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    Bento for Business

    Score10 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Bento for Business provides employee expense cards with spend controls that allow business owners to control where, when and how much employees can spend. This solution includes a dashboard that pivots data by employee, card, category, date and tag.

    $0

    2 People or Cards (1 must be business owner)

    Marqeta

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AMarqeta headquartered in Oakland offers a wide range of card issuance and payment card solutions for enterprise. Marqeta provides the infrastructure and tools for building configurable payment cards, and with its open API platform Marqeta is designed to allow developers to manage payment cards, as well as drive new modes of commerce and payment processing.N/A
    Pricing
    Bento for BusinessMarqeta
    Editions & Modules
    Free
    $0
    2 People or Cards (1 must be business owner)
    Team
    $29/month
    Up to 10 People or Cards
    Professional
    $69/month
    Up to 20 People or Cards
    Enterprise
    $149/month
    More than 20 People or Cards
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Bento for BusinessMarqeta
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Bento for BusinessMarqeta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Bento for BusinessMarqeta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bento for Business
    Our organization runs a lot of short-term or one-off programs where the program staff need to buy supplies -- Bento is perfect for these scenarios. The staff who make the purchases are not staff who would typically have a company card, so we wanted a solution other than giving them a credit card. Bento was perfect because it makes the purchasing & bookkeeping processes for these programs easy and efficient for both the staff and the finance team
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    Marqeta
    Great platform for FinTechs that want to build a global business in one place. Lots of control available to run a card program. If you want to do less work (just get cards for your customers with less customization and not worry about details) there are better options.
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    Pros
    Bento for Business
    • Track expenses by employee
    • Restrict purchases based on amount and category
    • Import transactions directly into QuickBooks
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    Marqeta
    • Money delivery.
    • Support is excellent.
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    Cons
    Bento for Business
    • easier way for employees to access their statements without setting them up as admins
    • monthly statements generated by card
    • monthly fee needs to be added to one of the card statements
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    Marqeta
    • Is not available for business users.
    • Is not available for international users.
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    Support Rating
    Bento for Business
    No answers on this topic
    Marqeta
    The support team has been excellent and very responsive. Whenever we had issues and reached out, we were able to resolve most problems within 24 hours. I think it really helps that they are still a new-ish startup and are very hands-on with their business and with support.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bento for Business
    If you are looking for prepaid business care or a business expense card, I highly do not recommend using Bento for Business. Do yourself and your business a favor and use a more customer service orientated services such as Pex, Wex, or Expensify. Bento for Business is bad business. Just don't do it.
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    Marqeta
    We evaluated a couple back in 2018 (GPS and Galileo), but I'm not sure that is relevant anymore.
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    Return on Investment
    Bento for Business
    • Saving time by eliminating reimbursements
    • Allowing many staff to have a card to make purchases without worrying about financial control/risk of too many people having a company card
    • Efficiently synchs with Quickbooks
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    Marqeta
    • Our entire card payments business runs on Marqeta and Marqeta's cost is a fraction of the revenue provided.
    • Costs very reasonable at scale.
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    Screenshot of Create Employee cards or Utility cards with spend limits (e.g. $500/month)Screenshot of Dashboard provides a snapshot of spending activity across all cards.Screenshot of See transactions in real-time.  Add tags, notes and upload receipts.