Meet Rippling Travel: Faster bookings, smarter spending, better travel

Despite all the corporate travel management tools out there, booking and managing business travel is still… a trip.

Companies wrestle with out-of-policy spending, approval ping-pong, reconciliation nightmares, and endless admin work. And that’s just on the employer's side.

Employees just want to book a flight like they would on Google. That’s to say, quickly and easily. Instead, they get stuck with clunky software, uploading crumpled receipts, and a mess of confusing policies. It’s clear why the adoption rates for legacy travel software are so low.

And all of these issues aren’t just annoying. They’re costly. In a recent Rippling survey, nearly 80% of companies said travel is critical to driving revenue—but a whopping 89% of those using legacy platforms still overspend on trips and drown in admin work.

Introducing Rippling Travel—live today. We’ve made it insanely easy for employees to book in-policy flights, hotels, and cars, while giving companies automatic control over spend. No micromanagement. No mayhem. No rogue spending.

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And even though Rippling Travel can be used as a standalone corporate travel platform, it’s fully integrated with Rippling’s Spend Management suite, including Payroll, Corporate Cards¹, Expense Management, and Bill Pay. Finally, you can manage all of your spend in one place.

Oh, and one more thing: pay $0 in Rippling Travel fees when you book with our corporate card.

Easily control every penny your employees spend on business travel

Travel policies only work if they’re actually enforced. That’s where Rippling stands apart.

Since Rippling pulls in tens of thousands of data points from across your HRIS and business systems, you can automatically enforce travel policies that legacy tools can't touch.

Want to allow first-class flights, but only for Directors on trips over five hours? No problem. 

Need to block luxury hotels or seat upgrades? Easy.

Rippling lets you set hyper-custom policies around flights, hotels, and car rentals in just a few clicks, so you’re never scrambling to fix out-of-policy spend after the fact. But policy enforcement is just the beginning.

Rippling Travel’s deep integration with the rest of your business systems means it also automates the busywork that most platforms leave behind.

A few examples of helpful automations:

• New hire? They’ll instantly experience the right travel policy based on their department, level, and location.

• Promotion? Their per diem, booking limits, and approval chain update automatically.

• Manager on PTO? Travel approvals route to the next best person, so nothing gets stuck.

• Offboarding? Corporate card and booking privileges are blocked the second an employee leaves.

It’s complete control without the manual overhead. Travel, the way it should be.

Make booking a breeze for your employees

If your employees don’t love your corporate travel platform, they won’t use it. That’s why we spent over a year obsessing over the booking experience.

With Rippling Travel, booking a flight, hotel, or car feels just like booking a personal trip through Google—fast, familiar, and intuitive. We partnered with Duffel to give employees access to a broad inventory sourced directly from airlines, GDS providers, and online travel agencies like Expedia Group, Priceline, and Booking.com.

Even better, Rippling clearly flags what they can or can’t book (and why), so they get the freedom of booking what they want without the stress of wondering, “Is this going to get flagged later?”

Plus, employees can manage travel right from the Rippling mobile app. If they need help, our in-house travel agents are available 24/7. No third-party handoffs. No surprise support fees. Just real help, whenever it’s needed.

Get unrivaled business travel reporting and analytics

With Rippling Travel built on top of your HRIS and connected to all your business systems, you can pull in nearly any data to answer nearly any question on the fly: company-wide spending trends, department breakdowns, and the list goes on.

Managers can also see how their teams are spending—right out of the box. And admins can build custom reports to surface exactly what they need, like top spenders by manager and employee, office visit patterns, out-of-policy spend, and more.

It’s powerful, flexible, and refreshingly easy to use.

Unify travel and expense management

Any travel admin knows that booking trips and controlling transportation spend is only half the battle.

Rippling Travel is fully integrated with Rippling Expense Management, so employees can book a flight and expense their airport coffee—all in the same app. No app-switching. No duplicate data entry. No chaos.

Behind the scenes, Rippling automates all of the tedious reconciliation work that finance teams normally have to deal with. Every expense—from flights and hotels to gas and meals—is automatically categorized, reconciled, and synced to your ERP (like NetSuite, QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, Xero, and more).

Need to approve something out of policy? Rippling instantly routes it to the right person based on spend amount, role, GL code, etc. for one-click approval.

Less time chasing receipts. More time moving your business forward.

Ready to save more time and money on business travel?

Rippling Travel delivers everything you need for business travel: tight cost controls, competitive rates, complete visibility, and effortless booking.

But why stop there?

The Rippling Spend suite combines Travel with Expense Management, Corporate Cards¹, and Bill Pay on one powerful platform. And for teams looking for total business consolidation, Rippling also offers Payroll, HR, and IT—all from one unified application.

Ready to save time & money from travel booking to month-end close? See Rippling Spend.