{"id":42466,"date":"2023-10-20T15:21:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/uber-shows-that-it-means-business-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:21:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:21:25","slug":"uber-shows-that-it-means-business-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/uber-shows-that-it-means-business-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber shows that it means business – StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Uber launched Business Profiles on Uber for Business at its headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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The transport startup is growing rapidly in Australia with increasing numbers of small businesses signing up to the service.<\/p>\n

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Business profiles enables users to switch to a business profile that is linked to their business account in one tap.<\/p>\n

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A receipt will be automatically emailed to user’s work email address.<\/p>\n

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Greg Greiner, lead product development, at Uber for Business, says the Business Profiles feature will make business travel on Uber “more seamless”.<\/p>\n

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“This enables companies to manage their Uber spend on one central business system,” he says.<\/p>\n

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Over 250,000 business trips happen on Uber daily worldwide and 50,000 businesses are signed up to Uber for Business.<\/p>\n

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But currently users have to sign in and out from their personal account to change to their business account.<\/p>\n

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“Most people use Uber mostly for personal travel, it solves the problem of separating our work travel from our business travel,” Greiner says.<\/p>\n

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He says Business Profiles will help combat fraud by providing maps of the exact route taken and the time and date of the trip to businesses.<\/p>\n

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Uber estimates 5-10% of taxi receipts are fraudulent.<\/p>\n

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“Businesses are saving significant amounts of money [using Uber],” Greiner says.<\/p>\n

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He claims businesses can save over US$1000 ($1401) per employee annually on business travel by using Uber for Business.<\/p>\n

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Greiner told SmartCompany SMEs are keen users of Uber for Business because of its ease of use and as many small businesses do not have expense management software.<\/p>\n

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“We have seen a tremendous amount of small business usage on Uber,” he says.<\/p>\n

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SmartCompany travelled to San Francisco as a guest of Salesforce.<\/em><\/p>\n

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This article was originally published on SmartCompany.
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