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Acceptance Benefits

Accepting the MasterCard Federal Purchasing Card offers significant competitive benefits to suppliers:

  • Enhance your customer relationships and win new business
  • Improve your cash flow and reduce your carrying costs
  • Simplify purchasing of goods and services
  • Reduce complex invoicing and collection procedures
  • Avoid credit risks and abuses of purchasing authority

In addition, MasterCard Federal Purchasing Card suppliers can better serve their customers by providing higher levels of transaction reporting with the most detailed data in the industry.

MasterCard has defined three different levels of reporting information: Levels I, II and III. These levels, which are described below, represent the sophistication at which suppliers can process MasterCard Federal Purchasing Card transactions.

LEVEL I is a standard credit card purchase transaction, and offers such information as:
  • Supplier Name
  • Total purchase amount
  • Date
  • Merchant Category Code

LEVEL II adds additional information about each purchase, including:
  • Sales tax amount
  • Customer code (a.k.a. accounting code)

LEVEL III adds full line-item detail to the data in Level II, including:
  • Quantities
  • Product codes
  • Ship to zip
  • Freight amount
  • Duty amount

MERCHANT DESCRIPTORS are sent with purchasing card transactions, including:
  • Supplier's address
  • Supplier's zip code
  • Supplier's phone number
  • Sole proprietor's name
  • 1099 indicator
  • MWOB data
  • Small business status
  • Duns number
  • Supplier TIN