Guides
Step-by-step guides to every part of RepBud
65 walkthroughs — from setting up your profile to running a sales trip and proving the work. Read one here, or take it away as an illustrated PDF. Videos are being filmed and will appear beside the steps as they land.
Getting set up
Set up your RepBud profile
A complete profile is how partners and property owners find you on RepBud — here's how to set yours up in under two minutes.
Read the steps →Sign up and choose your role
Joining RepBud takes about a minute — pick the part of the trade you're in, enter a few details, and you're on your way to your guest stay.
Read the steps →Confirm your email
One click on the email RepBud sends you confirms your address and drops you straight into setting up your profile.
Read the steps →Finish your profile
Ray walks you through three quick steps — your basics, your role, and bringing your world in — and your RepBud profile is ready.
Read the steps →Import your contacts with ReRoot
Bring your contacts and companies into RepBud — drop your export, and Ray reads it, maps the columns and files everything for you to check.
Read the steps →Connect your CRM and tools
Already run a booking or reservation system? Connect it once and your properties, partners and bookings keep flowing into RepBud — here's how.
Read the steps →Connect with partners
Connections is your trade address book on RepBud — here's how to find partners, send a request and accept the ones coming in.
Read the steps →Daily flow
Your home dashboard
This is The Ridge — your home view in RepBud. Here's the quick tour: what each panel shows you, and where to tap when you want to act on it.
Read the steps →Review your inbox
Everything you forward to RepBud lands in The Lantern — here's how to check what it picked out, fix anything off, and file it as a log with action items in seconds.
Read the steps →Log a meeting
Just out of a meeting? Field Log lets you jot a few lines, tag who was there, and RepBud turns it into a tidy log with action items — here's how.
Read the steps →Calendar & meeting matching
Connect a calendar once, and your day lines up here — each meeting matched to the right contact, ready to prep and log.
Read the steps →Send meeting follow-ups
Turn this week's meetings into follow-up emails in a couple of clicks — RepBud drafts each one from what you logged, and you stay in control of every word.
Read the steps →Track your tasks
The Trail is where every follow-up lands in one place — sorted by what's overdue, what's due today, and what matters most. Here's how to work it in under a minute.
Read the steps →Clear your day
The Watering Hole turns your to-do list into four glasses — clear a category and its glass fills. Here's how to empty your day.
Read the steps →Meeting prep briefs
Before you walk into a meeting, RepBud pulls everything you know about that contact into one briefing — so you sound prepared, not scrambling.
Read the steps →Respond to reporter briefs
When a journalist you're connected with posts a commission, it lands here — this is how to see what they need and pitch what you can offer.
Read the steps →Save & reuse your message templates
Save the intros, follow-ups and proposals you send again and again — then drop a ready-to-send message onto your clipboard in two taps.
Read the steps →Your People
Invite your team
If you're on a Charter plan, here's how to bring your colleagues into RepBud — invite them, track seats, and manage pending invitations from one screen.
Read the steps →Your contacts
Your contacts page keeps every partner in one place and quietly flags who's gone quiet — here's how to work it in a minute.
Read the steps →A contact's timeline
Open a contact and you've got their whole history in one scroll — every meeting, task and note ready before you call.
Read the steps →Companies
Your Companies list is the directory of every operator, DMC and property you work with — here's how to read it at a glance and pull intelligent destination intel on a whole batch at once.
Read the steps →A company's profile & intelligence
Open any company and you get one screen for everything you know about them — your contacts, your history, and intelligent destination intel pulled from their own website.
Read the steps →My Clients
My Clients is your portfolio overview — at a glance you can see who has open tasks, who you've spoken to recently, and who's gone quiet.
Read the steps →A client's profile
A client's profile is where the whole relationship lives — every interaction, the open tasks, and the report you'll send the property owner, all in one place.
Read the steps →Send invitations
Got a stand, a dinner or a FAM coming up? Here's how to invite the RepBuddies you're connected with and track who's coming — in one place.
