Overview

TI Infotech’s Corporate Self Booking Tool (CSBT) is a corporate travel self-booking solution designed to streamline and automate business travel workflows. The tool centralizes traveller profiles, enforces company travel policies and multi-level approvals, consolidates inventory from multiple suppliers, and provides centralized reporting and project-based expense tracking — all intended to reduce manual effort and lower corporate travel spend (claims on the site: up to ~30% savings).

Features and Capabilities

• Booking & Inventory: Consolidated search and booking across flights, hotels, cars and ancillary suppliers; supports corporate rates and preferred suppliers and integrates with the Travel Cloud Suite inventory. The flow aims to let employees self-serve while maintaining access to negotiated content and real-time availability.
• Policy enforcement & approvals: Define complex corporate travel policies and budgets, enforce compliance at booking time and enable multi-level, role-based approval chains so bookings remain within company rules.
• Traveller profiles & preferences: Store traveler profiles and preferences (airlines, seat/class rules, vendor preferences) centrally to speed repeat bookings and apply corporate rules consistently.
• Centralized reporting & analytics: Central repository of travel activity and bookings, with reporting to show spend, supplier usage, project-based expense allocations and traveler-level insights to support cost control.
• Expense & invoice management: Capture itinerary-level costs and link to invoicing workflows; support project allocation and expense tracking for chargebacks and accounting reconciliation.
• User experience & workflow automation: Intuitive self-service booking UI for employees, streamlined approval workflows for travel managers, and automation to reduce manual back-office work. Blog posts from the vendor highlight time savings and simplified workflows as key benefits.
• Integration & modularity: Designed to integrate with other modules in TI Infotech’s Travel Cloud Suite (booking engines, CRM, accounting modules) and with external supplier/GDS feeds to provide real-time inventory and bookings.
• Administration & security: Central admin console to manage policies, roles and approvals; hosted/cloud deployment options with typical enterprise controls applied by the vendor.
• Customization & white-label options: Able to be configured per corporate client (branding, allowed channels, approval bands), intended for travel agencies and TMCs offering corporate accounts.