Business Info - issue 146

01732 759725 25 magazine APP UPDATE Co Charger Any motorist who has felt locked out of electric vehicle ownership, perhaps because they are among the 40% of people who live in a terraced house or flat where installing a private charger isn’t an option, may be interested in the Co Charger app. This Community Charging platform enables the estimated 300,000 people with private electric vehicle chargers to share them with neighbours who don’t have such a facility and, in the process, generate additional income and help their neighbourhood to become cleaner and greener. The app connects hosts and chargees; manages bookings and payment; enables hosts to set a price; and displays local charge points and rates. The app currently has more than 1,300 Hosts across every major UK town and city and a user base of 3,000. www.Co-charger.com StaySafe Siemens Healthineers, a provider of medical equipment to hospitals and other healthcare facilities, is rolling out the StaySafe lone worker app to help protect its on-call service engineers. The British Crime Survey estimates that 150 lone workers are physically or verbally assaulted every day, and the risk is particularly acute in the healthcare sector, with 14.9% of respondents to the last annual NHS staff survey being exposed to aggression. StaySafe gives engineers reassurance that help will be on its way in the event of an altercation or an accident. As soon as an engineer starts a timed session from their mobile phone, managers can see exactly where they are and send assistance if they fail to check-in, raise an alert or stop moving. www.staysafeapp.com SwiftCloud SaaS software provider Adventoris doubled its turnover last year as dozens of businesses from a variety of sectors, including office products supplier Fellowes Netherlands, adopted its SwiftCloud platform to modernise their B2B sales processes. The platform enables businesses to offer a fully branded mobile app through which customers can place orders, receive promotions, use shopping lists, add favourite items, create repeat orders, scan barcodes and receive push notifications, with all orders automatically imported into the client’s ERP system. www.swiftcloud.co.uk Jobmate Jobmate, the pay-as-you-go business management app that takes the paperwork out of diary planning, quotes, stock control, book-keeping and other admin tasks, has been made even easier with voice-to-text functionality that enables hands-on business managers to go hands-free. App founder and CEO Chris Dalton said: “We are always listening to our customers and now our app is listening to them too! Jobmate users who perform a number of manual tasks can now do a quick quote, make out an invoice or simply enter a diary note without needing to stop and type everything in.” www.jobmate.cloud Thrive Thrive Therapeutic Software closed its latest round of funding in just 10 days, raising a total of £2.5 million for further development of its tech platform, including more integration with existing medical data. Thrive, the only corporate wellbeing app to be approved by the NHS, helps users overcome periods of stress and look after their long-term mental health through clinical-grade, evidence-based techniques and in-app access to trained therapists. Launched in 2012, Thrive serves 1.4 million end-users globally through more than 100 blue- chip companies, including the NHS, DHL, Santander, AXA, Aviva and Next. Last year, it saw a 211% increase in app downloads. https://www.nhs.uk/apps-library/ thrive/ UnMind UK-based tech start-up and workplace mental health platform UnMind has closed a Series B funding round of $47 million led by EQT Ventures. The funding will be used to accelerate the company’s international growth and to further develop the breadth of its content, features and integrations. The app gives 2 million employees in 110 countries access to proactive, self-guided tools that empower them to measure, understand and nurture their mental wellbeing. Employers, including British Airways, Marks & Spencer and Samsung, benefit from access to aggregated, anonymised insights into the wellbeing of their staff. According to the Mercer report, Digital Tools For Mental Health, 2020 , 88% of large employers expect to provide access to online mental health support this year. https://unmind.com/ Shell Fleet App Shell Fleet Solutions UK has launched a new fuel card management app to help UK small businesses with up to 10 vehicles track driver fuel card spending, save time on paperwork and access fuel discounts worth up to £70 per month at Shell-branded service stations. The Shell Fleet App consolidates transactions made on up to ten ‘drive now, pay later’ fuel cards into a single, monthly payment, allowing small business owners to keep track of their fuel spending. Useful in-app features include a station locator that directs drivers to the nearest participating service station and downloadable digital VAT receipts. www.shell.co.uk/business-customers/ easy-admin-for-small-fleets.html Otter Assistant APP UPDATE