You can use the different types of Payhawk cards to cover a huge array of scenarios within your company that meet the individual requirements of your employees, projects, and corporate strategy.

While it is easier to issue a single card that can be used for many suppliers, projects, or purposes, it is a good practice to have dedicated cards that address a specific use case. For example, issuing cards for approved suppliers only facilitates after-payment supplier tracking, decreases the risk of fraud, and makes Financial teams more efficient.

You can use Payhawk cards as benefit cards for learning and development. In this way, you will provide your employees with an annual budget or stipend they can spend on training, courses, or education.

When you issue learning and development cards, set an annual limit and select Education as their merchant category, or choose your preferred merchants such as Coursera, LinkedIn Learning, and so on.

You can use Payhawk cards as benefit cards for work-from-home (WFH) allowances. In this way, you will enable employees to accumulate funds over time or spend as per company policy, and purchase office equipment for their homes, pay their Internet provider, and so on.

When you issue WFH allowance cards, choose the Increase limit with setting, set recurrence to your policy, and select the relevant merchant categories or choose your preferred merchants.

You can use Payhawk cards as cards for travel and entertainment (T&E) which your employees can use when on a business trip. T&E cards. In this way, you will proactively ensure spend policy compliance across the company and minimize the risk of fraud through the automated deactivation when the trip ends.

When you issue T&E cards, set a start and end date for the card’s active period, select the relevant merchant categories, such as Taxis, Parking, Accommodation, or Restaurants, and define the relevant country or region.

You can use Payhawk cards as temporary cards dedicated to a specific project and being active only for the duration of that project. Thus, you will streamline your company's expense management, gain better visibility on project spend, and automate card management with temporary cards that are active only when they’re needed.

When you issue temporary project cards, set a start and end date for the card’s active period, select the relevant merchant categories, such as Taxis, Parking, Accommodation, or Restaurants, define the relevant country or region, and day and time if needed.

You can use Payhawk's cards as cards that only work with approved suppliers. Thus, you will gain better visibility, and centralize and limit payments to preferred third parties.

When you issue supplier cards, set a spend limit per transaction, define the recurring limit, and select the relevant merchants.

You can use Payhawk cards as cards that are dedicated to recurring payments only and create a subscription card for each of your company's suppliers thus ensuring optimal visibility and enabling easy tracking, pausing, or canceling subscriptions.

When you issue subscription cards, set a spend limit per transaction, define the recurring limit, select your preferred merchants, enable online payments, and block ATM withdrawals and fund requests.

You can use Payhawk cards as cards that drivers use to fuel up their company vehicles. Thus, your drivers will use the fuel cards at your preferred gas stations, and your company will be able to report its expenses by truck, driver, date, or all at once, and also track carbon emissions.

When you issue fuel cards, set a recurring limit, select your preferred merchants, and block online payments and merchant categories.