About BorderTrip Tools

BorderTrip Tools is a family of free, single-purpose tools for international travelers: entry requirements and border fees, passport rules, baggage and electronics limits, connectivity costs, and what airlines owe you when things go wrong. Each tool answers exactly one question, deterministically, from a versioned dataset with cited primary sources — no account, no paywall.

Who runs it

The site is built and maintained by José Manuel Volante González, an independent developer based in Spain, operating as a natural person (the full provider identification required by Spanish Act 34/2002 is in the legal notice). Contact: microtools.contact@gmail.com.

The family of tools

BorderTrip Tools is the hub of a set of specialist tools, each deployed on its own subdomain (for example schengen, etias, powerbank). They share one operator, one data-verification process, and one design system. The full directory lives on the home page; the verification process is documented in the methodology.

How it is built

The code is written by one person working with AI coding assistants; that is why there are dozens of single-purpose tools rather than three. The data is not produced that way — every fee, deadline and limit is read by a human out of the official source linked beside it and pinned into a versioned dataset with the date it was checked. The full account is in the methodology, and if a figure disagrees with its cited source, tell us and it gets fixed and re-dated.

How it is funded

Some pages contain affiliate links (Airalo, Holafly, Amazon Associates). Commissions on qualifying purchases fund the project; your price never changes, and placement reflects editorial judgment only. Details in the affiliate disclosure.

What this site is not

The tools provide indicative calculations based on official sources. They are not legal advice, and they do not replace the official portals they cite — every result links to the authoritative source so you can verify the figure yourself.