KAYAK for Business Partners with Mesh Payments to Connect Booking, Payment and Expenses for Every Trip

NORWALK, CT (Oct. 13, 2026) – KAYAK for Business, the corporate travel solution powered by KAYAK, announced today a strategic partnership with Mesh Payments, the intelligent corporate card and expense platform for global organizations. The partnership brings together two companies doing what each does best: KAYAK for Business for travel planning, bookings, and trip management, Mesh Payments for global cards, spend controls and expense management, all in one intuitive experience for the traveler and one source of truth for finance.

Business travel often runs on three systems: one to book, one to pay, one to expense. They usually meet only after the money is spent. By then finance is reconstructing trips that already happened, and travelers are filing reports for trips their company approved weeks earlier. Policy questions get answered too late to change the outcome.

“Booking a business trip should be as easy as booking a personal one and visible to finance from the moment it starts,” said Eva Fouquet, SVP of KAYAK for Business. “With Mesh, the booking, the card, and the expense all sit around a single trip. Travelers book with a tool they already know, and finance sees travel spend as it happens instead of figuring it out weeks later.”

Together, the two platforms are designed to support the full trip. Travelers can search, book and manage travel on KAYAK for Business, choosing from a broad inventory sourced from direct supplier connections, NDC, GDS and other sources all within the familiar, traveler-first experience KAYAK is known for. Payment runs on Mesh virtual cards, issued locally in more than 40 countries, or on the company’s existing corporate card program, with policy applied at the moment of purchase rather than at month-end. Every transaction is coded and matched to the trip and the traveler, and reconciled automatically.

Both sides apply AI where it earns its place. KAYAK for Business takes a hybrid approach, integrating AI alongside traditional search so travelers can choose how much AI to use. They can build policy-aware, bookable trips from natural-language requests and manage trip changes through conversational AI, with human support one step away when needed. Mesh’s AI understands what each transaction was for, so the expense is done before anyone thinks to file it.

For the business traveler:

• One booking experience that shows all available options, fares and extras, the way consumer travel works
• A card issued for the trip, carrying its budget and policy, so meals, ground transport and everything else on the road go on the company card
• Receipts matched and expenses submitted automatically, with no expense report to file

For finance:

• Real-time visibility into travel spend as it happens, based on actual card transactions rather than booking estimates
• On-trip spend scoped to the trip before it starts, with a card issued per trip rather than an open limit reconciled afterwards
• Unique, controllable payment credentials in place of shared, static ones, limiting the impact of any single compromise
• Works with the company’s existing card program or with Mesh-issued cards, so there is no need to switch banks or reissue anything to get the control

“Booking tells you what a trip is supposed to cost. Payment tells you what it actually costs,” said Oded Zehavi, Co-Founder and CEO of Mesh Payments. “KAYAK for Business built the booking experience business travelers actually want to use. Mesh puts a card behind every
trip with the budget and the policy already on it, so finance sees the real number as the trip happens rather than weeks later.”

The partnership will be introduced to corporate travel and finance leaders at Business Travel Show America, October 14 to 15 at the Javits Center in New York. The integrated offering is scheduled to be available by December 2026.
Companies can request more information by visiting kayak.com/business/blog/mesh-partnership

About KAYAK for Business

KAYAK for Business is a corporate travel management platform for midsize companies and global enterprises that brings KAYAK’s familiar leisure experience and comprehensive content to business travel, with real-time program controls and visibility built in. Travelers stay happy. Travel managers stay in charge. Learn more at: https://www.kayak.com/business/

About Mesh Payments

Mesh Payments is the intelligent card and expense platform for global organizations. By connecting card programs, expense management and travel into one system that understands the context behind every transaction, Mesh gives finance teams total control, built in rather than bolted on. More than 1,500 companies rely on Mesh to manage global spend, with local card issuing across more than 40 countries. For more information visit https://www.meshpayments.com.

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