Title: Multi-Card Solutions Purchasing Card Travel Card eVA electronic payments tool (vPayment)
1Multi-Card SolutionsPurchasing CardTravel
CardeVA electronic payments tool (vPayment)
GE CPS - Payment Services
The Commonwealth of Virginia Payments Provider
2Agenda
- Introductions
- GE experience and innovation what makes us
different - MasterCard International its all in the data
- Individualized Account Management customized
service - Technology demonstration NetApps, NetService,
SAM - Technical integration costs and support
- Flexibility comprehensive, customized solutions
3Experience and Innovation
- Experience
- GE has 30 years experience in card industry
- Issued 100 million credit cards
- GE has one of the largest programs
- Strong industry experience
- Product Features
- Unsurpassed acceptance 24 million MasterCard
locations - Interface to financial systems
- Free consulting to drive results
- SWAM reporting
- Quality service
- Technology
- Daily data
- Internet reporting from agency level to
rolled-up for entire organization - Robust real-time cardholder maintenance
- vPayment patented
4Key Differentiators/Why GE?
Maximize Program Efficiency
- Not just a bank - Best practice sharing and
extensive GE expertise - Leading-edge technology and reporting
- Free consulting services
- At the Customer For the Customer Six Sigma
Quality - Flexible to meet your needs
- Extensive global relationships and reach
Maximize Financial Benefits
- Cost reduction through automation of program
5Acceptance
- 24 million merchant acceptance locations in more
than 220 countries territories - Five years of double digit growth amounting to 3X
more acceptance than the previous COV vendor - More than 900,000 ATMs in over 100 countries
- MasterCard/GE solution captures 999 lines of data
with up to 120 characters per line - Large ticket transaction discount ratemust also
pass level 3 data
Higher acceptance more data More data
improved negotiations It all adds up to a higher
rebate
Information provided by MasterCard
6Programs
Executive card Rewards program Comprehensive insurance Free primary car rental insurance Cardholders pay on-line or by phone Hotel Folio NO F/X fee bank mark up Eliminate POs MCC/cardholder controls Accurate cost coding Tracks preferred supplier spend Sales and use tax Temp help 1099/MWOB data Pre-Auth Digital end-to-end PO number, accounting data, buyer name automatically captured Fully hands free process Unique time and dollar range limits on specific transactions
Travel
Purchasing
vPayment
7Travel Card Benefits
Track Spending, Monitor Policy Compliance and
Improve Vendor Negotiations
Cardholder Convenience, Company Controls,
and Ease of Administration
- Strategic Account Management reporting system
- Gains Travel Card Rewards
- Global data roll-up
- Customized plastic and messaging
- Pre-population of all expense reporting
packages - Delinquency, exception and standard reports
- Query Wizard
- Flexible controls at the cardholder level
- Unsurpassed merchant acceptance
- Reduction or elimination of cash advances
- Flexible billing and payment option
- Ghost, special purpose, and meeting planner
accounts
8Travel Card - Competitive Benefits
Executive Travelers Executive card and concierge services
Cardholder Security MasterAssist medical protection MasterRental primary auto rental coverage RoadAssist roadside assistance MasterTrip travel assistance MasterLegal referral service 24-hour emergency card and cash replacement
Insurance Coverage Free primary car rental insurance Luggage insurance5,000 Travel accident insurance 500,000 common carrierdefault
9Travel Card - Flexible Services
- Special Purpose Accounts
- Central billing option for non-standard
transactions, including expenses for interviewees
and infrequent travelers. - Meeting Planner Accounts
- Central billing option for non-standard, large
ticket, high frequency purchases involved in
booking meetings. Can also use Controlled Value
Cards and vPayment On-Demand. - Airline Credit Control Account
- Billing option that allows for credits from
individual accounts to be stripped and posted to
a central account. This option eliminates both
the need to reimburse cardholders and delinquency
issues surrounding the posting of airline credits
to individual accounts.
10Travel Card - What Is Hotel Folio?
