Travel and Expense Platform Features | Lanes & Planes
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Trip search
Transport results
Hotel results
Results
Checkout
Mobile App
User account
Company account
Accounting
Service
Trip search
Departure & destination input via Google Maps
Through the implementation of Google Maps addresses, it's possible to request company names, POIs, train stations, airports etc. precisely by address.
Storage of departure and destination favourites
Home, work and many more favourite addresses as a shortcut for departure or destination (store in your user account, check below)
Guest travelers
One time-travelers, who aren't regular users or employees of your company get the chance be booked as a guest, e.g. freelancers or job interviews. The confirmation, including all tickets, will be send straight to the bookers mailbox and can be administered in the booker's Lanes & Planes user account.
Role dependent search & booking features
While a user with role description “traveler” can only book for himself/herself and fellow travelers, an “admin” or “travel assistant” can also book for other users without traveling himself/herself...
Consideration of profile data of all travelers
When booking, all user data and preferences that you registered in your user account are already taken into account, like Bahncard or Miles & More (see also "user account")
Transport results
Available means of transportation
Flight, coach, train, rental car.
Option for free combination
E.g. Deutsche Bahn there, Flixbus back, Lufthansa there, Easyjet back. Lanes & Planes is by the way also checking if two one-way tickets are cheaper than a round trip – which is the case in more than 20%.
Open jaw flight / Open jaw journey
Search and book journeys with different start and end points. Travelling from A to B and from C to D possible.
Lufthansa Direct Connect
No GDS / DCC fee, Light und Saver rates, all rates (so-called Fare Families available) incl. continuous pricing, due to Direct Connect to Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian, Brussels, Air Dolomiti and Discover Airlines, L&P uses the newest NDC API available...
Direct Connect: Air France & KLM
No GDS / DCC fee, all rates (so-called Fare Families available) incl. continuous pricing, L&P uses the newest NDC API available...
Direct Connect: Delta, British Airways
Same rates, prices and availabilities as shown on the airlines' websites.
Low Cost Carrier Direct Connect
Direct connect to Ryanair, Eurowings, Easyjet, Vueling, Wizzair and so on...
Deutsche Bahn Direct Connect inkl. Bahn.Business
Same (B2C) rates and prices as on bahn.de...
Flixbus & Flixtrain Direct Connect
Same rates, prices and availabilities as shown on the Flixbus website.
International train services
Bookings possible for ÖBB, WESTBahn, SBB, SNCF, Thalys, TGV Lyria and Eurostar.
Door-to-door by public transport or taxi
Inter- & Multimodal, meaning coverage "How do I get to the airport or from the train station to my final destination"...
Choice between all available rates
Many platforms only offer the cheapest ticket and, best case, a flexible rate at extra charge...
Flight cabin class filter
Flight search can be predefined by Economy class, Premium Economy class, Business class and First class.
Real-time prices & availability
Lanes & Planes passes on so-called temporary storage of queries, which is technically more advanced and expensive but makes sure that way, that all requested results and rates are still available.
Choice between all available rental car providers
Direct comparability of all available car rental providers at the selected location incl. differentiation between Lanes & Planes rates and negotiated customer rates.
Sixt Direct connect
Lanes & Planes has direct connect to Sixt, so that all Sixt rental car offers can be booked live via the system and with negotiated travel agency rates.
Rental car-Amadeus connect
In addition to Sixt, Lanes & Planes also offers Hertz, Europcar, Avis, Enterprise and National as another car rental provider for direct booking in the system. Besides public rates, your own negotiated company rates are also available...
More rental car suppliers
Lanes & Planes is a registered travel agency with many more rental car agencies like Sunny Cars...
Hotel results
Booking.com, HRS, Expedia + >70 Hotel platforms
Only those who have the biggest variety of platforms, direct connections, bed banks...
Exclusive access on Booking.com "Genius Business"
This program falls back to approx. 300,000 so-called non-public rates...
Negotiated key account rates /-buying syndicate
Lanes & Planes arranged so-called non-public rates with big hotel chains...
Loading of individually negotiated hotel rates
If you have certain negotiated hotel rates within your company, you can deposit those in Lanes & Planes.
Record of preferred hotels
Hotels preferred by the company can be saved and prioritized on result page.
Record of personal favourite hotels
To show favored hotels directly as favourites, users can mark them as favourites.
