Happay enters into strategic partnership with Uber for business travelers

Happay and Uber have collaborated to enable business travellers to auto-expense their business rides.

With this new partnership, Happay will help its corporate customers gain complete visibility and consequently realize significant cost savings on their ground transportation while, at the same time, increasing employee’s productivity and satisfaction. Corporate finance teams will have more control and will be able to track ground travel expenditure in real time and process travel reimbursements with ease.

Anshul Rai, Co-Founder & CEO, Happay, comments, “Everything we do at Happay is focused on making lives easier for our users – whether it’s helping them manage expenses from anywhere, on any device, or eliminating the need to manually input expense details. Our partnership with Uber is very much in line with this philosophy. Business travellers no longer need to punch in their ride data manually. What we are also doing is opening up the travel ecosystem and directly tapping into the source of spending (the merchants). With such partnerships, we are able to ensure more user loyalty for merchants like Uber and ensure business spending is legitimate, for the corporates.”

Arjun Nohwar, Head of Uber for Business for APAC, says, “Uber for Business continues to see overwhelming response from corporates across India. Empowering our riders to automatically submit their receipts for reimbursement is a logical step towards making business trips simple and stress-free. Thanks to our partnership with Happay, we can ensure corporates never have to worry about travel receipts again.”

The partnership with Uber for Business is one of the many strategic initiatives Happay has undertaken to transform Travel & Entertainment (T&E) expense management in India. Happay corporate customers can take advantage of the auto-expense feature by creating an Uber for Business account for their company and inviting their employees to use the company’s Uber for Business Profile. Once the profile is enabled, employees simply select Happay as their expense management provider within the payment settings. Every time employees complete a ride on their business profile, Uber automatically sends ride information from the employee’s business profile account to their Happay account, without the need for any additional input. Happay then converts this data into an expense item, ready for submission.