Business is all about managing situations or things and providing the best quality of products or services to customers at affordable prices. Business includes all activities from learning to exploring, hence with this, we do have to travel for various purposes like seminars, meetings, facilitation, and other formal functions.
It is hard to manage all traveling activities from booking flights to searching inns to stay between your tensions and stress. Hence to resolve all your difficulties and provide you with a travel companion app that is safe and provides a peaceful travel experience. Prashant Kirtane, the CEO and Co-founder of WegoPro has bought the ultimate solution to manage all the expenses of your company travel. In this article let us learn more about his inspiring and successful journey in building the company.
Prashant Kirtane: CEO and Co-founder
Prashant Kirtane is the CEO and co-founder of WegoPro which was formally called travelstop. He is a Bachelor of Engineering graduate in the stream of Electrical Veerata Jijabai Technology Institute in Mumbai. Before starting with Travelstop he carried a long journey of industrial experience. He has 12 years of working experience as Senior Director of Engineering at Yahoo and has also worked at Expedia, summing up the experience to 20 years in the position of senior management.
Prashant Kirtane founded a company called Travelmob which is a vacation rental business in Asia and then it was taken over by Expedia in the year 2015. There he handled several responsibilities in sectors like market team, product development, building teams, and raising funds. He also served as a Vice President at Expedia in formulating marketing strategies to increase vacation rental sales in Asia.
Later in the year 2017, he founded Travelstop which is a SaaS platform that helps to manage the travel expenses of the company and its headquarters is located in Singapore. Where he maintains all the directions and forms the strategy that makes the company more profitable. In recent months after the acquisition of Travelstop by WegoPro he is now the CEO and Co-founder of it.
About WegoPro and its features
WegoPro is travel management software that is built to manage all your activity that is related to travel from booking flight tickets to arranging transport service at the destination for pickup. This is an online platform where you can either download the app or use a website. They majorly work on addressing three factors they are travel, expenses, and insight. One can also book the demo session before booking to get all the detailed information about the process.
Business travel will account for managing through massive inventory, interface, and balances. One can manage the business travel program in minutes, it also reduces the burden of verifying the experiences as it handles and has partnerships with many airlines and hotels. Next comes the important factor, expense where it is been digitalized and hence eliminating the maintenance of expense reports in papers. Another easy feature is confirmation where you can just check the cost and approve it in one click. You can also automate the cost of expenses according to the company policy to cut down spending.
The most useful feature of the travel planning tool is the insight which provides all the detailed information about the expense and the travel process in one place with visualization. The access to real-time data to look after the cost of expenditure either at the company level or personal profile. This analysis will help you to gain control over speeding and hence make it cost-effective.
The company also takes care of the information security and data privacy of the customer. If in case of need, you can also find a travel assistant to help you and guide you. The company does have the option to manage travel expenses and is divided into standard, premium, and expense all these come with different sets of services that could be availed by the user.
Conclusion
WegoPro has the customers like nextgen, Circles, Quincus, funding societies, and many more. Prashant Kirtane with his vast expertise in multiple domains has made an effective and best strategy that could benefit the company and also does not affect the user experience. This success story of starting two companies that provide business travel assistance and taking them to heights can be inspirational to recent startup companies.