What Travel Rich Fare Watch does, what counts as a completed task, what it costs, and the weekly cap that cannot be exceeded.
Last updated 2026-09-25
$1.50 per completed Fare Watch task. Never more than $25.00 in one week. Travel Rich Fare Watch scans up to 14 times a week. A scan that finds nothing useful is not billed, and it sends no email. You can pause or switch it off at any time from your dashboard.
Travel Rich Fare Watch is an optional Automated Task: a scheduled service that watches fares for you. You tell it where you fly from, where you would like to go, when, for how many nights, and the most you want to pay. Twice a day it checks the fares and emails you only when there is something worth booking.
It is not a newsletter and not a deal list sent to everyone. Each scan reads your own settings, looks up fares for your own routes, compares them with your maximum and with what this watch has already seen, and reports only what passes those tests. That is work, done for you, and it is the reason it is billed per completed task rather than bundled into a flat fee.
It is not one of the Travel Rich Weekly gifts, and it is not Rich Concierge. It is its own service, with its own price and its own cap, and you switch it on yourself.
Every day, at the time you choose (anywhere from 05:00 to 10:00 your time, in 15-minute steps, 07:00 unless you change it). It checks your watched routes: each home airport against each destination you chose, within your dates and trip length. For each route it finds the lowest fare in your criteria, and compares it with your maximum price, with the lowest this watch has ever seen, and with the watch's own middle price over the last two weeks.
If your watch has only regions or anywhere, and no named city or country, there are no fixed routes to check. Its Route Scan then re-checks the best routes (up to five) that your last Open-Map Scan found. If there is no such map yet, for example on your first morning, or because the last map found nothing under your maximum, that morning's scan runs the Open-Map Scan itself, with exactly the same rules and the same price, and only if it finds something useful is it billed. The open map never runs twice on the same day.
Every day at 19:00 your time, while the Open-Map Scan is switched on. From your home airport, it looks at every destination in the regions you chose (or anywhere, if you chose anywhere) inside your dates, and ranks them by fare, under your maximum. If you set hotel stars, it adds the dated Travel Bank hotel averages for the top matches, clearly labelled as averages. Live hotel prices are added only if a hotel price partner is connected, and until then no hotel-specific price is ever shown.
A scan is a completed, billable task only when it finishes and finds something useful. Useful means at least one fare that is inside your criteria (your airports, dates, trip length, travellers and, if you chose it, direct flights only) and at least one of these is true:
A fare you were already sent is not news. If the same route on the same dates was already sent to you in the last 72 hours, at the same price or lower, it does not count as useful again: it is not billed and not emailed a second time. If it has dropped since, it counts.
A scan with nothing useful is not billed. It is recorded in your dashboard as a completed check, the reservation it made is released, nothing is charged, and no email is sent. We never send a "nothing found" email.
These are never billed either:
$1.50 per completed Fare Watch task. That is the whole price. There is no setup fee and no monthly fee.
| A week where | Billed tasks | Charge |
|---|---|---|
| Nothing useful turned up | 0 | $0.00 |
| A typical week, as we expect it (10 to 14 useful scans) | 10 to 14 | $15.00 to $21.00 |
| Every one of the 14 scheduled scans found something | 14 | $21.00 |
| The hard cap, whatever happens | 16 | $24.00 |
How many scans find something depends on your settings. A generous maximum price and "anywhere" find something more often than one exact route with a tight maximum. You can see every scan, billed or not, in your dashboard.
Travel Rich Fare Watch cannot bill you more than $25.00 in any weekly billing period, whatever happens. At $1.50 a task, that is at most 16 billed tasks ($24.00) in one week. Once the cap would be passed, no further billable scans run until the next period begins. There is no override, no exception and no setting that raises it.
Before a scan does any work, it reserves its price against that week's allowance on our servers, in a single step that cannot be interrupted. If the reservation would take the week past $25.00, it is refused. If the scan then finds nothing useful, the reservation is released. That ordering is what makes the cap reliable, even when scans, retries and delays happen at the same moment.
