Calculate CO2 emissions and validate expense claims
This service gives turn-by-turn directions, with many real-life applications. A typical expense claims process, for instance, usually involves the sales person recording a meeting in their diary and then, at the end of the month, validating the journey by going to a suitable website and retyping the address details from their diary to confirm their mileage claim for the accounts department.
Benefits of using distances and directions
- Saves time and money
Reduces time spent completing mileage claim forms while validation helps to reduce fraudulent claims
- Better compliance
Validating mileage and maintaining accurate records helps with HMRC tax inspections
- Calculates carbon emissions
Calculating carbon emissions helps you future-proof your organisation and comply with increasing corporate environmental legislation
- Works internationally
Supports the US, Canada and most of Europe as well as the UK road network
- Real data, real accuracy
Real road speed and logistic data means that whether you drive a hatchback or an artic you will get the most accurate journey information possible
Works with...
- Web service APIs
- Fully-hosted platform
Postcode Anywhere’s distance validation service has made a big difference to the fuel claim process in our expense management software. Because of scalability, dependability and ease of implementation, Postcode Anywhere’s range of services makes online application development faster and more reliable.
This service gives turn-by-turn directions, with many real-life applications. A typical expense claims process, for instance, usually involves the sales person recording a meeting in their diary and then, at the end of the month, validating the journey by going to a suitable website and retyping the address details from their diary to confirm their mileage claim for the accounts department.
The validated mileage is then often retyped a third time into the company mileage claim form and, depending on the company, will often need to be backed up by lots of print outs to substantiate the claim.
What a waste
Assuming that there are approximately 2.5 million company cars in the UK which are being used for business mileage and that each salesperson spends around half an hour a month, or 6 hours a year, completing the above process, well over £250 million in non-productive time is spent in the UK each year validating fuel claims! That’s even before accounting for excess mileage claims where returns are not properly validated.
Another way
By using Postcode Anywhere’s directions web services, it’s a simple task to validate distances between locations to confirm mileage. Saving you considerable time, it will even tell you how long each journey is expected to take and combined with the vehicle emissions data services that we also provide, it will also let you know the carbon emissions and fuel costs per mile for most makes and models of car as well. Plus, with real driving speed data, and height, weight and width information Postcode Anywhere's routing services supply you with a level of data accuracy that means you are never stuck, and never late.
In which direction are you heading?
So make life easy for yourself by using our easy to use spreadsheet you can be up and running validating mileage claims throughout your business in minutes. Simply download one of our spread sheets, plug in your account code and key and you’re away. Alternatively, you can plumb directly into our web services and build your own mileage validation forms to suit your own requirements.