April 28, 2026
Travel is one of the most common, yet least controlled, categories of business spend.
Recent BILL data shows SMBs spent, on average, ~50% more on travel in 2025 than they did in 2022. What’s notable is that the cost per trip hasn’t changed – businesses are just managing more employee trips, and more travel transactions.
More trips means more bookings, more receipts, more approvals and more reconciliation.
This also increases the likelihood of out-of-policy spend. Industry data shows that booking outside required channels is a top compliance issue for more than one-third of businesses, underscoring how easily travel spend can slip outside policy.
The problem isn’t travel policies. It’s when the policy shows up. Too often, it’s hidden in some internal company site and only comes up after the booking, after the spend – leaving finance teams to fix it.
As travel volume increases, so does the operational burden. The effort and exposure required to manage it has grown significantly.
We think that’s backwards.
Introducing BILL Travel
Today, we’re launching BILL Travel, built directly into BILL Spend & Expense.
With BILL Travel, you will be able to:
- Book and manage travel in one place: Access to 500+ airlines and 1.5 million hotels within your spend workflow
- Reduce time spent across the travel workflows by 85%: Eliminate tool switching and duplicate work
- Stop out-of-policy spend before it happens: Policy is illustrated at the point of booking, not after
- Eliminate manual work: Transactions and receipts are automatically captured, reconciled and coded
- See spend as it happens: Real-time visibility into travel spend, without end-of-month surprises
- Maintain control in real time: Built-in controls and visibility reduce risk while employees are on the road
- Keep costs predictable: No platform or booking fees
What this means for your team
For finance teams, this reduces one of the most time-consuming parts of spend management. Less manual work, fewer surprises and faster close – so teams can focus on higher-value work.
For employees, travel becomes simpler and more predictable. They can book in one place, see what’s in policy upfront, and avoid post-trip follow-up.
For accounting firms, it reduces time spent cleaning up client books and increases capacity for advisory, without adding headcount.
Customers are already seeing the impact. Teams have told us they have automated up to 70% of travel expense tracking and reporting, giving them back time to focus on the work that drives their business forward.
One system. Real control.
When it comes to managing corporate travel, most solutions take one of two approaches. Some just focus on booking; leaving policy, payment, and reconciliation to separate systems. Others layer travel onto spend tools, but the underlying workflows remain disconnected. In both cases, finance teams end up stitching everything together after the fact.
BILL takes a different approach. We’ve brought travel into your existing financial workflows. That means policy, payment, and visibility are applied at the moment of booking, not weeks later during reconciliation.
The result is simple: travel becomes part of how you run your business — with visibility and control across the entire lifecycle, from search to reconciliation.
One system, real control and no out-of-policy spend.
That’s what BILL Travel delivers, and we’re just getting started.
BILL Travel Open Beta is now available to all BILL Spend & expense customers. To learn more, visit bill.com/travel
