Altour and Mesh Payments are partnering to provide a
combined travel and expense management offering, the companies announced.
The integrated offering combines Altour's travel management
services with Mesh's travel and expense platform for customers. "The
combination of high-quality travel services company, with a lot of experience
and a lot of know-how, with the world-class technology that we bring, that
combines travel and expense in an open architecture with a lot of AI
capabilities, that's something a lot of companies will appreciate," Mesh
CEO Oded Zehavi said.
With that "open architecture," customers can
determine the "best stack" to meet their needs between Altour's and
Mesh's booking capabilities with connections to Mesh's expense tool, which
Altour chief commercial officer Mike Boult said was "a modern,
easy-to-use, multinational solution that clients are keen to pursue." Altour
clients also can tap Mesh's capabilities around virtual payments and
reimbursements, Boult said.
"Now, Altour can come with one unified expense and
payment infrastructure that can meet all customer needs, from employee payments
to hotels and flights payments and the on-trip expenses," Zehavi said.
"All of that is fully integrated into expense, so you don't need to invest
any additional effort."
Zehavi said the integration with Altour and Mesh is
"already done" with some customers already onboarded, and the
announcement is "the first phase in accelerating the go-to market
activities for the joint offering." The agreement is not exclusive on
either side, with Mesh continuing to maintain its relationships with other TMCs,
and Altour customers still having the option to choose their preferred
platform, he added.
Midsized global companies are the "sweet spot" for
the combined offering, but "we are chasing bigger customers," Zehavi
said. The first customers have been in the U.S. market, but the Mesh and Altour
plan to expand targets globally.