Lola Launches "Book on Behalf" to Simplify Booking Business Travel for Executive Assistants

BOSTON, July 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Lola, the full-featured business travel platform that saves companies time and money without sacrificing the traveler experience, is announcing today new services aimed at making managing and booking travel easy and seamless. Designed for small to medium-sized businesses and their travelers, the newest features includes "Book on Behalf", which allows Executive Assistants and managers to coordinate travel plans and bookings for employees, and a new desktop version of the Lola app which makes managing, planning and booking travel even more simple for employees.

Lola provides companies with traveler-friendly options when booking hotels and flights along with personalized travel results and unparalleled human travel experts who're available 24/7. Additionally, the platform gives small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) the ability to set up their travel policy and invite their employees to join the platform within minutes, gaining complete oversight of employee travel and spending. As the platform continues to disrupt the business travel industry, it's ease of use and dedication to do right by the business traveler can be seen through the following new services:

• Book on Behalf - "Book on Behalf" is a fast, easy and efficient way for executive assistants (EAs) and managers to coordinate business travel for colleagues. With this feature, EAs and managers can book flights and hotels for employees while also giving them complete visibility into the travel plans being made. In addition, EAs and managers can view all receipts, share itineraries, and make updates to the employee's schedule as needed, all of which automatically appear in the traveler's app.
• Lola Desktop - The desktop version of Lola is designed specifically for managing, planning and booking flights and hotels. Designed with the same level of simplicity as the app, Lola desktop is another way for employees to quickly and efficiently book their flights and hotel stays.
• Centralized Payments - Centralized payments allows employees to use their corporate company card versus shelling out their own money, saving time on expense reports that can take hours. If employees do decide to use their own card when traveling, Lola's ability to integrate with their company's preferred expense management tool, including its newest partnership with Expensify makes reporting easier to tackle.

"Legacy corporate travel programs are complex, expensive and resource intensive for SMBs - and they're not engineered to meet their needs," says Paul English, President and CTO of Lola. "Here at Lola, we've been working closely with our customer base to meet the modern demand and deliver a new line of services that speak to companies that want a product that caters toward their travelers - and one that will simplify the process of managing travel. We are excited to move the industry forward with the innovative approach we've taken at Lola to provide companies and their travelers the easiest business travel platform on the market today."

The Lola app is currently available for iOS and Android via the Apple Store and Google Play. To sign up for Lola Works, visit https://www.lola.com/works/signup. For more information on Lola, or to view desktop visit https://www.lola.com/ or connect with Lola on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/LolaTravelCo or Twitter and Instagram @LolaTravel.

About Lola:
Lola is the road warrior travel app. Lola advocates for the business traveler by giving road warriors personalized options, hotel loyalty points, and a personal assistant available 24/7. Other travel companies push paid results versus what's right for the traveler, and road warriors are left to fend for themselves when things go wrong. Lola's AI creates a personal travel algorithm that shapes travel around each individual road warrior and Lola's personal assistants always put the traveler first. A personal travel algorithm (PTA) is a unique set of identifiers that helps each individual road warrior easily find the best matched choices based on preferences and continuous learning.

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SOURCE Lola Travel Company, Inc.