Calculate CO₂ emissions and validate expense claims

• 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.
• Fully customisable
• Create a tight integration powered by Postcode Anywhere’s smart services

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.

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 the spreadsheet from this page, plug in your account code and licence 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.

Take the no-obligation free trial today

Postcode Anywhere provides a simple transactional licensing solution that’s quick and very easy to integrate into your own applications or to just use as a standalone validation tool. Using TeleAtlas data, the information that powers Google maps, the service works for the UK, North America and most of Europe. There are no set-up or development costs: just an award-winning service.

Take the free trial today and see for yourself.