What's new in Perk - September 2026

Air France Carte Abonnement now bookable on Perk

Travel September 30, 2026

Travelers can now save their Air France Carte Abonnement (classic or "Outre-Mer") in the Wallet section of their profile and book Air France subscriber fares on their own. Once saved, the card applies automatically to every flight search, and subscriber fares appear in results next to all other fares with a "program fare" label. Travelers can search, book, and get ticketed end to end without contacting Customer Care, and cancellations and changes on Carte Abonnement bookings can be handled online.

Note: If you pick a subscriber fare for one leg, the whole itinerary and every passenger must also use subscriber fares.

Carte Abonné fares are currently available through a specific booking channel that applies an additional distribution fee. As a result, prices on Perk may be slightly higher than those available directly on the airline’s website.

Book multi-carrier train journeys in one go

Travel September 23, 2026

Cross-border and mixed-operator rail journeys — such as Paris to Berlin on SNCF and Deutsche Bahn, or a Spanish round trip combining Renfe and Iryo — now book as a single transaction in Perk. Search surfaces the best combined route options across carriers, giving travelers a wider choice of routes and a smoother checkout without juggling separate one-way bookings per leg. Automated cancellations are fully supported, and automated modifications work for inbound and outbound legs from different suppliers.

Clearer car search results when rental offices are closed

Travel September 23, 2026

If you search for a car with a pick-up time outside the rental office's opening hours, Perk now adjusts your search to the office's earliest opening time, or to 10:00 if we don't know the hours. Before you see results, a pop-up tells you exactly what changed and shows the office's opening hours when we have them, so you can edit your search with the right information. Perk only moves your search to a different office when there's no office at the location you requested, so you always see cars you can actually pick up, as close as possible to the time you asked for.

Cancel Advance fares covered by FlexiTravel

Travel September 21, 2026

You can now cancel UK Advance train fares covered by FlexiTravel directly from the manage trip form. Cancel both legs of a round trip and your full FlexiTravel refund is processed automatically. Where only one leg is eligible, you'll see the fare conditions clearly so you can cancel just that leg.

Search like last time: Stays

Travel September 21, 2026

When you return to book a hotel after leaving a search unfinished, Perk now shows a banner offering to pick up exactly where you left off. One tap restores your destination, dates, and any filters you'd applied — dropping you straight back at results instead of making you rebuild the search. Half of all abandoned stays searches are revisited within the same trip, making this especially useful for frequent travelers who tend to search the same cities repeatedly.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: WBS Elements now import automatically as cost objects

Expense Invoice Card September 21, 2026

The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition connector now automatically imports SAP Enterprise Projects and Professional Service Projects — called WBS Elements in SAP — as cost objects in Perk, alongside Cost Centers. Customers using project-based cost allocation in SAP can now assign travel expenses and card transactions to the right project directly in Perk, without manually loading data each time. Because WBS Elements can change daily in SAP, automatic import keeps Perk in sync without any manual intervention.

Keyless car rental now available with Virtuo

Travel September 18, 2026

Virtuo, a keyless, app-based car rental service, is now available to book in Perk. Travelers in France and at three locations in the UK can book a Virtuo car through Perk and unlock and start it using the Virtuo app — no rental desk or key handover needed. Use pay at pick-up as the supported payment method, and Perk customers get 250km per day of included mileage, above Virtuo's standard 200km per day.

Italo seat maps now available

Travel September 17, 2026

Travelers can now select their seat when booking Italo trains in Perk, using the same interactive seat map already available for Renfe, SNCF, Ouigo France, and Deutsche Bahn. Italo accounts for around 30% of Italian train booking volume in Perk, and seat selection is one of the most-requested train features — with this update, Italian rail bookings get the same pick-your-seat experience as Spain, France, and Germany. Paid seat selection is included in the trip total at checkout.

Automatic alerts when a payment can't be collected

Travel Expense Invoice Card Events September 16, 2026

When Perk can't collect a payment — whether by card or bank transfer, your billing contact and account admins now receive an email automatically with everything needed to resolve it: the invoice number, charge date, outstanding amount and currency, and two self-serve options to pay right away. You can add a new payment card or pay by bank transfer, with bank details pre-filled for your Perk entity and invoice currency, without needing to raise a support ticket.

Hotel descriptions now show in your language

Travel September 14, 2026

Hotel descriptions on the Stays Hotel Details page now appear in your configured Perk language — French, German, Italian, or Spanish — where a translation is available from the hotel. You get richer, easier-to-read property information without switching languages or searching elsewhere.

Approve trip changes from the Perk mobile app

Travel September 14, 2026

Approvers now receive a push notification and an in-app alert when a trip modification request is waiting for their review — a request type that previously only triggered email and web notifications. Tapping the notification opens a review screen in the app where you can approve or decline with a single tap; the traveler is notified right away and the modification is handled immediately.

