If you manage travel for your team, you likely know the moment. A traveler messages you the night before a trip: “Do I need a visa to enter the UK? What about my layover?”
Now multiply that by dozens of trips, across different countries, with rules that keep changing. That’s a lot of unplanned work landing on one person.
That’s shadow work. — the invisible tasks that pile up, don’t show up in any dashboard, and quietly take up your day. And when you travel for work, there can be a lot of it. Perk’s product team has been laser-focused on building products and features that eliminate shadow work.
We built Entry Ready to take a frustrating piece of shadow work off your plate.
How does Entry Ready work?
Entry Ready is a built-in visa feature in Perk that helps teams:
Check your unique entry requirements, based on your passport
Understand what visa is needed at the point of booking the flight
Easily pay for e-visas and travel authorizations directly in the Perk check-out flow
Send your visa application to be completed by Perk’s visa provider Sherpa
Everything lives in one place. No extra tabs, no guessing, no chasing.
Plus, travelers can add a visa at check-out, paying with the same payment method they were going to use for their flight.
Why visa requirements for work travel are getting more complex
Traveling internationally for work isn’t what it used to be.
More countries are introducing digital visas and travel authorizations. Requirements change frequently.
The hidden cost of visas
Our research across 7,000 travelers in Europe and the US shows how much this adds up.
Over the past year, over 40% of work travelers applied for a visa or an ETA/ESTA-style authorization for work travel — and for most of them, the process was still fragmented and largely manual. Nearly half ran into a problem along the way, most often a visa or ETA that didn’t come through in time.
It’s not just travelers who feel that complexity. It lands on the people coordinating travel behind the scenes.
Admins and coordinators end up:
Answering “Do I need a visa?” over and over
Chasing down information across multiple sources
Trying to prevent last-minute disruptions
Acting as the safety net when something goes wrong
And the stakes are high. Missing a requirement doesn’t just mean inconvenience. It can mean missed trips, wasted spend, and stressed travelers. Business travel disruptions are increasing, so this is one more risk teams have to manage.
This work was never meant to be manual
Most companies don’t have a clear system for managing travel visa requirements. Instead, the work gets spread across:
External government websites
Traveler guesswork
Admin follow-ups and manual checks
So the work doesn’t disappear…it just gets pushed around. That’s exactly the kind of friction we’re focused on removing.
With Entry Ready, we’ve built visa requirements into the booking flow
Entry Ready brings visa requirements and applications directly into the booking experience, so your team gets the information they need, exactly when they need it. No extra tabs. No guesswork. No chasing.
1. Know what’s required—before you book
When booking a flight, travelers can see if a visa or travel authorization is required based on their itinerary and passport they have on their Perk profile.
2. Get clear, reliable guidance
Requirements come from our trusted partner, Sherpa. Through AI and Sherpa’s over 350 government relationships, they are the first to update when a travel requirement changes, 92% of the time.
3. Purchase an eVisa or Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) Directly in Perk
Travelers can add any supported visas during check-out, and start their visa application directly from their trip - simplifying payments and saving time for travelers, and simplifies reimbursements and costs for admins.
What this actually changes
Entry Ready isn’t just about convenience. It’s about removing a whole category of work.
Fewer last-minute “Do I need a visa?” messages, and more confidence across the team. Because requirements surface during booking, issues get caught early rather than at the gate. And as regulations keep evolving and more people cross more borders, the AI-powered document checking and Government monitoring keeps pace with the rules so your travel program doesn’t have to slow down to keep up.
One less thing to manage
At Perk, we’re focused on removing the invisible work that builds up around travel — the things that don’t show up in a dashboard but take up your time every day. Entry Ready is one more step in that direction. Because managing travel for work shouldn’t mean managing uncertainty.
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