Personal travel on Perk lets your travelers book their own personal travel in the same Perk account they use for work, paid on their own personal card and kept fully separate from your company. This article explains what offering personal travel means for you as an admin: what it costs, what it adds to your workload, and how it stays out of your company's books.
In short: personal travel is a benefit you can offer your employees at no cost to your company. It never touches your reporting, your payment methods, your budgets, or your approval flows.
Note: Personal travel is currently in beta phase and available to a selected group of customers.
Why offer personal travel
Personal travel answers something your employees already do: mix personal time when traveling for business. They extend a stay over the weekend, add personal days before or after business travel, or bring a partner along. Today, that personal part usually gets booked on consumer sites, outside the tool they use for work.
With personal travel on Perk, your employees get one place for all their travel, and you get to offer that as a benefit at no cost, while everything personal stays the traveler's own. To learn more about what your travelers experience, see Booking personal travel on Perk.
Clean books by design
Personal travel stays out of your company's books entirely. There is nothing for your finance team to filter out or reconcile:
- Your reporting and accounting reflect business travel only. Personal travel creates no entries in company reporting, the Spend product, or your ERP.
- Personal invoices are issued to the traveler, not your company, and don't sync to any company system.
- The invoice emails Perk sends your company stay business-only. No personal travel invoices ever arrive in your finance team's inbox.
- Your cost object budgets stay untouched. Personal travel does not touch your cost object budgets.
Personal travel is also kept private from your company by design. To learn more about the privacy model, see How personal travel stays private.
No extra costs for the company
Personal travel adds nothing to what your company pays Perk, and it can't consume anything your company has paid for:
- Personal travel doesn't count toward Pro or Premium subscription usage, so it doesn't use up your plan.
- Business vouchers can't be spent on personal travel.
- FlexiTravel and Green Trip are not available for personal travel, so no fees for these services are charged.
- Booking fees do not apply to personal travel.
No added admin work
Some companies already allow personal bookings through their business travel setup, and then recover the money from the employee afterward. That means invoices to correct, payments to chase, and finance time spent on travel the company never meant to pay for. Personal travel on Perk removes that shadow work: the traveler pays on their own personal card at the moment of booking, so there is nothing to recover, reimburse, or correct.
It also creates no new work for your admins, approvers, or finance team day to day. Personal travel has no approval flow, so nothing arrives in an approver's queue. And no travel policy applies, so there are no policy exceptions to review or manage.
Caution: If an employee books personal travel and later leaves your company, you can't remove their access until that travel has taken place. Once the travel is past, you can offboard the employee.
Payment methods never mix
Personal travel and business travel use strictly separate payment methods. Personal cards can't be selected at business checkout, and corporate payment methods can't be selected for personal travel. A traveler's private companions can't be selected as travelers on business trips either, so an employee can't accidentally book leisure guests on your company's payment methods.
You control availability
Coming soon: this control isn't live yet.
Company admins will get a control in company settings to turn personal travel on or off for their account. The control covers whether the feature is available to your travelers, not what your company can see: the privacy model stays the same either way. To learn more, see How personal travel stays private.