Nearly half of business travel is invisible to your platform.

Travelers book on personal cards to keep their miles. They use corporate cards you don't control. Your competitors already capture this spend in real time. If your platform still depends on bank feeds and expense reports, you're shipping a product with a blind spot — and losing deals because of it.

Unmanaged travel spend is the default

Travelers book flights on personal cards to keep miles. They use hotel loyalty programs tied to personal accounts. Teams in new markets book with local corporate cards that aren't in your system.

Every unmanaged booking is a gap in your platform: no real-time itinerary matching, no policy enforcement, no duty-of-care visibility. The booking exists — you just can't see it until the expense report comes in days or weeks later.

44%
of business travelers book through unmanaged channels — even when they know a corporate booking tool exists
Deloitte 2024 Corporate Travel Study

Duty of care doesn't work with gaps

Travel management platforms are responsible for knowing where employees are. When spend happens on cards you can't see, you have travelers in cities you don't know about — booked on flights and hotels that aren't in your system.

Invisible itineraries

A traveler books a hotel in São Paulo on a personal card. Your platform doesn't see the booking. Your duty-of-care system doesn't know they're there.

Reconciliation gaps

Card transactions from unmanaged bookings arrive via bank feeds days later — if at all. Matching them to actual travel is manual detective work.

Policy blind spots

Your travel policy can't enforce limits on bookings it doesn't know about. Out-of-policy spend on personal cards only surfaces at reconciliation.

See every travel card in real time

Astrada's Transaction Data API lets travelers enroll any card — personal, corporate, any issuer. Transaction data flows to your platform at authorization, with the structured fields needed to identify and categorize travel spend instantly.

01

Enroll personal cards

Travelers keep using their preferred cards — you get the data. No card switch means no adoption friction.

02

Real-time visibility

See the hotel booking the moment the card is charged. MCC codes identify airlines, hotels, and ground transport automatically.

03

Location-aware data

Geolocation data on transactions means your platform knows where travelers are spending — critical for duty of care and policy compliance.

From booking gaps to complete travel intelligence

With real-time card data from every traveler card, your platform can close the gaps that have always been part of business travel management.

Match bookings to card transactions

Your agents can reconcile managed bookings against actual card charges — and surface unmanaged bookings the moment they happen.

Close duty-of-care gaps

When a traveler books a hotel on a personal card, your platform sees the charge instantly — with merchant details and location data.

Enforce travel policy on any card

Real-time alerts when out-of-policy spend occurs — regardless of which card is used. Policy enforcement extends beyond platform-issued cards.

Accelerate reconciliation

Structured card data with MCC, merchant ID, and multi-currency fields makes automated matching between bookings and bank records dramatically more accurate.

See what real-time travel spend visibility looks like.

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