Finance platform Bill has launched a new travel booking capability within its Spend & Expense product, bringing travel into its clients' existing financial workflows, the company announced.
San Jose, Calif.-based Bill said its clients last year cumulatively spent more than $2.4 billion on travel, with much of the booking and expense of that travel happening across fragmented systems. The new Travel product lets travelers book within the Spend & Expense product, where companies also can manage their budgets, expense and payment.
"We're helping SMBs bring travel into one connected workflow to reduce costs and manual work, with more control before spend happens, better visibility as it happens and fewer out-of-policy bookings," Bill EVP of software Mike Cieri said in a statement.
To add the travel booking product, Bill tapped travel technology platform Duffel, which connects companies to travel booking infrastructure—including direct partnerships with suppliers and global distribution systems—via an API, according to a spokesperson for Bill. Users have access to more than 500 airlines and a wide hotel inventory via the platform, according to Bill.
Duffel also powers the content for business software platform Rippling's corporate travel booking tool, launched in the company's Spend Management suite last year.
In addition to the travel booking offering, Bill also announced expanded international capabilities for its Spend & Expense product that can better support cross-border travel and global operations, including international card shipping and the ability to pay balances with Swift wires, the company said. It also has made a transaction agent available that can automate receipt captures, matching and coding.