Public Sector : Purchasing Card

Increased efficiency. Added control
Public Sector : Purchasing Card

 

Features and Benefits

Increase savings, efficiency, and control

with powerful program and data management capabilities.

Added reporting capabilities for State and Local Organizations

with MasterCard Smart Data Online

Enjoy unsurpassed supplier acceptance and data capture

for purchasing flexibility with enhanced control.

Insure and protect your employees

with extensive retail and travel benefits.

Extend your card functionality

with integrated e-commerce solutions.

Increase savings, efficiency, and control
  • Restrict how, when, and where cards can be used by individuals, departments, or divisions.
  • Change purchasing authorization and spending criteria quickly and easily.
  • Buy more efficiently online, saving money and streamlining processes.
  • Use internal cost centers and reduce paperwork with i-Purchasing, our exclusive intra-organizational purchasing solution.
  • Better track, monitor and control spending with comprehensive, customized reports.

Added reporting capabilities for State and Local Organizations
  • Utilize MasterCard's innovative online web-based reporting solution, MasterCard Smart Data OnLine™. Fully interoperable with your existing reporting systems.
  • Enables a user to retrieve purchasing information daily, weekly, or monthly and create reports to manage your organization and control expenses.

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Enjoy unsurpassed supplier acceptance and data capture

  • Track and allocate your purchases with enhanced data such as sales tax, accounting code, minority vendor status, and tax ID number-available from more than 3.8 million supplier and merchant locations.

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Insure and protect your employees

The MasterCard Purchasing Card helps you to insure and protect employees, and maintains the highest level of customer service. These benefits include:

  • MasterRental® Insurance Coverage. Provides full-value-primary loss coverage (up to $50,000) and secondary personal effects coverage for rental vehicles for up to 31 consecutive days.
  • Master RoadAssist® Roadside Service. 24-hour emergency roadside assistance available through MasterCard and the American Automobile Association (AAA).
  • Travel Services Medical Protection®. Medical expense coverage up to a maximum benefit of $2,500 per person, per trip for costs relating to emergency medical services.
  • MasterTrip® Travel Assistance. Emergency cash, replacement of lost tickets and documents, and lost luggage assistance. Also provides information on required travel documents, immunization and currency rates.
  • MasterLegal® Referral Service. Provides legal referral and bail bond assistance while cardholders are abroad.
Other benefits
  • MasterCard® VAT (Value Added Tax) Reclaim Service. The VAT Reclaim Service from MasterCard provides organizations doing business in Europe an easy and efficient way to reclaim their VAT.
  • MasterCard Global Service®. Offers access to toll-free assistance, in over 140 languages, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This toll-free number provides emergency card replacement within one business day in the U.S. and within two business days outside of the U.S. 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 program with these great value-added solutions:

Your need: The MasterCard Solution:
To enable your 1099 and MWOB reporting MasterCard Enhanced Merchant Reporting System - MasterCard's state of the art online reporting tool for easily and accurately tracking your organization's spending with 1099 and MWOB merchants.
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 organization, allowing increased spending flexibility and quicker program roll-outs.
To locate suppliers who pass Level II and III data MasterCard Merchant Locator - A Corporate Payment Support Tool that allows you to to find merchants that support your Purchasing Card program with enhanced data capture capability.


MasterCard Worldwide is an association of banks and financial institutions. We do not issue cards directly, but we would be pleased to put you in touch with our partner financial institutions that can provide programs to fit your needs. Please click here if you would like to download a brochure with more information about our payment solutions or to be contacted by any of our partner financial institutions that can provide a program to fit your needs.
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