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    Bento for Business

    Score10 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Bento for Business provides employee expense cards with spend controls that allow business owners to control where, when and how much employees can spend. This solution includes a dashboard that pivots data by employee, card, category, date and tag.

    $0

    2 People or Cards (1 must be business owner)

    Navan

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANavan (formerly TripActions) headquartered in Palo Alto offers their corporate travel management application of the same name, supporting messaging, travel rewards management, travel booking, and company policy compliance.N/A
    Pricing
    Bento for BusinessNavan
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    2 People or Cards (1 must be business owner)
    Team
    $29/month
    Up to 10 People or Cards
    Professional
    $69/month
    Up to 20 People or Cards
    Enterprise
    $149/month
    More than 20 People or Cards
    Navan Business
    Free
    Navan Enterprise
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    Pricing Offerings
    Bento for BusinessNavan
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Bento for BusinessNavan
    Considered Both Products
    Bento for Business
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    Navan
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    85%
    Would buy again
    17 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    81%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    17 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    10 Answers
    Features
    Bento for BusinessNavan
    Travel Management
    Comparison of Travel Management features of Bento for Business and Navan
    Feature
    Bento for Business
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    Ratings
    Navan
    1.2
    1 Ratings
    93% below category average
    Customizable Approval Workflows00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Readily Available Support00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Travel Spend Reports00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Consolidated Invoicing00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Easy Travel Booking00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Mobile Travel Application00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Centralized Itinerary Management00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Collaborative Booking00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Loyalty Programs00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Reuses Traveler Information00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    User-friendly Interface00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Integrated Expensing Tool00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Travel Alerts00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Bento for BusinessNavan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    1.0
    (36 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (15 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Bento for BusinessNavan
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bento for Business
    Our organization runs a lot of short-term or one-off programs where the program staff need to buy supplies -- Bento is perfect for these scenarios. The staff who make the purchases are not staff who would typically have a company card, so we wanted a solution other than giving them a credit card. Bento was perfect because it makes the purchasing & bookkeeping processes for these programs easy and efficient for both the staff and the finance team
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    Navan
    A specific scenario where TripActions was well suited was when I needed to book a hotel stay in Cologne, Germany for multiple colleagues. The fact that they were registered users made coordinating their stays a seamless process. I have not had an occasion where TripActions was inappropriate to use.
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    Pros
    Bento for Business
    • Track expenses by employee
    • Restrict purchases based on amount and category
    • Import transactions directly into QuickBooks
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    Navan
    • Provides a wide range of travel options within a wide budget.
    • It is reliable - if a trip gets canceled, they are quick to contact their customer and help sort out additional booking details to get you to your final destination.
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    Cons
    Bento for Business
    • easier way for employees to access their statements without setting them up as admins
    • monthly statements generated by card
    • monthly fee needs to be added to one of the card statements
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    Navan
    • Limited partnerships with all the major airlines, or if so, slowly just adding more airlines to their platform
    • Not a lot of information about the ratings of the hotels. I have stayed in hotels that I probably wouldn't have if their information was more up to date
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bento for Business
    No answers on this topic
    Navan
    This decision overall isn’t made by me. The company evaluates the product. While I am an influencer the overall review is my personal opinion and mine only. The company books flights or would like for us to book flights through trip actions everything else is suggested but done with a personal cc which makes it optional. My option will be to not use TripActions for anything personally.
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    Support Rating
    Bento for Business
    No answers on this topic
    Navan
    - Easy bookings and quick expensing - Excellent chat support - Savings for the company since employees opt for rewards which require booking cheaper than average priced hotels - Rewards for employees - Easy to use customer interface - Great mobile applications for android and iOS - Ability to control payment methods for a different types of bookings like hotels or flights or car rentals.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bento for Business
    If you are looking for prepaid business care or a business expense card, I highly do not recommend using Bento for Business. Do yourself and your business a favor and use a more customer service orientated services such as Pex, Wex, or Expensify. Bento for Business is bad business. Just don't do it.
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    Navan
    I like TripActions more because everything is on a mobile app that is super user-friendly. The customer service team is also world class-I genuinely have never felt so taken care of. More so, Concur Travel and Expense never rewarded me for traveling, while I made over 200 dollars in Amazon money just for doing my job.
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    Return on Investment
    Bento for Business
    • Saving time by eliminating reimbursements
    • Allowing many staff to have a card to make purchases without worrying about financial control/risk of too many people having a company card
    • Efficiently synchs with Quickbooks
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    Navan
    • The ability to change flights while I am on the road in meetings. They actually call the agents for me.
    • It has put money back in my pocket with the Amazon rewards and my company has saved money by me booking the less expensive options.
    Incentivized
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    Screenshot of Create Employee cards or Utility cards with spend limits (e.g. $500/month)Screenshot of Dashboard provides a snapshot of spending activity across all cards.Screenshot of See transactions in real-time.  Add tags, notes and upload receipts.