Likelihood to Recommend The company-wide implementation of TravelBank greatly increased the efficiency of our expense reimbursement process. It mitigated many pain points such as errors, inconsistencies, and missing information in our manual Excels that were very hard to version control and track through the approval/reimbursement process. Overall, TravelBank has made all of our lives easier!
Read full review TripIt is great for anyone who has multiple trips at any given time. It is also very good at tracking multiple reservations automatically on individual trips. It's not appropriate for low volume trips or only short trips. It is also good for sharing itineraries with others. It's not good for calendar views.
Read full review Pros TravelBank encourages employees to book lower cost flights and hotels. Employees receive half the difference between the average cost for the service and the cost the company is paying in the form of vouchers for Amazon/Airbnb etc. For example, if the average cost of a flight from SFO to JFK is $500, and the employee books a $400 flight, the employee gets $50 and the company saves $50. Read full review Itinerary Management - TripIt does a great job collecting all of your travel information, including your flight and hotel information all in one location, so that you don't have to deal with multiple vendor apps, emails, or even printouts of that info. It also handles multiple upcoming trips for even easier management and organization Notifications - TripIt notifies you of changes to your itinerary, such as delays or gate changes, which is great to have that information pushed to you rather than having to constantly look at flight boards for updates. Apple Watch integration - As an Apple Watch user, TripIt has gone the extra mile to provide a useful watch app for travelers, making your travel information available on your wrist. This makes it even easier to catch changes to your itinerary, and not have to juggle a phone while you already have a passport and luggage to worry about! Read full review Cons It was hard to find a good hotel in my budget. I wish I could get the incentives back in cash. I have trouble using the user interface and wish I could store my common searches easier bcecauseI usually only travel to one place. They need to have a better search tool. Like, if a hotel is unavailable it still needs to come up in the search bar -- not necessarily on the map or home screen, but it would help to see all options if I search because for some reason a ton of hotels that I know have open rooms do not show up. Read full review Some addresses sometimes do not load (But this is becoming rare these days) Add some color to the icons (again minor improvement) Ability to create cross destination group trips with different cities to have a full overview of the trip and crossover points Read full review Likelihood to Renew Its so ingrained in the company performance that I cant see us switching to anything else- Its not broke, we're not fixing it!
Read full review Usability For me- Tripit was super easy right out of the gate. Initially, using Concur required a little bit of training.
Read full review Reliability and Availability Ive only had the receipt scan feature crash 1 time; no other issues- in fact the app is more on top of details than I am!!
Read full review Performance pages load fast, notifications are great. up to minute. after deboarding- my next steps are displayed. Syncs with the hotel & frequent flyer rewards programs too.
Read full review Support Rating The TravelBank team came in for a Lunch and Learn, which was great! Our account team spent a lot of time walking through all of the features and capabilities of TravelBank, as well as tips and tricks for using the online platform and the app. This was tremendously helpful! Also, whenever we need to contact customer support if we are experiencing and difficulties, they are beyond responsive and very helpful!
Read full review I have never called their support. That is a great question especially when rolling out into a medium to large organization. Concur is a well-respected company, so I can only suppose their Support is reasonable. I have not experienced their support.
Read full review Implementation Rating Set up clear workflows & processes for the masses! No problems with software, only end users...haha
Read full review Alternatives Considered It is much easier to use than Concur, but typically Concur is mandated to use. We also quickly tried other apps but found that TravelBank was the best. Other apps had issues in trying to recognize the amount if a tip was added and often failed. This is why I like entering in the actual value.
Read full review TripIt is designed specifically to help individuals manage their travel info in one place. Before I used TripIt, I had to manually save my travel info in a
Google Drive folder, add flights to my personal calendar, then manage multiple airline apps to get flight alerts. TripIt has made my travel much easier.
Read full review Scalability Tripit is working great for everyone, each department meeting both company and individual needs.
Read full review Return on Investment I'm not in the finance department, but I'd guess our travel spend per employee has reduced since we started using TravelBank. We now have one travel supplier, with flights and hotels paid from a central account, rather than everyone booking through a variety of channels with their own card. In case of emergency, the company knows which flight you're on, which hotel you're staying at. Read full review It makes it easy to see if your are missing a hotel stay. It makes it easy to see if you are missing a flight. It makes it easy to send reservations to someone's email and have it added to their TripIt. Read full review ScreenShots