With around 1,000 trip modification requests needing approval each month, and approval waits averaging up to 30 hours, slow responses can leave travelers watching fares climb or seats sell out. Around 25% of approvals happen on a phone and 30% of approvers are already active in the mobile app — getting requests there means faster decisions without anyone needing to switch to a desktop.

New languages now available in Perk

Travel Expense Invoice Card Events September 11, 2026

Perk is now available in Polish, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, European Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Czech, Bulgarian, Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, and Ukrainian. Set your preferred display language from your user preferences — the setting applies across all screens in both the web app and mobile app.

Reimbursements now export to NetSuite

Expense September 11, 2026

Reimbursed expenses now export cleanly to Oracle NetSuite, removing a gap that previously blocked NetSuite-connected companies from using Perk's reimbursement feature. When a reimbursed expense is exported, Perk automatically creates an Expense Report and a Bill Payment in NetSuite — the Bill Payment marks the report as Paid in Full, eliminating any risk of a duplicate payment to the employee. If a Bill Payment fails due to a configuration issue, Perk retries automatically up to three times before flagging it for manual review. A status field on the Expense Report shows exactly where the process stands so finance teams aren't left guessing.

Available to customers running NetSuite connector version 1.7.0 or later, with the Reimbursement setting enabled per legal entity.

Mark supplier invoices as exported

Invoice September 11, 2026

Admins and finance teams can now mark supplier invoices as exported at any point once they reach Ready for export status — not only while an export is actively running. If invoices were already successfully imported into your finance system through another route, you can update their status in Perk yourself without raising a support ticket or waiting for an engineering fix. Error messages on bulk export actions now also identify which specific invoices failed and show the real reason, rather than returning a generic failure message.

Export Log statuses are now more accurate

Expense Invoice September 10, 2026

The export log now gives you a reliable signal. When a trip report or attachment export has nothing to generate — for example, an all-mileage expense batch with no receipts to bundle, or an expense with no associated trip data — the status reflects that correctly. A Failed status now means exactly what it should: something needs your attention.

Previously, those cases also showed as Failed — the same status as a genuine error — making it impossible to tell at a glance whether an export needed action or had simply produced nothing to bundle.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition: custom field mapping and multi-language cost centers

Expense Invoice Card September 8, 2026

The SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition connector now supports custom field mapping and cost center imports in local languages. You can map additional Perk fields — such as a travel invoice number or a card's last four digits — to any SAP standard or custom header and line-item fields for expense and card-transaction exports. Cost Center Names and Descriptions can now also be imported in the language of your choice, configured per Company Code, so your finance team sees cost center data that matches their local naming rather than a default English import.

Custom field mapping: map Perk fields to SAP standard header and line-item fields, or to custom SAP fields (those prefixed with YY1_), via the new Custom Header Information Properties and Custom Line Item Information Properties settings.
Multi-language cost centers: configure the import language per Company Code and legal entity so cost center data arrives ready to use, without translation steps on your side.

Customizable role permissions for travel managers

Travel September 8, 2026

Account admins can now control whether travel managers are allowed to skip booking approvals for the people they manage — a setting that was previously fixed on for all travel managers with no way to change it. You can customize the settings for the Travel manager role, and any change takes effect immediately and applies account-wide to every travel manager. Every change is logged with the person who made the change, timestamp, and old and new value for audit purposes.

Available on Pro plan only.

DATEV exports now handle fiscal year boundaries automatically

Expense Invoice Card September 7, 2026

DATEV expense exports now work reliably across fiscal year boundaries. Perk now automatically splits cross-year export batches into one export per business year — including trip expenses — so every export succeeds without any manual intervention. This applies to all DATEV API-connected legal entities across all export paths: scheduled, automatic, and manual, including via Buchungsdatenservice.

Previously, DATEV's system would reject an entire export batch outright if it contained entries from more than one business year. Customers had to manually split the batch before export.

Book and view trips for others, now on mobile

Travel September 2, 2026

Travel managers and executive assistants can now book and view trips on behalf of other travelers directly from the Perk mobile app — a capability that was previously desktop-only. They can view who's traveling, full trip details, and itineraries for bookings made for others. Making changes or cancellations to those bookings still requires desktop. Requires iOS v5.27.1 or Android v5.29.0 or later.

Around 20% of all bookings are made for someone other than the booker. Travel managers and executive assistants who needed to book last-minute travel or review trips on the go had no way to do this from the mobile app until now.

Factur-X: machine-readable invoices for French billing entities

Travel September 1, 2026

Companies with a French billing entity can now receive Perk invoices in Factur-X format — a hybrid PDF that looks identical to the standard invoice but includes embedded structured XML data that accounting and accounts payable systems can read automatically. Admins choose Factur-X or standard PDF per billing entity from the Billing page, and invoices are automatically forwarded in the chosen format to the billing email on file.

This removes the need for AP teams to manually re-enter supplier details, amounts, and VAT line items into their ERP for every Perk invoice. France's e-invoicing mandate entered full effect on September 1, 2026. Individual Factur-X downloads are also available directly from the invoice list.

Car delivery and collection now available with Europcar