Welsh Purchasing Card

The xchangewales – Welsh Purchasing Card offers Welsh public sector buyers the opportunity to:

  • Pay for any goods and services without a purchase requisition or purchase order
  • Control spend by setting individual transaction and monthly limits, and by blocking categories of suppliers
  • Totally secure use with approved supplier via ‘hosted’ cards
  • Quickly see all transactions and associated spend via a comprehensive web based card management system.

Key Benefits


The xchangewales – Welsh Purchasing Card offers public sector organisations:
  • A low cost solution that is easy to use
  • Universal supplier acceptance (29 million)
  • Access to online management information that can be enhanced and integrated with organisations’ finance systems, and linked to exception reporting
  • Corporate liability waiver cover against cardholder fraud
  • Aggregated rebates, with no minimum spend, that can be reinvested in the delivery of additional or improved public services
  • Elimination of separate invoice processing (one monthly payment to the bank)
  • Maximum process and efficiency savings

Welsh Assembly Government