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Fleet
Nonprofit
Startups & Tech Companies
Professional Services

Construction

Construction projects can be a logistical nightmare with more moving parts than to keep track of. Bento is an easy way to ensure your cash is accounted for and all your expenses are organized by project, build, time, or any way you choose. Some tips from our current Construction customers:

Set up cards for vehicles as well as crew members with flexible spending authorization to handle all of the fuel, hardware supplies, maintenance, and breakdown expenses.
Pay subcontractors through Bento Pay™or send larger payments via Bento ACH. Eliminate the cost and hassle of preparing checks or chasing down payment information.
Give clients fixed-value cards to make purchases and stay in budget.
Use virtual cards for administrative purchases or one-time use cards for temporary employees.

Bento can be used to meet your needs and regardless of how you choose to use Bento you will be protected from unauthorized spending, have real-time visibility of cash flow, and have innovative reporting tools.

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Fleet

Whether you have a small fleet or a large one, you still need a simple, safe way for your drivers to fill up gas and/or pay for other covered expenses like meals, hotels, repairs, etc. Bento is the best way to empower your employees while protecting your company from unauthorized spending. Some tips from our current Fleet customers:

Provide each driver a category restricted card for fuel purchases while they record mileage through the mobile app. Use Bento’s flexible card controls to adjust the restrictions and easily accommodate unexpected events on the road while keeping your business safe.
Keep track of each vehicle cost by creating a card per vehicle irrespective of the driver to track and consolidate fuel and repair costs.
Ideal for business surges when hiring temporary or seasonal workforces. Bento allows your crew to make controlled and category restricted purchases (such as fuels, foods, etc.), and when they leave, cancel the card with a click.

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Non Profits

Non-profits face a tough challenge in making money accessible to their workers and volunteers while being accountable to auditors, donors, and stakeholders. Bento gives you the ability to empower your workforce while maintaining control and accountability. Some tips from current customers:

Bento provides the level of reporting and accountability needed with religious organizations. When staff and volunteers use Bento for purchases, funds are used for the right reasons and you have backing for what is purchased.
For schools and colleges, Bento is a great way to allocate funds for books, supplies, events, sports equipment, per-diems, etc. Bento controls spending for intended uses and receipt capture makes accounting easy.
Bento is a great substitute for petty cash. Creating a petty cash card allows real-time visibility of spending and eliminates missing or misused funds.
Concentrate on the impact of fundraising events rather than keeping track of the event-related spending, let Bento handle it for you. Create event-specific cards and track your spending in real-time.

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Startups & Tech Companies

With a great platform and service, you need a payment partner to help you close the last mile for your business. The Bento API can fully integrate our system functionality with your business processes, so your systems can dynamically create and cancel cards and approve and fund purchases, based on your rules. Some tips from our current customers:

Gig economy customers use Bento to create and disburse physical and virtual cards to remote workers for goods and services no matter how complex their rules.
Advertising agencies who buy ads for their clients create multiple virtual cards to easily track and segregate expenses across their client base.
Corporate travel brokers create and issue Bento virtual cards to secure hotel bookings and disburse travel funds.
Service providers who need to disburse to large audiences with accountability securely trigger processes through our real-time webhooks.

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Professional Services

You have needs for many different payment options (T&E cards, Purchasing cards, ACH, Wires, Subscription cards, etc.) but managing and reconciling can be a nightmare. Bento can consolidate and simplify all your expenses in one easy to use interface with reporting tools. Some tips from our customers:

Companies with heavy T&E expenses give T&E specific virtual cards to employees and booking agents to track expenses and enforce expense policies upfront.
Bento makes employee per-diems and meal allocations easy to implement and track. Cards can be turned on/off as needed with a click.
Bento replaces the notion of petty cash with petty cash cards. This leaves CFO’s available to focus on projects at hand.
Paying invoices have become so easy. Bento Pay and Bento ACH make invoice payments easy while providing enterprise-level security.

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