Whether for PPE footwear or occupational shoes, and whatever the budget, Shoe Vouchers ensures all staff receive the right footwear with minimal administrative involvement from the employer.
Supplying shoes adds more hassle and cost to the administration of corporate clothing than any other item. In fact the indirect costs of footwear supply can add as much as 30% to the original purchase price.
Dream solution
But you can avoid these costs by choosing Shoe Vouchers.
Shoe Vouchers protects your investment in corporate clothing and protects your people by ensuring - whoever or wherever they are - they wear smart, appropriate and comfortable shoes.
But without involving you in the hassle of their supply.
How it works
- Vouchers are denominated with a cash value. Any combination of quantity and denomination can be supplied giving total purchasing flexibility.
- Employees are issued with Vouchers which they put towards the cost of footwear in their choice of outlet. Vouchers for occupational shoes are welcomed online at shoesdirect.co.uk and at most quality high street shoe shops. Vouchers for PPE footwear are accepted at a national network of approved safety equipment distributors and via mail order or online at gladstoneboots.com.
- But the employer absolutely controls the specification and style of footwear purchased whether for reasons of corporate style or wearer safety. Vouchers may only be exchanged for footwear matching the specification ("validity") pre-printed on the voucher
- The scheme is free to use, the employer pays only the face value of vouchers ordered.
See the anatomy of a voucher (upload a pdf file)
Happy with your current arrangements? We can still help!
The Shoe Vouchers scheme works extremely well as an element within existing footwear provision arrangements. Many very large employers have the internal resources and economies of scale to make supplying shoes direct to staff cost effective. But they still find Shoe Vouchers an invaluable alternative where staff requirements cannot easily be met by a centralised ordering facility. For example, one of the largest rail operators issues Vouchers to staff who cannot wear the supplied shoe for reasons of size, fit or medical condition. A major airline uses the service as a stop gap where stores of footwear in any particular size run low. In both cases Vouchers ensure staff receive the correct shoe and eliminate the risk of the misuse of funds inevitable with an issue of petty cash.
Whatever your budget
And, because it's voucher-based, the system can match any budget. Where footwear is not a health and safety requirement, even a modest partial subsidy will still achieve the key objective of controlling staff appearance without getting involved in supplying shoes. It is even possible to eliminate costs completely by recouping the costs from payroll.