Fuel costs can quickly become a large expense for any business, regardless of the number of cars in your fleet or the number of locations you operate within across the UK. A fuel card can help to run your fleet more efficiently and take the hassle out of managing fuel expenses. UK businesses have been trusting fuelGenie to keep them fuelled up and on the road for over 17 years.
Why do UK businesses need a fuel card?
A fuel card works by allowing individuals within UK businesses to fill up at petrol stations without the need for cash or credit/debit cards. The employee simply presents the fuel card to the cashier and the fuel is billed directly to the company in one straightforward, HMRC-approved invoice.
Fuel cards also reduce the amount of paperwork needed and can be managed anywhere, any time through an online account management system, making the overall management of your business fuel quicker and smoother.
Take control of fuel spend
Using a fuel card can help businesses take control of fuel expenses. Knowing the exact cost of business fuel can help organisations make changes in order to reduce costs and save money. A fuelGenie fuel card saves businesses money by directing drivers to some of the UK’s lowest cost fuel. You can also view and manage your fuel spend online. Having this information available as a business can be very valuable when it comes to planning or upgrading the vehicles in the fleet.
Fuel cards help provide security and control over driver usage, drivers can be limited to purchasing fuel only, or fuel and other relevant products (oil, carwash etc). By providing employees with fuel cards, business can have complete confidence that the other purchases cannot be made using business funds.
Where can I fill up?
If your business spends a great deal of time travelling across the UK, a fuel card can make a big difference to your company’s overall fuel costs. With a fuelGenie fuel card you will be able to consistently save on fuel expenses. This is because it works exclusively at supermarket forecourts belonging to Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s, where fuel tends to cost 3p less per litre than the national average. Unlike many other providers, fuelGenie’s card is free to sign up to, free to use and has no minimum spend. What’s more, there is no minimum contract term.
With over 1,370 petrol station locations across the UK in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, you can be sure to always have a fuelGenie fuel card friendly petrol station nearby. fuelGenie has teamed up with some of the UK’s largest supermarkets including Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s to ensure good coverage wherever in the UK you might be travelling.
To find your nearest UK fuel card petrol station, try the quick and easy petrol station finder.
Quick and easy invoicing for UK businesses
With a fuel card such as the fuelGenie fuel card you can save time and resource as you do not have to manually save and process paper receipts. Each account will receive an HMRC approved invoice with a comprehensive VAT breakdown making the reclaim process easier.
Each invoice is broken down by each active fuelGenie card, transaction date, time, location and value, making it easier than ever to keep track of individual fuel use within a fleet. You can even add in information relevant to your own business, such as cost centres.
Mrs. Anna Fisher, Financial Controller at Key Managed Services, commented on the use of a fuel card saying: “Within the first 3 months our bills had reduced by 30% and we saved around 3 hours a month reconciling transactions via receipts received from our Sales, Installation & Maintenance Teams."
Applying for a UK Business Fuel Card
Applying for a UK Business fuel card is really simple, the application process is quick, easy to complete and can be done online with just a few details which most businesses will have to hand. There are no minimum requirements to apply for a fuelGenie fuel card so you can apply regardless of whether your business operates just one vehicle across the UK or thousands.
With ‘Manage My Account’, fuelGenie’s online account management system, it’s now easier than ever to manage your fuel expenses while on the road. And if you have a large fleet operating across multiple locations, several cards can be linked to the same account for seamless use.
Learn more about the benefits of the fuelGenie card, and how it can help your organisation.
