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
✨

AI-powered recommendations

Every package is embedded as a semantic vector with OpenAI. Each employee's quiz answers and booking history build a preference vector, and the marketplace ranks packages by cosine similarity — so the right side quest surfaces first.

🏘️

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
pgvector
OpenAI embeddings
Stripe
SendGrid
Vercel
JWT Auth
Multi-tenant RBAC
AI personalisation

The right side quest,
surfaced first.

Sabba learns what each employee actually wants — then ranks the entire marketplace around them. No two people see the same order.

Signals
Quiz + bookings
🏔️ Adventure £2–3k 2 weeks Solo
Embed
OpenAI vectors
cosine similarity
Rank
Ranked for you
✨ Best 0.92
Pkg B 0.81
Pkg C 0.74
1
Every package, embedded

Semantic vectors

Each package's title, category, destination, duration and description is turned into a semantic vector with OpenAI's text-embedding-3-small model, stored in Postgres with pgvector. New packages embed automatically the moment they're approved.

2
A vector per employee

Live preference profile

Sabba builds a preference vector from each employee's Side Quest quiz answers and past bookings — capturing the interests, budget and trip length they actually gravitate toward, not a static profile.

3
Ranked by relevance

Recommended for you

The marketplace and home page rank every live package by cosine similarity to that employee, flagging the strongest matches with a Recommended for you label. No quiz yet? It falls back gracefully to the standard view.

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.