FLEETCOR Acquires Airline Software Company Levarti

FLEETCOR, the global business payments company, has acquired Levarti, the airline software company.

Levarti offers a suite of solutions to automate passenger disruptions including passenger notifications, flight rebookings, hotel accommodations, transfers and vouchers.

Levarti’s MAX software suite rolled out in 2014, and several global airlines adopting it to digitize their airport operations and communications.

The MAX mobile apps give passengers end-to-end digital experiences from check-in, during flight with contactless payments, and through to baggage claim.

“This acquisition gives us a complementary solution to further automate and streamline passenger disruption events for our airline clients. We expect our combined offering will be of great interest to airlines, and lead to accelerated sales in our lodging airline segment,” said Ron Clarke, chairman and chief executive officer, FLEETCOR Technologies.

Read more: Managing Electric Vehicles in Commercial Fleets Requires New Payments, Reimbursements and Insights

Keagan Russo, president of Fuelman and North America Local Fleet at FLEETCOR, recently told PYMNTS about the complexity surrounding businesses adding electric vehicles.

PYMNTS wrote that some of the issues are range anxiety, reimbursing employees charging company vehicles at home, measuring sustainability and reporting performance indicators different from fuel-powered vehicles.

Russo said these things are among the issues fleet managers need to solve.

“The thing about the Fuelman solution is we’re charging station agnostic,” Russo said. “We have a relationship with Mastercard, and we’re able to leverage that universal acceptance network with each one of the relevant charge providers.”

With range anxiety, the issue is that the charging infrastructure isn’t as big as it is for fuel. That means fleet managers have to make sure drivers can get where they need to go and not be stranded.

The Fuelman EV solution, the report says, can be used within any charging network where Mastercard is taken.

As for employee reimbursement, Fuelman has partnered with Motorq, a connected-car data and analytics company, to make a home reimbursement engine.

Motorq can capture charging data directly from the EVs.