Those who travel often for business have been putting their cell phones to work for them for more than a decade. Android and iPhone devices, together with the army of applications available on each, have taken mobile connectivity to an entirely new level. There are some new and absolutely necessary applications available for business travelers which have been designed to make their mobile office experience more efficient and more productive. Here are three apps that you should not travel without.
Taxi Magic
Taxi Magic offers online taxi booking, eliminating both the need to place a phone call and the unfortunate mixed signals about exactly where it is you’ll need to be picked up. Other features include taxi arrival tracking online, integrated credit card payment, and e-receipt services for expensing transportation costs. Taxi Magic online booking is compatible with 75 industry leading taxi services in 40 major U.S. cities, with more companies and cities available through the “tap to call” service if you happen to be outside the main coverage area.
TripTracker and TripTrcker Pro
TripTracker and TripTracker Profree and $0.99 respectively, provides business travelers with real-time updates regarding the weather at the departure and arrival locations as well as any associated flight delays. TripTracker easily tracks hotel and car rental confirmation information and also provides maps and driving directions to and from the airport and your hotel. This app has been a huge help to users and it has received accolades to prove it. FoxNews, CNET, and PC Magazine all call TripTracker simple, easy and incredibly useful.
Expensify
As stressful as days of travel can be, it may be equally stressful once you return home to piles of receipts and pages of expense reports to complete. This is the benefit of using Expensify. It is easy to keep track of expenses even for purchases not eligible for e-receipt. Taking photos of paper receipts, converting the image into PDF files, and organizing them neatly for the accounting department are all possible within Expensify. Mileage reports are easy to input and reimbursement directly to your checking account for approved expenses is also possible with your company’s cooperation.
This list is obviously far from comprehensive, as there are hundreds of travel apps already on the market, and new ones pop up every day. Starting with these three helpful mobile business applications should introduce you to the money, time, and energy-saving possibilities waiting to be put to good use, all conveniently residing within your deceptively simple smartphone.
