# Extend for

**Vendor payments**  
Pay vendors, make purchases, and manage subscriptions with the control and security of virtual cards.

**Virtual employee cards**  
Empower employees to manage expenses with accountability and transparency.

**Expense management**  
Automate manual processes and get a centralized view of expenses across all the company credit cards.

**Tracking spend**  
Gain real-time visibility over every charge

**Reconciliation**  
Close your books in a fraction of the time

**Integrated payments**  
Automate payment workflows and manage transactions at scale with our flexible virtual card API.

**Custom AI agents**  
Integrate our API into your agentic workflows to achieve a whole new level of automation and efficiency

## Getting started guide

### 01. Introduction
### 02. How businesses use Extend
### 03. Navigating the platform
### 04. Card registration
### 05. Team invites & roles
### 06. Expense codes & integrations
### 07. Budgets
### 08. Virtual cards
### 09. Bill pay
### 10. Receipt management & attachments
### 11. Reimbursement
### 12. Manager Review
### 13. Reporting & reconciliation
### 14. Support

### **How does it work?**
**Any registered cardholder can create budgets from the Create New button and manage them from the Budgets page.**  
1. First, create a budget and define the spending limit for a department, project, location, etc.
2. Share it with anyone who requires access to the budget—up to 10 people. These folks then become the “budget users” with you as the “budget creator.”  
3. Budget users can create, send, update, and deactivate virtual cards as needed, and you get real-time visibility over all budget activity.

### **Types of budgets**
- **Standard budget**: A standard budget has a set spend limit. Anyone with access to a standard budget can create as many virtual cards as needed within the set limit. 
- **Recurring budget**: A recurring budget has a limit that you can schedule to automatically reset funds at your chosen frequency—daily, weekly, or monthly.
- **Unlimited budget**: An unlimited budget does not have a set spend limit—the budget is only limited by the credit limit of its funding source (the bank-issued registered card).

### **FAQs**
- **How many people can you assign to a single budget?** Up to 10 people can share a budget at one time. You may add and remove budget users at any time.
- **Can I send a budget to someone outside of my organization?** No, for greater security and control, budgets are a feature exclusive to your organization in Extend.
- **Can you re-assign virtual cards from one budget to another?** Virtual cards cannot be reassigned from one budget to another. You would have to deactivate the original virtual card and create a new one under the correct budget.