group trips
• •Fixed a bug causing message inbox to crash for some users

May 02, 2025

"Console"

• •All new console for operators and tourism brands at console.wayward.travel
• •Introduced a 'draft' status for your experiences that aren't yet ready for prime time.
• •New Dates management section for managing participants, live tracking settings and more.
• •Participants: Add, delete and bulk upload via CSV upload.
• •Multi-level team management; Invite your Admin, Billing and Experience Managers to the party.
• •Your Site: Easy access to embeddable content and your public landing page
• •Introduce our Beta program for Waivers and Payment processing
• •Self-signup for new brands with simple onboarding guide

Mar 27, 2025

"Big maps"

• •Revamped how maps load on the web which improve load times by over 90% on large trips.
• •Solved a bug which prevented very large trip maps from loading

Mar 3, 2025

"Community"

V3.11 on Android and iOS brings an entirely new community feed.

• •Follow featured trips across the globe and discover your next adventure from Brands on the Wayward platform.
• •Also, we fixed a bug where photos on spectator maps were displayed out of order.

Jan 28, 2025

"Bull Horn"

V3.10 on Android and iOS brings you one-way messaging for organized adventures.

• •Organizers can send text and link messages from web
• •Push notifications for participants
• •New inbox and chats within the mobile app

Nov 12, 2024

"Plumbing"

V3.9 on Android and iOS brings you:

• •Improved syncing of trips and added a sync bar
• •Improved syncing of Post updates
• •Faster image loading in-app
• •Some maintenance (bumping packages, etc) was done as well.

Oct 17, 2024

"Adding salt"

• •Updated experience page embed codes: embed just the itinerary or the entire experiences.
• •Improved invite emails for participants
• •Other little things

Sept 30, 2024

"Kneading"

• •All new view for Experiences, with Call-to-action links now available.
• •Significant refactor of our infrastructure

August 14, 2024

"Maintenance mode"

• •Event trips cropped so they don't show locations beyond start / end time
• •Images on event map are resized down by 97.5% resulting in faster map load times
• •v3.8 on Android and iOS - Updated the tracking service and some other bug fixes

July 16, 2024

"Sheets and Shrouds"

• •New Content Page for brands! Public content on your experiences is collected for easy viewing.
• •Experiences have been moved to the top on a brand page
• •V3.7 for Android and iOS - Fixed a bug with itinerary stops not always showing up
• •Users will now show up on an event even if their display name wasn't set
• •The 'Refresh' button works better on events now

July 03, 2024

"how long is a piece of string?"

V3.6 for Android and iOS…

• •Streamlined flow for joining Experiences; it just works now
• •Ability to view itinerary stops in the app, before and during the event
• •Easy peasy refresh button for seeing other participants' latest location
• •Fixed an issue where the experience header bar and event code were not persisting
• •Fixed initial tracking bugs, reordered permissions flow and resolved sync issues
• •Standard tracking updated: Now with improved background tracking, airplane mode and more regular updates while on the move.
• •Efficiency tracking mode updated; location every 6-10 minutes, increased battery life
• •A few user interface updates

May 09, 2024

"Wayward for Business"

• •Complete overhaul of the web admin for organizers and brand owners
• •New 'Experiences' for everything from meet-ups to cross-continent rally's
• •Admins have the ability to edit their brands
• •Streamlined flow and easier to use
• •Backwards compatibility for Itineraries
• •Updated the Wayward logo across the platform

Apr 09, 2024

"The more the merrier"

V3.5 for Android and iOS:

• •Participants in group experiences (aka events) now have the option to see each others' last known location. Users can hide their location from others by making their trip 'private'.

Mar 01, 2024

"It never ends"

V3.4 for Android and iOS:

• •Improved syncing to support your offline'iest adventures and edge cases
• •Added more details on the debug log
• •Improved loading of the post gallery on the profile screen

Feb 22, 2024

"Debugger 1000"

V3.3 for Android and iOS:

• •A new debugging screen allows better insight into any possible issues with syncing

Feb 07, 2024

"Hemingway"

V3.2 for Android and iOS:

• •Updated the text box on posts so you can write long, adventurous stories without it being blocked by the keyboard.
• •Fixed a couple other quirky and annoying things

Feb 01, 2024

"Horizon"

V3.1 for Android and iOS: Fixed the share url and a bug that was causing wild horizontal lines on some users' trips.

