Consolidated card programs today pay for employee travel services, but more importantly, the cards can generate complete data that can help measure policy compliance, secure preferred rates, simplify reconciliation, carry insurance, and provide management reporting.

For years, travel agencies have tried to pass a description of specific travel charges through to various credit card companies so an abbreviated explanation will appear on a client’s credit card statement. MontroseTravel.com is the first travel agency to have achieved this goal by writing a unique software program and we are now able to process charges for our clients and pass a detail descriptor – usually a confirmation or ticket number and partial last name.

Our new point-of-sale software, a self written unique settlement file program, and merchant processor enable us not only to process our daily charges more efficiently but we also have the ability to pass a description, such as a ticket number and last name of the user … to be ultimately printed on our clients’ credit card statements – per charge – to various credit card companies.

The detail descriptor is printed next to the amount charged on the credit card statement. The charge description is valuable in that it will simplify monthly credit card reconciliation for clients and significantly reduce the number of charge back disputes since the cardholder statement will show a description of the charge.