What is AmTrav?

AmTrav headquartered in Chicago offers their online business travel application, available with limited functionality for free or via a paid plan supporting travel policies and approval workflow.

Categories & Use Cases

Travel Management

Tristan Dobbs View profile

Vice President of Shared Services in Professional Services at Cloudbakers (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

Excellent user interface.
Competitive booking rates that allow users a variety of options.
Phenomenal customer service.

Cons

Filtering flights by average on-time reliability is not available.
Permissions can be tricky for approvers. It's not always easy to see what your team is doing.
Google Calendar integration is flawed -- it keeps adding events for time you've approved but does not signify who the travel is for.

Return on Investment

We have freed up 60% of our HR department's time that used to be focused on booking.
We have reduced spending on flights overall through policy enforcement.
Travel changes and adjustments are now possible through AmTrav. They will arrange new travel plans on the fly.

Alternatives Considered

Concur Travel and Expense

Other Software Used

DocuSign, Mavenlink, LumApps

Verified User

Professional in Customer Service (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company is fully remote and we travel several times per year to get together. We use Amtrav to book flights for travel to these company conferences. Using Amtrav allows each employee to book their own flight, pay for flights with the company card, and make any additions or changes that are behind the scope of the company budget on their own personal payment method.

Pros

Comparing available flights
Purchasing flights
Customer service

Cons

Cancelled flight was automatically rebooked without notification email sent

Return on Investment

Amtrav has provided a low friction self serve tool for employees to book their own travel

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use AmTrav to book hotel, air and train travel. Whenever there is a need to book business travel, AmTrav provides a centralized location to document travel cost and itineraries. The Amtrav system also provides convenient integration with our Travel and Expenses application. We can import the details of each hotel stay, airline and or train ticket with the dates and costs associated.

Pros

Keep in one place your travel books for business
Have personnel to handle sudden travel changes.
System integrates with our expense reporting software
Provides real-time booking option

Cons

Booking air travel can be hard to first locate. Portal can use improvement
Cancellations can sometimes get mixed up requiring you to fix the issue yourself
Rates are not always better
The interface can be very clunky

Return on Investment

Provides an easy accounting on employee travel expeneses
Does not offer flexibility from whom you can book with, I believe.
Keeps your bookings all in one place and convenient once you're ready to do an expense report.
It makes completing your Travel and Expensive report easier and quicker