The clock’s ticking. You need to get a business gas card for your business, but you also need to take care of all your day to day responsibilities. You don’t have time to deal with a pushy salesman, take a million steps to apply, or wait a month to receive your cards.
What should you do?
Here’s a quick guide that will help you walk through each step of setting up a business gas card account, from comparing fleet fuel cards to handing out fuel cards to your drivers.
Spend the next two minutes reading this guide and you’ll know exactly what to do.
Step 1: Compare Business Gas Cards (1-2 Hours)
There are a lot of fuel cards out there and you need to find the best fuel card for your business or else you’ll be doing this all over again in month when you don’t like your new fuel card. We’ve got you covered, check out this quick article comparing some of the most popular business gas cards.
You can even use our fuel card finder to help you search for the best business gas card.
Step 2: Fill Out The Online Credit Application (5-15 Minutes)
Most major fuel card will have an online application that you can fill out in less than 5 minutes. You’ll just need your basic business information and a few signatures. Just remember the more information you provide on the application, the quicker the credit process will be.
Once you submit the application it will usually take 4 to 72 hours to get approved.
Step 3: Order Fuel Cards (30-60 Minutes)
Once your account is approved, it’s time to order your business gas cards. First you need to choose whether you should assign your fuel cards to the drivers or to the vehicles. If you need help deciding check out this article.
Then just select the proper controls you want for eachhttps://cnrgfleet.com/vehicle-card-vs-driver-card-which-one-do-you-choose/ card such as time frame limits, gallon per transaction limits, transaction per day limits, types of fuel limits, etc..
The fuel card you apply with should send you a fuel card order form as soon as you apply.
Step 4: Pass Out Fuel Cards (30 Minutes)
Your fuel card company should give your company complete construction on how to use your fuel cards at the pump and which fuel stations you should use.
At this point all you have to do is relay this information you your drivers as you pass out the cards.
Step 5: Sit Back And Let The Business Fuel Cards Do The Work
Actually don’t sit, it’s time to get back to regular work, but you get the point. Once your drivers figure out how to use the cards, it should run like a well oiled machine from here on.
