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Re: Stripe Corporate Card

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Not sure which card you are referring to. I’ve had the amazon chase visa for over 10 years and have no problem pulling up my records.

Probably the "Amazon.com Store Card" issued by Synchrony Bank, and not the "Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card"/"Amazon Rewards Visa Signature Card" issued by Chase. I've heard bad things about Synchrony's usability.

You are correct - my mistake. It was the "Amazon.com Store Card" by Synchrony Bank.

Re: Stripe Corporate Card

#182

Our company Moonlight was an early beta tester of the Stripe Corporate Card. Each person on our distributed team of five has a card, and it's made things like arranging travel or covering minor SaaS charges simple. Happy to answer any questions about the end user experience!

Does the card need a personal guarantee for each holder?

Re: Stripe Corporate Card

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post #182

Our company Moonlight was an early beta tester of the Stripe Corporate Card. Each person on our distributed team of five has a card, and it's made things like arranging travel or covering minor SaaS charges simple. Happy to answer any questions about the end user experience!

Does the card need a personal guarantee for each holder?

(I work on Corporate Card)

It does not for anyone!

Re: Stripe Corporate Card

#185
This looks great. The integrations to finance software already built in are killer. The spend controls and categorization are the most interesting part - will it be possible to reduce the amount of overall credit you need to get? With Amex you have to have a full sized limit available for each employee with a card. If this pulls from the same pool and respects spending limits, it could allow you to have a lot more flexibility with your credit as a business.

Consistently impressive stuff from Stripe.

Re: Stripe Corporate Card

#186

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Do these cards require a personal guarantee? Do they require personal social security number? Can they be ordered in bulk (ie, 5-10 at a time when onboarding folks). Not to be rude, but the corporate card market is different than the personal card market in a number of ways.

Wait, how do these cards work, then? The corporate cards I've used (eg AmEx Corporate) did indeed require a personal guarantee and a personal social security number from each individual who had an account.

I learned something! I had no idea Amex did a guarantee.

I routinely order multiple employee cards with nothing more than employee names. Sometimes they use last 4 digits or DOB to allow employee to authenticate for online access - you can use any 4 digits though you want (ie, employee ID works fine). No personal guarantee. Oddly, I'd never heard of a corporate card requiring an employee guarantee though I guess Amex is one of them.

This stripe card is a corporate card in the "normal" sense for me - no personal guarantee. This makes getting them (usually) very easy, just upload a list of 20 names and the cards come. I even do things like "Office Manager" for the name on non-stripe cards - works fine.

Re: Stripe Corporate Card

#187

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Wait, how do these cards work, then? The corporate cards I've used (eg AmEx Corporate) did indeed require a personal guarantee and a personal social security number from each individual who had an account.

I learned something! I had no idea Amex did a guarantee. I routinely order multiple employee cards with nothing more than employee names. Sometimes they use last 4 digits or DOB to allow employee to authenticate for online access - you can use any 4 digits though you want (ie, employee ID works fine). No personal guarantee. Oddly, I'd never heard of a corporate card requiring an employee guarantee though I guess Amex…

That is interesting. I've only used AmEx Corp cards with a personal guarantee and wasn't aware there was any other way.

For anyone else who stumbles across this comment: AmEx offers Corporate cards both with or without a personal guarantee, depending on what the company wants to do. And (also mentioned farther down in this thread) they also give the option to give the card rewards to each individual employee cardholder, or give all the rewards to the business, again depending on what the company chooses.

Re: Stripe Corporate Card

#188
This doesn't seem that compelling compared to Amex Plum, to me. Signup bonuses are alright but nothing startups aren't showered in from all sources already.

Re: Stripe Corporate Card

#189

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But if the business spends $100 and the rebate is $2, but I personally pocket the rebate instead of giving the money back to the business, wouldn't that $2 become taxable personal income? (and perhaps also theft, depending on my relationship to the business?)

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/a-02-18.pdf Seems like only cash rewards are taxable, but even then, it doesn't see like the IRS would be interested in pursuing it.

If you run a small business and have a SB card, spending just $100k can get you more than $1k in rewards a year. $1k is still probably not worth the IRS tracking down, but getting on the IRS being too busy to tackle your tax fraud is still tax fraud.

Re: Stripe Corporate Card

#190
post #170

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>it's basically the same as having a personal CC and my company reimburses me for the expenses The company collects all the rewards for the spend but you take on all of the risk of repayment. If you used your personal card you'd collect the rewards. Using personal cards and being reimbursed is a nice perk for many.

>The company collects all the rewards Erm, no they don't. I personally collect all of the rewards from it. I have a nice fat account of AmEx MRs (and plenty of hotel and airline points) thanks to all of my corporate card spend. edit: I have no idea why this is being downvoted. Do you want me to show you a screenshot of my MR account as proof, or something? AmEx corporate cards absolutely give the card rewards to the…

My AMEX corporate card didn't allow me to earn rewards. I didn't know some did. It also had a personal guarantee.

From your link

>However, if your company has blocked the American Express Membership Rewards program, you will NOT be able to enroll your corporate cards.

Also

>To earn American Express Membership Rewards points, you have to pay $90 to enroll your American Express Green Corporate card or American Express Gold Corporate card.

So only worth it for people who know they will be big spenders and who won't leave the company for a long time. For someone who travels only once a year (like me) totally not worth it. I'd rather collect the ~$30 cash back on my 2.5% cash back card.

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