Effective FAVR Solution
June 30, 2021

Effective FAVR Solution

Nicholas Cole | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Motus

We use Motus for positions that drive more than 6,000 miles a year for company business and use their personal vehicles. Each user maintains their own mileage log. Motus reminds users to submit mileage once a month. It also has a flag not to provide reimbursement for mileage older than two months back. We do not use Motus to process the payment to the user, although it can do that independently. We added integration to our expense software, Concur, instead. That makes vehicle fixed, and variable mileage reimbursement tied directly to expense processing. The combination of the two leads to more timely submission of expense reports.

Pros

  • GPS Based Mileage Tracking
  • Automating Accounting Portion of Payment
  • Tax Compliance for a tax-free FAVR program

Cons

  • Hard to manually enter miles for users who don't want to use GPS
  • Very stringent on mileage submission deadline, once a month, or wait another month for users
  • App is great, web interface could be improved, especially for the users
  • Tax-Compliance
  • User level empowerment
  • Positive - ROI
  • Negative - "Big Brother" feeling on GPS mileage tracking
  • Positive - We decided to pass savings to employee for mutual gain on the new program
We did not use a FAVR compliant company in the past. Fixed monthly amounts were processed on payroll and taxed, variable mileage expense was processed on expense reports.

Do you think Motus delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Motus's feature set?

Yes

Did Motus live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Motus go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Motus again?

Yes

I would recommend Motus to anyone processing a FAVR program currently. A tax-compliant system results in a saving for the company that can be passed along to the individual. The higher the effective tax rate for the individual, the greater opportunity for tax-loss savings. As a company, we made our policy more stringent but also increased employee gross pay while reducing employee cost.

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