Employee side quest benefit platform

The benefit that
makes people stay.

Sabba gives employers a structured way to fund their people's side quests — travel, volunteering, courses, work abroad and more — booked through a curated marketplace and paid via payroll.

50%
UK companies now offer side quest leave
42%
Employees actively want it
Live
Full platform deployed today
N S E W ✈ Side quest benefit 💳 Paid via payroll
Allowance
£1,000
Used: £2,00067%
New booking
Inca Trail, Peru
Intrepid Travel · £2,850
HR approved
Sabba Points
2,450 pts
= £24.50 discount
Community
3 colleagues also going ✈️
How it works

One platform.
Three parties. Zero admin.

Sabba connects employers, employees and vendors in a single integrated marketplace — from policy to booking to payroll.

Sabba THE PLATFORM 🏢 EMPLOYER SUBSCRIBES 🧭 EMPLOYEE BOOKS & PAYS 🗺️ VENDOR LISTS PAID
01
Employers

Subscribe & manage

Set annual side quest allowances, review and approve bookings in your HR portal, and manage vendor verification — all in one place.

  • Live dashboard with real-time booking metrics
  • One-click booking approval or rejection
  • CSV bulk employee import (500 per upload)
  • Analytics, messaging and custom email templates
sabba.app/hr
Dashboard
142
Employees
8
Pending
24
Approved
Booking requests
James B.
Inca Trail, Peru · 14 days
£2,850
⏳ Pending approval
Sarah L.
Sailing Croatia · 7 days
£1,650
✓ Approved
02
Employees

Discover & book

Browse a curated marketplace, pick a payroll spread (3, 6 or 12 months), and book side quests within your employer-funded allowance.

  • Side quest quiz for personalised recommendations
  • Interactive 3/6/12-month cost breakdowns
  • Sabba Points rewards and redemption
  • Community feed with travel matching
sabba.app/marketplace
Marketplace
Travel All
2,450 pts
= £24.50 to redeem
🏔️
Inca Trail, Peru
Intrepid · 14 days
£2,850
£238/mo
🌊
Marine Conservation
Blue Ventures · 21d
£1,800
£150/mo
Choose payroll spread
3 mo
£950
6 mo
£475
12 mo
£238
03
Vendors

List & fulfil

Reach thousands of employer-funded buyers. Manage bookings, send trip details and track earnings through a dedicated vendor portal.

  • Package management with drag-and-drop images
  • Booking pipeline with HR approval integration
  • Earnings dashboard with commission tracking
  • 8–12% commission — paid by Sabba, not consumers
sabba.app/vendor
Earnings — June 2026
JanFebMarAprMayJun
Gross revenue
£18,450
Commission (10%)
−£1,845
Net payout
£16,605
New bookings
Inca Trail confirmed
James B. · £2,850
2m ago
📦
New booking request
Sarah L. · Sailing Croatia
1h ago
The platform

Built end-to-end.
Live today.

A fully deployed, production-grade platform — not a prototype. Every feature below is live at sabba.app.

sabba.app/home
Good morning, James 👋
JB
Adventure allowance
£1,000 remaining
2,450
Sabba pts
Lv 3
Adventurer
1
Booking
Your next side quest
🏔️
Inca Trail, Peru
Intrepid Travel · 15 Mar 2027
Pending
🏘️

Community social feed

Employees post about upcoming side quests, like and comment on each other's content. A travel matching algorithm connects employees booking the same package within ±30 days.

🏆

Gamification — Explorer to Legend

Five-level progression system with daily points caps. Earn Sabba Points for bookings, posts, comments and likes — redeemable against future bookings (100pts = £1).

📋

My Bookings — tabbed layout

Upcoming, Pending, Past and All tabs with counts. Full booking history, payroll progress bars, HR approval status and one-tap access to booking details.

💳

Payroll-integrated checkout

Employees choose their payroll spread before adding to cart. Sabba Points redemption panel sits above the fold. Stripe card checkout also supported.

📧

Transactional emails via SendGrid

Booking submitted notifications to employee and HR admin. Booking approval emails to employee. In-app notification system throughout.

🔒

Security & compliance

Rate limiting, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy. GDPR-compliant privacy policy live at /privacy. Multi-tenant architecture with full data isolation per employer.

Platinum sponsored listings

Four premium sidebar ad slots in the Community page. Separate from marketplace featured slots. A distinct vendor revenue stream managed by Super Admin.

Performance & UX

RouteProgress bar on every navigation. Skeleton loading screens on Home, Marketplace, Bookings and Allowance. Fully mobile-responsive across all three portals.

React 18
Node.js / Express
PostgreSQL via Supabase
Stripe
SendGrid
Vercel
JWT Auth
Multi-tenant RBAC
Package categories

Six categories.
One marketplace.

Employers choose which categories to enable. Employees filter and discover side quests that match their interests, duration and budget.

✈️

Travel & Adventure

Trekking, expeditions, safaris, cycling tours, cultural journeys — worldwide destinations across all experience levels.

🌱

Volunteering

Marine conservation, community projects, humanitarian work and skills-based placements with structured outcomes.

📚

Courses & Skills

Language immersion, photography, SCUBA certification, cookery schools and leadership programmes abroad.

💻

Work Abroad

Co-working retreats, digital nomad programmes and workcations — for employers who support remote working.

🏡

Accommodation

Sabbatical-length stays, coliving spaces and serviced apartments — standalone or combined with other categories.

🛫

Airlines & Transfers

Long-haul flights, holiday packages, rail passes and airport transfers — add-on or standalone bookings.

Traction

Built solo. Deployed. Live.

The entire Sabba platform was built end-to-end by the founder — from zero to a fully functioning three-sided marketplace.

4
Full portals built
Employee · HR Admin · Vendor · Super Admin
6
Package categories
Travel · Volunteering · Courses · Work Abroad · Accommodation · Airlines
Employer capacity
Multi-tenant architecture — unlimited clients, full data isolation
Live
Platform status
sabba.app — fully deployed and functional today
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Contact us

Let's talk.

Whether you're an employer looking to offer side quest benefits, or a vendor wanting to list packages on the marketplace — we'd love to hear from you.

hello@sabbaplatform.com

We typically respond within one business day.