Mobile travel app

A mobile app for booking and accessing the itinerary, documents and support straight from a mobile device. It lets travellers check flight status, retrieve boarding passes or hotel confirmations, and reach support while away from a desktop. Most modern corporate travel booking platforms offer a mobile app alongside their web-based tool.

For business travellers, the most useful mobile features are the ones needed on the road: access to tickets, boarding passes and hotel vouchers without printing, push notifications about delays and gate changes, quick contact with support and the ability to book a hotel or transfer at the last minute. For managers, approving trip requests from a phone helps avoid delays when they are away from their desks. Offline access to key documents is also important in places with poor connectivity.

A corporate travel app differs from consumer apps in that it applies the same travel policy and approval rules as the web platform and saves all data in the company's system. Expense-related features are becoming standard as well — for example, scanning paper receipts so they are attached to the trip immediately, rather than collected, kept and submitted after the traveller returns to the office. Because the app and the web platform share one account, a trip booked on a laptop is also available on the phone.

Tumodo's mobile app for iOS and Android lets employees book and manage trips, keep all tickets and vouchers at hand and receive real-time notifications about changes. Paper receipts can be scanned directly in the app and are instantly added to the trip documents, so there is no need to hold on to them for the finance team. And whenever plans change on the road, Tumodo's 24/7 support is just a tap away.