For most business travelers, when travel is completed, the real work is just beginning. Tedious processes requiring manual data entry of expense information and paper receipts waste time and money and keeps otherwise productive employees mired in administrivia. But for employees who use Concur Travel & Expense, once travel is completed, so is virtually all of the expense reporting process.
Because Concur Travel & Expense captures all of the employee’s itinerary data during travel booking and continues to work behind the scenes throughout the employee’s business trip – gathering spend data from the corporate card along with capturing e-receipts directly from travel providers – everything that’s needed to prepare and submit the expense report is waiting for the employee when the trip is completed.
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Instead of having to face the daunting task of gathering receipts, entering data and remembering miscellaneous cash transactions upon completion of the trip, the business traveler using Concur Travel & Expense now merely reviews the already created expense report and submits those expenses for final approval. In fact, when travel is booked within policy and paid for with the corporate credit card, Concur Travel & Expense can automatically reconcile that data with e-receipts delivered directly into the system by participating travel providers. When all three of these trusted sources of data match, the result is a Smart Expense that requires no additional audit or approval. When paper receipts are still required, Concur’s automated receipt imaging service easily allows travelers to submit paper receipts electronically and eliminate paper at the outset of the process.
This is where the unique power of Concur Travel & Expense benefits both the organization and the individual employee. Because all of the travel and expense data is automatically captured by the service – before, during and after travel – the employee is highly motivated to use both the online booking tool and the corporate credit card in order to enjoy all the benefits of One Touch Business Travel. In addition, the organization benefits from significantly higher booking tool and corporate card adoption rates, as well as much more accurate and trusted travel expense data.