Streamlining group travel booking and management with AllFly

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Streamlining group travel booking and management with AllFly

BoomPop Team · 11/15/2023

At BoomPop, we understand the challenges businesses face when organizing company events. That's why our partnership with AllFly ensures a seamless travel booking experience for groups.

AllFly has redefined the landscape of group air travel, addressing the shortcomings of traditional platforms by prioritizing the user experience and revolutionizing the approach to travel management. Quest, with its unique focus on "Events," enables companies to effortlessly manage travel for meetings and events, making it a game-changer in the industry.

Today, we are thrilled to feature a guest post from our valued partner, AllFly, shedding light on what makes their corporate travel booking platform, Quest, truly unique.

What Makes AllFly Quest Special

Let’s be honest about something up front.

There are a lot of options out there in the market when it comes to B2B travel booking software. AllFly and BoomPop have partnered up to ensure executing your next team offsite goes off without a hitch.

Legacy travel booking platforms lack the features and functionality that reflect the needs of modern companies and travelers. AllFly Quest set out to right this wrong and built a whole host of features designed to streamline the group travel booking process while saving companies money.

And while competition in the corporate travel booking space is tough, AllFly Quest has signed up over 100 customers in the last 12 months. Here are some of the features and benefits customers love.

It all starts with “Events”

Inside of Quest, we built the concept of an Event. In talking with customers, often travel for meetings & events accounts for over 50% of total travel spend. Traveling for meetings is different from booking everyday transient business travel.

Creating an “event” allows company travel managers to do a few magical things:

Manage which users are eligible to attend the event
Create permissions around guest travel, including who pays for the guest
Enforce event level travel policy
Get event level reports, including arrival and departure lists

Bleisure travel is hear to stay

Although we don’t love the word “bleisure” it is certainly a trend that is here to stay. Employees are extending business trips and taking some personal time, often bringing along loved ones and families.

This trend needs to be supported inside of travel products.

Quest has a series of controls that allow companies the ability to approve or reject trip extensions. Quest strikes a nice balance between giving both the company and the traveler control over trip extensions and who foots what part of the bill.

Guest & unprofiled travelers are handled with ease

Legacy travel platforms don’t even allow you to shop flights for more than 1 person. Platforms that are built for expense management first don’t have the concept of a guest.

In 1999, John from sales simply went on his business trip for 2 days, came home, uploaded receipts, and was reimbursed. In 2023, businesses travel in a whole new way. The company offsite, the President’s Club trip, they often make room for employees to let a guest tag along.

Inside of travel products, guests need to be labeled, identified, and empowered.

With AllFly Quest, we built a flexible ecosystem and set of controls that make guests first class citizens inside the platform.

Get cash back on canceled tickets

AllFly offers cash back on canceled airline tickets.

In the corporate travel world, typically canceled tickets get converted to the dreaded eCredit and sit on the traveler’s profile. eCredits are non-transferrable, meaning the value of the ticket is lost to the company.

Each year, companies lose billions of dollars due to canceled corporate travel. Our internal cancellation rate on air travel for team offsites is about 4-5%. This means an offsite of 100 people can expect that 5 people cancel their trips. If the average airline ticket is $600, this means the company loses $2,400 worth of value on these tickets.

AllFly rights this wrong and offers cash back to the company on canceled tickets on select airlines.