Click and Trip is a business travel booking platform that reduces the cost and complexity of corporate travel. It offers an easy-to-use, single-enterprise-grade management platform and world-class inventory.
Founded in 1999, the UK-based Click Travel has raised a relatively modest amount of venture capital over the years (per Crunchbase). The acquisition marks the third shopping spree for TravelPerk since the pandemic, with it also picking up risk management startup Albatross last summer and US business travel platform NexTravel this January.
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The platform aims to reduce the cost of travel for everyone involved. Click and Trip does this by combining the best inventory with the latest technology, giving travelers the freedom they want while empowering companies to control their travel program.
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The startup has attracted a significant amount of external investment over its shorter lifespan, and hasn’t been forced to cut staff as many of the larger competitors have had to do during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meir has indicated that the company intends to retain all of Click Travel’s staff. In the long-term, he also hopes to merge the platforms into one fully integrated product. For now, both will operate separately.
Travel Policy Management
Managing travel policies for employees can be time-consuming and laborious. But technology can make it a lot simpler and more effective, helping to ensure compliance with the company budget and overall travel policy.
A cloud-based travel management solution offers safe storage for sensitive employee data with sophisticated encryptions and restricted access to web servers. This safeguards against cyber attacks and other threats.
You can add multiple users as policy admins who can view all trips, reports, corporate cards and advances under the specific policies to which they are assigned. This feature can be enabled by navigating to Settings on the left sidebar, clicking the gear icon and selecting Roles & Permissions.
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Travel Reporting
Click and Trip offers a single, specialist platform for UK business travel bookings. It’s the only travel management system that gives travelers the freedom they want, whilst giving companies control over what’s booked and reported.
The company is also able to help organizations manage and track any extra trips that aren’t captured by the schedule. This might include a stop at a parts warehouse or the unplanned return to the office for a last minute meeting.
The Click Travel team of 150 will be gradually integrated into the wider TravelPerk organisation, per Meir, and Birmingham will become a new hub for the company, adding to its existing London headquarters. TravelPerk has been on a buying spree since the pandemic, snapping up risk management startup Albatross in July 2020 and US business travel platform NexTravel in January this year. The acquisitions have accelerated its growth in the US and UK markets respectively. It has yet to make any layoffs in the wake of its growth, according to Crunchbase.
Travel Compliance
We make sure employees comply with your corporate travel policy by offering them booking options that fall within the parameters of the plan. Our business intelligence command center logs near real-time data for all bookings, so you’ll be able to identify and correct any outliers immediately.
Our platform makes it easy to strike the right balance between employee freedom and company control – driving savings, meeting reimbursable travel goals and improving traveler security. With at-a-glance dashboards and detailed drill-downs, you can monitor savings and travel policy compliance, and adjust guidelines based on evolving trends.
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