Most companies run travel in one system and expense in another, with policy living in a document nobody reads. Finance spends the first week of every month reconciling, and travelers spend their own time on paperwork. Here's how Dilithium makes it better for everyone involved.
The booking system knows what was reserved. The card system knows what was charged. Neither knows about the other, so someone spends the first week of every month matching one against the other by hand, and the travel number leadership asks for is always three weeks stale.
Remove the second system. A booking and the card charge that settles it are the same ledger object, written at the moment each happens and coded to department, project and traveler at post time. There is no matching pass because there was never anything to match.
Travel and card activity post as one object in real time, already coded.
Close the period in one step and export to your general ledger.
Burn, approvals, exceptions and close status in one live finance view.
"Our close used to be a scavenger hunt. Now it's just... done."
A policy in a document is a policy someone has to enforce by hand, one expense report at a time, weeks after the trip. By then the only options are to eat the cost or have an awkward conversation with a colleague who was trying to do their job.
Move enforcement into the search results. Rules are evaluated against every fare before it can be selected: out-of-policy options stay visible, with the rule that blocks them stated on the row, but they cannot be booked. Nothing needs correcting later because nothing wrong gets through.
Fare caps, cabin class by duration, booking windows and preferred inventory, set per department.
Every result checked against those rules before the traveler can pick it. Try it on the product page.
Some trips genuinely need to break policy: the customer moved the meeting, the cheap fare is gone. Today that means a Slack thread, an email chain, and a fare that expires while three people work out who is allowed to say yes.
Keep the exception inside the booking flow. The request routes to the person who owns that budget, arrives with the fare difference and the current budget position attached, and holds the fare while it waits. One decision, made by the right person, with the numbers already in front of them.
Exceptions go to the budget owner, in the flow, with the fare held.
The approver sees what this trip does to their quarter before deciding.
Read the policy, guess whether the fare qualifies, keep the receipts, file the report, then find out weeks later that something was wrong. None of that is the employee's job, and every hour of it is an hour not spent on the work the trip was for.
Give the traveler one decision: pick a flight. Everything selectable is already approved, card charges attach themselves to the trip as they settle, and the trip closes itself. No policy to read, no receipts to keep, no report to file.
Book flights, hotels and rail from a phone between meetings; the itinerary lives where it was booked.
Card charges match themselves to the trip as they settle, so there is no report to submit.
"Consultants book flights between client calls. It has to just work — it does."
Finance, travel ops or both. We will run the demo against your policy and your close process.