Navan vs. Zoho Expense

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Navan
Score 6.7 out of 10
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Navan (formerly TripActions) headquartered in Palo Alto offers their corporate travel management application of the same name, supporting messaging, travel rewards management, travel booking, and company policy compliance.N/A
Zoho Expense
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Expense is online expense reporting software, tailor-made for businesses worldwide to automate expense report creation, streamline approvals and make swift reimbursements.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
NavanZoho Expense
Travel Management
Comparison of Travel Management features of Product A and Product B
Navan
1.2
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Zoho Expense
-
Ratings
Customizable Approval Workflows2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Readily Available Support1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Travel Spend Reports1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Consolidated Invoicing1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Easy Travel Booking2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Travel Application1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Centralized Itinerary Management1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaborative Booking1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Loyalty Programs1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Reuses Traveler Information1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
User-friendly Interface1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Expensing Tool1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Travel Alerts1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Expense Management
Comparison of Expense Management features of Product A and Product B
Navan
-
Ratings
Zoho Expense
6.3
2 Ratings
24% below category average
Employee Expense Reporting00 Ratings8.52 Ratings
Corporate Card Reconciliation00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
Payment Management
Comparison of Payment Management features of Product A and Product B
Navan
-
Ratings
Zoho Expense
7.7
2 Ratings
4% below category average
Customizable Approval Policies00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Financial Document Management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Payment Status Tracking00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
Payment Audit Trail00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Duplicate Bill Detection00 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Advanced OCR00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Electronic Funds Transfer00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
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User Ratings
NavanZoho Expense
Likelihood to Recommend
1.0
(36 ratings)
7.6
(6 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
9.4
(15 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
NavanZoho Expense
Likelihood to Recommend
Navan
A specific scenario where TripActions was well suited was when I needed to book a hotel stay in Cologne, Germany for multiple colleagues. The fact that they were registered users made coordinating their stays a seamless process. I have not had an occasion where TripActions was inappropriate to use.
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Zoho
Zoho Expense is wonderful when you have a distributed or remote team or workforce that needs to submit expenses reports throughout the month into a single software and approval system. Zoho Expense does make it easy to train, onboard, and use all of the end-user features for submitting and generating expense reports.
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Pros
Navan
  • Provides a wide range of travel options within a wide budget.
  • It is reliable - if a trip gets canceled, they are quick to contact their customer and help sort out additional booking details to get you to your final destination.
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Zoho
  • The program will notify users if they have entered a duplicate charge.
  • Once the end-users understood that receipts were mandatory, attaching those receipts has become second-nature. The app makes it very easy to do so.
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Cons
Navan
  • Limited partnerships with all the major airlines, or if so, slowly just adding more airlines to their platform
  • Not a lot of information about the ratings of the hotels. I have stayed in hotels that I probably wouldn't have if their information was more up to date
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Zoho
  • Could have more default options. Instead of making my users select payment method, allow us to default it to one of the options.
  • More room for customization by department. My service department needs different categories of expenses then my sales department.
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Likelihood to Renew
Navan
This decision overall isn’t made by me. The company evaluates the product. While I am an influencer the overall review is my personal opinion and mine only. The company books flights or would like for us to book flights through trip actions everything else is suggested but done with a personal cc which makes it optional. My option will be to not use TripActions for anything personally.
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Zoho
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Usability
Navan
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Zoho
Probably the easiest Zoho Application to setup, which is to say quite easy. No user has complained about it being difficult. Admin staff like it as well.
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Support Rating
Navan
- Easy bookings and quick expensing - Excellent chat support - Savings for the company since employees opt for rewards which require booking cheaper than average priced hotels - Rewards for employees - Easy to use customer interface - Great mobile applications for android and iOS - Ability to control payment methods for a different types of bookings like hotels or flights or car rentals.
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Zoho
The only reason I give Zoho a 9 is because of the issue with the Chart of Accounts skewing every time I export/import. I believe this is due to the fact that I use sub-accounts and Zoho cannot differentiate. Still hoping. :)
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Alternatives Considered
Navan
I like TripActions more because everything is on a mobile app that is super user-friendly. The customer service team is also world class-I genuinely have never felt so taken care of. More so, Concur Travel and Expense never rewarded me for traveling, while I made over 200 dollars in Amazon money just for doing my job.
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Zoho
I've used Concur in the past for managing and submitting expenses. When comparing what I know about Zoho to Concur, Zoho seems to be a more simplified tool focused on simply managing expenses, inputting, tracking, submitting and getting reimbursed. Based on what I know, Zoho gets the job done with no frills.
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Return on Investment
Navan
  • The ability to change flights while I am on the road in meetings. They actually call the agents for me.
  • It has put money back in my pocket with the Amazon rewards and my company has saved money by me booking the less expensive options.
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Zoho
  • We have had some issues with the credit card reconciliation process which has made our monthly accounting / close process. This has been a negative
  • Positive ROI is that team members spend less time on expense reports due to the ease of reporting
  • Positive ROI is that substantial training and onboarding is not needed due to the features and simplicity.
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