Fresh off announcing plans to discontinue its expense tool
to more closely focus on its Work Fource travel booking and management platform,
Deem will add a virtual payment service for bookings made via Work Fource. Provided
via integration with virtual payment specialist Conferma Pay, the functionality
will be available to Deem clients by the end of the third quarter.
Initially, the service will be available for hotel bookings,
by far the most common use case for virtual cards, but it ultimately will
extend to air and ground transportation, as well. The service will work for
content across all global distribution systems and support custom passenger
name record remarks by leveraging Deem’s PNR Editor, the companies said.
In early June, Deem revealed it would
sunset its in-house expense system by the end of 2020, citing an
"intense focus" on travel that prevented the company from devoting
enough resources to support the expense tool. Clients of Deem Expense will transition
to Certify, one of the expense provider participants in Deem's Open Expense
Alliance. News of the Deem Expense wind-down came five months after the company
was
acquired by existing investor Enterprise Holdings in a deal that enabled
Deem to maintain autonomous operations.