Evaluating Purchasing and Travel Cards As Part Of Your ... · • Understanding the Card Purchasing...
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Evaluating your Card Program
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• Introductions: UMB Bank, Ron Sager and Whit Brown
• Quick Updates • UMB Background• State of Mississippi Card Product Offerings• State of Mississippi Purchasing and Travel Cards program results
• Understanding the Card Purchasing Process
• Why use cards?• Cost efficiencies• Technology, Reporting and Enhanced Controls• Security• Flexibility
• Are you keeping up with your peers?
• 3 Common myths debunked
• Questions
Quick Updates
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UMB Bank
• Experienced government Purchasing and Travel Card partner. • 1969 – became one of the original issuers of bankcards
• 1995 – entered into first state partnership. UMB currently processes card programs for 5 states
• 2010 – Entered into partnership with the State of MS
• Will process over two billion in commercial card volume in 2017. 50% coming from government and educational entities.
State of MS Card Product Offerings
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Program Purpose Features Benefits
Visa Purchasing Card Efficient and flexible method to pay for business to business transactions
Carded and cardless central accounts with pre-set monthly limits, account controls, multiple billing options, widely acceptedCorporate Liability WaiverAuto Rental CDW coverage,Travel Accident Insurance
Multiple purchases with one payment by the agencyConvenient access to make purchases while eliminating non-value added procedures.Data availability for analysis.
Contract Accounts Efficient and flexible method to pay for business to business transactions with vendors on a State Contract
Cardless accounts with pre-set monthly limits, account controls, multiple billing options, restricted to specific vendors on contract
Travel Card Accounts Efficient and flexible method to pay for travel related expenses
Carded accounts, few restrictions, Visa 911 travel benefits, Auto Rental CDW,Travel Accident Insurance
SET/Declining Balance Accounts
Efficient and flexible method to pay for infrequent traveler expenses, special purpose transactions
Carded with pre-set monthly and time limits, account controls, widely accepted, can be instant issue ,Corporate Liability Waiver, Auto Rental CDW coverage, Travel Accident Insurance
Quick Updates
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State of Mississippi Purchasing, Travel Card and EEF Programs
Purchase Volume History
State Agencies and Governing Authorities
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State of Mississippi Purchasing, Travel Card and EEF Programs
Purchase Volume History
State Agencies and Governing Authorities
Calendar 2017 year to date results
Transactions – 223,980
Purchase Volume – $26,955,000
Accounts/cards – approx. 38,000
Estimated Total 2017 Volume - $39,500,000
The Card Purchasing Process
Vendor Point of Sale
Program Controls
Check
Security Check
Credit Verification
Settlement of Payment
• Magnetic stripe or EMV read
• Data gathered and formatted
with transaction data
• Terminal validates expiration
date and stripe data
• Transaction sent to UMB for
verification via VISANET
• Card valid – Exp, name,
address, number, status, EMV
offset
• Available purchasing funds-
Card, control account, agency?
• Authorization strategy controls?
• Defense edge fraud checkup
• Defense Edge
• In pattern for card?
• High risk transaction?
• Known vendor fraud?
• National compromised list?
• Terminated merchant?
Is request is within
delinquency thresholds?
Is current delinquent status
within allowable history?
Is the request transaction
within the State of Missouri
Master Authority?
If decline is issued, no
reason is ever provided to
vendor-privacy requirement
• EMV chip is refreshed
with a new offset
value.
• Approval provided-
transaction $$ settles
electronically within in
approximately 24
hours.
• Vendor pays
“discount” of 3 to 5%
settles net $$ directly
to the vendor bank of
choice.
• UMB receives a
portion of the discount
which is called
interchange.
Why Use Cards?
Cost Efficiencies• Purchase Order Costs
• Traditional Paper Based – Average cost per transaction $89.99
• Card Payment – Average cost per transaction $20.14
• Shortened procurement cycle
• Traditional Paper Based – 9.9 day average cycle time for goods to be received
• Card Payment – 2.9 day average cycle time for goods to be received
• Suppliers paid faster, bill not due until later
• When paying with cards your supplier is paid in at the point of purchase
• The average float time on purchases made on cards is 29 days
• Rebate
• There is a rebate in excess of 1%
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Why Use Cards?
Technology, Reporting and Enhanced Controls
• Real-time, online administration access and enhanced controls
• View statements
• Open and close individual cards
• Set credit limits; adjust for short-term purchasing needs
• Advanced Reporting
• Transaction, cardholder, merchant level
• Vendor Analysis
• Online reconciliation and Data Integration
• Mobile support, alerts, receipt imaging
• Auditing tools for increased program control
• Flag out of pattern purchases
• ePayables Solution
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Why Use Cards?
Security
• Customized Authorization Strategies
• Block specific MCC’s
• Single purchase transaction limits
• Cash restrictions
• EMV Chip Card
• 25% decrease in card-present counterfeit transactions from 2015 to 2016. That number will continue to decrease as more merchants adopt chip terminals
• Defense Edge fraud check
• Easier detection of misuse
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Why Use Cards?
SecurityIn general, the rate of fraud for Government and Educational entities is below industry averages. The State of Mississippi’s card programs are not an exception and fall well below these trends.
State of MS Industry2015 .030% .148%2016 .018% .129%
UMB and Visa offer their card programs to customers with a
ZERO fraud liability policy
Why Use Cards?
Are you keeping pace with your peers?
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is
now.”
• Payments on a purchasing card platform continue trend upwards
• 2010 Purchasing Card Spend - $161B
• 2014 Purchasing Card Spend - $245B
• 2017 Est. Purchasing Card Spend - $314B
• 2020 Est. Purchasing Card Spend - $441B!!!
• ePayables trend
• In 2017 17% of Government and Educational entities utilized an ePayables program, compared to 24% of private sector companies. Those numbers are expected to increase to 36% and 44% by 2019.
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Why Use Cards?
Debunking 3 common myths• Card programs lead to rampant misuse resulting in agency losses
• For every 10,000 transactions only .67 are due to misuse.
• Through the Visa Waiver Liability Program the customer is covered when it comes to cardholder misuse.
• Suppliers won’t accept cards
• Visa alone is accepted by over 9.5 million merchants in the US and 35 million worldwide. Supplier acceptance also continues to increase each year as they react to customers’ needs and recognize the benefits of electronic invoicing and quicker payment cycles.
• A vendor analysis tool is available to easily identify which vendors of yours are known card acceptors.
• Using cards creates a lot more work
• The utilization of a card program leads to more efficient transaction management, reducing purchase orders, invoices and checks.
• Data is automatically captured electronically and can be integrated into ERP systems
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Questions
Questions?Ron Sager, SVP
UMB Bank – Commercial Payments Solutions
816-843-2261
Whit Brown, AVP
UMB Bank – Commercial Payments Solutions
816-860-7680
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