This May, Slash went big and small.
We went big by going global. Slash Global USD users can now issue corporate cards, giving international businesses a way to spend in USD anywhere Visa is accepted. It's the biggest expansion of our international product since launch, and it brings Global USD accountholders one of the parts of Slash people use most.
We went small by focusing on the UI. The new Action Center gives your team a single place to see and complete the finance tasks waiting on them. Bill Pay makes paying vendors faster from the first email, with automatic PDF parsing, smarter defaults for recurring vendors, and a permissions suite that scales as your team grows.
We also rolled out Slash for Startups, a new program that gives founders going through 20+ leading accelerator programs cash bonuses of up to $5,000 when they sign up. More on each launch below.
Slash Global Cards
Slash Cards are now available for Global USD accountholders.³ Issued through our partner Rain, Global Cards let international businesses spend anywhere Visa is accepted without requiring a U.S. bank account or a U.S.-incorporated entity. International users can now pay vendors, run ads, cover software, and handle operating expenses in USD directly from their Slash account.
From the cardholder's perspective, a purchase looks and feels like any other card payment. Behind the scenes, funds are drawn directly from the USDSL balance with no currency conversion, no intermediary banks, and no delays. The USDSL is off-ramped at the point of sale, and settlement runs in hourly batches.
Here's what cardholders get:
- Virtual and physical cards: Virtual cards are issued instantly for online purchases and vendor payments, while physical cards ship to your door for in-person transactions
- Real-time authorization: Purchases are authorized against the USDSL balance in real time
- Company branding: Your business name can be displayed on the card
- Full card controls: Set spending limits, freeze and unfreeze cards, and manage team spend from the Slash dashboard
The standard in finance
Slash goes above with better controls, better rewards, and better support for your business.
Action Center
The Action Center is a new home in Slash where team members can see every finance task waiting on them in one place. Instead of checking multiple tabs or waiting for a reminder, employees open the Action Center and find the items assigned to them, each with the context needed to understand what's being asked and what to do next.
For most employees, finance tasks aren't part of their daily workflow. Uploading a receipt, reviewing a card transaction, or responding to a request from finance tends to happen in the margins of everything else they're doing.¹ Without a clear place to see what's outstanding, the work of chasing down open items falls to owners and finance teams by default.
Depending on how a team uses Slash, the Action Center surfaces tasks like:
- Uploading missing receipts
- Reviewing or adding details to Slash Card transactions
- Responding to requests from admins or finance teams
- Completing required steps tied to a Slash account
Employees get one place to check, and finance teams cut down on the follow-ups that used to land on their plates.
Bill Pay
Bill Pay is now live in Slash. Upload an invoice and Slash handles the rest, from parsing the PDF to routing it for approval to sending payment to the vendor. The whole flow starts the moment a vendor sends an invoice. Forward it to a dedicated email address or upload it directly to your dashboard; Slash parses the PDF and extracts the fields you'd otherwise enter by hand:
- Invoice number and due date
- Line items and total amount
- Vendor details and preferred payment method
- Auto-generated notes so approvers know what the payment is for
Teams can forward invoices manually or set up automatic forwarding so it happens the moment an invoice hits the inbox. Invoices that arrive outside of email can be dragged directly into the Bills tab, and fields stay editable during the process, which helps when you're only paying part of a bill.
The system gets smarter over time with recurring vendors. If you've paid a vendor by ACH to a specific account before, Slash remembers and pre-fills that information on the next bill. The system can also notify the vendor's contact by email when payment is released.
Payments are organized across four tabs that show where each bill stands:
- Bills: Invoices that have been uploaded or forwarded in
- Payment Requests: Bills submitted for approval
- Scheduled Payments: Approved and queued for a future date
- Sent Payments: Already on their way to the vendor
Smaller teams can have one person handle bills end-to-end, while larger companies can assign roles under Entity Settings to control who uploads bills, who requests payment, and who has final approval authority. Permissions can be adjusted as your team grows.
Slash for Startups
Slash for Startups is a new program for founders going through one of our 20+ startup accelerator partners, offering cash bonuses of up to $5,000 when you sign up for Slash. For full offer details, read the Slash Partner Offer Terms and Agreement.
Up to $5,000 cash bonus:
- $4,000 after depositing $500K and holding for 90 days
- $1,000 after spending $1,000 on the Slash card
If affiliated with: MassChallenge, a16z Speedrun, Y Combinator, Goodwater, Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures, NEA, Ribbit Capital, Soma Capital
Up to $2,500 cash bonus:
- $2,000 after depositing $250K and holding for 90 days
- $500 after spending $500 on the Slash card
If affiliated with: 1517 Fund, Alif, Basic Capital, Browder Capital, Cota Capital, DualEntry, Dune Ventures, Founders Inc, LeapYear, Monashees, Newtopia, Swift Ventures, Z Fellows
Events
This month, we hosted Founder Poker Night at Slash HQ, co-hosted with Pure Poker. The night brought founders, operators, and builders from around SF together over cards and drinks. Later in the month, we hosted the Founders Asado at the office, a Latino founder gathering built around food and conversation.
We also continued our recurring concert series in the Slash suite at Oracle Arena. May's lineup included a Demi Lovato show for female founders and a Romeo Santos x Prince Royce night for Latino founders.
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