Travel Preparer Introduction

When preparing a travel document for someone else, the Travel Preparer must first select Official Travel - Others on his or her GovTrip welcome page.

From this menu tab, the Travel Preparer must then select the type of document being created.

		An Authorization is the document that contains travel request information. It contains a trip itinerary, reservations information, and accounting data, and allows for communication with the Approving Official and the travel agent. Additional data, including expense estimates and per diem entitlement information, are also part of the authorization.
		A Voucher is the document that the traveler completes and submits after the trip has been completed. It is used to reconcile actual costs and expenditures with the ones submitted in the original authorization.
		A Local Voucher is the document submitted to claim reimbursement for expenses incurred during a local travel period of less than 12 hours.
		A Group Authorization is an authorization that enables a Primary Traveler to enter all travel information for a group of people traveling to the same location at the same time.

Choose from the document types in the WBT toolbar above to learn more about each. The Advanced Topics drop-down menu links to additional information on adjusting or amending a document, editing per diem entitlements, and applying multiple lines of accounting to a document.

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