Prepaid Credit Cards And Your Business Expenses
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Prepaid credit cards have been a tool for managing personal finances for a long time. But do you think of prepaid credit cards as a business tool?

A lot of businesses have come to think of prepaid credit cards as an easy way to control your employee's spending. With a prepaid credit card you can establish a budget amount for something (say office supplies) and send an employee out to the story knowing that they can't go over budget. Plus, you will get a specific record of exactly where they spent your money.

With prepaid credit cards you can manage expense accounts, as well as purchasing. Employees going on a business trip and you don't want them to have infinite charging abilities? Use a prepaid credit card to manage your company's funds. If they spend it on lattes, well, they spend it on lattes. But at least everyone knows where the limits are.

Wikipedia has a close look at the history of prepaid cards.