Shep Provides Emergency Coronavirus/COVID-19 Notifications to Corporate Travel Programs

(Austin, TX - March 30, 2020) Corporate travel startup, Shep, is helping address the Coronavirus COVID-19 challenge by giving their emergency notification service, Shep Notify, away for free. The startup's browser extension is typically used to capture corporate travel data and pop up policy notifications on top of consumer travel sites. Companies can now use Shep to deliver the latest health and safety messages, informing business travelers about their company’s travel restrictions across more than 1,000 different booking sites, from Concur to Airbnb, Expedia, Delta, and more.

Shep’s travel notifications can provide health alerts, travel advisories and even links out to external resources like the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) frequently asked Coronavirus questions or a company’s own COVID-19 resource page. Once the pandemic slows down and travel begins to resume, Shep can then start to guide employees on which cities they can and can't travel to.

Shep has partnered with global travel management company (TMC), FCM Travel Solutions, to support the rollout of this emergency notification technology to companies of all sizes for free. “Since investing in us early this year, FCM has been a great partner and have proven invaluable in helping us think through how best to customize Shep for corporate clients,” said Shep CEO, Daniel Senyard.

“In this challenging time we need to work together to support all travelers,” said John Morhous, Chief Experience Officer at FCM parent company, Flight Centre Travel Group. “We’re happy to support rolling out Shep for free to all companies, no matter which TMC they use,” he continued.

Shep is currently available on the Chrome app store without charge and can be installed by individual employees in the USA and Canada. Travel managers can reach out to the Shep team at hi@sheptravel.com to help upload employees and customize travel notifications.