Company spend policies make it easier for bigger organizations to manage a lot of cards issued to their employees.

The company spend policies are configurable and can be defined by the company-assigned Payhawk administrators. These policies define rules for spending the company funds that are available on employees' cards and may affect you as a Payhawk cardholder if your card is included in a specific spend policy.

The rules and conditions for spend policies and the accompanying advanced card controls are summarized and explained in the overview article of spend policies for Payhawk administrators.

Even if your card is not included in a company spend policy, it is subject to rules that may affect your card spending. You can view your card spend limits as explained in this article.

If the Auto-blocking cards option has been enabled as part of your company spend policy for your Payhawk card, you may get a message that your card is Blocked by policy. Basically, this means that you have too many old expenses which you have not submitted.

To unblock your Payhawk card, submit as many expenses as you can so that the entries that are not yet submitted fall under the defined limit by your company. As a result, your card will be instantly unblocked.

To submit your expenses, follow the links from the notifications you have received as reminders, fill out all necessary fields, and submit the expense for approval.