Summary: As company spending becomes high-frequency and multi-channel, shared corporate cards and traditional issuing break down—permissions are coarse, audits are painful, and reconciliation drags. WooshPay Issuing turns cards into a programmable container for budget and risk: instant virtual cards, policy-based spend controls, Just-in-Time (JIT) funding, automated reconciliation, and—crucially—programmatic issuance via API.
From Shared Corporate Cards to Programmatic Budgets
One card for many people means broad limits, scattered receipts, and unclear ownership. Month-end becomes a manual chase across ad platforms, SaaS invoices, and bank statements. When spend scales across teams, vendors, and geographies, the card must evolve into a strategy carrier—constraining spend upfront, enforcing controls in-flight, and leaving an auditable trail afterward.
What Is WooshPay Issuing?
A virtual card issuing and smart-control platform for businesses:
- Instant virtual cards by person/team/project/vendor/subscription; single-use or recurring.
- Policy-driven controls for limits, MCC allow/deny, merchant locks, geography, and time windows.
- JIT Funding to inject funds before authorization and pull back afterward.
- Automated reconciliation that anchors each transaction to card, owner, invoice/bill, and cost center.
Why Legacy Issuing Falls Short?
- Coarse permissions: Hard to enforce least-privilege by person/project/merchant.
- Audit friction: Bills, receipts, budget pools, and statements don’t line up without spreadsheets.
- Uncontrolled risk: Leaked PANs, abnormal charges, or cross-border abuse are hard to block in time.
- Budget disconnect: Cards don’t reflect policy; controls aren’t enforced in real time.
Five Core Capabilities of WooshPay Issuing
- Virtual Cards at Scale
- One card per person, project, or merchant; single-use and recurring profiles.
- Full lifecycle: activate, pause, time-bound, close, renew.
- Template policies and approval flows tie issuance to business context (procurement, expenses, subscriptions).
- Smart Spend Controls (Policy Engine)
- Limits by transaction/day/week/month and cumulative caps; velocity throttling.
- MCC allow/deny lists and single-merchant locks.
- Behavioral rules: geo allow/deny, time windows, risk prompts for step-up checks.
- Policies evaluated at auth and clearing; violations are blocked and versioned for audit replay.
- JIT Funding & Settlement
- Precise pre-auth top-ups; automatic sweep-back post-settlement to minimize idle balance and exposure.
- Netting and rollover rules to manage cash cycles; automatic replenish or recovery by period.
- Exceptions trigger freezes and alerts to protect funds and stabilize success rates.
- Automated Reconciliation & Audit
- Each transaction is anchored to card → owner/project → invoice/bill → cost center.
- One-click export of statements, journal entries, and audit snapshots to shorten close.
- Connects to ERP/expense systems; returns reconciliation status and assigns exceptions.
- Programmatic Issuance via API
- Create/update/pause/close cards via API; automate bulk issuance and time-boxed cards.
- Policy-as-code: set limits, MCCs, merchant locks, geo/time windows, and approval steps through endpoints.
- Integrates with procurement, expenses, budgeting, risk, and reimbursement to form an end-to-end “request → approve → issue → use → post → reconcile” loop.
Three Common Scenarios
- Advertising & Media Buying One card per platform and per campaign. Lock to the merchant, set daily/weekly caps, auto-stop abnormal burn. Campaign-level billing and reconciliation in one click.
- SaaS Subscriptions & Dev Tools One card per subscription. Monthly limit + single-merchant lock + auto renew/pause at term. Invoices auto-match transactions; no more forgotten renewals.
- Ad-hoc Procurement & Travel Employees request a temporary card with a defined time window, geo, MCC scope, and total cap. Auto-close and archive after the trip; receipts align with transactions.
Security & Compliance
- Identity & compliance: KYC/KYB, AML screening, and sanctions checks.
- Credential security: Tokenization and minimal exposure of sensitive data.
- Risk & alerts: Geo/velocity/MCC anomalies trigger real-time blocks and notifications.
- Auditability: Every decision records the policy version, allow/deny outcome, and fund movement for full replay.
Conclusão
Turn the card into a programmable budget and policy container so every dollar is controlled, visible, and auditable. With virtual cards, smart spend controls, JIT funding, automated reconciliation, and API issuance, WooshPay Issuing delivers faster card creation, lower risk, and easier close.