TRAVEL EXPENSE MANAGEMENT: SIMPLER PAYMENT & EXPENSE
Make business travel more efficient and productive with easy payment options and integrated expense reporting.
PICK THE BEST TRAVEL & EXPENSE OPTIONS -- FOR YOU
With AmTrav expense management, you get flexibility to select the best payment and expense reporting options for your company and your travelers, integrated seamlessly into AmTrav's one connected travel expense management platform.
Easy, Centralized Payment
- Securely store company cards in the AmTrav platform for bookers
- Reconcile cards and expenses with accurate expense reporting
- Select the best payment or billing method for your company business expenses
Many Ways to Pay
- Multiple virtual card and modern payment solutions supported
- Access prepaid hotel rates so travelers don't need cards
- Car rental direct billing is quick and easy
Integrated Travel & Expense
- Pick the best expense management platform, we'll work with them
- Travel expenses automatically sent to your expense wallet
- Faster, easier expense reporting with fewer errors, everyone wins
HOW IT WORKS
EXPENSE MANAGEMENT: HOW TRAVEL AND EXPENSE WORK -- TOGETHER
HOW DOES AMTRAV TRAVEL & EXPENSE MANAGEMENT COMPARE?
AmTrav
Tight expense integration means easy travel & expense
Setup?
Easy. Store your company card in AmTrav's expense management platform for air and prepaid hotel charges, consult with an AmTrav Relationship Manager to find the best way to pay for hotel and car rentals (we'll configure it for you), and AmTrav will automatically connect to your expense reporting partner.
Happy travelers?
Yes! Travelers get easy, automatic access to company payments, don't have to keep track of a company card or use their own card, and get their expense reports automatically populated with business travel expenses paid through AmTrav.
Happy administrators?
Yes! After picking the best solutions for the company's and travelers' needs, administrators can let bookers and travelers book on their own with centralized payment methods, and get accurate, automatic expense reporting data that they can double-check against AmTrav's travel expense reporting data.
Other TMCs
Things work, usually
Setup?
Somewhat easy. You'll need to set up your company cards with both your TMC and your online booking tool, work with your TMC to find virtual payment options and get those configured, then get any expense connections set up (if the TMC and OBT support them).
Happy travelers?
Sometimes. Your company cards should be stored and virtual payment options should be available through both the TMC and the OBT, though the TMC may not be able to help with payment or virtual payment issues. Hopefully travel expenses automatically populate in the expense management software, if the TMC supports that.
Happy administrators?
Sometimes. Admins will be happy having bookers access centralized payment, though they may not have access to prepaid hotel rates and issues with virtual payments between the OBT and TMC can be tough to solve. Likewise travel and expense may not be thoroughly integrated, leading to incorrect expenses that admins can't reconcile with credit card statements.
AmTrav
Central business travel control & integrations
Setup?
Easy. Store your company card in AmTrav's expense management platform for air and prepaid hotel charges, consult with an AmTrav Relationship Manager to find the best way to pay for hotel and car rentals (we'll configure it for you), and AmTrav will automatically connect to your expense reporting partner.
Happy travelers?
Yes! Travelers get easy, automatic access to company payment options, don't have to keep track of a company card or use their own card, and get their expense reports automatically populated with travel expenses paid through AmTrav.
Happy administrators?
Yes! After picking the best solutions for the company and travelers' needs, administrators can let bookers and travelers book on their own with central travel & expense payment methods, and get accurate, automatic expense reporting data that they can double-check against AmTrav's travel expense reporting data.
DIY travel
No centralized expense management control or integrations
Setup?
Somewhat easy. Administrators need to decide how to handle travel & expense payment -- book for travelers centrally, hand out company cards, or ask travelers to book for themselves -- but those are all fraught solutions. Then the finance team counts on travelers to use the company's travel & expense management solution correctly on their own.
Happy business travelers?
Not really. For travel & expense payment, travelers either have to manage a company card, have someone else book for them, or use their own card -- all DIY expense management solutions have issues. Then travelers are on their own to keep track of receipts and update their expense reports manually, which is a pain.
Happy administrators?
No! Administrators resort to painful travel & expense management solutions like playing travel agent for travelers or handing out company card numbers to enable travelers to book for themselves, then have to rely on traveler-entered expense reports for all travel and expense data, with no backup spend data for auditing expenses.
SEE OUR SOLUTION IN ACTION
Take an inside peek at how, exactly, AmTrav’s intuitive platform saves time, optimizes data, promotes employee satisfaction, and so much more. You’re sure to become a believer.
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“I called AmTrav, I was afraid Concur Expense would mess up the optional billing codes that we use to bill each division or department, but my AmTrav Relationship Manager Laura said ‘it's not a problem’ and boom, we were done -- it was awesome.”
Beverly Turner
Fischer Homes
FAQ, WE'RE HERE FOR YOU
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Tell me more about hotel payment options?
In addition to travelers presenting a card (either their own or a company card) at hotel checkin, AmTrav offers three hotel payment options. CSI (Corporate Spending Innovations) and Conferma both send onetime use virtual cards to hotels in advance of your traveler’s arrival to pay for the hotel stay. CSI and Conferma have slightly different features and work with different banking and credit card arrangements -- contact us if you’d like to discuss further. Then there’s Emburse Card, which is a company card with tight controls that you can issue to your travelers to cover hotel expenses and more.
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Wait, tell me more about Emburse Card?The key features of Emburse Card are the tight controls given to card administrators over card spend, along with the ease of issuing cards. Emburse Card administrators can set exact limits on travelers’ cards by merchant type, allowing card holding business travelers to pay for only what the administrators want them to -- whether that’s air, hotel, car rentals, gas, meals, whatever travel-related expenses -- and nothing else. Cards can be issued to travelers in mere days, and losing a card is no big deal since the administrator can instantly zero out the card limit. Oh, and of course payment and expense reconciliation is easy because the Emburse Card tracks right back to Emburse expense tools. We’re big fans of Emburse Card, highly recommend it to customers with frequent business travel.
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What are AmTrav’s prepaid hotel rates?
In addition to virtual payment options, AmTrav offers prepaid hotel rates that are paid at the time of booking, on a central card provided at booking. With these rates, your travelers can show up at their hotel, their room rate and taxes are already paid so they’re good to go. Learn more about these rates here.
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What expense management partners does AmTrav work with?
AmTrav works with a lot of expense management partners. Our biggest partners are Emburse brands: Certify, Chrome River, Abacus, Nexonia and Tallie. We have a tight integration with these Emburse brands, we can sync users between the expense tool and AmTrav and we automatically populate receipts in Emburse expense wallets. Then, of course, there’s Concur Expense, plus others like Expensify and SutiExpense.
