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Friday 25 September

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15:46Payments & expense

SAP Concur Blog全球

SAP Concur Outlines How Finance System Integration Unifies Spend Visibility

SAP Concur published a blog post outlining the value of finance system integration for travel, expense and invoice data. It notes that such data often sits across ERP, HR, payroll and finance tools, creating friction between teams and slowing decisions. Through pre-built connectors, APIs and partner solutions, SAP Concur says travel, expense and invoice data can flow securely and in real time into existing systems, enabling a single view of spend, reduced manual reconciliation, faster month-end close and greater confidence in reporting and forecasting.

Friday 18 September

1 updates

00:23Payments & expense

Hospitality TechnologyNorth America

Folio and M3 Partner on Automated Procure-to-Pay Integration

Hospitality financial operations platform Folio announced an upgraded partnership and native bi-directional integration with hotel accounting software provider M3, joining M3's Associate Partner network. The integration automatically pulls general ledger (GL) codes, vendor catalogs, and multi-entity business structures from M3 into Folio, while pushing approved invoices and asset balances directly into M3 journal entries. Properties can go live within 24 hours of M3 granting access, eliminating manual chart-of-accounts mapping and batch CSV file transfers. It combines Folio's AI invoice processing (Folio Bills) and stock counting (Folio Inventory) with M3's central ledger to automate accoun…

Thursday 17 September

6 updates

23:28Payments & expense

Hospitality TechnologyMiddle East / South America / United States / Africa

Conferma Hits 95% Non-Fax Delivery, Targets Year-End US Fax Shutdown

Virtual payment technology provider Conferma is advancing its global "Ditch the Fax" initiative, having switched off fax-based virtual credit card (VCC) delivery across more than 100 countries in Africa, the Middle East and South America. Non-fax channels now represent roughly 95% of payment communications across Conferma's global travel network, and early data from regions where fax has been retired shows about a 2% increase in virtual card payment completion rates. The replacement is API-based delivery ("Connect Direct") straight into hotel property management systems (PMS), secure digital vaults and encrypted email. The US market is the final phase, scheduled for full completion by the e…

23:23Payments & expense

Hospitality TechnologyUnited States / United Kingdom

Hospitable Launches Native Split Payouts for Vrbo and Direct Bookings

Short-term rental operating system Hospitable has rolled out native Split Payouts for Vrbo and direct booking channels, automating revenue distribution between property managers and asset owners at check-in. The feature splits gross booking proceeds at the payment gateway layer, routing owner shares and management commissions directly to separate bank accounts, replacing manual end-of-month trust transfers and statement validation. The automated payout mechanics were previously exclusive to Airbnb's built-in payment engine and now extend to Vrbo and direct engine bookings. It is deployed on Hospitable's Mogul plan for US bank accounts, with a UK rollout planned next.

23:06Payments & expense

Hospitality Technology全球

Inn-Flow Links Accounting and Procurement for Pre-Purchase Budget Guardrails

Hotel back-office platform Inn-Flow launched a native integration between its Accounting and Procurement modules, embedding real-time budget availability, open PO tracking and AI-powered cart optimization into the hotel buyer's purchasing workflow. The system calculates remaining spend capacity in real time (forecast minus actual spend minus open PO commitments) before an order is placed, and automatically matches vendor invoices against open purchase orders to avoid double-counting. An AI cart optimizer recommends order adjustments pre-checkout and automatically maps line items to the appropriate chart of accounts. The company also announced a Q4 beta for a native inventory tracking module.

19:32Payments & expense

SAP Concur Blog全球

SAP Concur Publishes 2026 Invoice Management Software Comparison

The SAP Concur blog published a 2026 invoice management software comparison covering SAP Concur, BILL, Zoho Books, and Tipalti. It notes that 77% of organizations still enter invoices manually and outlines core capabilities including OCR and AI data extraction, purchase order matching, approval workflows, payment execution, and ERP integration. SAP Concur positions itself as a connected spend management platform linking invoice, expense, and travel management, citing more than 54,000 organizations and 96 million users worldwide.

14:49Payments & expense

Fenbeitong FeedChina

Cost-Reduction Logic and Selection Framework for Business Travel Platforms

Fenbeitong published an article outlining three layers of cost reduction for business travel platforms: supply chain, process labour, and compliance risk. It compares native integrated travel-and-expense platforms with stitched solutions, proposes five selection criteria, and offers recommendations by company size. It cites data that native integrated platforms offer better prices than C-end platforms for 90% of domestic/international flights and 80% of hotels.

