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PRODUCTION P-CARDS (PURCHASING CARDS)

Expense cards built for production.

Issue virtual and physical Visa cards to any crew member, department, or contractor. Set spend limits per project, auto-categorize to your budget, and eliminate petty cash for good.

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P-Cards

Issue them, cap them, and let the coding happen

A card per department with its own limit, and every charge landing on the right budget line without anyone typing it in.

P-Cards

Set the limit before it ships.

Issue Cards

Virtual cards spend instantly, physical ships in a week. One at a time or twenty-five at once.

Bulk card issuing

Add the crew, name the cards, pick the colours. Up to 25 in one run.

Auto-categorization

Charges arrive already coded.

Auto-Actualize

Transactions count toward actuals as they land.

Receipt scanning

Drop in a folder of receipts. They arrive coded, on the right lines.

Bank account controls

Cap a project, watch it spend, switch it off.

Transportation
4500 8832 1127 4401
J. Jacobs
Art Department
4500 1234 5678 9010
D. Smith

Why productions choose Saturation P-Cards

Purpose-built expense cards that integrate with your budget, your team, and your workflow.

Unlimited Cards

Issue as many virtual and physical Visa cards as your production needs. No per-card fees, no limits on issuance.

Per-Project Spend Limits

Set hard caps per card, per project, or per department. Nobody can exceed their allocation.

Virtual and Physical

Virtual cards available instantly. Physical cards ship in 7-10 business days. Both work with Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

Apple Pay and Google Wallet

Crew members can add cards to their mobile wallet and tap to pay on set, at vendors, or online.

Auto-Categorized to Budget

Assign a card to a project and budget account when you issue it, and every charge on it codes to that line automatically.

Instant Deactivation

Freeze or deactivate any card with one click. Eliminate trailing costs the moment wrap is called.

Controls that work on set

Per-project spend limits, receipt capture, and team card management in one place.

Card
Travel Card
Card number
•••• •••• •••• 0419
CardholderEd Baush
Exp Date••/••
CVC•••
Billing Address

123 Main Street

Los Angeles, CA 90028

Spend Limit

US$150 / US$500

US$75 remaining

Receipts

7 / 9 received

2 remaining

Bryan Fellows on set

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Not all cards are built for production

Generic Corporate Card

  • No project-level spend controls
  • Manual expense categorization after the fact
  • Shared credit limits across the whole company
  • No receipt tracking or matching
  • Reconciliation takes days or weeks
  • No integration with production budgets
  • Petty cash still needed for on-set purchases

Saturation P-Cards

  • Per-project, per-department, per-card limits
  • Auto-categorized to budget line items in real time
  • Individual spend controls for every cardholder
  • Receipt capture via mobile app, matched to transactions
  • Actuals update the moment a card is swiped
  • Fully integrated with your Saturation budget
  • Tap-to-pay on set via Apple Pay and Google Wallet

Enterprise-grade security, built in

SOC 2 Type 2 Compliant

Independently audited to verify our security controls are properly designed to protect your financial data from day one.

Bank-Level Encryption

All data encrypted at rest and in transit. Multi-factor authentication on every account. Zero-trust architecture.

FDIC-Insured Funds

Funds are held at FDIC-insured partner banks, including Fifth Third Bank, N.A., Member FDIC, and are eligible for FDIC insurance up to applicable limits.

What our customers are saying

“The financial operating system of our production company. From budgeting to P-cards, AI receipt scanning, and QuickBooks sync, it replaced five separate tools.”

SG

Stephen Gray

Founder & Director, Tonal Films

What is a p-card, and how does a production use one?

A p-card, short for purchasing card, is a company-issued payment card that lets people buy goods and services for the business without a purchase order and without spending their own money. On a production, p-cards replace petty cash and personal cards for the small, frequent purchases every department makes: expendables, hardware runs, crew meals, parking and online orders.

The usual setup is one card per department or per person, each with its own limit. The production accountant or line producer issues the card, sets a cap that resets daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, or a cap per transaction, and can restrict it to merchant categories such as restaurants, fuel, equipment rental or hotels. Crew spend on set, photograph the receipt, and the charge is coded to a budget account. At wrap, cards are frozen or cancelled so nothing trails into post.

