Float has partnered with Corporate Traveller to help centralize booking and automate travel expense reporting and reconciliation.
This article will provide you with details on this partnership.
What are the benefits of using Melon for travel management as a Float customer?
You give employees the freedom and flexibility to book their own travel within company policy. It also eliminates the need to download, collect, and attach receipts for travel expenses:
Leverages Corporate Traveller's expertise in personalized travel management and Float Financial's specialized financial solutions, providing a seamless experience for Canadian businesses looking for travel and expense integration
Float Financial's corporate card solutions complement Corporate Traveller's travel booking capabilities, facilitating streamlined and efficient expense tracking, reporting, and reconciliation
Using Float cards when booking in Melon allows you to see all transactions in real-time in the Float platform
Receipts from Melon are automatically attached to their matching transaction in Float
Get immediate insight into travel spending across the company
How does it work?
Use Float and Melon together to automate receipt-matching and reconciliation for travel expenses across your business:
Book: Use Melon from Corporate Traveller to book hotels, flights and vehicle rentals, and centralize your company’s biggest travel expenses.
Pay: Pay with Float’s corporate cards and get an immediate record of transactions in the Float platform. Plus, you can issue individual cards with temporary custom limits to proactively manage employee spending.
Close: Transactions are auto-coded in Float and receipts from bookings are automatically matched to the correct transaction to make reconciliation easier
Frequently Asked Questions:
How does receipt matching work?
In order for the receipt match to work between Float and Melon, the user on the itinerary (e.g., the TO: in the itinerary) must match the Float user on the card.
The following scenarios are supported:
Individual Melon user booking with their own Float card configured in Melon
The following scenarios are not currently supported:
An individual Melon user booking travel using a "common travel" card (e.g., a card)
Multi-passenger bookings
What is the difference between Corporate Traveller and Melon?
Corporate Traveller is a travel management service provider, with Melon effectively being the technology platform that powers Corporate Traveller’s bookings and management.
Whereas Corporate Traveller provides a broad set of human services - like consultants, support, program design, negotiation and risk management - Melon provides the actual integrated toolset for users (employees, travel coordinators, admins) to book, monitor and manage travel.
Where can I find more information on this partnership?
You can learn more about this partnership by visiting our website by clicking the link below:
Travel and Expense Integration - Float
You can also learn more on Corporate Traveler's landing page highlighting the Melon and Float partnership by clicking here