Indian Uber Users Now Can Manage Travel Expense Through Happay App

Traveling on a daily basis for business purpose might cause a chaos in cooperate workers’ monthly budget report. It seems like a solution has been found to help with this. On Thursday, the global ride-hailing service Uber makes an announcement that the company will be partnering up with Happay, a Bengaluru-based fintech firm, in order to help business travelers in managing their travel expense. With Happay, corporate can undoubtedly save their expense spent on ground transportation at the same time boosting employee satisfaction and productivity.

With the partnership between the two companies, to request for reimbursement, “Uber for Business” travelers now can submit their receipts automatically. In the company statement, Co-Founder and CEO of Happay, Anshul Raid said that business travelers will not have to type in their ride data anymore.

Moreover, corporate finance teams will also gain more control. Ground travel expenditure and travel reimbursements can easily be tracked and processed.

Arjun Nohwar, Head of Uber for Business for the Asia Pacific said that Uber for Business receives many overwhelming responses from corporates around India. In order to make business trips stress-free and simple, allowing Uber riders to submit their receipts for reimbursement automatically is considered a reasonable step.

To make use of the auto-expense feature, Uber users will need to create an Uber business account for their company and invite other employees to use this account for Business Profile. As soon as the profile is set, in the payment settings, employees will then simply need to select their expense management provider, which will be Happay in this case.

For every business trip of an employee, instead of having to manually punch in the ride data, information from the employee’s business profile account will be sent automatically to their Happay account. The data will then be converted into an expense item and be ready for submission.