Hotel Details Filter
Hotels can now be filtered by room category, breakfast, cancellation policies, and prepaid rates.
Warning of trade fairs & upcoming major events
To see at a glance if there's a trade fair or big event going on at the time of your booking request that influence availability and prices.
Choice of hotel via map
Due to an accurate location search of Lanes & Planes, hotels can be picked in immediate proximity to your destination.
Airbnb natively integrated in hotel search
Lanes & Planes integrates Airbnb results directly into its hotel search...
Use Europe's largest business travel inventory
At Lanes & Planes you benefit from Europe's most comprehensive B2B travel inventory. Save valuable time, effort, and money...
Results
Check on individual travel guidelines
When booking flights, trains, buses, rental cars, and hotels, it's now shown directly in the results list whether an offer complies with the applicable travel policy...
Checkout
Shopping cart principle
With our One-Stop-Shopping solution, you can chose and combine all travel services individually...
Seat selection on planes
With our graphic seat choice the favourite seat on the plane can be chosen or bought.
Seat selection on Deutsche Bahn trains
The preferred seat for Deutsche Bahn bookings can be selected through a graphical seat selection.
Cost center, cost unit, references & reason for the trip
To make it easier for accounting while finishing your booking, cost centers, cost units, reference numbers, reason for traveling as well as invoice profiles can be added...
No deposit of credit card needed
To finish the booking there's no need to add a credit card...
Outlook- & iCal appointments
Straight during booking, all travel services can be added directly as appointments in Outlook or any other sort of calendar.
Tickets via email, user account & mobile app
With booking you immediately get all tickets & hotel vouchers (including assumption of costs) as a download...
Mobile App
For iOS & Android
The Lanes & Planes app is available for iPhone and Android...
Search & booking within the app
Within the Lanes & Planes app you can search the same way you search and book online.
Digital trip companion
Take a look at all your upcoming trips in the overview and exact flight- and changing times, trip schedule, as well as hotel numbers.
Tickets & Voucher
This means, all travelers can access all tickets & vouchers within the app, also offline...
Boarding Pass / mobile boarding ticket
Travelers don't need to check in themselves...
Live flight status
In the Lanes & Planes app, travellers can view the current status of their flight live...
Change of reservation within the app
Since it can get hectic for travelers, especially on the road...
Travel expense report & receipts
Lanes & Planes is a fully-fledged travel expense solution...
Meal allowance / Per diem for employees of German & Austrian companies incl. border crossing
Meal allowance / per diem for employees can be created in full in the APP.
Expense report even without actual trip
Your employees can use Lanes & Planes as a fully-fledged travel expense allowance tool...
OCR functionality
Our built-in OCR scanner can detect various data of your scanned receipt photo...
Scan for later
Receipt photos can be stored within the App for later receipt creation.
Finalizing and handing in trip and expense report
Travelers can finalize their booking...
Chat & Call functionality
Live Chat and call functionality directly from the Mobile App to our personal travel service.
Approval status
Thanks to coloured markers, users can always see the current approval status of each booking...
Support for password managers
The use of password managers of all kinds is supported.
User account
Overview & administration of all trips incl. Filter/search function
In the log-in area the user can search, see and administrate all future, past and finished trips.
Linked Bookings
Travel services booked separately can be conveniently linked together...
Cancellation of train reservations
User can cancel all train trips by only one click...
Cancellation of hotel reservations
Through the direct connection, hotel reservations can be cancelled...
Cancellation of rental car reservations
Rental car reservations can be cancelled individually...
Cancellation und change of flights
Cancellations or changes of reservation of flights follow the same rules as cancellation of trains or hotels...
Personal preferences
A number of preferences can be set: languages, locations as favourites for your search...
Languages: DE, EN, ES, FR
Bonus- & discount cards
Option to store common loyalty and bonus cards...
Individual settings
You can decide if your ticket email should also go into another private mailbox...
Externally booked trips
It’s most important for Lanes & Planes to be an open system...
Travel expense reports, receipts & expenses
Lanes & Planes is a fully-fledged travel expense solution...
Finalize & approve trip
After the user added all expenses and invoices to his trip...
Travel Map & Travel Warning
Users can look at their own trips on an interactive map...
Email reminder about unsubmitted bookings
Optionally, it can be specified that the user receives reminder emails...
