How does Uber for Business work for your organization?

In our increasingly interconnected world, more of us are travelling for work than ever before. Whether it’s the morning commute to the office, flying to meet international clients or catching a ride to a meeting across town, we can’t seem to avoid using transport in our day jobs in some way—or having to sort out the expenses afterward.

Uber for Business is a different way of using our tried-and-tested ridesharing service. Essentially, it allows you to create an Uber company account, which employees can then connect to using their own accounts to request a ride. Rather than paying for the rides from their personal accounts, they will be charged to the central Uber business account.

The procedure to set up an Uber business account couldn’t be simpler. You can access Uber for Business through the Uber app or by signing into the Uber for Business website using your normal Uber account. From there, you can set up your organisation and connect employees to your account.

The way Uber for business works sounds pretty simple, right? However, a simple change can often make a significant difference:

An Uber business account helps to cut out the hours spent dealing with expenses across all parts of an organisation. When an employee requests a ride through an Uber corporate account, the ride can be paid for automatically from a company card or allocated budget. This means employees no longer have to trawl through receipts and emails to claim back their travel expenses, and the admin team doesn’t have to waste time processing them.

Uber for Business also makes the whole business of corporate travel management easier. By having all employees on the same account, you can set limits for company travel from within the Uber business account. This includes the total budget, number of rides within a particular timeframe, total cost of an individual ride and a lot more besides. Not only that, but all data from rides taken by employees is automatically collected and collated in the Uber company account, reviewable at any time in one simple, straightforward report.

Rather than creating a company travel policy and manually logging information about corporate travel made by employees, Uber for Business can completely automate this process: from deciding how employees travel through to generating data reports about the costs of travel.

As using Uber for companies runs off the same ride request service as Uber, you’ll find all the same benefits of our normal service:

Risk assessments and vetting travel partners aren’t needed, as we’ve already done both for you. The Uber company account will also automatically collect records of all journeys taken, and employees can choose to share their ride status in real time, so friends and colleagues know that they’ve arrived safely.

As is the Uber way, you can request rides at all hours of the day in more than 600 cities around the world. Whether they’re using Uber for the work commute or making an emergency dash to the office in the middle of the night, everyone in your organisation will still be able to request a safe and secure ride through the company account.

And, of course, it’s not just employees that can request rides on Uber for Business! You can organise and send rides to customers, clients, job candidates or anyone else related to your organisation through the Uber business account.

So, if there’s something that Uber for Business can improve in your travel policy, it might be time to make that change. Still unsure about how to get started or whether an Uber business account can help your organisation? You can contact us or look out our extended guides and FAQs for Uber for Business.