14:46Payments & expense

Fenbeitong FeedChina

2026 Comparison of Mainstream Business Travel Platforms

Fenbeitong published a 2026 business travel platform review, categorising the market into native integrated travel-and-expense platforms, expense-control bases with third-party TMC, and pure TMC booking platforms, using a 10-dimension weighted scoring model. The native integrated platform (Fenbeitong) scored 90, pure TMC (Ctrip Business Travel) scored 61, and stitched expense-control platforms (Hesi/Meike) scored 54. It recommends native integrated platforms for companies with annual travel spend above 2 million yuan.

Tuesday 15 September

7 updates

21:20Payments & expense

Hospitality Technology全球 / United States

Global Payment Giants Prepare for AI-to-AI Hotel Bookings

Ant International, Visa and Mastercard announced a collaboration to establish a universal 'Know-Your-Agent' (KYA) interoperability framework, paired with the global rollout of Ant International's open-sourced Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP). Acquirers including Adyen, Checkout.com, Fiserv and Worldline are building the payment plumbing for agentic commerce. HT research shows 33% of hotel guests already use generative AI tools to explore and select hotels, and 17.1% cite generative AI platforms as their primary discovery channel. The article warns that if a hotel's PMS and payment gateway cannot process KYA security tokens, the property becomes invisible to AI agents, which may default to OTAs.

20:51Payments & expense

SAP Concur Blog全球

How World Vision Balances Global Spend Management with Local Realities

World Vision operates humanitarian programs across more than 100 countries, including fragile settings where stable internet, electricity, and even card-based payments cannot be assumed. In an SAP Concur Conversations episode, Global Spend Management Director Ben Andrews and Global Spend Manager Bob Perkinson described an approach built on flexibility, governance, trust, and responsible innovation rather than rigid mandates: technology must fit local infrastructure, standardization must leave room for localization, buy-in is built by giving regional and national leaders a stake, and Concur-based visibility helps demonstrate the donor promise. On AI, World Vision focuses on proven use cases…

12:00Payments & expense

Business Travel NewsUnited States

Expensify Integrates Expense Tools with Anthropic's Claude

Expensify announced an integration with Anthropic that makes its expense management tools available as a Claude for Small Business plugin. Expense managers can use natural-language prompts within Claude to analyze Expensify card, expense and receipt data, such as asking which expenses from the previous month are missing receipts or what was spent in a category over a period broken down by vendor. Expensify said it codes and matches transactions as they occur, catches out-of-policy items before they become problems, and delivers books ready to close at month-end.

12:00Payments & expense

Business Travel NewsEurope / United States

Perk Expands Spend Management Platform to the U.S.

Perk, formerly TravelPerk, launched its spend management platform in the U.S. after a European launch. The company said about 40 percent of its new deals in Europe now are for a combined Perk Travel and Perk Spend offering, and it expects the U.S. launch to follow the same path. The U.S. currently represents about 30 percent of its global new business growth, and it recently passed the $1 billion mark in annual U.S. travel transaction value. Perk Spend lets companies integrate their own corporate card programs and add controls such as city-level per diem rates plus native ERP integrations, and allows employees to be reimbursed directly to bank accounts without going through payroll.

08:00Payments & expense

Perk Press ReleasesEurope / United States

Perk Brings Spend Platform to the US Market

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) announced the expansion of its Spend platform into the United States, a region that already accounts for 30% of the group's new business globally. Perk says its US customers already spend over $1 billion a year on work travel and team events, and Perk Spend is built natively alongside its Travel and Events modules. Features include Bring Your Own Corporate Card (BYOC), direct reimbursement, global customizable per-diems, native integrations with ERPs including NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, QuickBooks and SAP S4, and a forthcoming Perk Card. Perk cites research finding 1 in 4 US companies have no formal spend tool and nearly a third of workers still submit expenses…

00:34Payments & expense

Hospitality TechnologyUnited States

AAHOA Launches Folio-Powered Marketplace for Self-Service Hotel Procurement

The Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA), procurement tech provider Folio, and GPO Avendra International officially launched the AAHOA Marketplace, a free digital procurement portal available to AAHOA's 20,000 members. The platform combines Avendra's negotiated GPO pricing with Folio's automated procure-to-pay software, offering self-service onboarding, linking up to five existing suppliers and placing orders within minutes, AI-powered invoice coding, a centralized cart and order-tracking dashboard, and mobile management of purchasing approvals, digital invoices, and vendor payments via ACH or virtual cards. HT notes enterprise procurement software usually demands months of imple…

00:20Payments & expense

Hospitality Technology全球

Entravel Group Launches Expereon to Drive Instant B2B Travel Settlement and Working Capital

Travel technology firm Entravel Group launched Expereon, a financial infrastructure and orchestration platform designed to automate settlement, treasury management and working capital for travel sellers and hospitality providers. Its instant B2B settlement engine replaces 7-to-30-day payout cycles between OTAs, wholesalers and hotels with 24/7 automated settlement and instant reconciliation upon booking confirmation. Underlying blockchain infrastructure via Payward/Kraken settles cross-border transactions in minutes while properties transact strictly in native fiat, avoiding cryptocurrency volatility and balance-sheet risk. The platform also offers receivables financing that converts future…

