At a glance
Navan, formerly TripActions, combines corporate travel booking with expense management and a card program. Its strongest claim is that booking and expense really are one product. The cost of a trip is known before anyone files anything about it.
Best for
Teams whose expenses are mostly everyday operating spend, supplier invoices and in-person purchases, with flights and hotels a smaller share.
Where it's stronger
Best for
Choose Navan if your people travel constantly and you want booking, travel policy and expenses in a single flow for the traveller.
Where it's stronger
Every comparison on this site names what the other product does better. If we couldn't think of anything, we didn't publish the page.
Side by side
These are structural differences, not plan checkboxes. Capabilities change, so check the vendor's own documentation before deciding on any single row.
Booking managed business travel
Receipts issued by the merchant
Supplier invoices and accounts payable
Corporate and virtual cards
The spend profile each one suits
None of this needs a big-bang cutover. Most teams run both tools for one cycle and compare capture rates before switching anyone off.
Travel booking and everyday receipt capture are separate problems. Plenty of teams keep one tool for each.
Map categories against the ledger you already use, and coded receipts and supplier bills post there from then on.
Roll out capture on non-travel spending first. That's usually where the volume is and where line detail goes missing.
After a full quarter, compare capture rate and unreconciled transactions on each side. The first month flatters whatever is new.
FAQ
What people ask us before they sign up.
Keep comparing
The products people evaluate alongside Navan.
The long-time enterprise T&E standard, set against Smartbills on setup time and on where the receipt comes from.
Read the comparisonA corporate card program with spend management built around it. The comparison turns on what a card feed can and can't tell you.
Read the comparisonCards and business banking for US companies. This comparison is about the purchase document behind each card charge.
Read the comparisonEach product works on its own, and when you run two, the same record carries from the receipt to the ledger entry.
Capture receipts, categorize expenses and check policy compliance as expenses are submitted.
Accounts payable automation that reads each supplier invoice, codes it and matches it to the purchase order before anyone is asked to approve payment.
Corporate cards with receipt capture, coming soon: the itemized receipt arrives with the card transaction, and each card's limit comes from your budget.
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Bring one month of your own receipts and card transactions, and we'll show you the capture rate on both sides instead of a slide deck.
