Barclays + Navan: a new partnership for best-in-class business travel and expense

At Navan, we’re constantly looking for new ways to make business travel and expenses easy for companies of all sizes. That’s why we’re delighted to announce a new partnership with Barclays, which offers Navan's industry-leading business travel and expense solution to UK businesses using Barclaycard Payments Travel Solutions. The partnership aims to transform how companies manage travel, spend, and expense reconciliation.

This exciting partnership brings together two powerhouses, combining Barclaycard Payments’ virtual payment solutions with Navan’s leading end-to-end travel and expense management platform to streamline how UK businesses manage corporate travel and spend.

It’s all made possible by Navan Connect’s “Bring Your Own Card” functionality, which enables businesses to leverage the travel and expense solution employees love while keeping the benefits of their Barclaycard.

When companies add Barclaycard as a central form of payment on Navan, they’re able to consolidate their travel management, payment, and expense systems. Plus, adding a Barclaycard to Navan is so easy that businesses can start using Navan right away.

Tosin Oke, Senior Director of Navan Expense, EMEA, says: “This partnership combines Navan's innovative travel and expense platform with Barclaycard’s robust virtual payment solutions. Together, we’re simplifying travel and expense management for UK businesses, from booking to reconciliation, while providing the cost management capabilities and visibility that modern companies demand.”

The benefits of combining Barclaycard Payments and Navan

Simple travel booking and management

Navan makes business travel easy. Employees can book flights, hotels, trains, and cars in minutes; choose from an extensive global inventory; and access travel agent support around the clock.

With their Barclaycard linked to the Navan Travel platform, employees can forget about inputting payment information or fronting their own money. They simply make a booking on Navan and the trip payment is automatically made, with the travel and payment data tracked and reconciled in real time.

Automated travel payment reconciliation 

The partnership also offers gains in efficiencies, data consolidation, and accuracy for finance and accounting teams.

When employees book travel on Navan using their linked Barclaycard, Navan automates payment reconciliation by matching Barclaycard payment data with travel booking and invoice information in real time, removing manual work and speeding up month-end close.

Efficient and cost-effective expense management

Navan Expense is the industry-leading spend management solution that streamlines how businesses handle expenses. With customisable spend controls and real-time visibility, Navan Expense empowers finance and accounting teams to manage spend more efficiently, cut costs, and spend smarter. 

With Navan Expense, companies benefit from:

• Proactive spend policies: Apply customisable spend policies to help prevent overspending and streamline expense approval workflows.
• Real-time visibility into spend: Monitor spend as it happens for insights and budgets that are always up to date.
• Interactive performance dashboards: Slice and dice travel spend data in real time with granularity.

A powerful partnership for UK businesses

By combining Barclaycard’s powerful virtual payment solutions with Navan’s leading business travel and expense solution, companies can reap the benefits of smarter spending and more efficient travel and expense management.

Rob Tuckwell, Director of Issuing Partnerships at Barclaycard Payments, said: “We are delighted to be working alongside Navan and to deliver better travel and expense management solutions for Barclaycard customers.”

To learn more about how the Barclaycard Payments and Navan partnership can benefit your company, book a demo today.