Ola Shuttle now available for Enterprise Customers; payment enabled through Ola Corporate accounts

Bangalore, February 11, 2016: Ola, India’s leading mobile app for transportation today announced that Ola Shuttle will now be available for its enterprise customers signing up from Ola Corporate. This will enable corporate employees who wish to travel via Ola Shuttle to pay for their ride centrally through the Ola Corporate accounts of their company. With this, corporates can now choose to offer seamless Employee Transportation Solutions that can be customized as per the convenience of the employee. With over 500 shuttles live across 100+ routes in Delhi-NCR, Mumbai and Bangalore, Ola Shuttle provides reliable and convenient commute for working professionals on a daily basis. Ola Shuttles are equipped with high-speed internet, on-demand entertainment, push back seats and more, to make the commute comfortable and enjoyable for users. Just like various cab categories, standard rates are applicable on Ola Shuttle for enterprise customers. With integration of both Shuttle and Cabs on its platform, Ola is the only comprehensive offering for Employee Transportation Solutions in the country today

Since its launch in January 2016, Ola Corporate has seen significant traction with over 2000 corporates across start-ups, SMBs, Indian conglomerates and multi-nationals signing up, to address the diverse mobility needs of their employees.

Pranay Jivrajka, Chief Operating Officer at Ola said, “Ola Shuttle as part of the Ola Corporate offering enables seamless mobility for daily commute of employees. Ola Shuttle operates on routes that are crowd-sourced from users and their employers to serve more people efficiently. This allows for our enterprise customers to use a single window for local mobility as well as daily commute needs, all from one single dashboard, saving them valuable time and resources apart from being cost effective.”

Ola Corporate reduces significant time and effort spent by corporate administration teams in arranging transport for company executives as well as replaces the highly time consuming and error prone process of transport bill reimbursements, with technology that automatically tracks travel expenses down to each executive without any human intervention. Fares for Ola Corporate are the same as standard rates offered by Ola across all its categories and is available across Mini, Sedan, Prime and Shuttle on the Ola platform across the country. Businesses stand to save as much as 60% on their travel costs by replacing fixed transport options with on-demand consumption from the Ola app. The solution also enables corporates to customize ride policies for different groups of employees, as per the needs of the company, giving complete control of the entire process to the administration teams.

Ola Corporate can be accessed by executives on their regular Ola app itself. For executives who have been authorized to use Ola Corporate, a new toggle option ‘Book as Corporate Ride’ appears on the confirmation screen at the time of booking. On enabling this, the ride gets billed directly to the user’s corporate account, without the user having to pay the fare in cash or through their personal Ola Money wallet. All in-app features like Share Ride Details, Emergency Contacts, SOS, Number Masking are active for users of Ola Corporate as well. Ola Corporate users can also choose from the wide range of categories across Ola Mini, Ola Sedan, Ola Prime and Ola Shuttle in their cities. Administration teams can register for ‘Ola Corporate’ by clicking here.