The more complete the knowledge of the structure of travel expenses in an organization, the more purposefully costs can be lowered. With the data interface “DataIn,” all credit card information can be integrated and processed in one clearly laid out database.

You can’t keep track of everything at once- nor should you try! That’s why it’s so important to have a good overview – especially when it comes to business travel expenses. The most important “resources” for itemizing these lines of expenditure are credit cards. They can provide a valuable overview of the worldwide business expenses of an organization –if the monthly statements are carefully collected, read, analyzed, categorized and, finally, summarized and combined. It is, however, often neither affordable nor reasonable to expect the employees in the controlling department to do this kind of work – especially with thousands of entries a month. The data interface “DataIn” can take over these tasks for you. This can provide an immense relief for your company’s travel management and controlling departments. This data interface consolidates all your global credit card transactions and master data in the AirPlus Information Manager – which then serves as your central Management Information System. It provides you with quick, easy to use and powerful tools in order to clearly lay out your itemized travel-related costs and view them in as much detail as you need. In addition, you can also view numerous other details such as project number, costs or departments.

The organization thus has internet access to an essential overview which is able to identify significant savings potentials and use this knowledge when negotiating purchases from airlines, hotels, car rental companies and other providers of services. “DataIn is able to recognize data formats across different credit card numbers or countries and combine them into one exclusive database for its customers,” says Christian Knappe, Product Manager at DataIn. It doesn’t matter if the credit card information is from an official bank partner of AirPlus or from another national or international credit card company. Having both these options open sets the stage for an all-encompassing overview of travel expenses around the world.

In order to take advantage of DataIn’s possibilities, Christian Knappe recommends simply informing the proper AirPlus customer service representative and requesting that your banking partner allow its data to be sent to AirPlus. AirPlus will take care of the rest. Every company it works with will receive regular updates on the current status of the data integration.