Most bank p-card programs are built for corporate procurement teams: the company pays one consolidated statement and coding happens later, in an expense report. A production works differently. Money is tracked by project and by budget line, the crew changes every show, and the cost report has to be current before the week ends.

Saturation P-Cards are Visa expense cards that draw down directly from your Saturation Pay account rather than from a credit line. Workspace Owners, Admins and Accountants issue virtual cards, which can be used as soon as they are issued and activated and can be added to Apple Pay or Google Wallet, or physical cards. A card can be assigned to one project, so the project's fund allocation caps it, and to one budget category, so every charge on it lands on that line and updates actuals as it happens. Cardholders activate their own card within 48 hours of issue and upload receipts in the Saturation Wallet iOS app. Saturation Pay is available to registered US businesses.

Guides

Frequently asked questions

A production p-card (procurement card) is an expense card designed specifically for film, TV, and video production companies. Unlike generic corporate cards, production p-cards integrate with your budget, auto-categorize expenses to line items, and give you project-level spend controls.

Corporate credit cards are general-purpose and share limits across the company. Saturation P-Cards are production-specific: each card has its own spend limit, ties to a specific project or department, auto-categorizes to your budget, and can be frozen instantly when a production wraps.

Yes. Every card gets its own spend limit, which can be set daily, monthly, or per-transaction. You can also restrict cards to specific merchant categories to prevent unauthorized purchases.

Virtual cards are available instantly and can be added to Apple Pay or Google Wallet right away. Physical Visa cards ship in 7-10 business days, with expedited shipping available.

Yes. Both virtual and physical cards can be added to Apple Pay and Google Wallet for tap-to-pay on set, at vendors, or anywhere contactless payments are accepted.

When a card is issued to a project and budget account, its transactions code to that line automatically. Crew members can also categorize manually via the Saturation Wallet app when uploading receipts.

No. You can issue unlimited virtual and physical cards at no additional cost. P-cards come with Saturation Pay on the Pro, Team and Enterprise plans. Standard shipping for physical cards is free; express shipping is $15 and priority is $30.

You can freeze or deactivate any card with one click from your dashboard. This eliminates trailing costs and ensures no unauthorized charges after wrap.

The P stands for purchasing, or procurement in some organizations, because the card was designed for buying goods and services without running each purchase through a purchase order. You will also see it written as P-Card, PCard or procard. On a production the term usually means a department expense card: an art department card, a craft services card or a locations card, each with its own limit.

They are debit expense cards. Each Saturation P-Card is a Visa card that draws down directly from your Saturation Pay account, so the production spends money that is already in the account and within the project's allocation. If you want to spend on credit and earn cash back, the Saturation Credit Card is a separate program with its own application and underwriting, and its cards carry the same limits, merchant categories and project tagging.

Your company first applies for Saturation Pay with business registration, tax ID and ownership verification documents. Applications typically process within 1 to 2 business days, and the account becomes active after your first deposit. From then on, a virtual card is available as soon as it is issued and the cardholder activates it. Physical cards ship with free standard shipping, or with $15 express or $30 priority shipping.

Workspace Owners, Admins and Accountants can issue cards for the whole workspace or for any project. Once a project has a fund allocation, its Project Admins can issue cards for that project only. A cardholder can be any contact in the workspace, with a phone number on file, and one person can hold several cards for different projects. Only the cardholder can activate a card, within 48 hours of issue.

See more of Saturation

P-Cards are just one way spend happens. The account behind them, the expenses they create and the orders they settle are the same system, so a charge on set is already a number in the budget.

Banking

Saturation Pay: accounts, cards and bill pay in one place. Send ACH, wire or same-day.

Banking

Receipt scanning

Receipts arrive already coded.

Expense management

Smarter purchase orders

Three-way matched before it pays.

Purchase orders

Cards that know your budget.

Replace petty cash, personal credit cards, and manual expense reports with p-cards that integrate directly with your production budget.

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  1. Saturation Pay Visa cards are issued by Celtic Bank, Member FDIC.
  2. Money transmission services provided by Stripe Payments Company, with funds held at Fifth Third Bank, N.A., Member FDIC.
  3. Physical cards typically ship within 7-10 business days. Expedited shipping available for an additional fee.

Saturation Pay Visa® P-Cards are issued by Celtic Bank. Banking services are provided by Stripe Treasury and are not provided by Saturation directly. Saturation is not a bank.