Purchase Guidelines

Merchant Category Codes

There are some types of merchants or vendors that are already blocked from being able to be used based upon their merchant category code (MCC). This code groups merchants/vendors into common categories. So if a department manager prefers to block certain ranges of merchants for a particular cardholder, the Payment/Travel Card Office can accommodate this. For example if all they want the card to be valid for is business meals, then we can restrict all MCC classifications except restaurants.