Destination: Leading travel & hospitality firms rely on BlackLine

More than 335 travel & hospitality companies trust the BlackLine Agentic Financial Operations Platform™—powered by Studio360 and Verity™ AI—to deliver F&A transformation across the Office of the CFO.

5 days

saved by eliminating
manual reconciliations
— Reported by Kempinksi

95%

of bank statement
transactions auto reconciled
— Reported by Braden

3x

faster monthly close
— Reported by a major U.S. hotel group

Agentic Financial Operations for travel & hospitality organizations

The travel and hospitality industry is undergoing a transformation as it adapts to changing traveler expectations, digital innovations, and a focus on personalized experiences. Companies are leveraging new technologies to enhance guest satisfaction, streamline operations, and remain competitive in a dynamic market.

Finance and accounting teams in travel and hospitality must evolve alongside these changes. Confronted with fluctuating demand, cost pressures, and the need for operational agility, they require technology and governed AI that improves financial transparency, optimizes resource allocation, and supports strategic planning to drive profitability and long-term success. The more AI finance puts to work, the more trust it needs. That's why BlackLine pairs automation with governance at every step.

Distinctly Accurate. Exceptionally Efficient. Financially Intelligent.

Streamline high-volume reconciliations like credit card, bank, and OTA commissions

Matching and reconciling massive volumes of transactional data manually is time consuming, tedious, and error-prone, especially if managed in spreadsheets. BlackLine’s Agentic Financial Operations Platform standardizes and automates your reconciliations with the ability to ingest, transform, and match high volumes of transaction-level data from multiple systems such as ERPs, credit card processors, Property Management Systems (PMS), and banks. Finance-led AI reduces the risk of process breakdowns and undetected financial statement errors, enabling teams to focus their time on anomalies and exceptions. 

Optimize journal entry management and reduce risk with finance-led AI-powered insights

Companies book thousands of journal entries per month, increasing the risks related to financial compliance, audit compliance and accurate decision making. BlackLine AI agents automatically match millions of transactions, prepare journals, and flag anomalies under your precise controls, helping you shave days off your close cycle and gain a 100% auditable trail of trust. With finance-led AI-driven insights, our solution enhances visibility into the volume, timing, and nature of your journal entries, minimizing risk and maximizing intelligence. 

Improve credit management and streamline cash application

Efficient cash flow management is critical to business health, especially when it comes to unpredictable cash flows from high volumes of vendors and customers in an industry affected by seasonality and external factors like tourism trends, pandemics, and natural disasters. BlackLine’s Agentic Financial Operations Platform will help you stop chasing outstanding invoices. AI agents instantly read invoices, match cash to complex remittances, and prioritize collector queues; you drive down DSO, eliminate lockbox stress, and unlock working capital on day one. 

Navigate franchise, multi-property, and intercompany process complexities and reduce related risk

The inability to proactively manage cross border transactions, franchise royalty accruals, multi-property consolidations, internal cost allocations, and transfer pricing of intercompany flows across disconnected systems and data silos exposes organizations to audit and compliance risks and potential remediation penalties. Purpose-built, contextual AI shifts finance from reactive reporting to proactive foresight.  Our agentic financial operations platform helps organizations create, balance, and settle intercompany transactions in an automated, centralized, and collaborative environment, delivering the built-in logic to both apply the correct transfer pricing rules and tax considerations to every transaction and visibility necessary to navigate the
end-to-end flow. 

Simplify and automate processes
like leases and fixed assets

Handling large volumes of property leases, equipment, and fixed assets is time consuming and manual. Our solutions enable companies to import data from third party sources like lease software or subledgers to facilitate automated matching of transactions, automated amortization and depreciation schedules, and ASC 842 compliance, enabling standardized, accurate processes and real-time reporting. 

Identify and resolve financial
anomalies swiftly

Inaccurate financial data can be costly. With our platform’s anomaly detection capabilities, you can identify and resolve financial discrepancies quickly, ensuring accuracy in your financial reporting while reducing the risk of costly errors.

Verity™ AI

Building the Trust Infrastructure for the AI Era of Finance.

Move beyond generic, black box AI to governed AI execution with Verity AI. Built on 20+ years of deep finance and accounting process knowledge and a foundation of trusted data with an essential control layer, Verity understands your complex workflows, delivering AI that teams can finally trust. Empower your team to become strategic advisors. 

Frequently asked questions

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