Finance · law · advisory

Transportation for firms that bill by the hour

High-touch ground movement for finance, law, private equity, wealth management and advisory teams, with billing that maps to matters and clients.

Available on request

Account setup, billing and standing requirements.

Part of Corporate & Executive · all services

What this service handles

Professional services travel has a particular shape: unpredictable hours, client-facing arrivals that cannot be late, and a finance function that needs the spend attributable to a matter or a client rather than to a person.

VaultPac's account model handles the second half of that as naturally as the first. Several bookers, several travellers, several payment methods, and charges collected against the account rather than against whichever card was used at eleven at night.

Operationally this is executive chauffeur work and as-directed standby, sold to a vertical that needs it more often than most.

Operational diagramA week on one account — scheduled movements, and the long as-directed day that runs through the middle of it.

Typical movement

  1. Account and cost structure agreed Contacts, travellers, payment methods
  2. Movements booked by any authorised contact Often at short notice
  3. Client-facing arrivals and as-directed hours Whichever the matter needs
  4. Charges attributed at the account level For onward allocation

Who uses this service

  • Law firms
  • Investment banks and advisory firms
  • Private equity and venture capital
  • Wealth and asset management
  • Accounting and consulting firms
  • Corporate legal departments

How VaultPac coordinates it

Every booking is a trip. A trip carries trip services, and each service breaks into the individual movements that actually have to happen — which is why the people and the bags do not have to travel the same way.

  1. Trip
  2. Trip services
  3. Individual movements
  • Account billing

    Charges belong to an account rather than to a single booking, so one programme can carry several contacts, cards and cost centres.

  • Passenger movement

    Sedan, SUV, Sprinter, minibus and coach movements priced and dispatched by the transportation engine.

  • Trip → Trip Services → Movements

    One trip holds every service on it, and each service breaks into the individual movements that have to happen. A single booking can carry people and bags on different vehicles and different clocks without becoming two bookings.

  • Changes during the trip

    Times, stops, vehicles and passenger counts can change after a trip has started without rebooking it.

  • Dispatch monitoring

    Every movement on one board while it runs, so a late arrival is seen rather than reported.

  • Ordered stops

    A movement can carry intermediate stops in order, so a route with three pickups is one movement rather than three bookings.

  • Masked communication

    Passenger and chauffeur reach each other without either holding the other's number.

What runs this movement

Assignment reads the passenger count and the bag count, so the vehicle that arrives fits both. Larger movements run several.

  • Black executive sedan Executive sedan
  • Black executive SUV SUV
  • Black Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van Sprinter

Why VaultPac for this

  • Spend attributable at the account level, which is what the finance team is actually asking for.
  • Short-notice and late-night movement is the ordinary case, not an exception.
  • As-directed standby for the days that do not end when they were supposed to.

Questions

Can charges be allocated to a matter or client code?

Charges collect against the account, which is the level the billing model works at. Allocation beyond that is agreed when the account is set up rather than assumed.

Next step

Plan professional services with us

Tell us the shape of the movement — dates, numbers, where it starts and where it has to end. We come back with an operating plan and a price, not a form letter.

An email address or a phone number, so we can reply.

or call (312) 584-2701

Questions? Call us (312) 584-2701