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Purchasing Card

Increased control & more effective and cost-efficient purchasing

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The MasterCard Corporate Purchasing Card® helps reduce costs and streamline processes associated with authorising, tracking, purchasing, and reconciling your purchases.
Features and Benefits
Increase savings, efficiency, and control  with powerful programme and data management capabilities.

Enjoy unsurpassed global acceptance and purchasing flexibility

Extend your card functionality with our integrated e-commerce solutions.

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Increase savings, efficiency, and control

Streamlining spending, controlling costs, and eliminating paperwork pays off with greater efficiency.
  • Take control of expenditure.
  • Cut down on purchase orders and approval procedures.
  • Reduce costs significantly.
  • Restrict how, when, and where cards can be used by individuals, departments, or divisions.
  • Improve supplier relationships.
  • Equip for e-Commerce and the future.
  • Enhance the acquisition cycle.
  • Change purchasing authorisation and spending criteria quickly and easily.
  • Get better track spending with comprehensive.


  • Added reporting capabilities:

  • Utilise innovative online web-based reporting solution, such as MasterCard Smart DataTM OnLine, and other similar tools offered by your card issuer, that are fully interoperable with your existing reporting systems.
  • Enable a user to retrieve purchasing information daily, weekly, or monthly and create reports to manage your organisation and control expenses.
  • Individual issuers may offer proprietary reporting systems.
  • Clear and effective reporting of transactions makes managing expenditures easier.
  • The MasterCard solution enables Public Entities to decide which details are most appropriate for their organisational needs and delivers them in a format that's meaningful and user-friendly to their staff.
  • More valuable, usable data will allow more accurate and timely purchasing decisions to be made.
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Enjoy unsurpassed global acceptance and purchasing flexibility
  • The MasterCard programmes meet your employees' needs no matter where you are... in the office, on the road, or on the web.


  • Accepted all over the world

  • Higher levels of transaction reporting with the most detailed data in the industry.


  • Other benefits

  • MasterCard Global Service®. Offers access to free assistance, in over 140 languages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This freephone number provides emergency card replacement within two business days. Cardholders may also have the option of other benefits such as lost/stolen card reporting, emergency cash advances, and MasterCard®, Maestro® and Cirrus® cash machine locators.
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Extend your card functionality

Get more out of your Purchasing Card programme with these great value-added solutions:

Your need: The MasterCard Solution:
To maximise the utility of your existing ERP system Integrates your Resource Planning system with the MasterCard Corporate Card® so that transactional data generated at any point of purchase worldwide by your cardholder is automatically downloaded into your ERP system. You no longer need to wait for month end statements to track details of that month's expenses.
To enable buying at the department or group level, rather than the cardholder level Department Account- A turnkey solution for assigning accounts to groups of individuals within an organisation, allowing increased spending flexibility and quicker programme roll-outs.


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