Read the steps →The Reserve
Rover referrals
Rover turns the partners you already recommend RepBud to into rewards — here's how to invite someone and track where they land.
Read the steps →Rapport matching
Rapport surfaces the properties seeking representation in your markets — signal interest, find the mutual matches, and the introduction is yours to make.
Read the steps →Booking stats
See how your room nights are trending year on year — and ask your operators for the numbers you're still missing, all from one screen.
Read the steps →The Lookout
Trip planner
The trip planner helps you map a FAM trip or site visit, split its budget across the clients it's for, and jump straight to booking — all in one place.
Read the steps →Client reports
Client reports turn the meetings and notes you've logged into a polished, narrative PDF for each client — one at a time, or for several at once.
Read the steps →Social posts
You logged a great meeting — here's how to turn it into a LinkedIn or Instagram post you can edit and share in under a minute.
Read the steps →Newsletters
Forward the supplier news you already get, pick the stories worth sharing, and send a polished weekly newsletter to your contacts — here's the whole loop.
Read the steps →Radar — who is moving in your market
Radar watches the operators in your market and tells you what changed since last time — so you walk in knowing.
Read the steps →On the road
Mileage — log a business trip
The drive to a lodge visit is a business cost. Mileage logs it against the company and the vehicle, and files it into your books.
Read the steps →Who's Nearby and Smoke Signals
Half the value of a week on the road is knowing who else is in town. Who's Nearby tells you, at city level, and only if you have both opted in.
Read the steps →The wider toolkit
Revenue — your accounting workspace
Your invoices, costs and year-end sit in the same login as your client work — here's how Revenue keeps the books while you sell.
Read the steps →Reach — email your trade list
Reach emails the trade list you already have, with the consent rules built in — here's how to send one properly.
Read the steps →Relay — send files too big to email
An image library or a rate sheet is too big for email — Relay turns it into one link that expires on its own.
Read the steps →Reconnect — video meetings and webinars
Meet a buyer over video without sending them to another platform — Reconnect runs the room from inside RepBud.
Read the steps →Free tools
The trade events calendar
The travel trade's show calendar in one place — dates, venues, who attends and what it will cost to go. Free, and no account.
Read the steps →Visa and entry requirements
"Do my clients need a visa?" — asked mid-quote, and this answers it with the official source attached. Guidance only: RepBud does not handle, apply for or guarantee any visa.
Read the steps →The email signature generator
A signature that looks like your company rather than a default — built in about two minutes, with no signup and no watermark.
Read the steps →The trade show prize wheel
A prize draw your whole stand can join from their own phones — and a winner log you can actually keep.
Read the steps →Role-specific
RepBuddy home & flow
This is your RepBuddy home — where the reps you work with request booking stats, invite you to events, and stay connected. Here's how to find your way around.
Read the steps →Upload booking stats
When a rep asks for your booking numbers, you upload them once — RepBud matches each row to their properties so you don't retype anything. Here's the flow.
Read the steps →Reporter home & briefs
Your reporter home is where you post what you're working on and let connected reps come to you — here's the whole flow in under a minute and a half.
Read the steps →RepBud Ready listing
Your RepBud Ready listing is how reps discover your property — here's how to fill it in and watch the completeness score climb as the right reps start to match.
Read the steps →Questions
Are the RepBud guides free?+
Yes. Every guide on this page is free to read and free to download as a PDF, with no sign-in required. They walk through the RepBud dashboard screen by screen.
Can I download the guides as PDFs?+
Yes. Each guide has a Download PDF link, and the whole library is available as one illustrated user manual from the top of this page. Both are free and need no account.
Do I need a RepBud account to follow along?+
You can watch the guides without an account. To try the steps yourself you’ll want a RepBud account — there’s a free trial when you join.
Do the guides cover the mobile app too?+
These guides cover the web dashboard for now. Mobile-app walkthroughs are planned and will appear here as they’re produced.