BANGALORE, INDIA: Unicel Technologies has launched a SMS based solution for corporate employees that allows to claim travel reimbursements.

The solution helps corporate travelers by providing them with the convenience of recording their day to day company travel expenses. The variable components in allowances given to employees include travel, food, lodging and other related expenses. 

How it works?

The Virtual number, which is a ten digit valid mobile number, facilitates anybody from across the world, to access Enterprise provided SMS based services.

Unicel's simplified and cost-effective process commences with the traveler sending a message to the virtual number (e.g. CAB 500 to <virtual number>). The data goes back to the Unicel Database where date-wise entries are maintained and at the end of the day a detailed mail is send to all the registered users and authorized personnel.
 
Why Unicel's Virtual Number?

The conventional solutions for travel and other reimbursements involved in corporate are arduous. The contemporary processes of employees manually recording expenses on a form or company's intra-link to login for reimbursements under different cost centers like travel has its own shortcomings for the corporate. There are challenges in the form of recording, communicating, accessibility and summarizing travel details. The implications as a result, are missing out on actual expenses details. Complications arise in maintaining the expenses logs and wastage of time in reporting.

Says Vinay Agrrawal, Founder & CEO of Unicel Technologies, "We saw an opportunity in these drawbacks and created a simplified solution using our Virtual number, which provides convenience to the employees to record / access their travel expenses with their respective companies. Our objective is to integrate our mobility solutions with the online tools that are already in use for travel and other expense reimbursement. The benefits are negligible human intervention, easy to use / user friendly interface eliminates the effort of recording and maintaining expenses, less time consuming and is error free."

The bundle of utilities in the reimbursement solutions at individual and managerial level are that the input is processed in to output, individuals can access the account any time; date-wise information can be pulled and the summary is available on both mail and SMS.
 
At managerial level, the concerned personnel and the accounts department receives a detailed expense sheet (date wise, employee-wise department-wise etc) in a timely manner without any management time loss and negligible human intervention.