Bank Handlowy w Warszawie : Citi Handlowy Bikes application educates, entertains and motivates

Citi Handlowy invites cyclists from Warsaw to use the Citi Handlowy Bikes application. It is the first version of this banking-biking application, which at the moment makes it possible to quickly find available bikes, as well as to quickly borrow them and track the travelled route. The application also includes a complex algorithm of calculating the calories burned. It is however only the beginning - the application will be soon enriched with new functionalities, among others, location-based games, tracking the time of the travel, push communications confirming that we have borrowed and returned a bike. The application will even inform us that the time of the free ride will soon come to an end. It will also make it possible to collect medals for completing challenges set in the application, or send invitations to friends through social networks to use the app.

The Citi Handlowy Bikes application is equipped with a plethora of unique functionalities, which facilitate the usage of city bikes to an even greater extent. At the same time, it is an invitation for bikers to join a joint game - competitions which will be organized via the application. The app users will be also able to use banking products from special offers.

Citi Handlowy Bikes consists today in:

• recording the travel route and a possibility to publish the number of covered kilometers on Facebook
• tracking and recording, in the account's history, the detailed travel route based on the GPS of a phone
• an advanced system of calculating burned calories, working on the basis of the profile data of a user
• a complex user's account, allowing users, among others, to insert a profile photo
• guidelines for safe cycling

In order to borrow bikes through Citi Handlowy Bikes, once the application is downloaded, one should create a new account in the system and pay the initial fee of at least PLN 10. At the moment, the app does not offer the possibility to integrate the account with the Veturilo account in order to use the funds paid in there. The operator of the application is the Polish company Nextbike Polska.