Bento for Business partners with Visa
B2B payment solutions provider Bento for Business inked a deal with Visa this week, reports Julie Muhn at Finovate.
The deal includes Visa as an additional payment card in the Bento for Business platform that aims to help small businesses manage their cash and employee expenses.
The Visa card offering is being added to the company’s Mastercard prepaid commercial card product originally launched in 2015.
As part of the partnership, joint customers of Visa and the Bento platform can benefit from Bento’s businesses management tools such as budgeting, capital management, employee card controls, and bookkeeping. And it notably makes Visa’s millions of business debit cardholders into potential Bento clients.
“The SMB segment is a priority for Visa and we continue to be an advocate for the 30 million SMBs in the United States,” says David Simon, global head of small and medium enterprises at Visa. “The Bento solution will evolve how Visa Business cardholders and merchants manage expenses and gain insights into their cash flow and financial management activities.”
Plans for Bento business users have a range of options, starting with two cards for free, and extending to unlimited cards and administrators for $149 per month.
As for the company’s next plans, Bento CEO Farhan Ahmad says, “In 2019 and beyond, we will continue to expand our financial controls and cashless workflows for SMBs with a vision to deliver an all-in-one working capital management solution.”