- Captures detailed hotel spend data
- Room rate, incidentals, movie rental fees
- Track spend by MCC code
- Commonwealth of Virginia Benefits
- Improves policy compliance efforts
- Improves rate negotiation efforts
- Maintain years of travel spend for audit
compliance - Cardholder Benefits
- Streamlines expense reporting process
- Reduces/eliminates need to manually enter hotel
expense data
Availability may vary with expense reporting
provider
11Purchasing Card - Benefits
Cardholder convenience, company controls and ease
of administration
Track spending, monitor policy compliance, and
improve vendor negotiations
Streamline your audit, reconciliation, and
accounting processes
- Daily data
- Cost center detail
- Custom mappers and MCC code mapping
- Customer code at POS
- Import and export capability
- Review, approve and authorize workflow
- Line item detail
- 1099, MWOB reporting, and SU tax tracking
- Detailed reporting and Query Builder
- vPayment with patented technology
- Flexible controls at the cardholder level
- MCC, transaction /, daily, and monthly limits
- Ghost, special purpose, and meeting planner
accounts
12Purchasing Card - Best Practices
- 3-pronged approach
- Plastic, Ghost Cards, vPayment
- Opportunity analysis
- Who should get cards?
- Supplier analysis
- Best payment method
- Set goals and measurements
- Automate as much as possible
- Audit through enhanced reporting
13Purchasing Card - Dedicated Supplier Sign-up and
Strategy
- Our supplier strategy team eliminates obstacles
during the initial sign-up effort - Liaisons with merchant acquirers to coordinate
supplier initiatives - Supplier seminar opportunity available
- Web-based merchant sign up
- Total number of merchants now passing Level II or
III data 2.9M - Total number of Level III suppliers (U.S. based
merchants) has increased from approx. 73K (1Q02)
to 150K (1Q05) -
14Technology - Strategic Account Management (SAM)
- Comprehensive web-based online reporting/query
functions - Manage corporate purchasing card and e-settlement
programs on one platform - Transaction review and accounting
- GL interface with your financial or ERP system
- Global data roll-up to single reporting currency
- Customized to your brand and organization
- Direct link to NetService
15Technology NetService
- Program Administrators
- Detailed transaction information in
Real-Time - Monitor and manage all company accounts
online - Secure 24x7 access
- Increased control, security and productivity
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- Cardholders
- View and print personal statements
- Web self-service
- Pay account balance
- Dispute charges online
- Productivity
16Technology - NetApps
- Web-based solution
- Safe and secure
- Time saving tool
- Increased control
- Built-in workflow
- Improved accuracy
- User friendly
- Tracking tool
Digitize and streamline new cardholder
applications
17Implementation Schedule
Measure and Improve
Roll-Out
Transition
Origination
Design
- Approve program details
- Sign program agreement
- Assign national account manager
- Assign implementation manager
- Deliver cardholder data to GE CPS
- Identify key merchants and agencies
- Initialize supplier strategy
- Hold discussions on card options, security,
training, and profiles - Gather and validate data
- Assign information technology analyst
- Execute contract
- Process cardholder data
- Produce and mail plastic cards
- Train program administrator
- Install software
- Develop usage policies
- Review decline reports
- Adjust cardholder profiles
- Identify further metrics
- Test and support reporting software
- Transfer account servicing to client relations
- Identify growth opportunities
- Conduct strategic planning
18Card Customization
Commonwealth of Virginia artwork can be stamped
on a semi-custom card or you can create a fully
customized card based on artwork representing
company culture. Examples Corporate HQ,
products, logo, pattern, website design, global
images.
- Detailed account summary information
- Previous balance
- Purchases
- Credits
- Payments
- Account numbers
Sample Statement Messages Use the Commonwealth
of Virginia MasterCard for all transactions below
2,500. To date total savings are 2M by
eliminating the paper processes.
19Service - Organized Around Your Needs
Client Relations Representatives
- Single point of contact
- Specialized support team
- Emergency cardholder assistance
- Efficient fraud prevention
- Rapid dispute resolutions
- Signing up your preferred suppliers
- Program customization
Consultant
Implementations
Each COV Entity
National Account Manager
Supplier Sign-Up
Business Development Manager
Customer Service
Accountability drives results!
20Service - Training
- Multiple site options
- Program administrators or cardholders
- Flexible schedules
- Live
- Online
- Web-based
20 GE October 13, 2004
21Service - Consulting New tools, new heights
- Beyond traditional purchasing and travel
functions - Higher efficiency and higher performance
- Free training and project management
- Optimize your team and program effectiveness
22ConclusionNext Steps
- First Speak with Valerie Smith at COV
804-371-7804 valerie.smith_at_doa.virginia.gov - GE Contacts
- Greg Hamilton GE Public Sector Sales
303-617-9171 greg.hamilton_at_ge.com