Every booking made through Concur is captured immediately — air, hotel, car rental. Finance can pull reports by traveler, department, cost center, or destination at any time. There's no waiting for expense reports or credit card statements. The data is there the moment the booking is confirmed.
For Finance Directors & CFOs
Corporate travel should show up in your budget — before the credit card statement.
Finance directors choose Telios because they're tired of finding out what travel cost after the fact. We give you real-time visibility, policy enforcement, and vendor negotiations that make travel spending predictable and controllable.
What finance teams get
$78K
saved annually — insurance client on $1.2M travel spend
7%
reduction in total travel costs — without cutting trips
40→70%
policy compliance improvement over two years
Your reality
What managing travel looks like without a proper program
Most finance directors at mid-size companies don't find out what travel cost until the credit card statement arrives. By then, the money is spent, the policy wasn't followed, and there's nothing to do about it.
You need spend visibility before the month closes. You need policy enforcement at the point of booking — not after. And you need someone proactively negotiating vendor rates so you're not paying retail on every trip.
No spend visibility until month-end — travelers book on consumer sites, expenses come through on personal cards with no categorization
Policy on paper, ignored in practice — no mechanism to enforce cabin class limits, advance booking requirements, or preferred vendor rules
Unused credits expiring unnoticed — cancelled flights generate credits nobody tracks, thousands of dollars lost every year
No negotiated rates — paying rack rate on hotels and car rentals because nobody has the bandwidth to negotiate contracts
What changes
What a Telios program gives finance
Every booking goes through SAP Concur — your policy is enforced at the point of selection, not reviewed after the fact. Finance sees every transaction in real time. Your account manager presents a quarterly business review with spend by category, policy compliance rate, and flagged savings opportunities.
We also negotiate hotel and car rental rates from day one — based on your actual travel patterns, not generic corporate rates. The contracts belong to you. If you ever leave Telios, you keep every negotiated rate.
Read: 6 ways to build a corporate travel budget that holds up →
What we solve
Six things finance directors stop worrying about
01
Real-time spend visibility
Every booking captured in SAP Concur the moment it's made. Finance sees air, hotel, and car rental spend by traveler, department, or destination — not at month end.
02
Policy enforcement at booking
Spending limits, cabin class rules, and advance booking requirements are configured directly in Concur. Out-of-policy bookings are flagged or routed for approval before they're confirmed.
03
Manager approval workflows
Set thresholds that trigger automatic approval requests — any booking over $X, any business class booking, any international trip. Finance controls what requires sign-off.
04
Negotiated vendor rates
Hotel and car rental contracts negotiated based on your volume. Typically 10–15% off rack rate. Your contracts, your savings — even if you ever change TMCs.
05
Unused credit recovery
Every cancelled ticket generates a credit. We track them, flag expiration dates, and apply them to future bookings before they're lost. Thousands recovered annually for companies with regular travel.
06
Quarterly business reviews
Your account manager presents spend by category, compliance rates, vendor rate performance, and specific savings opportunities every quarter. Finance has the data to make better decisions.
Backed by results
Numbers finance directors actually care about.
$78K
saved annually — insurance client on $1.2M in travel spend
7%
reduction in total travel costs without cutting a single trip
40→70%
policy compliance improvement over two years
Common questions
Finance & corporate travel
Yes. SAP Concur supports configurable approval workflows based on spend thresholds, cabin class, trip type, or any other criteria you set. Any booking that meets the trigger goes to the designated approver before it's confirmed. Finance controls who approves what.
Telios charges per transaction — a flat fee for online bookings and a separate rate for agent-assisted bookings. For most companies at $100K–$2M in annual travel spend, the savings from negotiated rates, unused credit recovery, and policy compliance improvements offset program costs within the first year. We're happy to model this for your specific spend level.
All vendor contracts negotiated on your behalf belong to you — not to Telios. Hotel rates, car rental agreements, airline preferred programs. If you ever change TMCs, every rate you've built stays with your company.
3–4 weeks from signing to fully live for a new Concur setup. If you're transferring an existing Concur instance from another TMC, the technical transfer takes one day — the surrounding work (policy review, rate uploads, team training) takes a few additional days. Most companies are fully running within two weeks of a transfer.
Ready to see what your travel is actually costing you?
We'll walk you through what a Telios program looks like for your spend level — visibility, savings, and what the ROI looks like in year one.
