Elkanio Orbit: the corporate travel management tool for TMCs and travel offices
Employees book the trips they need in a modern self-booking tool. Finance gets policy enforcement, approvals, cost-centre reporting and reconciled invoices. Travel managers see who is where.
Bookings outside the channel
When employees book outside approved channels, negotiated rates go unused, budgets are missed and nobody knows where travellers are when something goes wrong. Tools that are hard to use make the problem worse.
The Orbit control centre
Orbit combines a consumer-grade booking experience with a policy engine and approval workflows behind it. Every flight, hotel and transfer is checked against policy, routed for approval when needed and reconciled to a cost centre in Vector.
What Orbit does.
Hard and soft policy engine
Rules by designation, department, route or budget. Out-of-policy options can be hidden, flagged with a reason, or allowed with justification captured for the approver.
Multi-level approval matrices
Approval chains by cost centre, amount or trip type. Approvers get a summary and approve in one click from email or the app; escalations and delegations cover absences.
Self-booking tool employees prefer
Fast, mobile-friendly search across GDS, NDC and LCC flights, hotels and transfers, with policy shown in the results rather than after the fact.
Profiles, departments & cost centres
Employee profiles, departments, cost centres and approvers synced from your HR system through the API, so routing and reporting stay correct as the organisation changes.
Negotiated rates & reporting
Corporate airline and hotel deals loaded as contracts and preferred by policy. Reporting shows spend, savings and leakage by cost centre, supplier and traveller.
Duty of care
See who is travelling where by trip. Schedule changes and disruptions trigger traveller alerts and rebooking options through Pulse, with the travel manager kept informed.
From setup to steady state.
- 1
Load the organisation
Departments, cost centres, approvers and travellers, synced from HR or imported.
- 2
Write the policy
Hard and soft rules, approval chains and preferred suppliers per group.
- 3
Employees book
In policy by default, with approvals when needed and negotiated rates surfaced first.
- 4
Finance reconciles
Invoices per cost centre and supplier statements matched in Vector; spend analysed in Cortex.
Consolidated invoicing
One invoice per cost centre or per trip, with the tax treatment for the market, issued by Vector on booking.
Evidence for negotiations
Route and supplier volumes, negotiated-rate usage and average fares ready for the next airline and hotel conversation.
Traveller experience
Trip pages, documents, check-in reminders and disruption messages branded for the company, delivered by Pulse.
Where Orbit fits.
Orbit is part of these solution packages. Each combines a few products for one kind of travel business or one business need.
One of 12 products on a single core.
Orbit shares its data model, supplier connectivity and customer records with every other Elkanio product. Start with one, add the next without an integration project.
See the full platformQuestions about Orbit.
What is Elkanio Orbit?
Orbit is a corporate travel management tool and self-booking tool. Employees book within policy while finance and travel managers get approval workflows, spend controls and reporting.
How does the Orbit policy engine work?
Policies can be defined by employee designation, department or budget, with hard and soft mandates. Out-of-policy requests are routed through configurable multi-level approval matrices.
Does Orbit integrate with HR and finance systems?
Orbit takes employee profiles, departments and cost centres from your HR system through the API, and sends reconciled spend and invoices to finance through Vector.
Can Orbit use our negotiated corporate rates?
Yes. Negotiated airline and hotel rates are loaded as contracts and shown beside public fares, so policy can prefer them and reporting shows how often they are used.
Does Orbit help with duty of care?
Travel managers can see who is travelling where by trip, and disruption alerts and rebooking options reach travellers through Pulse.
Ready to bring corporate travel back into policy?
Bring your policy and a sample of last quarter’s trips. We will show how Orbit would have handled them.