Visa Information Source

Utilize data for informed decisions with Visa

With Visa Information Source you can organize your spending data into usable reports and information to better manage supplier relationships, monitor compliance with company policy, and analyze your company's spending. Use the data from your Visa commercial payment products to make more informed business decisions, streamline operations, and improve your bottom line.

Advantages

• User-friendly access for employees.
• Help with employee purchases and monitoring spending by vendor.
• Simplify accounting and reduce costly hours spent reconciling data by importing transaction data directly into your general ledger and accounts payable systems. Employees gain ready access to expense reporting data.
• Includes reports for negotiating agreements and monitoring compliance.
• Manage, track, and analyze spending based on company needs.
• Consolidate spending from multiple departments and route to appropriate managers.
• Minimize errors and improve accuracy from manual re-entry.
• Integration with a variety of accounting packages to ease processing.

Features

• With ad hoc file extracts, you can create custom reports for further analysis.
• Expense file extract generates a list of approved expenses.
• Ability to deliver real-time reports or to schedule delivery to a specific date and time or on a recurring basis.
• Interactive report viewing capability allows you to drill-down to review data in detail.
• Ability to restrict access by user, hierarchy, company, or financial institution enables secure and flexible reporting at all levels of the organization.
• Convenient report distribution option through email using a predetermined schedule that you set based on your needs.
• Supplier chains allow you to group together multiple suppliers for enhanced reporting.
• Flexible spending hierarchies allow you to create customized spending groups (Merchant category groups) based on a set of Merchant Category Codes for reporting purposes.
• User access profiles give you the ability to restrict features and report options without having to set up each user individually.
• Multiple approval levels for expense reports, cost allocation, and cardholder statements allow for escalation of aging approvals.
• Allows users to create cardholder statements that include their transactions from a specified billing period.