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I would say save the hassles and just stick to the corps credit card. I experienced the AWS under a personal credit card issue, but AWS was quick to resolve the issue with us anyway.

Though it is needless to say, also make sure you have a vendor email address to manage vendors. We have had vendor account signed up using work email but after the person left the company, we lose the account control and have to ping account manager. Sometimes, that process can take days to complete.

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Rather than a vendors@ email address for vendors, alias their old.employee@ address to someone else still with the company in a similar role (their replacement, if they have one).

That way you won't miss sales queries, service notifications, or other stuff they used their email for. Update the accounts as necessary and it slows to a trickle quickly.

That's assuming they didn't use their personal email account, which is probably likely if they were using a personal credit card.

No, it isn't. And OP indicated "work email" and was advising use of vendor@ email.

But if you make them stick to the corp card that means everyone has the # and you lose control and insight. That's dangerous at any stage but even worse when you're early stage and every dollar feels like $20.

+1 to a vendors@ or similar email account.

You can give everyone a separate card/number.

so, you're arguing that it is acceptable to have the core services your company relies on be tied to a person who could quit or be fired at any time?!

Yes, obviously.

I'm sure they will put in lots of overtime. Maybe fire them while they're asleep under the desk, and their card is out on the table.

Give everyone a card and -1 to vendors@ (I can't stand that and don't see any benefit).

This is where you need to have an account payable setup. Your finance team/person should be responsible for the invoice. If this is a tiny small startup, the CEO should be the one signing up.

How do you not have access to the departed employee's email account? I have never seen that as an actual issue.

If they used a personal credit card, maybe they used personal email as well?

There are a lot of people at my work who use their personal gmail for everything.

Well, that's not smart. Employees should use company email addresses for company work.

OP stated "work email" and advised use of vendor@ email which is what I was objecting to. Everywhere I've been, using vendor@ emails has been a pain and employee emails a non-issue.

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