Bolt Business gives your company a simple way to control, manage, and pay for corporate ground travel in 500+ cities across 45 countries. Employees also benefit as they can travel for work at a moment’s notice without having to handle expense reports.

In this article, you’ll understand how Bolt Business works from two perspectives:

The company admin (who controls and manages corporate ground travel);
The employees (who travel for work with Bolt).

How Bolt Business works for companies

As a company admin, you can control all elements of your team’s corporate ground travel from your Company Dashboard:

Build travel policies;
Set spending allowances;
Keep track of every ride taken by members of your team.

Your first step is to add employees who need to travel for work. You can either add individuals or upload in bulk by uploading a personnel spreadsheet to your account.

Once you’ve added your employees, they’ll be notified by email that they can now charge work rides to your company. They’ll find the company listed as a payment method in their Bolt app — more on how Bolt Business works for employees below.

With your employees added, you can split them into groups such as Sales, Marketing, or Accounting — this makes it easier to set travel policies based on the needs of people in each team or location.

Bolt Business makes building travel policies a simple task, saving you and your team hours of time in the long run.

Within your dashboard, go to Policies, and with a few clicks, you’ll have a thorough ground travel policy in place:

Add expense tracking;
Set spending allowances;
Limit the number of rides that can be taken within a set period;
Restrict travellers to specific days and times;
Set the locations individuals can travel to and from.

Track rides and manage payments

Ride reports are added to your dashboard at the end of every journey. This gives you complete visibility of the trips being made and saves your team the time and effort of filling out expense reports.

In terms of paying for your company’s travel, this can be managed from your dashboard too. You can either pay for all trips once per month by bank transfer or charge each ride to a company card.

How employees use Bolt Business

Your employees can start travelling for work with Bolt once you’ve added them as a user to your Bolt Business account — all they need is the Bolt app.

Your company will be listed as a payment method. And as long as the journey meets the travel rules set by the company, they can go ahead with the trip. For example, if you only allow a group of employees to travel on weekdays, they won’t be able to use the company as a payment method over the weekend.

This gives employees the power to self-book travel as and when needed, without having to use their own money and later lose time filling out expense reports.

An employee booking a work taxi on the Bolt app

A more productive working day

The stress that comes with travelling for work disappears when you give your team access to Bolt Business. Companies in Estonia can also permit employees to order food and groceries with the Bolt Food app.

Here’s how Bolt supports a more productive workday:

8:30 a.m.

After commuting on the train, hop on a scooter to cover the last mile of your commute.

9:00 a.m.

Eat a healthy breakfast of fruit, muesli, and green tea from the office kitchen — which has been well-stocked by Bolt Market.

10 a.m.

Get a ride to a client’s office for a meeting using the Bolt app.

11:00 a.m.

Use the time travelling back to the office to make an order with the Bolt Food app ahead of a team lunch.

12:00 p.m.

Your Bolt Food order arrives with options to suit everyone.

5:30 p.m.

After a morning scooter ride to the office, mix up your commute by cycling on a Bolt e-bike.

6:30 p.m.

Unlock a Bolt Drive car in the train station car park to pick up your children on the way home.

Arrange rides for clients, guests, and contractors

If you’re hosting clients and want to make their trip as easy as possible, you can book a ride for them with Ride Booker for the same day or up to 15 days in advance.

You make the travel arrangements and choose the vehicle type that suits your budget, and your passenger will get an SMS with the journey details. They don’t even need the Bolt app — it’s all handled by SMS.

Spend less while increasing employee retention

By managing ground travel with Bolt Business, companies have cut their travel costs by as much as 25% — even when managing teams as large as 700 people on the set of a Netflix production.

And as working habits continue to change, providing your employees with the ability to book safe, reliable, and efficient travel has proven to boost employee retention.

With these benefits in mind, there’s never been a better time to partner with a sustainable mobility company — set up your account in minutes.

How Bolt Business works (for companies and employees)

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