October’s BillBandit competition winner

Over in the UK the BillBandit is making great progress so big thanks to the team over there.

There is a competition running in the UK on a monthly basis to win a BillBandit with a few accessories as well. Incidentally today is the last day to enter for the November draw, so go register if you haven’t already!! http://www.billbandit.co.uk/win-a-bill-bandit.php 

We also bring news of the October winner, Suzanne Barnett. Suzanne runs a video training company, KISS, and is very happy with her newly aquired gadget. She says “I set it up immediatley and am already seeing that next months receipt sorting is going to be miles easier!”.

Well done the UK team! Looking forward to next months results.

BillBandit Affiliate Program Now Live

We are pleased to announce the introduction of our BillBandit Affiliate programme. It is now possible to place a BillBandit button or banner on your blog or website – or a simple text link in an email – and refer visitors to the UK BillBandit retail site.

If a referred visitor subsequently becomes a BillBandit customer, then you will be credited with £1 as a ‘thank you’ reward for the referral – for each and every BillBandit main unit purchased. But it doesn’t end there…

In order to maximise the revenue for Affiliates and help those with a large network build further income we have created a second tier to the commission structure. How does this work? The direct sales through your own affiliate ID remain unchanged, however if one of the customers referred by you also becomes an Affiiate then we provide a link back to you for this Affiliate, this is the ‘2nd Tier Affiliate’.

When sales are made through the 2nd Tier Affiliate, they will receive their £1 referral reward, but YOU as the original referrer, will also receive a £0.20 commission for this sale as well!  This allows Affiliates to access a far greater earning potential by being rewarded on customers of your direct customers.

There is absolutely NO COST to becoming an Affiliate nor do you need to ’speak geek’ or understand HTML as we provide everything  you need to add a BillBandit button or banner to your website or blog.  Affiliate registration is quick and easy – simply go now to: http://www.billbandit.co.uk/affiliates.html to sign up and get earning!

Once registered, and sales are being made, you can log in to manage your Affiliate account, view transactions and request us to make payments of commissions to you.

BillBandit Before and After Cartoon

Our friend and ’satirical artist’ Ben Jennings has created this ‘Before and After BillBandit‘ cartoon for us:

Click on image to enlarge.

Not for the feint-hearted, more of Ben’s work can be found here:  http://www.satiricalsketches.blogspot.com/

International survey shows expense processing is ripe target for cost-cutting corporations

That’s the headline from an interesting article published at Daily Travel News back in December 2008.

“Business travelers are frequently out of pocket as a result of their employers’ archaic or unhelpful expense claim systems, which causes some staff to feel entirely justified in filing fictitious claims to recoup their losses. At the same time, these outmoded systems are saddling employers with excessive admin costs at exactly the time that they most need to trim budgets, according to new research from KDS, the European leader in on-demand travel and expense solutions.”

Here are the key findings:

• As many as 60% of respondents employers remain wedded to time-intensive spreadsheets for expense systems.
• Expenses are a major drag on executive time: 23% of travellers spend over an hour on each claim, and 35% take between 30 minutes and an hour.
• Staff may be padding their expenses as ‘retaliation’ for enduring convoluted claims procedures: 24% say they fail to claim back all their expenses, often losing track of receipts; 10% say this can cost them as much as EURO;100 personally per claim; 11% have to wait over a month to be reimbursed.
• 11% of respondents say their employers expect them to pay the Internet charges for checking work emails whilst travelling.
• 16% of US respondents admit to inflating their expenses, versus 9% of British and 10% of French.
• French staff cheat more often than their UK and US counterparts. However, while UK and US employees falsify expenses less frequently, when they do so it will, on average, be for a larger amount than their French counterparts would claim.
• The favourite method of boosting an expense claim in France is – quelle surprise – restaurant bills. Brits and Americans prefer more mundane taxi fares.

We hate to be smug, but neither we as a company, nor our employees and Partners here at BillBandit Ltd suffer the problems mentioned in this article.   We use our own products!

SOURCE ARTICLE: http://www.traveldailynews.com/pages/show_page/28538-International-survey-shows-expense-processing-is-ripe-target-for-cost-cutting-corporations