Visa Government Solutions

Procurement

Simplify and enhance how employees procure goods and services and manage expenses. Use virtual cards, physical prepaid cards, or a combination of both payment methods.

• Efficiency — Streamline manual processes and reduce errors and costs for you and your employees.
• Compliance — Set usage rules to follow your organization’s policies and procedures and utilize data in audit/internal control reviews.
• Data — Improve management reporting and ability to analyze spend data.
• Security — Take steps to reduce risk to funds and information with the help of fraud prevention tools and the Visa Network.

Travel and Entertainment

Create easier ways to pay for travel and entertainment expenses and manage employee spending. Use virtual, physical, or a combination of both payment methods.

• Employee experience — Mobilize employees by providing cards and/or creating a centrally billed corporate account for airlines and hotel bookings.
• Compliance — Reduce the risk of fraud and misuse of funds through spend controls and reporting and utilize data in audit/internal control reviews.
• Data — Improve purchasing oversight and streamline reporting to track employees’ travel and business-related expenses.

Fleet

Facilitate efficient management of fleet performance, and enable a unified, digitized acceptance experience.

• Controls — Reduce the risk of fraud and misuse of funds through spend controls and evaluation.
• Flexibility and efficiency — Save time and reduce costs associated with human error, bookkeeping, and reconciliation.
• Visibility — Streamline reporting to track fleet and employees’ expenses and increase purchasing oversight.

Fleet card program

Tax and public services

Build a unified channel experience to simplify and improve how people and businesses pay for and interact with government services.

• Simplified payments — Support individuals’ payment method of choice for all interactions with public services.
• Security — Protect sensitive data for individuals, businesses, and government entities.
• Operational efficiency — Reduce processing and operational costs by transitioning cash and check payments to card.

Centralize digital services

Empower communities by enabling small businesses to accept digital payments.

• Consistent payment experience — Enhance individuals’ experience by offering the preferred ways to pay across a single digital platform for all multi-agency services.
• Improve user experience — Enable a shift to resilient commerce models and facilitate entry to the global marketplace.
• Promote self-service — Increase operational efficiencies by allowing individuals to self-serve and pay any multi-agency service when it is convenient for them.

Urban mobility

Make cities more livable and accessible with easier, more connected, and more secure ways to pay for journeys.

• Customer experience — Improve ease, speed, and security of access to public transport for residents and visitors.
• Cost efficiency — Reduce infrastructure costs and reap the benefits of increased ridership.
• Livability and sustainability — Encourage use of public transport by improving the travel experience for users.

Visa Urban Mobility

Travel and tourism

Access unique insights on spend patterns to help inform decision-making in the tourism sector.

• Visitor spend trends — Understand spend behavior and tailor tourism programs accordingly.
• Tourism growth — Access research and insights to build resilience, grow the sector, and respond to changing consumer demands.
• Sector insights — Get a unique view into the split of tourism spend by sector and see which segments of the economy are most affected by visitor fluctuation.

Economic trends

Guide public policy development and measure effectiveness by leveraging insights from aggregated and anonymized payments data.

• Economic insight — Gauge the health of consumer spending and its impact on economic well-being.
• Long-term analysis — Understand changes in spend trends and plan accordingly.
• Policy input — Leverage economic performance indicators to inform public policy.

Urban planning

Support urban planning with unique insights based on aggregate spending trends and partners’ data sources.

• Informed decision-making — Understand and support changing needs of local communities and cities.
• Small business — Support small and local businesses through tailored marketing and digital enablement.
• City development — Understand patterns in commercial activity and plan for sustainable city development.