About
Perk is an all-in-one intelligent platform designed to eliminate the hidden operational burden of corporate travel and spend management. Built for modern businesses, Perk unifies flight, rail, hotel, and car rental booking with expense management, invoice processing, and event coordination in a single streamlined interface. Powered by AI, Perk automatically captures and categorizes expenses, matches receipts to transactions, flags policy violations, and routes invoices for approval — drastically reducing manual effort for finance teams. Travelers can book and manage every leg of a trip from one helpful itinerary, make changes on the fly without contacting support, and submit expenses by simply snapping a photo on the go. For travel managers, Perk offers robust policy and approval workflows, duty-of-care tools, travel alerts, VAT recovery, and centralized invoicing. Finance teams benefit from AI-driven spend analytics, expense integrations, and real-time reporting. The platform also supports corporate events, allowing teams to create custom landing pages, track RSVPs, and manage event budgets without losing cost visibility. Perk serves a wide range of business sizes and provides 24/7 travel support, proprietary rates across thousands of global suppliers, and a flexible card product suite including Perk Card, Lodge Card, and UBS/Visa corporate cards. It's the complete solution for companies looking to replace fragmented tools with a unified, intelligent travel and spend management system.
Key Features
- Unified Trip Booking: Book flights, hotels, rail, and car rentals from a single itinerary view with access to thousands of global options and proprietary rates.
- AI Expense Management: Automatically captures, categorizes, and matches receipts to transactions, flags policy breaches, and streamlines expense submission via mobile photo.
- Intelligent Invoice Processing: Uses AI to match, code, and route supplier invoices for approval, ensuring accuracy and eliminating manual data entry.
- Policy & Approval Workflows: Configurable travel policies, automated approvals, duty-of-care alerts, and centralized invoicing give managers complete control over spend.
- Event & Budget Management: Create custom event landing pages, track RSVPs, and manage attendee budgets — all without losing visibility into total event cost.
Use Cases
- A finance manager uses Perk to enforce travel policies, automatically reconcile expenses, and generate end-of-month spend reports without manual spreadsheet work.
- A sales team member books a multi-leg business trip — flight, hotel, and car rental — all from one Perk itinerary and submits expenses on the go via mobile photo.
- An HR team plans a company offsite using Perk's event management tools, creating a custom landing page, tracking RSVPs, and monitoring total event spend in real time.
- A travel manager monitors duty-of-care alerts and reroutes employees during a travel disruption using Perk's real-time travel alerts and 24/7 support.
- A multinational company uses Perk to centralize invoicing and recover VAT across European travel, reducing manual accounting overhead significantly.
Pros
- Eliminates Shadow Work: By automating booking, expense capture, receipt matching, and invoice routing, Perk drastically reduces the hidden administrative burden that slows down teams.
- All-in-One Platform: Travel, expenses, invoices, and events are managed in a single workspace, removing the need for multiple disconnected tools.
- 24/7 Support & Duty of Care: Round-the-clock travel support combined with real-time travel alerts and duty-of-care tools keep travelers safe and productive on the road.
- Flexible Card Suite: Offers Perk Card, Lodge Card, and UBS/Visa corporate cards, giving finance teams multiple payment options with built-in spend controls.
Cons
- Enterprise-Focused Pricing: Perk is positioned as a paid B2B platform, which may not be accessible or cost-effective for very small teams or freelancers.
- Requires Onboarding & Setup: Configuring travel policies, approval workflows, and integrations requires an initial setup effort, which may slow time-to-value for smaller companies.
- Europe & North America Focus: While global inventory is offered, some spend management features (e.g., Spend in Europe, Spend in North America) are region-specific, potentially limiting utility elsewhere.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of travel can I book through Perk?
Perk supports booking for flights, rail, hotel accommodations, and car rentals, all from a single itinerary view with access to thousands of global suppliers and proprietary rates.
How does Perk handle expense management?
Perk uses AI to automatically capture, categorize, and match expenses to transactions. Travelers can submit receipts by snapping a photo on mobile, and the platform flags policy breaches and discrepancies automatically.
Can finance teams control travel policies and approvals?
Yes. Perk includes a workflow designer for configuring travel policies, automated approval routing, centralized invoicing, and real-time spend reporting for finance teams.
Does Perk support VAT recovery?
Yes. Perk includes VAT recovery as part of its spend management suite, helping businesses reclaim eligible tax on corporate travel and expenses.
Is there support available if travel plans change?
Perk provides 24/7 travel support, and travelers can rebook or cancel flights and hotels in just a few taps directly in the app, without needing to contact a support agent.