Jan 19, 2024

"🍏 Moonbase 🌝"

Wayward 3.0 for iOS. Our biggest release to-date. 🚀 Wayward 3.0 introduces an entirely new, offline-first architecture and more. Adventurers can now:

• •Track trips while completely offline
• •Post and edit photos while offline
• •Photos with location metadata will now plot themselves on the route
• •Update tracking settings, privacy settings and more
• •View public trips happening around the world
• •We introduced a new profile page to view and edit your past trips
• •Join events after your trip has started, and more
• •Updated branding and a new UI

Dec 20, 2023

"🤖 Moonbase 🌝"

Wayward 3.0 for Android. Our biggest release to-date. 🚀 Wayward 3.0 introduces an entirely new, offline-first architecture and more. Adventurers can now:

• •Track trips while completely offline
• •Post and edit photos while offline
• •Photos with location metadata will now plot themselves on the route
• •Update tracking settings, privacy settings and more
• •View public trips happening around the world
• •We introduced a new profile page to view and edit your past trips
• •Join events after your trip has started, and more
• •Updated branding and a new UI

Aug 15, 2023

"From Melbourne with Love"

• •Mobile app 2.30: 75% reduction in active trip load times by removing unnecessary trip data
• •Mobile app 2.30: Fixed loading of Featured Trips and improved Trip locations sorting
• •Improve API headers

July 21, 2023

"Itinerary Builder v1"

• •Itinerary Builder! Create itineraries from the web app, embed them on your own site. This feature is currently for brand owners only.
• •Fixed a bug causing slow loading on the Participants page within events.

June 14, 2023

"Adventure diffusion"

• •Easy-embeddable solo trips content for adventurers and brands. You can now embed solo trips, individual trip cards, card gallery, and image gallery.
• •Added a gallery to our homepage

May 07, 2023

"Brand Pages"

• •Released v1 of the Brand Pages.

Apr 12, 2023

"Space dust"

• •Release of iOS/Android v2.29.1
• •Removed an annoying alert
• •Improved the screen loading while offline (your active trip will now load even if you're completely offline)
• •Featured trips now load again.

Apr 04, 2023

"Moon Unit BugZappa"

• •Release of iOS/Android v2.29
• •Better communication to the user during what has affectionately been called the "White screen of Death."
• •Network connection status improvements
• •Refinements to the loading icon on the Play-Pause Tracking button
• •Corrected a top screen alignment issue for iPhone 14 users

Mar 23, 2023

"Crispy"

• •An all new spectator map experience.
• •If you have an active trip and then want to join an event using a smart link, you can now

Mar 9, 2023

"Chop that top"

• •Made event maps even more faster-er 🚀 while correcting a route display issue
• •In-app share button now goes straight to the solo trip maps instead of redirecting to the event map
• •Bug fixes

Mar 1, 2023

"First brick of the moonbase"

Release of iOS/Android v2.28 including:

• •Tamed the hornets' nest of issues hiding behind the 'Share trip' button
• •You can now edit trip names, delete trips, change viewing status between public and private
• •Slick new UI for posting content
• •Updated tracking settings for your active trip; Pause, Resume, and Stop are now more intuitive.

Feb 13, 2023

"Mercury is not in retrograde"

• •Improved how routes are cached, resulting in more real time maps
• •Decreased spectator map load time by 74%

Jan 31, 2023

"Street food"

• •Android version 2.27.1 - Fixed a foreground tracking issue affecting some users, phone models, and/or versions
• •Android version 2.27.1 - Added support for Android 31

Jan 17, 2023

"200mg of cocoa caffeine"

• •Improved performance of spectator maps (reduced page load times by 92% and reduced route size by 98% with no loss of fidelity)
• •Improvements to viewing individual participant routes on events

Jan 16, 2023

"A happier API"

• •API Update: Added a "since" parameter allowing single trip API users to pull location records from a specific date
• •API Update: Added a "polyline" parameter allowing users to pull a full trip route as a polyline, making the entire request more efficient

Jan 5, 2023

"For the love of spectators"

• •New header on trip spectator maps, including route length estimates and post count
• •Added featured trips to bottom of trip spectator maps