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Our product will help to address issues for travelers, their managers, and auditors. For the primary user (the travelers themselves), we will make both business trip planning and reimbursement easier so that they can spend time working on the main parts of their jobs. Currently, if you consider a salesperson driving regularly from Boston to NYC on sales trips:
- Assume drive is 225 miles (Distance Google Maps distance between Boston and NYC) * $.50/mile (IRS reimbursement per mile) * 2 trips (Round trip) = $225/week/employee
- Assume the hotel is an average of 10 miles away from the clients on that trip, and they visit the client 5 days a week: 10 miles * $.50/mile * 2 trips * 5 days = $50/week/employee
- Assume that salespeople travel twice a month: $550/month/employee
If there is an overcharge of 10% on the mileage (for instance, if they travelers regularly round up from 225 miles to 250 miles), that works out to $660 / year / person waste on mileage expenses. Depending on the size of the company and the amount of travel, that could be a major significant waste of money, and an opportunity to introduce a more accurate system. The . In addition, the same trip would require a minimum of 2 map printouts per week on the part of the employee, which would certainly get annoying!
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