Simplifying Business Travel: T&E Comes Closer Together

Few work tasks are as soul-crushing and time-consuming as the filing of expense reports. How many taxes and fees did your hotel room carry? How many receipt photos did you upload? It can waste employees’ time and introduce errors into payment and accounting systems.

Now, all the big players in managed travel are moving to make the task simpler by combining the travel and expense (T&E) functions into one platform. 

Among those doing it: Amex GBT, BCD Travel, Navan, SAP Concur, CWT, and Direct Travel.

The latest example comes from Expensify, a subscription-based software service to track business spending. 

The company introduced Expensify Travel last week, its first foray into the direct booking and management of flights, hotels, and car rentals on its own platform, powered by Spotnana. The