Pre-Trip Decision Support

Travel budgets run on old habits and hunches.
How wasteful.
TripTester pulls every trip's credit score before it's booked.

TripTester links every proposed business trip to its business goal — then builds credit scores based on each trip's expected value and risks. The result: sharper budget allocations, less low-value spend, and a travel portfolio that makes sense to the whole business.

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Pre-trip credit score sample

Annual Conference Goal: Build Trust

SFO → LON in Prem. Eco. · 5 nights

440 / 1,000
★★ ★★★

Fairly weak

Financials (USD)

Maximum justifiable cost$4,000
Trip cost, est.−$3,500
Marginal value-add$500
Pre-trip ROI15%

Travel risks

Traveler concernsLow
Cabin frictionHigh
Jet lag riskHigh
Destination riskLow
Carbon intensity riskHigh

The Problem

No lender would make a loan
without checking a credit score.

Yet companies allocate millions in travel spend every year without gauging the value of the trips they're funding.

TripTester brings credit scoring to the table.
Low-value trips leave the room.

The Prize

24%

of business trips produce low value — consuming budget while delivering little or no measurable return on investment.*

Until now, Finance had no way to gauge a trip's value.
TripTester solves this problem.
The Finance team takes a bow.

* The Justified Business Trip, tClara LLC  ·  Survey of 407 US business travelers  ·  2023

Willingness to pay

One question reveals any trip's value.

"What's the most this trip could cost and still be worth taking?"

Willingness to pay is the most direct measure of a trip's value. When a traveler answers this question, they're making a clear claim about the trip's importance.

The more important the trip, the higher the maximum justifiable cost.

Travelers explicitly link travel's cost and value.
Executives approve trips with confidence.

The research behind TripTester's approach:

The Justified Business Trip whitepaper cover

April 2023 · 47 pages · Survey of 407 US business travelers

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Any traveler can claim a high trip value.
TripTester puts that claim on the record — and makes it theirs to defend.

How It Works

Two minutes to rate a trip. Instant clarity about booking it.

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Enter the trip's purpose, itinerary, and expected cost

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Decide the most this trip could cost and still be worth taking

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TripTester computes the risk-adjusted value of the trip

4

Receive an objective pre-trip rating with full financial valuation

Low-value trips — and their emissions — are identified before they're booked.
High-value trips are easier to fund and defend.
Travel budgets are proposed, managed, and measured using CFO-centric metrics.

Travel Spending Clarity

See how well — or not — travel budgets are being used.

  • Travel spend linked to business goals.
  • Grouped by pre-trip rating.
  • Questionable spend exposed.
This interactive chart is the tip of TripTester's analytical iceberg.
ILLUSTRATIVE DATA
Main Reason For Traveling Total Spend
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SPEND RATED: — = 100%
SPEND ON ≤2-STAR TRIPS: —
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PRE-TRIP RATINGS

Environmental Impact

Carbon discipline, built into every rating.

Trips that justify the higher price of low carbon-intensity airfares earn stronger ratings — because willingness to pay higher fares signals higher trip value.

That's one way TripTester eliminates low-value trips and their pesky carbon emissions. No offsets. No mandates. No carbon budgets. Just better use of travel budgets.

Learn More About Sustainable Business Travel Programs and Policies

The Strategically Sustainable Business Travel Program 45 pages · 2024 · tClara LLC
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Who TripTester Is For

Designed for Finance.
Built to maximize travel's value.

CFOs, Finance Directors & Controllers

  • Manage the travel budget like a capital portfolio, not an expense pool
  • Connect every travel dollar to the business goal it's meant to serve
  • Systematically prevent low-value travel spend
  • Reduce carbon emissions easily with better travel decisions

Travel Budget Managers

  • Build CFO-friendly cases for new travel budgets
  • Boost your travel budget's ROI by funding the right trips
  • See where travel helps — or doesn't help — achieve your business goals
  • Replace hunches and old habits with unbiased decision support
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Pre-Trip Decision Support

Credit scores for business trips

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