Happay vs Mesh Travel

Happay is a cloud-based business spend management platform for corporate spending, expense claims, reimbursements, and spending insights. Its products include travel and expense management, fleet management, petty cash, employee tax benefits, invoice-to-pay, and travel self-booking. Xpendite collects expense data from six or more sources, while receipt scanning supports expense reporting. SmartAudit flags policy violations and duplicate bills; Happay says its GST engine captures and verifies receipt tax details. ApprovNow provides real-time updates to approvers, employees, and finance teams. Travelers can book flights, hotels, and cabs through the Self Booking Tool. Listed ERP and HRMS integrations include SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Tally, Ramco, and Workday, with bidirectional sync. Happay describes the platform as ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified, with encryption, SSO, open APIs, and role-based access. It supports multiple approval levels, cost centers, mileage reimbursement, per diem, and bank payouts. The listed platforms are Android, iOS, and web. Pricing is on request, though a free Epic plan is also listed.

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.