Built with chartered accountants. Every ticket reconciled by Monday.
GST reconciliation for travel expenses, built with the CAs who reconcile them. Every flight booked through your client's Traviq account carries the IRN, GSTIN, place-of-supply, and CGST/SGST/IGST split from issue — so GSTR-2B match becomes a Monday morning report, not a Thursday night fire.
The ITC your clients are losing right now
On a typical Indian startup with ₹50 lakh of annual travel, roughly 10% of the available ITC slips out of the GSTR-2B window every quarter. The math is unromantic: invoices arrive 7-14 days after the flight, IRNs come in mid-month batches, and by the time your client’s accountant reconciles, the airline’s GSTIN doesn’t match what’s on the agent’s PDF. The ₹50,000 of input credit you’d otherwise have claimed becomes a write-off. Multiply across a portfolio of 15 clients and the lost ITC is a six-figure annual number — for credit you were legally entitled to, on travel they’d already paid for.
It’s not a process problem. It’s a data-capture problem at the moment of booking.
Traviq is the booking platform that fixes the data at source. IRN captured at issue. GSTIN of the airline pre-matched against the GSTN portal. Place-of-supply tagged per ticket. CGST/SGST/IGST already split — not back-calculated from a total tax line on a PDF. When you run reconciliation Monday morning, you’re matching pre-cleaned data against the portal, not rebuilding it from invoices.
How the reconciliation actually works
The mechanics are boringly literal. Every ticket booked through a client’s Traviq account is issued by an IATA-accredited partner (TravClan or Tripjack) against the airline’s GSTIN. The IRN — the Invoice Reference Number that e-invoicing requires for any business above ₹5 crore turnover — is captured at issue and stored against the booking record, not against a separate invoice file. CGST and SGST are split for intra-state, IGST for inter-state, place-of-supply rules applied per the GST Act. RCM (reverse charge mechanism) flags surface where they apply, with the liability calculated and shown on the export.
When you run GSTR-2B match: download a single CSV, drop it next to the GSTR-2B file from the portal, and the match runs row-by-row on IRN. Mismatches surface in amber with the specific reason — wrong GSTIN, missing IRN, place-of-supply discrepancy, or amount mismatch (typically a cancellation credit not yet posted). Each amber row carries a fix path: re-issue request, IRN chase, or write-off with rationale.
For Tally-first practices, the export is XML vouchers, auto-numbered, GL-coded per booking, with traveller and cost-center metadata intact. For Zoho Books, ClearTax, and NetSuite, the corresponding native format is published — your team previews the import before the client’s first booking goes live.
Three rows CAs raise first
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The CA partner model, honestly
We’re not running a referral kickback in dollars. The CAs who partner with us get something more useful: their clients’ books close two days earlier, the ITC recovery shows up in the report they sign, and the audit trail for an IT scrutiny is a single PDF export rather than a quarterly excavation. Your hours-per-client drop on the reconciliation side; your value-per-client goes up because the close lands on time.
Practically, partnership looks like this: you get an early-access account for your firm, the format spec for every ERP you support, a direct line to the founders for client-specific reconciliation questions, and a co-branded onboarding flow for clients you refer. Your clients save the ITC; you save the hours. We’re not asking you to sell us — we’re asking you to let us prove it on one client.
The entity behind it: Drumworks Ventures, a Partnership Firm in Mumbai (Chembur, 400089), GSTIN 27AASFD4920E1ZE. Tickets issued by TravClan and Tripjack (both IATA-accredited). Payments via Razorpay (RBI-PA licensed). We’re in private pilot with three Indian teams.
Three people at your client's company should see this
Once you've sanity-checked the reconciliation, the forward to your client's team is one click. Mailto pre-filled in your CA voice.
The travel platform we should look at
Reviewed Traviq's reconciliation mechanics. GSTR-2B match at booking, IRN capture at issue, Tally export ready. On a ₹50L travel base, this recovers the ITC slippage we wrote off last year. Their CFO page lays out the close-week impact. — [your CA]
Worth a 20-min call
Your travel reconciliation is bleeding ITC. Traviq fixes it at source — every ticket carries its IRN at issue. Their founder page covers the commercials and the human side. Take a call before your next renewal. — [your CA]
The booking tool that fixes the invoice chase
If we move travel to Traviq, the invoice arrives with the ticket and finance stops chasing you. Their admin page walks through a week in your workflow. Worth a look. — [your CA]
The mechanics CAs check before recommending it
The questions a finance head, founder, admin, or CA actually asks before they recommend a change to corporate travel. Direct answers, no marketing voice.
