Hi all,

anyone any experience of different petrol payment cards?

i need a system that i can use with two vehicles and with a card each that
pays for the petrol when needed. the account will be settled monthly. it
needs to be able to be used at the majority of forecourts.

there's bound to be something out there but where?



steve

Hi all,

anyone any experience of different petrol payment cards?

i need a system that i can use with two vehicles and with a card each that
pays for the petrol when needed. the account will be settled monthly. it
needs to be able to be used at the majority of forecourts.

there's bound to be something out there but where?

How about a credit card for each vehicle!?

Sparks...

"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

anyone any experience of different petrol payment cards?

i need a system that i can use with two vehicles and with a card each that
pays for the petrol when needed. the account will be settled monthly. it
needs to be able to be used at the majority of forecourts.

there's bound to be something out there but where?

I have two credit cards, and one I use for general purchases and one
specifically for petrol.

Very handy it is, as someone bought something on the net using my card
number which made it easy to spot.

--
Alan

Reply to alan (dot) holmes27 (at) virgin (dot) net




steve

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:47:16 +0100, "r.p.mcmurphy" wrote:

Hi all,

anyone any experience of different petrol payment cards?

i need a system that i can use with two vehicles and with a card each that
pays for the petrol when needed. the account will be settled monthly. it
needs to be able to be used at the majority of forecourts.

there's bound to be something out there but where?



steve

Credit card(s). No hassles with places that don't take some cards, and if you choose wisely,
points/cashback.

If you're worried about abuse by employees, I don't see why you couldn't stick a big label on each
saying something like 'to be used for Fuel purchases only - do not accept for any other item'

"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in
:

Hi all,

anyone any experience of different petrol payment cards?


AllStar from ArvalPHH http://www.allstarfuelcards.co.uk/home.cfm


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Rich P
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Mike Harrison wrote in
:

If you're worried about abuse by employees, I don't see why you
couldn't stick a big label on each saying something like 'to be used
for Fuel purchases only - do not accept for any other item'


When was the last time you saw a forecourt cashier actually look at the
card or the signature?

Rich

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Rich P
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In article ,
Mike Harrison writes:

Credit card(s). No hassles with places that don't take some cards, and if you choose wisely,
points/cashback.

If you're worried about abuse by employees, I don't see why you couldn't stick a big label on each
saying something like 'to be used for Fuel purchases only - do not accept for any other item'

One way is to have the employees get their own card exclusively
for petrol, and hand the bill to you each month, with the till
receipts (to check on items purchased).

Could even issue them with company credit cards. I'm not sure
what difference that makes. I still got the bill for my company
credit card, although we were assured the company would pay any
interest due to their late payment to us, which they wouldn't if
we used our own credit cards.

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Andrew Gabriel

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:49:34 +0100, Richard Polhill wrote:

Mike Harrison wrote in
:

If you're worried about abuse by employees, I don't see why you
couldn't stick a big label on each saying something like 'to be used
for Fuel purchases only - do not accept for any other item'


When was the last time you saw a forecourt cashier actually look at the
card or the signature?

Obviously not infallible, but could help discourage employees trying it on.

On 01 Aug 2005 11:51:52 GMT, andrew@a17 (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
Mike Harrison writes:

Credit card(s). No hassles with places that don't take some cards, and if you choose wisely,
points/cashback.

If you're worried about abuse by employees, I don't see why you couldn't stick a big label on each
saying something like 'to be used for Fuel purchases only - do not accept for any other item'

One way is to have the employees get their own card exclusively
for petrol, and hand the bill to you each month, with the till
receipts (to check on items purchased).

Could even issue them with company credit cards. I'm not sure
what difference that makes. I still got the bill for my company
credit card, although we were assured the company would pay any
interest due to their late payment to us, which they wouldn't if
we used our own credit cards.

...
and maybe as an incentive to the employee to compensate for the paperwork, , let them keep
points/cashback etc. for themselves.

"r.p.mcmurphy" wrote in message
...
Hi all,

anyone any experience of different petrol payment cards?

i need a system that i can use with two vehicles and with a card each that
pays for the petrol when needed. the account will be settled monthly. it
needs to be able to be used at the majority of forecourts.

there's bound to be something out there but where?

Maybe worth asking local petrol stations what cards they take.

--

Michael Chare

In message , Mike Harrison
writes
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:47:16 +0100, "r.p.mcmurphy"
wrote:

Hi all,

anyone any experience of different petrol payment cards?

i need a system that i can use with two vehicles and with a card each that
pays for the petrol when needed. the account will be settled monthly. it
needs to be able to be used at the majority of forecourts.

there's bound to be something out there but where?



steve

Credit card(s). No hassles with places that don't take some cards, and
if you choose wisely,
points/cashback.

If you're worried about abuse by employees, I don't see why you
couldn't stick a big label on each
saying something like 'to be used for Fuel purchases only - do not
accept for any other item'

And a small .mp3 player which works over the telephone

Do you actually think anyone would take any notice of such a label ?


--
geoff

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 11:47:16 +0100, "r.p.mcmurphy"
wrote:

Hi all,

anyone any experience of different petrol payment cards?

i need a system that i can use with two vehicles and with a card each that
pays for the petrol when needed. the account will be settled monthly. it
needs to be able to be used at the majority of forecourts.

there's bound to be something out there but where?


BP Supercharge - http://www.bpplus.com/pages/myn/meetingyourneeds.asp

"Accepted at over 95% of all UK petrol stations displaying the
'AllStar' sign"
"A weekly invoice, paid by direct debit for your convenience"

r.p.mcmurphy wrote:
Hi all,

anyone any experience of different petrol payment cards?

i need a system that i can use with two vehicles and with a card each that
pays for the petrol when needed. the account will be settled monthly. it
needs to be able to be used at the majority of forecourts.

there's bound to be something out there but where?



steve


You could try PHH Allstar - they are accepted at nearly every garage and
even in many european ones.
You can decide what the card can be used for - fuel, oil, recovery,
service and so on.

Also it is not a credit card in the normal sense that can be abused /
cloned.

Not sure of the requirements to qualify for obtaining one though.

r.p.mcmurphy wrote:

there's bound to be something out there but where?

I have a feeling it is also possible to restrict the categories of
merchant that are will be authorised on some business CCs. The idea
being that when the merchant phones (or PDQs) the card, the transaction
is rejected if the merchant type does not appear on the list allowable
for the card. Hence it ought to be simple to restrict it to fuel sales
only. (One presumes that manual card and slip transactions could still
get through though)

(I remember having a client who did this with their CCs used by some of
the electronic parts buyers - sometimes they would run into problems
where the merchant did not have the right classification for what they
were selling)

--
Cheers,

John.

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