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TravelPerk now trades as Perk: travelperk.com redirects to perk.com, and the event product is called Perk Events. What follows is what Perk's own pages document, with sources, next to what Travel Code Company Events does.
What Perk documents
From perk.com/travel-solutions/events-meetings-management:
- Invitations and tracking. "invite attendees to events and track responses and the status of bookings."
- Shared trip detail. "share trip details including attendee names, logistics, agendas, and a wider itinerary with participants."
- Visibility. "view attendees' travel plans, including arrival and departure times and accommodation details."
- Who can create one. "anyone can create an event within your company account."
- Guests — bounded to the account. "you can invite guests to an event as long as they have been added to your company account", and "there is no limit to the amount of people you can invite as long as they are part of your company account."
From perk.com/group-booking:
- A combined platform claim. "Perk brings venue sourcing, travel booking, budget tracking, and guest communications into a single platform", and "gather venue quotes automatically, book in-policy travel, and create dedicated event pages" for "tracking RSVPs, arrival times, and costs."
- Policy and approvals. "The Perk platform is set up with your policies baked in so booking is smooth and approving a breeze."
- A human group service with a floor and a lead time. "Our dedicated group bookings service is designed for trips with 9+ people"; "Reach out to us at least 3 weeks in advance for short-notice group booking requests"; "the better rates we can negotiate for you"; "Our group travel experts will make sure travellers get where they're going"; 24/7 support that aims "to answer in under a minute".
Not documented on those pages: hotel room blocks as such — the pages discuss negotiated group discounts, not blocked rooms with release and attrition terms; rail, car rental or transfers for groups; event-specific travel rules as distinct from company policy; non-employee guests; pricing or which plans include the group service.
The three differences that matter
1. External guests. Perk's own FAQ limits event guests to people "added to your company account". Travel Code invites speakers, partners and clients by email, lets them book under the event's rules, and closes their access when the event ends. If your kickoff has a customer on stage, this is the difference between a proper booking and someone's personal card.
2. Event rules versus company policy. Perk documents "your policies baked in". Travel Code sets a policy for the event only: the travel window with arrive-by and leave-after times, the six service toggles, the cabin-class cap, the allowed arrival airports, the hotel rule — and one explicit consequence for a booking outside the window: flag, approve or block. The rest of the company keeps its normal policy.
3. Room blocks with their terms visible. Perk's pages describe negotiating group discounts. Travel Code's room block is a request-and-compare flow where the offers are compared on the total, the cancellation terms, the release terms and the validity date — the four things that decide what a block actually costs — and then assigned to named participants.
Where Perk is ahead
- Venue quotes inside the product. Perk documents gathering "venue quotes automatically". Travel Code sources venues on request through the team, not as something you run yourself in the product.
- A published threshold for the human service. Perk states it plainly: "designed for trips with 9+ people", "at least 3 weeks in advance". Travel Code's agents collect room-block offers and source venues on request, but we publish no equivalent threshold or lead time — and a buyer comparing the two pages will notice that Perk told them and we did not.
- Agendas and surveys in the event page. Perk documents agenda sharing and surveys; Travel Code does not.
Who should pick which
If the job is coordinating who is coming and sharing the plan, Perk Events documents exactly that. If the job is governing how a hundred people book, holding and assigning rooms, bringing external speakers inside the same rules, and reporting the money by cost center, that is what Travel Code Company Events is built to do.
Sources
Perk's capabilities above are quoted from Perk's own pages, read on 11 November 2026. Note that travelperk.com now redirects to perk.com: the company trades as Perk, and the product is Perk Events. Vendor pages change; check them again if you are reading this much later.
- Perk Events — invitations, response tracking, shared trip detail, guest rules.
- Perk group booking — venue quotes, budget tracking, the 9+ group service and its lead time.
Travel Code's capabilities are the ones live in the product on 11 November 2026. Where a page of Perk's does not document something, this article says so rather than claiming they cannot do it.
More on running company events
- Room blocks for company events: how they work and what to check in an offer
- Event budget tracking: booked vs paid vs spent
- Corporate offsite and retreat planning: the checklist, and the one decision it hangs on
- Planning a sales kickoff: the agenda, the travel, and the spreadsheet you can drop
- Inviting external guests to company travel
- Travel Code vs Navan Events for company events: what each one actually does
The product these articles describe is Company Events in Travel Code: one workspace for the people, the travel rules, the room blocks and the budget of a company trip.