How does Traviq handle ITC on flight tickets under the current GST Act?
Input tax credit on B2B travel is claimable when the invoice carries the recipient's GSTIN, the supplier's GSTIN, the IRN (for e-invoicing-applicable suppliers), and a correct place-of-supply tag. Traviq captures all four at the moment the ticket is issued by the IATA-accredited supplier — TravClan or Tripjack — against the client's GSTIN on file. The CGST/SGST/IGST split follows place-of-supply rules per Section 12 of the IGST Act. ITC eligibility is computed per booking and surfaces on the close-week export.
Does Traviq generate GSTR-2B-ready files for reconciliation?
Yes. The export is a CSV that matches the GSTR-2B file structure from the GSTN portal — IRN, supplier GSTIN, invoice number, invoice date, taxable value, CGST, SGST, IGST, place-of-supply. Drop it next to the GSTR-2B file and run the match on IRN. Amber rows surface the specific mismatch reason. For practices using ClearTax for reconciliation, the export imports directly without reformatting.
What about RCM on travel agent services and overseas travel?
RCM (reverse charge mechanism) applies where the supplier is unregistered or the service falls under a notified category. Traviq flags every booking against the current RCM schedule — for instance, a foreign airline issuing tickets to an Indian GSTIN-registered business triggers the relevant RCM consideration; the liability calculation and the input-credit claim are shown on the same export. For overseas tour packages (versus ticket-only bookings), the TCS 20% rule is flagged at search time so your client's CFO sees the liability before the booking confirms.
Can my Tally workflow handle Traviq imports without re-mapping?
Yes. Traviq exports Tally XML vouchers, auto-numbered against the client's existing voucher series, with GL codes mapped to the client's chart of accounts. Cost-center, traveller, and policy-band metadata flow into Tally's narration field, so audit trail is preserved. The format spec is published; your team can preview the import structure before the client's first booking — no surprise mapping work after go-live.
How does Traviq handle GSTIN mismatches when the airline issues to the wrong entity?
The client's GSTIN is verified against the GSTN portal at account setup, then carried through every booking. If a supplier (rare, but it happens with smaller carriers or international airlines) issues to a mismatched GSTIN, Traviq flags the booking before the ticket confirms and routes a re-issue request automatically. Mismatches caught at issue are zero-cost; mismatches caught at quarter-end are the ITC you're writing off today.
What audit trail does Traviq produce for an IT scrutiny?
A single PDF export per quarter: every booking with traveller, route, dates, cost-center, approver name and timestamp, policy-band classification, IRN, GSTIN match status, CGST/SGST/IGST split, and the linked invoice file. For pre-Traviq bookings imported during onboarding, the same fields where available, flagged as "imported from prior system." Scrutiny defence becomes a file pull rather than a quarterly excavation.
How does Form 26AS reconciliation work for TDS on travel payments?
TDS doesn't apply to most B2B air ticket purchases (Section 194-O and 194J carve-outs), but does apply where Traviq acts as an aggregator passing payment to a non-B2B service (hotel direct-payment, certain ground-transport vendors). For those, TDS is deducted and reflected on the export with the corresponding GSTIN; the 26AS reconciliation runs against the same IDs.
How do I onboard a client onto Traviq as their CA?
Set up a partner account at your firm. We provision a client account with your firm tagged as the reconciliation partner — your team gets quarterly export access and a direct line to the founders for client-specific questions. The client's travel admin keeps the same workflow; your reconciliation hours drop. Onboarding is eight working days end-to-end for a 60-person team. Tickets issued by TravClan and Tripjack (IATA-accredited); payments via Razorpay (RBI-PA licensed); operated by Drumworks Ventures, GSTIN 27AASFD4920E1ZE. We're in private pilot with three Indian teams.
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One-page reconciliation showing the ITC the client was entitled to, the ITC they actually claimed, and the IRN-capture gap. Your client sees the recovery; you see the mechanics. No call required.