How Expense Management Platforms Use Travlinq to Deliver a Complete T&E Solution

Leading Expense Management (EM) platforms serve thousands of corporates across India and the Middle East, helping them manage reimbursement workflows, employee spend, card transactions, and policy compliance.

However, over 70% of all expense reimbursements are travel-related and corporates now expect a unified Travel + Expense (T&E) experience. To stay competitive, EM platforms needed to add travel booking without the burden of building and maintaining a travel engine.

The Challenge

1. Travel Is a Complex Domain

• Airline & hotel supplier integrations
• GDS & LCC content ingestion
• PNR creation, ticketing, reissue & refund workflows
• TMC coordination and content routing
• Multi-country travel policies & regulations

EM platforms lacked travel domain expertise and did not want to carry the technical debt required to build this capability.

2. Corporates Expect an Integrated T&E Stack

• Bookings aligned with expense policies
• Real-time spend visibility
• Automatic expense creation from bookings
• Unified travel approval workflows
• Multi-country deployment & compliance

Without travel integration, EM platforms were missing a major part of the corporate spend lifecycle.

3. Need for TMC Flexibility

Corporates already work with preferred TMCs and expect that flexibility to continue.

EM systems needed to connect with any TMC the corporate selects without building dozens of custom connectors.

Why Travlinq

Travlinq provides a ready-made travel engine specifically designed for non-travel platforms. It delivers:

• Simple JSON APIs that integrate in under 2 weeks
• Unified flight & hotel search, pricing & availability
• Automated booking, ticketing, cancellation & reissue
• Policy & profile alignment using existing EM rules
• Connect any preferred TMC, one integration, multiple partners
• Embeddable UI that sits inside the EM platform

Solution Implementation

1. Rapid API Integration (<2 Weeks)

• Search
• Book
• Ticket
• Cancel / Reissue
• Status & updates

2. Complete Travel Workflow Inside the EM Platform

• Flight & hotel search and comparison
• Fare display, baggage & seat rules
• Policy checks before booking
• Manager approvals
• Real-time ticketing & notifications
• Automatic expense creation

3. Connect Any TMC

Travlinq’s orchestration engine routes bookings intelligently to:

• Existing corporate TMC partners
• Multiple TMCs by region
• Global or local fulfillment

4. Multi-Country Deployment

• India
• GCC
• South-East Asia

Impact Delivered

1. Unified T&E Platform

• Seamless travel booking
• Auto-generated travel expenses
• Policy-driven workflows
• Consolidated spend visibility

2. New High-Revenue Module

• Booking & integration fees
• Higher enterprise subscriptions
• TMC revenue-share

3. Zero Travel Infrastructure Required

• Connectivity & routing
• Ticketing & servicing
• Compliance & system updates
• Scalability & uptime

4. Fastest Time-to-Market

• 2–4 weeks — single region
• 4–6 weeks — multi-region

5. Trusted by Market Leaders

Travlinq powers some of the largest expense management platforms globally.

Outcome

By embedding Travlinq, EM platforms transformed into full Travel + Expense ecosystems delivering policy-aligned travel booking, multi-TMC connectivity, real-time spend visibility, and automated expense creation without building internal travel infrastructure.

Travlinq accelerates growth by enabling scalable, compliant, high-efficiency T&E workflows across India and global markets.