Loupit Travel and Expense
Step by step

How to book in the travel marketplace

From policy to accountability: the full process your company follows inside Loupit, with governance at every step.

Illustrative video of the Loupit corporate travel marketplace.

Corporate booking is more than buying a ticket: it involves company rules, approved agencies, approvals, payment and expense proof. Below is the process companies follow on Loupit — from setting the policy to closing the expense report — to save money without losing control.

The steps of the process

Six steps, always in the same order, with everything recorded.

  1. 1. Travel policy

    Your company sets the rules everyone follows: limits, classes, advance notice and what requires justification.

    • Limits per category: air, hotel, car, bus and mobility
    • Minimum advance notice, allowed classes and approved suppliers
    • Different rules per department, role, project or cost center
  2. 2. Agency selection and onboarding

    You choose which agencies serve your company, and they start competing for the same request.

    • Keep your current agency and add new ones whenever you want
    • Agency onboarding with contract, commercial terms and service scope
    • Each agency only answers your company requests, within policy
  3. 3. Request and real-time comparison

    The traveler opens a request and receives agency answers side by side, already filtered by policy.

    • Request with route, dates, cost center and travel reason
    • Real-time agency quotes with price, rules and deadlines
    • Out-of-policy options are flagged or blocked
  4. 4. Approval flow

    In-policy requests move automatically; out-of-policy ones escalate to the right approver.

    • Approval levels by amount, cost center, project or director
    • Exceptions require justification and comparison with the cheapest option
    • Approve by app, web or email, with SLA and full history
  5. 5. Payment methods and issuing

    Issuing happens with the approved price and the payment method your company defined.

    • Agency invoicing, corporate card or virtual card
    • Issue without leaving the platform, with tickets and vouchers centralized
    • Changes, cancellations and credits recorded in the same request
  6. 6. Reporting and accountability

    Every purchase becomes data: reconciled expenses, attached receipts and audit-ready reports.

    • Expenses with receipt capture and reconciliation
    • Reports by cost center, project, traveler and supplier
    • Savings achieved, policy deviations and ERP export

From request to expense: the approval flow

Five steps with governance at each one: request, compare, approve, buy and record in expense.

  1. 01

    Request

    The traveler opens the request with route, dates, cost center and trip reason.

    App, web or email

  2. 02

    Compare

    Agencies answer in real time with flights, hotels, car rental and bus, already filtered by policy.

    Multi-agency comparison

  3. 03

    Approve

    In-policy requests go straight through; above the limit the flow escalates to manager, director or committee.

    Configurable tiers

  4. 04

    Buy

    Issuance happens with the approved fare and traveler data, without leaving the platform.

    Traceable issuance

  5. 05

    Record in expense

    The spend lands in expense with OCR receipts, corporate card and reconciliation.

    Native expense

Every step is written to the audit log — who requested, who approved and which policy applied.
Demo video: amounts and expenses are fictional and only illustrate how the feature works.

See Expense in action

From snapping the receipt in the app to AI auditing, the reimbursement approval flow and the full trip report.

  • Receipt photo with automatic data capture (OCR)
  • AI audits and flags policy compliance
  • Reimbursement approval with audit trail
  • Spend consolidated into trip reports

Accepted payment methods

The payment method is defined per company and can vary by spend category or agency.

Agency invoicing

The agency issues and your company pays the agreed invoice, with a report of everything booked in the period.

Corporate card

Direct payment on the company card, with automatic expense reconciliation.

Virtual card

Cards generated per request or per trip, with controlled limit and validity.

Traveler reimbursement

For out-of-flow spend, the traveler submits the expense with a receipt and is reimbursed after approval.

Accountability without rework

At closing, finance does not need to gather spreadsheets: the platform consolidates requests, approvals, payments and receipts in one timeline.

  • Savings report comparing the approved option with the other quotes
  • Accountability per trip, with tickets, vouchers and receipts
  • Policy compliance and average approval time indicators
  • Data export for audit, accounting and ERP

Curation of homologated agencies

Every agency in the marketplace goes through a rigorous validation before serving your company.

Loupit curates the agencies that enter the marketplace. No agency serves your company without passing an onboarding process that checks solvency, reputation and delivery capacity — so you only buy from partners you can trust.

Financial solidity

Validation of the agency's financial health, analyzing its ability to honor commitments, issuances and refunds.

Market reputation

Assessment of reputation among clients, suppliers and industry references, with a track record of quality and punctuality.

Probity

Verification of probity, compliance and legal and tax regularity, ensuring honest and transparent partners.

Service capacity

Analysis of technical and operational capacity: volume, served routes, integrated technology and structure to scale with your company.

Professionalized 24/7 support

Uninterrupted, trilingual human support, with a quote SLA of up to 30 minutes and a team dedicated to your travelers.

Supplier relationships

Established relationships with GDS, consolidators, airlines, hotel chains and car rentals — ensuring competitive fares and issuance priority.

Team training

A team trained and certified in corporate processes, travel policy, tools and corporate traveler support.

Compliance and governance

Control, traceability and your company rules on every booking

Everything that happens on the platform is recorded and follows the parameters your company set — in plain words: you know who requested, who approved, at what price and why.

Full audit trail

Every request, quote, approval and issue is stored with date, time and the person responsible.

  • History of the quotes received from each agency
  • Record of who approved and how long it took
  • Data export for internal audit

Decision log

When someone picks a pricier or out-of-policy option, the reason stays attached to the request.

  • Mandatory justification for exceptions
  • Comparison between the chosen and the cheapest option
  • Savings and deviations visible in reports

Per-company configuration

Rules are configured per client: limits, approval tiers, cost centers, projects and approved suppliers.

  • Different policies per department, role or project
  • Minimum lead time and limits per category
  • Automatic blocking of out-of-policy options

Access controls

Each person only sees and does what their profile allows, and access can be revoked at any time.

  • Traveler, approver, manager and admin profiles
  • Views by cost center and business unit
  • User onboarding and offboarding recorded

Need details about data handling, contracts or requirements from your IT and compliance teams? Talk to our team — we reply with the documentation that applies to your case.

Fully compliant with Brazil's LGPD

A platform fully compliant with the LGPD

Loupit is fully compliant with Brazil's LGPD (Law 13.709/2018). All processing of company, traveller and approver data follows a defined purpose, a legal basis, data minimisation and a full audit trail — with configurable cookie consent and clear channels to exercise your rights.

  • Defined purpose and legal basis for every processing activity
  • Cookie consent by category, revocable at any time
  • Data subject rights: access, correction, portability and deletion
  • Encryption, role-based access control and a complete audit trail

Questions about the booking process

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