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After making funds available to your cards, you may choose to apply specific limits or rules to further control the spending on the card.

Soldo cards empower individuals or teams to make business payments wherever and whenever they need to. This includes travel and entertainment (T&E) costs, digital advertising, office supplies, and everything in between. You can set bespoke limits, rules and budgets for each card individually, suiting each user, and aligning with your procurement policy.

How to apply card rules

If you are on an Unlimited plan, you can benefit from our bulk card rules feature, enabling you to establish spending limits on multiple cards at once, without navigating through each individual card. You can find out more here.
These steps will describe how to access the card rules section for a specific card, enabling you you to set your desired configuration for the card.

1. From the left-side menu, select Cards.

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2. Choose the card that you want to manage.

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3. Select the Rules tab.

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4. Apply the rules that you want to implement on your chosen card.

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Any changes made are implemented immediately giving you complete control of your spending.

What rules are available?

Spending limits

Set monthly, weekly, daily or per transaction spending limits for transactions.

Available on all card types.

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Online payments

Enable or disable spending for online purchases made with plastic cards.

Available on plastic card types.

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Contactless

Enable or disable card spend with contactless payment for plastic cards and fuel cards.

Available on plastic card and fuel card types.

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Disabling contactless payments will also disable contactless payments using Apple Pay or Google Pay.
Auto-lock after one transaction

Automatically lock the card after one transaction, preventing further spend until toggled off.

Available on plastic card and virtual card types.

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Geo control

Control where cards can be used. You can enable/disable specific countries or even entire geographic regions.

For more information on Geo control, refer to this article: Can I restrict the countries where Soldo cards can be used?

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Merchant categories

Enable or disable spend with specific merchant types or entire categories based on the services or goods they supply.

Available on all card types.

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Cash withdrawals

Control whether users with plastic cards can withdraw cash using Chip and Pin.

Available on plastic card types.

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Withdrawal limits

Set monthly, weekly or daily limits for cash withdrawals.

Available on plastic card types.

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Only available if cash withdrawals is activated.
Magstripe withdrawals for 24 hours

Control whether users with plastic cards can withdraw cash using the cards magstripe.

Available on plastic card types.

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Only available if cash withdrawals is activated.
Pair with a vehicle

Pair a fuel card or plastic card with a specific vehicle to automatically associate the cards activity with a particular vehicle.

Available on plastic card and virtual card types.

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Once funds have been added to a card’s wallet, you can apply rules to control how, where, and for what purposes the card can be used. This adds an extra layer of governance to help align spending with your company’s policies.

What are card rules?

Card rules define how a Soldo card can be used. They give you control over:

  • Where the card can be used (by country or region)
  • What it can be used to purchase (by merchant category)
  • How it can be used (such as contactless, online, or at ATMs)

You can tailor rules for each user, team, or department to reflect your internal spend policy. All rules take effect immediately and can be updated at any time.

Note: The rules available depend on the type of card. For example, virtual cards won’t have settings for contactless payments or ATM withdrawals, as these only apply to physical cards.

Benefits of using card rules

  • Improve spend control and compliance
  • Reduce misuse or unauthorised payments
  • Apply governance without slowing down teams
  • Support different rules for different spend types
Tip: If you're on an Unlimited plan, you can apply card rules to multiple cards at once using the bulk card rules feature.

How to apply card rules

  1. From the navigation menu, select Cards.
  2. Choose the card you want to manage.
  3. Go to the Rules tab.
  4. Apply the rules you want for this card.

Changes are saved automatically and take effect immediately.

Types of card rules

Merchant categories (MCC)

Allow or block spending with specific types of merchants. For example, block entertainment or allow only travel or fuel.

Geo control

Enable or disable the card in specific countries or global regions. Learn more about Geo control

Online payments

Allow or block online spending with a plastic card.

Contactless payments

Enable or disable contactless payments.

Cash withdrawals

Control whether the card can be used to withdraw cash at ATMs using Chip and PIN.

Magstripe withdrawals (24 hours)

Allow ATM withdrawals using magstripe for a 24-hour window. Must be enabled alongside Cash withdrawals.

Auto-lock after one transaction

Automatically lock the card after a single transaction. This is useful for temporary or one-time use cards.

Pair with a vehicle

Link a card to a specific vehicle. Any transactions will be associated with that vehicle in reporting.
 

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