Amadeus Cytric vs Mesh Travel

Amadeus Cytric is a SaaS platform for corporate travel and expense management, available through web, mobile, and Microsoft Teams. Cytric Easy lets travelers search and book flights, hotels, rail, and ground transportation. Travel managers can offer content from GDS, aggregators, and direct suppliers, including NDC content, with policy options and customizable workflows to manage inventory and compliance. Cytric Expense supports the process from report creation through accounting entries and reimbursement. It can export accounting files to a company ERP with configurable frequency, file type, and data. The two products integrate with Microsoft Teams for travel planning, expense collaboration, and approvals. The mobile app supports trip management and submitting, reviewing, or approving expense reports. Other capabilities include virtual payments, automated invoice reconciliation, analytics and custom reports, and tools to prevent, monitor, and respond to travel disruptions, fraud, and international restrictions. Sustainability features include CO2 reporting, carbon offset calculations, and paperless expense reporting. Amadeus lists an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate covering specified Cytric products in production and test environments.

Mesh Travel manages business travel and expenses from request through reimbursement, with booking, policy controls, expense automation, and traveler visibility. Travelers can book online or offline and contact agents in the app. Mesh supports different travel management solutions for global subsidiaries, executive white-glove services, and connections to customers' preferred Travel Management Companies to sync trip data. It combines itineraries with transaction data to track travelers in real time. The platform collects and tags receipts and captures spending from unmanaged bookings and expenses incurred during trips. Guest travelers can have separate policies, approval flows, travel cards, and automated receipt collection and coding. Customizable rules can set spending limits, approved vendors, and expense categories, with enforcement through the platform and traveler cards. Mesh also lists integrations with accounting software, TMCs, HRIS, and other apps, including ADP Workforce Now. It is available on web, Android, and iOS. The Pro plan is free for up to three users; Premium costs $13 a month per user. Enterprise pricing is custom. Mesh lists SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II reports and PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider compliance.