How do the current travel policies differ from the new and improved ones? ✨

The new 'Travel policies' enrich the current offering by introducing the ability to set amounts for tiers (e.g., Employees, VPs, and C-Suite) and locations (e.g., traveling from London to New York), enabling more accurate budget calculations.

Important: Mesh does not create or define your travel policy. Instead, it uses your existing policy as input to help reinforce and support it.

Note: The following article details how to configure the new Travel policies.

Admins and Travel Managers can navigate to the 'Travel' section, click 'Trips', followed by the ellipsis icon in the upper right corner, and select the 'Manage Travel Policy' link.

Mesh provides default policies covering flights, hotels, per diem, transportation, and car rental, with the option to include additional policies such as communication or laundry.

When configuring a policy you can provide a name, decide if it is active, specify to which spend category it belongs, add relevant guidelines, and, except for flights, enable the 'time off' option.

Each policy includes a 'Spend limit' per day/night, and amounts per tier and location can be specified. The sections allow Administrators and Travel Managers to add more locations and change the values for those locations by clicking on the ellipsis icon, editing the values, specifying currency, and clicking 'Save'.

Some policies allow you to specify how the budget is calculated, its availability, and to whom it is allocated. The following is also true when adding a new policy. 

The 'Per diem' policy offers two more options: 'Exclude budget from traveler’s Mesh card' and 'Automatically create reimbursement request for the traveler’s unused per diems'. 

Note: The per diem expense is canceled automatically upon cancellation of the trip.

Lastly, the 'Flights' policy provides additional segmentation, duration, and the ability to specify cabin class preferences for each tier and route.