expense reports

The first estimates of the impact of the coronavirus on business travel are starting to come in. And to no great surprise, the spread of Covid-19 has frozen business travel worldwide. On Tuesday, the Union of French Airports (UAF) estimated the fall in traffic at 20%. This figure is in line with the estimates published on Wednesday by Expensya. On the...

For several years now, Traveldoo has been using the Business Travel Show as a kind of external keynote, taking advantage of the London show to make official the launch of new solutions dedicated to business travellers and travel managers. Last year, Stéphane Donders and his teams presented a major overhaul of the solution, including the integration of a new...

Combining simplicity and innovation to make expense claim processing intuitive, secure and efficient: this has been Expensya's challenge since the launch of its expense solution in May 2015. Four years after its arrival on a market undergoing radical change, the new offering has, in fact, found its...

It's the hidden face of business travel, and probably one of its least glamorous stages: tedious expense claims. Although the business travel landscape has largely entered the digital age, "87% of companies in Europe are not equipped with a business travel booking or expense management solution".

While all the players in the business travel industry have been promising the advent of mobility management for several years now, Notilus has already made it an everyday reality. For several years now, the range of solutions provided by DIMO Software has included vehicle fleet management. This tool, called Notilus YourWay, guarantees global visibility of your fleet's...

Their names are Mooncard, Qonto, Spendesk and many others. Their aim is to replicate the success of consumer 'neobanks' such as N26, Nickel and Revolut in the business world, and to do so they are leveraging digital technology to offer businesses, mainly SMEs, services that are in step with the times: ultra-simple management of...

The 'red tape' in the business world is no longer acceptable In the face of the emergence of neo-banks, is the position of the traditional players in travel payments still as solid as ever? Angelo Caci - The big European and American banks have a great future ahead of them in terms of major accounts, thanks to their global reach, an argument that also plays a role in the...

Excel files are still the norm in many SMEs Combining payment cards and expense management is a key component of your offering. Why link the two? Tristan Leteurtre - In many small and medium-sized businesses, the Excel file is still the norm for expense reports. So we...

2,456 euros. This is the average amount spent on expense claims by a French employee in 2018, according to Expensya, compared with €2,322 in 2017. For the second edition of its annual barometer, the software publisher specialising in expense account management has analysed more than €60 million of expenditure and drawn up a list of the most...

Globalisation, consolidation, optimisation... It's been a long time, at least ten years, since the business world began to manage business travel on a global scale. "Of the 1,000 biggest companies in the world, fewer and fewer have fragmented programmes. Of course, you still have multinationals where each country does its own...

What are the features of the new interface unveiled at the Business Travel Show in London? Stéphane Donders - We have taken into account the requests of our customers, expressed in particular during the user groups that we organise regularly in France and the UK. So we worked on the "Look & feel"...

The opening of the Business Travel Show in London on 20 February kicks off a series of announcements in the business travel sector. Traveldoo opened the show with the unveiling of a new interface on Wednesday, riding the 'traveller centric' wave. While many players in the market are now claiming that they are refocusing their attention on the...

Will business travellers one day miss the envelope carefully prepared by their assistant containing the step-by-step roadmap of their trip, including plane tickets and hotel reservations? In any case, this famous envelope will soon no longer exist. Because the assistant in question will be virtual. Intelligent agents, chatbots, robotic concierges... Artificial intelligence,...

Fraudulent expense claims are costing US companies up to $1.9 billion a year, according to a study published by Chrome River. The business travel spend specialist surveyed 1,200 business travellers in the US, Australia and the UK. According to the report, employees under the age of 44...

With the simultaneous acquisition of iAlbatros and Xpenditure in March 2017, Sodexo's offensive into the business travel market was only a matter of time. Since 5 June, it's official: a new player has made a remarkable entry into the business travel ecosystem, despite being used to 'disruptive' announcements. Rydoo - as it is called - intends to embody...

How would you sum up the past year? Stéphane Donders - We've had another good year, with double-digit growth in line with our targets of +20%. I'm not obsessed with growth for growth's sake, but it is an element that...

Travel Management news is decidedly hectic. A few days after American Express GBT announced the takeover of its competitor HRG, suppliers are getting busy in the field of expense management. Notilus, which has promised a "productive" 2018, is off to a promising start. The Travel & Expense solution is...

The study published at the beginning of December by Expensya provides a better understanding of the travel habits of French professionals. "What do people spend on expenses?" was the question addressed by the survey of over 1,000 corporate clients. Unsurprisingly, catering features prominently...

How has Expensya evolved since its creation? Karim Jouini - Expensya was created three years ago, and the solution has been available since May 2015. Since then, we've seen strong growth, doubling the number of users every four months. Today, we have 3,000 corporate customers of all sizes. Naturally, the...

Receipts that travellers accumulate in their wallets or in an envelope, at the risk of losing them; sums that are entered by hand or, at best, in an Excel file; invoices that have to be sent to the management controller... Expense claims are often a tedious and time-consuming process....