Booking on Navan or Perk? Mesh now pays, matches and reconciles every trip.

A corporate travel program looks different at every company. It depends on where the company operates, where its people travel, what they’re used to booking with and how much hands-on service the program needs. Some companies give travelers a self-serve booking tool. Others work with a TMC. Plenty do both, depending on the region.

That choice should be made on what’s best for the travelers and the travel program. It shouldn’t be decided by which card or expense product happens to come attached.

That’s why Mesh is booking-agnostic. We connect to a growing list of the booking tools and TMCs companies already work with. Whichever way a trip gets booked, the part we care about is the same: what happens to the money. The card that pays for it, the invoice that comes back, the policy it runs against, the entity it belongs to and the line it lands on in the ERP.

Navan and Perk, two of the most popular corporate booking tools, are now connected directly to Mesh.

Think about what a three-day trip leaves behind today. An invoice from the booking tool. A card charge for the flight, another for the hotel. A train ticket bought last minute on the traveler’s phone. A dinner receipt in someone’s camera roll. And a finance team matching all of it by hand at month-end, usually weeks after the traveler is home.

With Navan or Perk connected to Mesh, that work goes away.

Expense reports that build themselves

Every booking made in Navan or Perk flows into Mesh as a trip and is managed in the unified trip dashboard. Flights, hotels, rail and cars land together under one trip, with its budget and per diem set by your policy.

From there, the data fills itself in. Invoices attach to the right booking, match to the card transaction that paid for them and post against the trip budget. Once the traveler lands, the taxi, the hotel incidentals and the client dinner go on their Mesh card and are matched to the same trip.

The only thing left is the receipt, and Mia, Mesh’s AI expense companion, takes care of that inside WhatsApp, Slack or Microsoft Teams. Travelers snap it in real time, and she matches it to the charge, assigns the GL code and runs the policy check. The expense report becomes invisible and leaves nothing for the employee to do.

A second line of defense for your T&E budget

A booking tool is the first line of defense. It puts policy in front of travelers at the moment they book, and Navan and Perk do that well.

But travel spend doesn’t stop at the booking tool. A traveler rebooks a flight in the airline’s app after a delay, or books a hotel directly. And more and more travel is being booked by AI agents working on the traveler’s behalf. The industry calls it leakage: real travel spend that happens outside the managed program, and usually surfaces weeks later as card charges nobody can explain.

Mesh looks at the charge, not the booking. So whether a trip was booked in Navan, Perk, an airline app or by an AI agent, if it’s paid with a Mesh card, the spend lands in Mesh, gets matched to the right trip and shows up in the trip report. Leakage stops being a blind spot, and travel managers see it without matching transactions to trips by hand. Finance gets an end-to-end view of what travel actually cost, all of it reconciled.

Cards built around your travel program

When a traveler books in Navan or Perk, the booking is paid with a Mesh virtual card and arrives in Mesh already tied to the traveler and the trip.

Behind that is global card infrastructure, provisioned the way your program needs it, including dedicated cards for specific trips. Cards are issued in local currency in 40+ countries, reimbursements go out in 100+, and policies, approvals and reporting are set per entity with one view across all of them.

So the team in London books in Navan, the team in Singapore works with a TMC, a few travelers book on their own, and finance still sees what the company spent on travel, and where, in one place.

Book with whatever fits

Your travel program should be built around your travelers. Your payments and expenses should run in one place. With Navan and Perk now connected to Mesh, you don’t have to trade one for the other, and the bookings that happen outside them don’t slip through either.

You’ve already chosen Navan or Perk, and you don’t have to change that. Mesh works with the booking tool you have and gives finance visibility into travel spend wherever it happens.

On Navan or Perk and want to see how your trips would look in Mesh? Talk to us.

Already a Mesh customer? Contact your Customer Success Manager to connect Navan or Perk.