Custom Online Portal: Online services anytime, anywhere…..
Short’s Travel Management offers our clients a custom online portal that allows features you want displayed 24/7. Useful information is available to your travelers via an internet connection. From a welcome page composed by you to any of the 634 performance reports published monthly, you control the scope and depth of your Short’s portal. Your Client Services Manager can suggest and explain the dozens of useful features available.

Online travel profiles
In the past, collecting personal data from each traveler was an expensive, time-consuming matter. Usually it was done in written form on a traveler profile card. Short’s created an electronic travel profile form that expedites this process. The form is found on your dedicated web portal. Easy and online, the function gives your traveler the ability to both register and update their personal information anytime. It is accurate and saves time. Short’s online system is proprietary and allows our clients to create and purge profiles quickly and at their discretion. Safe and secure, it protects the traveler and the corporation’s confidential information.

Unused e-Ticket Management
Non-refundable tickets are managed, and actively redeemed either on a per-reservation basis, or in negotiations with an airline. Short’s Travel Management has an online reporting program available to all our clients to monitor and manage unused electronic tickets.

Online Expense Reporting and Management
Short’s can facilitate a wide variety of expense reporting scenarios. This can include everything from a hosted, Web-based application where travelers enter expense, and the travel policy is enforced, to a simple file transfer containing invoices for import into the client accounting system.

Reconciliation
Short’s can compare each transaction from a corporate credit card statement to the invoices issued, and accelerate the corporate card payment process. This is a time savings for the travel manager or accountant, and also reduces the possibility of the Corporation paying for non-travel expenses.

Internet fare search
Short’s pursues the lowest negotiated fare in Sabre and/or Apollo, plus audits the Internet on every airline reservation. This automated search includes all the major independent internet travel retailers (Travelocity, Expedia, Trip.com and Orbitz) along with over 40 airline and consolidator Web sites including “Web-only” fares.

If the traveler decides on an option offered through the Internet, Short’s books the flight, captures the purchase information for future airline negotiation as a passive segment, ensures that the traveler is educated on any possible restrictions, and reports on the results.