Friday 11 September

2 updates

Thursday 10 September

1 updates

Wednesday 9 September

4 updates

12:18Payments & expense

Fenbeitong FeedChina

In-Depth Review: Native Integrated Travel & Expense Platform vs. Stitched Solutions

The article compares native integrated travel and expense platforms with stitched solutions (pure expense + TMC or TMC + expense). Native platforms have self-owned supply chains, pre-booking controls, unified data, clear responsibility, and all-inclusive annual fees, suitable for mid-to-large enterprises with annual travel spend over 2 million RMB; stitched solutions suffer from post-hoc controls, lack of negotiation power, and data fragmentation, only suitable for small businesses.

12:00Payments & expense

Business Travel News全球

Clarasight Launches Supplier Intelligence Tool Combining Travel, Card and Expense Data

AI data platform Clarasight launched Supplier Intelligence, a tool aimed at helping travel buyers improve negotiations and performance with suppliers. The capability pulls together a company's travel, card and expense data to give a full spending picture, showing where buyers have leverage, where supplier performance can be improved and what they are paying across comparable trips. For example, buyers can see whether they are paying a preferred carrier more than a competing carrier at a route or cabin level, where programs provide meaningful marketshare to a supplier, and which bookings are materially more expensive than expected on a given route. The company said this offers an alternative…

11:52Payments & expense

Fenbeitong FeedChina

Audit Avoidance Guide for Listed Companies: High-Frequency Travel Expense Risks and Rectification

The article highlights that travel expense reimbursement is a key audit focus for listed companies. Common risks include incomplete evidence chains, split reimbursements, post-hoc approval of over-limit expenses, fraudulent claims, non-compliant invoices, unsupported cross-entity allocations, poor subsidy management, and difficult overseas documentation. Root causes are post-hoc controls and system silos. It recommends native integrated platforms for pre-trip controls and unified data, citing cases like Zhiyu Zhilian and Changbaishan Pharmaceutical.

08:00Payments & expense

China Tourism NewsBeijing

Beijing Chaoyang District Has Over 5,000 Foreign Card POS Terminals, Ranking First in City

At the press conference on 'Two Zones' construction, Beijing's Chaoyang District revealed that key merchants in the district have over 5,000 foreign card POS terminals, accounting for more than one-third of the city's total, with foreign card transaction volume ranking first in the city, representing 48.9% of the city's total. Chaoyang has formed a mature foreign-related consumption scenario system covering dining, accommodation, transport, tourism, shopping, and entertainment, enhancing inbound consumption convenience.

Tuesday 8 September

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Friday 25 September

SAP Concur Outlines How Finance System Integration Unifies Spend Visibility

Friday 18 September

Folio and M3 Partner on Automated Procure-to-Pay Integration

Thursday 17 September

Conferma Hits 95% Non-Fax Delivery, Targets Year-End US Fax Shutdown

Hospitable Launches Native Split Payouts for Vrbo and Direct Bookings

Inn-Flow Links Accounting and Procurement for Pre-Purchase Budget Guardrails

SAP Concur Publishes 2026 Invoice Management Software Comparison

Cost-Reduction Logic and Selection Framework for Business Travel Platforms

2026 Comparison of Mainstream Business Travel Platforms

Tuesday 15 September

Global Payment Giants Prepare for AI-to-AI Hotel Bookings

How World Vision Balances Global Spend Management with Local Realities

Expensify Integrates Expense Tools with Anthropic's Claude

Perk Expands Spend Management Platform to the U.S.

Perk Brings Spend Platform to the US Market

AAHOA Launches Folio-Powered Marketplace for Self-Service Hotel Procurement

Entravel Group Launches Expereon to Drive Instant B2B Travel Settlement and Working Capital

Friday 11 September

SAP Concur Outlines Scalable Expense Management for Business Growth

SAP Concur Positions Real-Time Travel Spend Reporting

Thursday 10 September

Flywire Expands Payments and E-Signature Rollout Across Davidson Hospitality Group

Wednesday 9 September

In-Depth Review: Native Integrated Travel & Expense Platform vs. Stitched Solutions

Clarasight Launches Supplier Intelligence Tool Combining Travel, Card and Expense Data

Audit Avoidance Guide for Listed Companies: High-Frequency Travel Expense Risks and Rectification

Beijing Chaoyang District Has Over 5,000 Foreign Card POS Terminals, Ranking First in City

Tuesday 8 September

Travel Platform Selection Guide for OA Ecosystem Enterprises

Selection Guide for Business Travel & Expense Platforms for Overseas Travel

Travel Platform Selection Guide for Multi-Entity Group Enterprises