3 ways to make the most of your Centtrip Card

We live in an increasingly complex and demanding world. It's increasingly cashless, and ever more online. It's international, too, with individuals and businesses easily purchasing across borders. 

Individuals are empowered, and they are often part of matrix organization structures comprising employees, partners, freelancers and agents. 

If that's your world, you need a card that offers instant, real-time transparency and control with the features and balances to truly empower your people - on the road or at their desks. 

Thousands of clients already use Centtrip to help manage their expenses. Let's take a look at the different ways they use the Centtrip card. 

"Our money" - using the Centtrip card for on-the-road expenses

The Centtrip prepaid Mastercard is ideal for travel. Whether your people are road warriors or rock stars (our clients are both), the card empowers individuals to deal with situations as they arise. 

"With Centtrip, I can move funds instantly between account and individual prepaid cards. And I have total visibility over all the cards, all the time."

Gareth Jones, Independent Financial Controller and Production Accountant

Designed for demanding and highly mobile sectors and clients, it features the highest balance and transactions limits. 

"At the end of the night, after a gig, sitting on the tour bus, the tour manager can go onto the app and see what was spent that day... [and they can] upload receipts direct from the mobile app saving even more time all round."

Lloyd Quilty, Director, SRLV

Relevant features include:

• Spend up to $250,000 in a single in-store or online transaction

• Withdraw up to $5,000 daily from 2.1 million ATMs worldwide

• Instantly transfer up to $275,000 per day to one or multiple cards

• Empower individuals to seize opportunities and solve problems quickly

• Customize card limits for greater control and flexibility

• Scan, tag and upload transaction receipts from the app for efficient expense management

• Track expenditure in real time and with tailored, transaction history reporting

• Instantly lock and unlock cards on the app

"Your money" - using the Centtrip card to manage per diems

If you manage travelling teams - whether that's film crew, road crew, or ship's crew - you probably pay per diem allowances. Historically, that's involved large amounts of cash. It's been time-consuming, expensive and high-risk. We hear tales of tour directors holding suitcases of cash in hotel rooms, and road managers forgetting bags of cash in roadside diners. 

Today, many prefer the Centtrip prepaid card.

"Before, it took half a day per week to distribute monies, now I just create a batch upload file, click the button and cast and crew have instant access to their balances."

Gareth Jones, Independent Financial Controller and Production Accountant

For its recent tour of Japan, the UK's Royal Opera issued nearly 300 Centtrip cards and transferred per diem allowances at the start of each week. 

"Our touring company manager and I were administrators on the account so we could disperse the per diem payments from the account to individuals' cards. She also had eight spare cards so that, if somebody lost a card, she could instantly lock the lost card, issue a replacement and transfer the balance to the new card within seconds. If anyone forgot their PIN, she could reissue it. She had everything under control."

Graham Watson, Head of Financial Accounts, Royal Opera House

Key features for organizations paying per diems: 

• Award-winning, easy to use app helps individuals keep track of their personal spending

• Individuals’ remaining balances can be withdrawn as cash from any ATM, transferred to personal bank accounts or spent once back home

• Instantly transfer up to $275,000 per day to one or multiple cards

• Order as many cards as needed for large tours

• Cards delivered in just a few days

• Instantly lock and unlock cards on the app

• Withdraw up to $5,000 daily from 2.1 million ATMs worldwide

"Their money" - using the Centtrip card to manage client funds

Centtrip provides its services to many of the world's largest superyachts. For charter yachts, clients pay an advance provisioning allowance (APA) to the yacht management company, which is then used to provision the yacht and meet additional costs such as ad hoc purchases, excursions and so on. 

With Centtrip, management companies can cascade the APA onto the cards of captain and crew for each yacht. This gives captains the autonomy to instantly meet the needs of the most demanding clients while always staying in control of what's spent. Real-time, anytime visibility and reporting make reconciliation simple and avoids charges being missed at the end of each charter. 

"The Centtrip app is ideal because it's really user-friendly and gives captains real-time reporting of transactions, 24/7 from anywhere in the world."

Farid El Khazzar, Charter Accountant, Edmiston

In the music business, many of our accountant and management company clients use the same features – managing the finances of multiple, independent artists from a single, any device interface.

Important features for managing other people’s money include:

• Manage multiple, independent accounts from a single interface, on web or mobile app

• Create multiple cost centers across projects or business lines and manage them with client-defined, multi-tiered permissions

• Manage multiple cards from one account

• Transfer up to $275,000 per day to one or mutiple cards

• Spend up to $250,000 in a single in-store or online transaction

• Safe Mode – lock and unlock cards instantly, anywhere, using the smartphone app

• Tag and upload receipts instantly using the app

• Save time and money with tailored reports of live transactions to keep track of expenditure in real time

Designed for a demanding world 

Recently ranked as one of the UK's fastest growing technology companies, Centtrip is now expanding quickly in the US. The business is trusted by demanding clients around the globe, including 50 Grammy winners, over 500 of the world's top touring artists and 50% of the world's largest yachts (i.e. vessels over 130ft). We’re also growing quickly in film & entertainment and in aviation. Our clients include international professional services businesses and others that need to support globally mobile road warriors. Nearly $1.5 billion of transactions flow across the Centtrip platform each year.

"Have failsafe financial security, knowing you can provision for every eventuality, and having a financial partner that understands your world really gives you peace of mind. Centtrip's made the financial side of yacht management a pleasure."

Rob Dolling, Director of Sales & Purchase Management and New Construction, VERPEKA DOLLING

The Centtrip card is designed to meet the needs of high-spending, internationally mobile individuals and crews. If you’d like to discuss how it can support you and your people, please get in touch.