Serko Lets Business Travellers Ask For Permission Rather Than Beg For Forgiveness
Integration between Serko Incharge and Serko Online enables pre-trip approval of trip expenses and helps cut the cost of
business travel
23rd April, 2014. Serko, the Australasian leader in online travel booking and expense management, today announced the
launch of new functionality that allows users of Serko Online and Serko Incharge to pre-approve trip expenses before
users leave on business trips.
Today, most business expenses are approved after the expense has been incurred, which makes cost control extremely
challenging for organisations as they often don’t know what their expense amount is until it’s too late. By using Serko
Online and Serko Incharge in tandem, organisations can now pre-approve air, hire car and hotel spend before any money
gets spent. With travel expenses pre-approved organisations can tightly control spend on travel and expenses, and can
move to a more efficient mode of managing expenses by exception.
In addition to pre-trip approval, the integrated Serko Online, Serko Incharge solution allows organisations to simplify
the approvals workflow and align travel approval with the expense approvals workflow. With a single workflow for all
trip expenses, approvals happen faster, which is good for travellers and managers.
Darrin Grafton, Serko Chief Executive Officer said “This is important for Serko as it’s the first major integration
between Serko Online and Serko Incharge, the online expense management solution we acquired at the beginning of the
year. The integration clearly demonstrates the benefit and value of working with a single integrated solution provider
for travel booking and expense management and is the first of many integrated features that we plan to roll out over the
next 12 months.”
The integrated function is available to all Serko Online and Serko Incharge customers immediately. Watch a short video here to learn more about the new functionality.
About Serko
Serko is Australasia’s leading online travel booking company for businesses and government agencies. With its HQ in
Auckland New Zealand, and with offices in Sydney Australia, Xi’an City China and Gurgaon, India, Serko employs more than
90 people.
Serko Online is an online booking engine used by administrators and travellers to book flights, accommodation and car
hire from the broadest possible set of travel providers. The engine guarantees that travel bookings comply with
corporate travel management policy without limiting the users’ choice of travel provider.
Serko is part of the Mundi Global Alliance that provides corporations with the ability to book air travel, car hire and hotels anywhere in the world. Working with
the best-in-class local providers in the USA and Europe Mundi is the only true ‘glocal’ travel provider for
multi-national organisations.
Visit www.serko.com for more information
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