Trips

Plan business trips efficiently and centralize travel management with the Appward Trips App. Manage logistics, bookings, and coordination and easily manage travel data, expenses, itineraries, and traveler profiles across your organization.

Employees can miss important updates when travel information is spread across various channels such as email, intranet, and other methods. This lack of consistency makes it difficult for employees to access accurate travel information, leading to confusion. Save time and get total visibility across all travel arrangements in one place with Appward Trips.

Plan business trips efficiently and centralize travel management with the Appward Trips App. Manage logistics, bookings, and coordination and easily manage travel data, expenses, itineraries, and traveler profiles across your organization.

Employees can miss important updates when travel information is spread across various channels such as email, intranet, and other methods. This lack of consistency makes it difficult for employees to access accurate travel information, leading to confusion. Save time and get total visibility across all travel arrangements in one place with Appward Trips.

Effortlessly coordinate and manage essential travel arrangements for your team

  • Assign a travel representative to coordinate and centralize arrangements for each team member
  • Link travel dates to an organizational trips calendar to visualize planned trips, enable efficient coordination and conflict prevention
  • Choose attendees for a trip and cross-check their availability with organizational calendars
  • Log flight details and share hotel and car rental information with travelers
  • Enable travelers to request arrangements and access their personalized travel information.

Complete visibility and control over travel management with customizable workflows

  • Easily access pending and active trips, either by trip or by traveler
  • Establish a trip approval process and route to the relevant managers for review
  • Utilize the Calendar view to visualize all planned trips
  • Harness insights for comprehensive reporting of travel details for in-depth analysis and informed decision-making

Trips App Features

  • Easily access information about trip dates and purpose
  • Obtain a comprehensive view of the trip destination with an interactive map
  • Designate a dedicated Travel Representative and add travelers to a trip
  • Monitor the status of the trip at each stage, from initial draft and booking to trip in progress and completion
  • Assign travelers to planned trips
  • Set expected travel dates and times for each traveler
  • Automatically populate travelers’ contact information
  • Track the status of travelers’ arrangements through a visual progress bar
  • Travel representatives can input departure and return flight information, including airline, number of stops, flight number, seat assignment, and airport details
  • Specify hotel information, including check-in and check-out dates, and the type of room booked
  • Provide details on car rentals assigned to each traveler, including the rental office location and type of car reserved
  • Set up an approval process based on the trip being planned 
  • Label each stage of your approval process and assign who you would like to approve specific travel details
  • Set a deadline date for each approver so they are aware of when they need to approve
  • Select managers within your organization and add them as members so they can access all information necessary to make an informed decision
  • Send notifications to each approver, letting them know they are part of the approval process
  • An approver simply checks off whether a review is approved or rejected and can easily add comments
  • Reset an approver’s status to change their response based on any new information
  • Send reminder notifications to approvers to submit their approval responses before a given deadline
  • View trip and traveler dates within an organizational trips calendar according to Month, Week, or Day
  • Quickly identify who is assigned to a trip and when they will be traveling
  • Scroll through the months on the calendar to see past and upcoming trip dates
  • Use the list format to view all a trips
  • Communicate with travel rep and travelers for needed information, updates and input to help arrange appropriate accommodations
  • Add at-mentions to send Notifications to a travel rep or travelers regarding travel arrangements
  • Like messages with a single click of the thumbs-up icon to automatically trigger a Notification
  • Attach documents, images, media and AppShare direct links to any record to and from any Appward app
  • Enlarge any attached document, image or media by double-clicking the file
  • Edit your message by clicking on the pencil icon if you need to modify or update your message
  • Authors of each message posted can edit and delete their own comments
  • Upload files associated with each trip to share with travel reps and travelers
  • Store documents, images or other media-rich files that are affiliated with each trip
  • Select and upload files directly from your computer and store them within a designated record file
  • Access the Appward cloud file explorer and select files from organizational, personal and public folders
  • Link files from Appward’s Document system via Documents
  • Edit and change files after uploading
  • Download files directly to your computer
  • Use arrow keys to organize files
  • Pop-out each file into its own window to view it at scale
  • Take and log notes directly within each trip record to keep information in context
  • Organize notes within folders for quick navigation
  • Use the HTML editor to format notes and highlight key information accordingly
  • Create notes with the drawing tool for a quick visual concepting of ideas
  • Deleted notes are auto-stored in a Deleted Items folder for retrieval if needed
  • Utilize real-time data to track trip and traveler details
  • View trip information metrics to understand what is being planned on and what is pending
  • Leverage insights for process improvements and enhanced operational efficiency