Configuring Spend Limits on Your Slash Cards

Overview

Slash cards give you granular control over how money is spent. Whether you need to cap an employee's weekly budget, block certain merchant categories, or set transaction size limits, spend controls help you manage risk and stay on budget. This article covers how to configure spending limits at the individual card, card group, and organization level.

Types of Spend Controls

Slash offers several categories of spend controls:

• Spending limits: Caps on how much can be spent over a time period (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or total)
• Transaction size limits: Minimum and maximum amounts per transaction
• Merchant controls: Allow or block specific merchants, merchant categories, or Merchant Category Codes (MCCs)
• Country restrictions: Allow or block transactions based on the merchant's country

How Limits Work Together

Spend controls are evaluated in a hierarchy:

1. Organization-level (root) controls — Applied first, cannot be overridden
2. Card group limits — Applied next to all cards in the group
3. Individual card limits — Applied last

A transaction must pass all applicable limits to be approved. For example, if your organization has a $10,000 daily limit and a card has a $500 daily limit, the card is capped at $500.

How to Set Limits on an Individual Card

Step 1: Navigate to your cards

From your Slash dashboard, click Cards in the left navigation.

Step 2: Select the card

Click on the card you want to configure.

Step 3: Open the limits panel

Click Limits to view current spend controls.

Step 4: Edit card limits

Click Edit card limits and configure the following:

• Spending limits: Set caps for daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or total (one-time) spending. All limits reset at midnight in your configured timezone (UTC by default).
• Transaction limits: Set minimum and/or maximum transaction amounts. Setting the maximum to $0 blocks all transactions.
• Merchant controls: Add merchants, categories, or MCCs to an allowlist (only these permitted) or blocklist (everything except these).
• Country restrictions: Allow or block transactions by merchant country.

Step 5: Save your changes

Click Save to apply the new limits immediately.

How to Set Limits on a Card Group

Card groups let you apply the same limits to multiple cards at once—useful for teams or departments.

Step 1: Navigate to your cards

From your Slash dashboard, click Cards in the left navigation.

Step 2: Select the card group

Click on the group you want to configure.

Step 3: Edit group limits

Click Limits, then Edit group limits. Configure spending limits, transaction limits, merchant controls, and country restrictions as needed.

Step 4: Save your changes

Click Save. The limits will apply to all cards in the group.

Additional Features and Considerations

• Reset timing: Daily limits reset at midnight. Weekly limits reset Monday. Monthly limits reset on the 1st. Yearly limits reset January 1st. Total (collective) limits never reset.
• Timezone: Resets occur at midnight in your organization's configured timezone (defaults to UTC).
• Combining limits: You can set multiple limit types on the same card. For example, a $1,000 monthly limit and a $200 per-transaction maximum.
• MCCs: Merchant Category Codes are 4-digit industry codes. Common examples include 5812 (Restaurants), 4111 (Transportation), and 5411 (Grocery Stores).

Need More Help?

If a transaction is unexpectedly declined, check that it doesn't exceed any of the card's limits, group limits, or organization-wide controls. You can view recent decline reasons in the card's transaction history.

For additional assistance, contact Slash Support through the Help menu in your dashboard or email support@slash.com.