It has been announced that BP’s fuel payment app BPme now accepts fuel card payments in the UK, which the firm says saves time for both fleet managers and drivers. The service has already been rolled out in Australia and New Zealand, and certain European countries will follow towards the end of 2018 and throughout 2019. BP goes on to say that the BPme app is designed to save customers time and reduce the reliance on plastic fuel cards. Early users of the service, it states, have claimed to save between 3-5 minutes when filling up. This is of particular interest to the fleet market, where fuel card use can lead to fuel fraud. The app is also claimed to lead to greater accuracy in reporting fuel and mileage to fleet managers, as mileage is entered while at the pump. BP says that it takes approximately ten days for a new fuel card (of which some 500,000 are currently in operation) to be issued to customers, while the BPme app enables fleet managers to get their drivers on the road and using the company account to purchase fuel in as little as a day. Fleet managers need only give an employee an authorisation code known as a ‘T-pin’. (Image: BP)
BP payment app BPme can now be used for fuel card payments in the UK. The app saves time for both fleet managers and drivers and reduces the reliance on plastic fuel cards. BPme has already been rolled out in New Zealand and Australia and users of the service there claim it saves between three and five minutes when filling up at a service station. BPme is also more accurate in reporting fuel and mileage to fleet managers, as mileage is entered when at the fuel pump.