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Playbooks, product updates, and finance-team field notes on issuing virtual Visa cards for payroll, vendors, subscriptions, contractors, and team spend.

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Practical guides for every use case.

Focused playbooks on running virtual cards across the spend categories finance teams care about.

Rows of empty seats in a bright conference hall, representing event and conference spend managed on per-event virtual Visa cards.
Event spend •

How to manage event spend with virtual cards

Break the budget into lines and give each vendor and staffer a capped, time-boxed card. Reconcile the whole event in one place.
A pile of wrapped gift boxes with ribbons, representing employee gift cards sent as virtual Visa cards.
Gift cards •

How to send bulk employee gift cards

Issue Visa gift cards to your team in one Excel upload. Recipients spend wherever Visa is accepted. W-2 reporting tips inside.
Two colleagues reviewing budget charts and notes at a desk, representing giving each department its own virtual Visa card budget.
Spend controls •

How to give every department its own budget

One card per team or project. Real-time spend visibility. Stop being the gatekeeper for every routine purchase.
A passenger jet at the gate at sunset with ground crew, representing business travel on per-trip virtual Visa cards.
Business travel •

How to set up business travel cards without expense reports

Per-trip cards with daily limits. Cut expense report submissions, while keeping the receipts needed for IRS accountable-plan compliance.
Two people shaking hands across an office desk, representing agreeing to pay a contractor with a virtual Visa card.
Contractor payments •

How to pay a contractor without sharing your credit card

Load a virtual Visa with the exact amount you owe, send the card details, and close the card the moment the work is done.
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SaaS & subscriptions •

How to manage SaaS subscriptions with virtual cards

One card per vendor. Match the monthly cap to the plan. Cancel the card to stop future charges, then cancel the subscription with the vendor.
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See how teams put virtual cards to work.

While we publish more stories, walk through the use cases finance teams are already running with Virtual Card Maker.

Payroll cards

Pay employees and gig workers same-day with a virtual Visa card they tap on their phone.

SaaS subscriptions

One card per vendor. Kill surprise renewals and see every recurring charge in one dashboard.

Contractors

Issue a contractor a card scoped to their project, lock the merchants, and close the gig the moment work ships.

Issue your first virtual card in minutes.

Set the spend limit, lock the merchant, send it. Your team gets a Visa card on their phone, and you track every transaction from one dashboard.

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