Rapidly scaling global e-commerce platforms are facing mounting challenges in managing financial transactions across borders. With increasing transaction volumes, multi-currency requirements, and diverse compliance standards, their existing setup—cobbled together from various providers—is reaching its limits. Fragmented systems, manual workflows, and a lack of real-time visibility are creating operational bottlenecks, complicating expense tracking, and eroding financial control.
Recognizing the need for a streamlined, modern approach, brands are seeking a solution that can offer centralized control, flexibility, and scalability in managing financial operations across multiple geographies. Qbit's Cards as a Service (CaaS) solution is a key enabler, providing powerful APIs for seamless integration into their existing infrastructure. This integration would empower the company to manage payments, automate compliance, and critically, issue and manage virtual and physical cards tailored to various operational needs.
Challenge: Managing Card Issuance at Scale
For e-commerce runners, card issuance is particularly critical. Employees across departments require access to company funds for various operational expenses, from advertising and supplier payments to travel and logistics. However, issuing traditional cards through multiple providers might lead to delays, excess paperwork, and difficulties in tracking and controlling spending.
"Before Qbit, managing corporate cards felt like juggling endless processes," said Katherine, one of Qbit's key clients. "Each card request was a time-consuming manual process, and we often lacked visibility into how funds were being used in real time."
Existing cards also lack customizable controls, which means the finance team cannot efficiently set spending limits, monitor transactions in real-time, or gain a holistic view of where funds are being allocated. Their finance team often struggles with manual reconciliations and faces difficulty enforcing spending policies consistently across locations.
Solution: Qbit CaaS for Seamless Card Issuing and Control
Qbit offers an innovative CaaS solution, transforming those scaling enterprises' card management approach with its robust, developer-friendly platform for card issuance. With flexible card issuing capabilities, the finance team is able to generate virtual or physical cards on demand and customize them for specific business needs.
Department-Specific Cards: By issuing cards tied to departments or projects, the finance team can easily track expenses for specific campaigns, enabling detailed budgeting and transparency.
Individual Expense Cards: Employees receive personalized virtual or physical cards with pre-set spending limits, reducing the need for lengthy reimbursement processes and providing them with instant access to funds. Such cards particularly bring convenience for employees who travel frequently.
Single-Use Virtual Cards: For one-off expenses, single-use virtual cards with precise limits were created, helping to prevent unauthorized transactions and reduce fraud risk.
This flexible card issuance model gives the teams the ability to centralize and standardize spending controls across departments and geographies. Qbit’s CaaS solution also offers real-time tracking of transactions, allowing finance managers to instantly monitor card usage, receive alerts on unusual spending patterns, and gain full visibility into company-wide financial activity.
Enhanced Control, Efficiency, and Financial Oversight
Qbit CaaS solution will bring transformational improvements from streamlined payments, increased financial oversight to improved compliance and security.
By issuing cards instantly through the CaaS platform, businesses are able to eliminate traditional card issuance delays, ensuring that employees can access funds when needed without compromising security or control. Meanwhile, the finance team enjoys real-time visibility into transactions, with automated reports that allow for quick reconciliations and detailed analysis of spending across departments. Another change that Qbit may introduce is built-in controls on each issued card. These controls include spending limits and instant freezing capabilities, which would drastically reduce instances of misuse. Meanwhile, automated compliance checks would ensure adherence to local regulations.
"Having real-time data at our fingertips means we can make faster, better-informed financial decisions," added Katherine. "The Qbit CaaS platform allows us to track every transaction, ensuring transparency and compliance—essential for a growing international business like ours."
Looking Ahead
With Qbit’s CaaS solution at the core of its financial operations, many e-commerce platforms have achieved a scalable, flexible, and efficient card management system. They are exploring additional ways to leverage Qbit’s APIs for further process automation and are considering expanding usage to cover new regions as their business footprint grows. Qbit has positioned the clients to operate with greater agility and oversight, enabling them to navigate the complexities of a global marketplace confidently.
For more information about the Qbit CaaS solution, visit www.qbitnetwork.com/caas or contact our team at bd@qbitnetwork.com.