Lodge Account
- A single monthly travel payment improves cash flow and reduces administration
- Regular Management Information reports help you analyse expenses more efficiently
- Centralised travel arrangements for enhanced staff security
- Seamless integration into your existing booking systems and those of your Travel Management Company
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Overview
How a Lodge Account helps your business
If your organisation spends a significant amount on air travel, a Lodge Account will streamline your booking and payment processes. Detailed reports show where greater expense control is needed, helping you enforce corporate travel policies.
Conveniently, this account can be combined with other Barclaycard payment solutions to create a total travel payment package. Corporate Cards, for instance, can be used to complement the Lodge Account by taking care of staff's ancillary spend, when they're away on business.
All your travel in one place
Cut administration costs and improve cash flow by streamlining every travel booking and payment your company makes, into a single system. After lodging your account with your Travel Management Company (TMC), making a single monthly Visa payment settles all your bills.
Centralising travel arrangements has the added benefit of allowing you to locate staff on business trips, enhancing their security especially in emergencies.
Closely monitor travel activity
We can provide reports in any common data format that your company uses, so they can be shared within your business systems.
This data gives greater visibility of all your business travel, allowing you to negotiate reduced travel rates and increase buying power with your TMC.
An easier way to enforce your travel policy
There's no need for staff to carry excessive spending limits on individual corporate cards as travel bookings can be charged to your lodged account. This benefit and the ability to see where employees travelled, how much their trips cost and who they travelled with, make it easier to see who's adhering to your travel policy.
Terms and conditions apply
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How it works
Using a Lodge Account
When you apply, you set an agreed company account limit and all existing business travel arrangements continue as before, through your Travel Management Company (TMC).
To make reconciliation easier, every booking made is recorded on your Lodge report and there's no need to make a payment until your monthly statement arrives. And since the Lodge Account is a charge card product, as long as your bill's settled in full every month, there's usually no interest charged.
Once it's set up, the Lodge Account simplifies your processes at different stages of staff business trips.
Before leaving...
Since the account is integrated with your TMC's planning and booking systems, they can provide you with an analysis of your employees' travel plans, prior to departure.
…during a trip
All travel arrangements are centralised, making it easier to quickly locate all members of staff who are away on business.
Corporate Cards can be used to complement a Lodge Account, taking care of employees' ancillary spend.
…and upon return
You receive data reports, with references that you select, to help you analyse spend with various suppliers.
Once a month, your business makes a consolidated payment via a single Direct Debit, company cheque or BACS transfer. Usually, there's no interest charged and payment isn't required until you've received your monthly statement.