Interactive tour
Companies can specify whether they would like to use an interactive tour...
Company account
User administration: access to all bookings
In user administration, admins can access and administrate all bookings.
User administration: access to users via user csv download
Admin can get a complete view of all created users by downloading a user csv.
User roles: Flexibility in roles
Admins can assign one or more roles to users at the same time.
Automatic user creation and sync via API
We provide the option of connecting your user database to our system...
Unlimited invitation of new users
With big companies we are happy to upload all users including their profile data...
Manager approval
After the user submits the booking or expense report...
Pre-Journey Allowance Request
You can set several booking control levels per user.
Search results at point of booking
Lanes & Planes doesn’t only record bookings but also search results at the time of the search request.
Statistics & Reporting
Our analytics tool provides full transparency over all transactions.
Supplier agreements
If your company has negotiated contracts with hotels, then they can be stored...
2FA & OAuth 2.0 / SAML 2.0 & Single-Sign-On (SSO)
Standard 2-factor authentication for all customers...
Travel guidelines
Define individual travel guidelines for groups and define correspondent users.
CO2 statistics page
Dedicated page that gives you an overview of your company's CO2 emissions per year and month.
Company Travel Map and Travel warnings
Admins have access to an interactive travel map...
Accounting
Correct VAT display on all billing documents
This is of special interest, since many suppliers don't add VAT on their invoices...
VAT disclosure, even abroad
For hotels abroad local VAT is included...
Single-Creditor Model
Whether it’s flight, hotel, rail, or car rental – there is only one single creditor.
Lanes & Planes prepayment
Cost assumption also means Lanes & Planes take over the costs...
Meal allowance / Per diem for employees of German companies
Your employees can simply hand in the additional meal allowance/per diem...
Meal allowance / Per diem for employees of Austrian companies
Your employees can simply hand in the additional meal allowance/per diem...
Mileage allowance for employees of German companies
Your employees can simply hand in the mileage allowance...
Mileage allowance for employees of Austrian companies
The system automatically calculates on the legal basis of 0.50 EUR/km...
Mileage allowance for employees of Swiss companies
For companies based in Switzerland...
Dedicated Accounting Overview
To give accounting the chance to have all billing documents and expense documents...
Organization-specific expense ledger accounts incl. questions
Organization-specific expense ledger accounts can be created...
Personal expenses depending on the person paying
To simplify and accelerate the reimbursement for employees...
Duplicate check for expenses
The system points the user to duplicates...
Overview pending invoices
Not all billing documents of a trip can be created right afterwards.
Advice of settlement and status
For every billing document, the payment status will be displayed.
Bulk download of documents as archive
Documents can be downloaded as a collective download as a ZIP-file.
SAP, DATEV, Navision / MS Dynamics & Diamant Software Integration
During accounting onboarding we can provide an allocation that’s conform with your ERP-system.
Comment feature & booking status
The accountant can comment single bookings using the comment feature...
Cost centers, Cost Units & references
Users can be assigned to one or more cost centers and cost units...
Invoice profiles (e.g. for subsidiaries)
With the help of invoice profiles, you can set up subcompanies...
Accounting Reconciliation
Even if the expense report has been approved by the manager...
VAT claim for international travel
Through our integrated partners, you now have the opportunity to get a full refund of VAT paid abroad...
A1 certificate
Analysis of employees traveling abroad for application of A1 certificate...
Service
Personal Onboarding & Account management
Your personal onboarding manager guides you...
Service times
Standard: on workdays from 7am until 8:30 pm...
Verification of cost coverage
Direct Billing Documentation is sent directly to the booked hotel...
Automatic direct billing confirmation
Automatic e-mail to the traveler and booker...
CO2 reporting, compensation and certificate
With our partner Climate Partner, you can choose to offset your carbon footprint...
Company Logo
We can integrate your company logo for your company's Lanes & Planes Account.
International SOS
Through our cooperation with International SOS, we offer you automatic booking data transfer...
Passenger rights service
Automated compensation check and reimbursement for cancelled and delayed Deutsche Bahn journeys.
Data protection, tested independently
Data protection and security of information are a central part of all products and services...
ISO certification of quality management
Our quality management is certified by TÜV Süd with ISO 9001:2015.
Hosting in Germany
Lanes & Planes abstains from the usage of cloud-hosting but hosts its applications...