What is Business Travel Account?
The Business Travel Account (BTA) is an easy-to-use and effective tool for managing your corporate travel expenses. The BTA can be used by your company to charge T&E expenses for infrequent travelers, consultants, job candidates, and even large groups traveling on company business. It can be used by any travel agency that your company designates.
- Combines your travel expenses into a single, centrally billed account
- Enhanced visibility provides you maximum control over expenses assisting in saving time and money
How it works
Save time & money with a cardless solution to centralise billing
Maximise Control
- Consolidate virtually all your Air travel expenditures - one account, one bill, one payment
- Effectively monitor and manage travelers' expenses without issuing cards
- Ensure preferred supplier and travel policy compliance
- Receive and view spend data that is meaningful to your company
Save Money and Provide Protection
- Protect your travellers with Business Travel Accident Insurance and Travel Inconvenience Insurance - no need to purchase individual traveler insurance per trip
- Improved spend visibility to assist with supplier negotiations
- Peace of mind and protection for your travellers with Global Assist® Hotline - call toll free in the U.S., or collect when abroad, and get help finding medical, legal, financial and emergency assistance
- Data provided can be used to negotiate
Save Time
- View and pay your online statement through The BTA portal for quick and easy access to billing information - Learn more about BTA Online Statements
- Integrate American Express BTA reconciliation solutions into existing systems with ease
Streamline Reconciliation
The BTA portal is a robust online solution that enables you to streamline your BTA reconciliation process
Increase Efficiency
- View and reconcile transactions on a daily, weekly or monthly basis
- Upload transactions with ease to your company's financial systems
- Edit multiple transactions in a single step
Improve Accuracy
- Enhance individual BTA transactions with your organization's HR data
- Allocate transactions to the appropriate cost center assisting the appropriate referred fields
Drive Savings
- Reduce the reconciliation cycle by days or weeks through the BTA online portal
- Save time by not having to request and receive missing data from your travel agency
*Rate of reconciliation is not guaranteed and is dependent on the travel data provided, and the extent of data issued for individual transactions processed. Level of data received by American Express for individual transactions will vary as a result of Airline Reporting Corporation (ARC)/Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) processing. Business Travel Account clients may be required to enter into an agreement with their respective travel agency to permit the regular transmission of travel data to American Express for the purpose of reconciliation.
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