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Lanes & Planes: cost, fit and limits
Lanes & Planes is a corporate travel management platform from Lanes & Planes GmbH in Munich that books business trips, applies travel policies and passes travel data to accounting and ERP systems, with German-speaking support.
What to know first
Lanes & Planes aims at German-speaking finance and travel teams that want trip data to land in their accounting system without retyping. It names DATEV, SAP, Addison, Sage, proALPHA, Vera and Microsoft Dynamics as targets. Payments run through one creditor, and phone support in German is staffed at all hours. A homepage calculator builds a custom price model in three steps, and no figures appear.
Lanes & Planes at a glance
| Maker | Lanes & Planes GmbH, Germany |
|---|---|
| Free plan | No |
| Entry price | Custom quote |
| API access | No |
| Category | Best AI Corporate Travel Management Software in 2026, rank 9 of 12 |
| Website | lanes-planes.com |
Who Lanes & Planes is best for
German accounting departments
Automated transfer into DATEV, Addison or SAP removes manual re-entry of trip costs, which is the pain point the homepage leads with.
Companies that pay many suppliers
One creditor for all payments means finance reconciles a single counterparty instead of an airline, a hotel and a rail operator for each trip.
Teams that approve in Microsoft Teams
Travel requests can be approved or rejected in Teams through the Lanes & Planes app, so managers do not need to open another tool.
Lanes & Planes plans and pricing
| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Custom price model | Custom quote | Built with the price calculator on the homepage in three steps. No amounts appear on the pages we read. |
Checked November 2026.
What Lanes & Planes does
- Accounting and ERP transfer
- Trip data moves automatically into accounting or ERP systems, with named targets including DATEV, SAP, Addison, Sage, proALPHA, Vera and Microsoft Dynamics or Navision, per the system integration page.
- Roles, rights and policies
- Administrators set roles, rights and travel policies in the platform, so a manager sees only the travelers and budgets assigned to them, and a traveler books only within the rules set for that role.
- Mobile app
- The Lanes & Planes app handles trip management on a phone, including the approval flow connected to Microsoft Teams, so a manager can answer a request from a phone between meetings.
- Single payment hub
- A hub gives one creditor for all payments, which simplifies supplier reconciliation for companies with many small bookings and spares the accounts payable team separate invoices.
- Refunds and expense handling
- The homepage describes automatic refunding of claims alongside expense management, so a canceled ticket returns money without a manual claim from the traveler or a chase by the finance department.
How Lanes & Planes handles your data
The privacy policy at lanes-planes.com states that travel approvals in Microsoft Teams run through the Microsoft Azure AI Bot Service, and that HubSpot Breeze AI agents are used for marketing and sales, which are not travel features. The pages we read do not say whether customer data trains AI models, where it is hosted, how long it is kept or which security certificate applies, so the vendor's policy was not checked for those points. The homepage names TÜV-certified support only.
Where Lanes & Planes falls short in practice
- German-speaking support. Support is described as German-speaking, which narrows the fit for international teams, and the pages we read do not mention English phone support, so a multinational group may need another provider for non-German speakers.
- Price shown only through a calculator. The homepage builds a custom price model in three steps, and no amounts are printed, so a buyer cannot compare with per-trip prices without running it.
- Thin AI story. The only AI element in the privacy policy is the Azure AI Bot Service used for Teams approvals, so a buyer who wants an AI booking assistant will not find one here.
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Lanes & Planes: common questions
Which accounting systems does Lanes & Planes name?
The integration page names DATEV, SAP, Addison, Sage, proALPHA, Vera and Microsoft Dynamics or Navision. The pages we read do not say how deep each connection goes, so ask for a sample booking record from your own accounting system before choosing.
Does Lanes & Planes have an AI feature?
The only AI element described is the Microsoft Azure AI Bot Service behind travel approvals in Microsoft Teams. The privacy policy also names HubSpot Breeze AI agents for marketing and sales, which are not travel features. No AI booking assistant appears on the pages we read.
How is Lanes & Planes priced?
A price calculator on the homepage builds a custom price model in three steps. The pages we read print no amounts, so the model has to be run with your own trip counts and the resulting quote compared with printed-price vendors.
Is English support available?
The homepage describes German-speaking 24/7 phone support with TÜV certification. The pages we read do not state whether other languages are supported by phone, so a non-German-speaking company should ask before it signs, and should test a call in its own language during the trial.
Who is the company behind Lanes & Planes?
The Impressum names Lanes & Planes GmbH in Munich with the commercial register number HRB 235318. The privacy policy at the same domain describes data processing, though it states no hosting region or retention period on the pages we read, so request those details.