expense reports
Concur Fusion: dematerialisation to the company's rescue
It's now a classic in Travel Management news: quantifying the time wasted and frustration of business travellers when it comes to processing their expense reports. But inevitably, when the study is signed by a player like Concur, the findings gain in legitimacy and therefore in interest. The survey was carried out by OpinionWay on behalf of...
Positive results for AirPlus in 2016
2016 was a positive year overall for AirPlus, both globally, with a +1.7% increase in transaction volume to €14 billion, and in France. In France, which is one of the main markets for the German specialist in payment solutions for travel spending, AirPlus recorded 9% growth in issues, almost...
Expense Pay Global: Concur automates reimbursements
Concur's new Expense-Pay Global tool is designed to reduce reimbursement times and ease the burden of Travel & Expense (T&E) on corporate finance departments. The new tool, which integrates with Concur's Travel & Expense solution, is designed to automate the reimbursement of employee expenses and...
Sodexo acquires iAlbatros and Xpenditure
Consolidation continues in the business travel market. Sodexo is to integrate the solutions developed by two business travel specialists: iAlbatros and Xpenditure. The former, which specialises in hotel reservation technologies, recently distinguished itself by developing a new reservation tool for Havas Voyages last year. The latter has...
Insurance and growth on the Business Table menu
The reasons for cancelling a business meal at the last minute are as numerous as they are varied. Strikes, bad weather, terrorist risks, accidents or hospitalisation of the main speaker: to help companies deal with these imponderables, Business Table is launching cancellation insurance, the cost of which is calculated according to the amount of the insured event. For example, it...
Egencia breaks new ground in Travel & Expense
"Expense Product Suite" is the name of the new offering unveiled by Egencia at the end of February. The business travel agency took advantage of the Business Travel Show in London to present these new tools to business travel professionals, designed to improve the management of expense reports....
Concur study: Airbnb in pole position for business travel
A study published on 17 January by Concur demonstrates the growing importance of the collaborative economy in business travel. The specialist in business travel and expense management based its study on some 50,000 expense reports submitted in France, the UK and Germany between July 2014 and...
Partnership between DIMO Software and Traveldoo
"Integrating an SBT enables us to offer an end-to-end solution for managing the entire business travel process, from booking through to optimised management of expense claims and fleet management," explains Gilles Bobichon, Director of Travel and Business Expenses at DIMO Software. By integrating...
Study: SME travel costs under the microscope
While large corporate travel agencies are moving towards Travel Management 3.0, small French companies are often still at the 'do-it-yourself' stage. At least, that's what a study published on 8 December by Ticket Travel Pro seems to indicate. Based on a survey of a hundred or so SMEs, the...
Expense claims: the burden of business travel
Behind the face value of a business trip often lie indirect costs, such as the countless hours spent each year by travellers filling in their expense claims. Countless? Not really... More and more studies are trying to put a figure on the time wasted, the unproductivity, and - therefore - the money wasted in this way on...
Self-booking tools: time for global solutions
The travel-existential question: should we take a rather directive approach to business travel or, on the contrary, opt for a more permissive 'open booking' approach, letting travellers wander among all the offers on the market? SBT publishers - the famous self-booking tools that have been developed in large companies to...
Expense claim fraud: Captio publishes a report...
It's hard to know how close the figures published by Captio are to reality. The fact remains that the European report published by the T&E management platform puts forward figures that are significant enough to attract the attention of European companies, and this was surely one of the aims of this study entitled "The cost of...
Evernote-Expensify integration for simplified expense reports
Expensify, the application designed for budgeting and keeping track of expenses, allows users to create expense reports using receipts and invoices stored in Evernote. Users go to the Expensify integration page, click on "Connect my accounts", register with Evernote and authorise synchronisation....
Process : Expenses and recoverable VAT abroad
The management of expense claims for business travel is becoming increasingly automated. Less and less paper, dedicated IT tools and simplified processing save time and generate substantial savings, which are further enhanced by the VAT refunded by certain countries. The change is taking place smoothly in companies' management control departments...
