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Managing your company's business travel

Get the most from bahn.business and make managing business travel in your company easy.

Structure and roles in the bahn.business portal

Business customer administrators (GA)

  • Are authorised to manage company data
  • Can centrally define payment methods for all bookers
  • Can create booking units to facilitate simpler and more transparent processing
  • Can invite booking unit managers and business travellers to create a customer account
  • Can book tickets and BahnCards (Business) for themselves and third parties
  • Have a business customer account and can book for themselves and for third parties

Explanation

Do you have several departments, branches or locations and want to use different billing addresses and/or payment methods for them? Create booking units for this purpose.

Only business customer administrators can create booking units.

The advantage for you: All addresses and payment methods stored centrally in a booking unit, such as a central corporate credit card, can be assigned to all registered employees in the booking unit. This simplifies billing processes in your company.

Explanation

  • Are responsible for one or more booking units
  • Can invite business travellers to create a customer account
  • Can enter central corporate credit cards and assign them to employees
  • Can book tickets and BahnCards (Business) for themselves and third parties
  • Have a business customer account and can book for themselves and for third parties

Explanation

  • Have a business customer account and can book tickets and a BahnCard Business for themselves
  • All tickets and BahnCards (Business) booked via the customer account are also automatically added to the DB Navigator app

Business travellers (GR) without booking rights

  • Have a business customer account, but cannot make bookings themselves
  • Bookings are carried out by a business customer administrator (GA) or a booking unit manager (BV)
  • All tickets and BahnCards (Business) booked via the customer account are also automatically added to the DB Navigator app

The advantages of a customer account for all travellers

How to set up the portal

How to book tickets, reservations and BahnCards

How to manage your data in the customer account

Optional: How to set up booking units