Billing weeks run Monday to Sunday, UTC. Travel Rich Weekly and Rich Concierge charges do not count toward this $25.00, and this cap does not limit them. They are separate lines with separate rules. Travel Rich Weekly also happens to be $25.00 a week, but that is a membership price, not part of this cap.
Setup is short on purpose. These are the settings a watch cannot run without:
These are optional, and an empty one is never treated as a signal:
Your settings are stored against your account and can be changed at any time from your dashboard.
Fares come from the Travelpayouts Aviasales Data API. These are cached fares from real searches that other travellers ran, up to about seven days old, not live quotes from the airline. Every fare in your dashboard and in your emails is shown with the time it was seen. The cheapest seats sell out, and a fare may have changed or gone by the time you open it. The price on the booking page is the one that applies.
Only the route question (the airports, the dates, the trip length) is sent to the fare service. Your name, your email and your other settings are never sent to it.
Links in your results are partner links: if you book through one, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That never changes what the watch finds or what it tells you. See our affiliate disclosure.
Each option in a result carries one short line on why it stands out: under your maximum, the lowest this watch has seen, or well under its two-week middle price, and whether the destination is in its cheap season. The facts decide; an AI model only phrases them. The line is checked before it is used: it may not contain any number that was not in the facts it was given, and if it fails that check, a plain sentence written by our system is used instead. Writing that line is part of the task and is never billed to you as AI usage.
Every scan is recorded with its scheduled time, its actual start and finish, its status, its type, whether it found something useful, the price applied, its billing state, any retries, and whether the email was sent. That record is what your dashboard shows and what any billing question is answered from.
Completed tasks add up through the week and are settled once, after the week ends, as a single charge described as "Travel Rich Fare Watch" with the week and the number of tasks included. Settlement cannot charge the same week twice.
Your dashboard shows, at all times: the current status, what it watches, the next scan, how many tasks have completed this week, what they have cost, and how much of the $25.00 remains. Recent activity reads plainly, for example: "07:00 Checked 5 routes, best Lisbon, seen at 06:58" or "19:00 Open map from your airport, 7 places under your max".
Each completed task sends one short email: a greeting, the best 3 options or fewer (route, dates, nights, stops, airline, price and the time it was seen), the line on why each stands out, a button to see it on the booking site, and a link to open Travel Rich Fare Watch in your dashboard. Every email ends with a reminder that fares change quickly and were seen at the time shown, so you confirm the price on the booking page. Your dashboard shows up to 10 options per scan.
We do not send an email when you switch Travel Rich Fare Watch on, pause it, switch it off or change your settings. We do not send announcements, tips or offers through it, and we never email you about money. If an email arrives from Travel Rich Fare Watch, it has a real find in it.
Unsubscribing from our emails also pauses Travel Rich Fare Watch, because the email is how it reaches you. You can switch it back on from your dashboard.
Travel Rich Fare Watch needs a payment method that can be charged again: a card, or a PayPal account authorised for future payments. If you paid with Apple Pay or Google Pay only, it is not available, because both wallets provide a single-use device number. On those accounts it is not offered, not shown, not scheduled, and refused by our server. Nothing you bought is affected, and you can add a card deliberately from Billing at any time.
Pause stops scans immediately and keeps your settings. Switch off stops scans entirely. Nothing switches it back on automatically, ever.
If a weekly settlement fails, the outstanding amount is shown in your dashboard and further billable scans are held until it clears. Everything you have bought stays available regardless.
Your airports, destinations, dates, trip length, maximum price, travellers and the watch's own fare history stay in your account. They are used only to run your watch. They are never sent to advertising platforms, and they are never sold. See our privacy notice.
Travel Rich Fare Watch depends on a third-party fare service, and a scan can be late or missed when it is down. A missed scan is not billed. Travel Rich Fare Watch gives general travel information. It does not book anything for you, it does not hold a fare, and it cannot guarantee that a fare is still available. Entry, visa and safety rules depend on your passport: always check the official source before you book.
Anything about a charge, a result that did not arrive, or a result that looks wrong: support@travelliketherich.com.