Compare corporate travel software on the merits

Start with the category, not the brand

Most shortlists mix three kinds of product:

- An online booking tool, focused on search and book, sometimes with a policy layer.

- A TMC platform, used by a travel management company to serve clients, often with a mid-office and a servicing desk.

- A travel operating system, which is what GTOS is designed to be: policy, approvals, booking, auto-issue, spend reporting and duty of care in one place, with three portals sharing one live status.

If you compare only on fares or on the look of a search screen, you will miss the work that happens after the click: approvals, exceptions, invoices, readiness and after-hours changes. Read online booking tool versus TMC platform and GTOS versus typical online booking tools before you lock a shortlist.

Criteria we recommend you use

Use the same questions with every vendor, including us:

1. One record or many? Does the traveller, the approver, finance and the desk see the same live booking, or do you re-key data between systems?
2. When is policy applied? Is it a document people are asked to remember, or a rule checked on every option during search?
3. How do approvals work? Are chains taken from your organisation chart, with out-of-policy routing and an audit trail?
4. What happens after approval? Can in-policy bookings be issued automatically, and is there a specialist desk for complex trips?
5. What does finance see, and when? Are there live dashboards for spend by department, traveller, supplier and compliance, in the currencies your programme uses? USD is the main currency on this site; GTOS can record spend in more than one currency.
6. What does duty of care include? A live map, passport and visa checks, documents on the trip, and a way to reach people are the baseline we use.
7. How is the company data held? Look for per-client separation, access by role, two-step sign-in and an audit trail. Be wary of certification marks that are not explained. We do not claim certifications we do not hold. See Security and security questions to ask a travel platform.
8. How is the product priced? GTOS pricing is in USD and available on request. We do not publish a rate card, because programmes differ by size, volume and modules.

A longer walkthrough of these criteria is in the comparison guide, the buyer's guide and how to compare corporate booking tools. The practical buying guide how to choose a corporate booking tool sits in the guides library.

How to place GTOS on a shortlist

GTOS gives companies a Client Portal for policy, approvals, budgets and spend; My Mobility for travellers, on the web and on a phone; and Control Tower for the travel team behind every client. Approved, in-policy bookings can be ticketed automatically. Complex trips go to a specialist desk. Duty of care, visas and the traveller map sit on the same record as the ticket.

Agencies and TMCs can use the same corporate portals and work in Control Tower. Voraal also offers Rezencia for reservations, Folio6 for travel accounting, and Avunzo, designed to connect content and booking flows to your own channels. Avunzo is not yet live on production; early access is available on request.

If you already know the category you need, move from this hub into the long-form pages, then into the platform and features overviews. Bring your own policy and a recent month of travel activity to a demo. That is a more reliable comparison than a marketing grid.