HSBC Corporate Purchasing Card
KeepA procurement card that buys control, and sells you nothing else.
no published earn rate to price
Skip the arithmetic — the board, ranked → · nothing to sign up for
What it's worth to you, after the fee
Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described. Everything we can source — the fee, the charges, the migration that put this card in your hand — is above and stands on its own; this card is simply not on the board, not in the calculator, and cannot win a best-of call until HSBC publishes terms we can cite.
Why we decline to value some cards, and what it takes to change that →
3 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · the network variants · why it ranks #547
Why #547 A business card carried, not ranked. A procurement card with per-buyer limits and merchant-category fencing, 52 days of float and no travel benefit whatever — the T&E sibling gets the lounge quota, this one gets the controls.
The take
The Purchasing Card is what a company hands the people who buy things — stationery, computer supplies, training courses, whatever procurement covers — and HSBC sells it entirely on control. Credit limits are set per purchaser; expenses break down by department, country and transaction type; merchant categories can be fenced off and whole supplier types blocked outright. It works in store, online and over the phone, domestically and overseas, which is more than most procurement instruments manage. The cash-flow argument is the same as on the T&E sibling and it is the honest reason to run one: up to 52 interest-free days between a supplier being paid and the company settling. HSBC's pitch is that paying suppliers fast is negotiating leverage, and on a large enough procurement book it is. What you do not get is anything else. There is no lounge access, no travel insurance and no rewards programme — not a thin one, none: HSBC's page and the corporate MITC behind it name no points, no catalogue and no accrual rate anywhere. ₹2,000 to take and ₹2,000 a year per card, from the tariff sheet, with the same caveat that a negotiated programme may price differently. Foreign currency costs 3.5%, extended credit 3.3% a month, and the MiVision and Smart Data reporting the whole product is sold on carries its own ₹10,000-a-year company charge.
Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel
There is no renewal arithmetic to run on this card yet — and a break-even we cannot source is not one we will print.
the whole desk — what changed, the downgrade, and what we cannot price →
Keep, downgrade or cancel
what we can and cannot price
Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described. A break-even is the spend at which value crosses a fee, and we are short one side of that sentence — so this desk prints no ladder, no crossing and no ₹0 standing in for either. What we can source about this card is under Sources.
Your copy of this card
You hold this card.
Kept on this device, in your browser. It is never sent to us, never synced, and nothing else on the site reads it yet.
The downgrade
HSBC publishes no document naming a card you can step down to, so we name none — an invented product change is a phone call you would waste. That leaves keep or cancel, and we cannot price either side of it.
What has changed under this card
- 15 Aug 2026 HSBC zeroes the forex mark-up on every card it sells — for 32 days issuer-wide
We price what is in force today — a change that has not happened yet is not in these numbers. the full archive for this card →
If you call to cancel
What the bank offers to keep you is the one fact this desk cannot compute. We are collecting those reports — dated, and only in aggregate — before publishing any: an offer one reader was made is not one you are owed. Called about this card? Tell us what they offered →
The desk publishes subscribable .ics feeds for the dates it knows — offer deadlines, devaluations, expiry audits. Your renewal date is not one of them: only your statement knows it.
What's good
- Per-purchaser credit limits, with expenses broken down by department, country and transaction type
- Merchant-category fencing — usage limited to approved supplier categories, others blocked
- Up to 52 interest-free days between paying a supplier and settling
- Works in store, online and over the phone, domestic and overseas
- Individually held: the buyer's name is embossed and signed for, against the company's account
Watch out
- No rewards programme at all — HSBC's page and its corporate MITC name no points, no catalogue and no accrual
- No lounge access and no travel insurance; the T&E sibling carries both
- 3.5% on foreign currency, with no concession
- The ₹2,000 fees are the tariff sheet's STANDARD; the same clause says they "may vary depending on the offer" the company negotiated
- MiVision/Smart Data reporting — the product's whole selling point — costs ₹10,000 a year plus ₹7,000 to implement, per company
- 3.3% a month (39.6% a year) past the due date, and a ₹500 late fee
What these points actually fly
HSBC has not published what this card earns, so there are no points here to fly with — not zero points, and not points that go nowhere: nothing stated either way. The moment a benefit sheet exists we will price whatever it names.
what the cards that DO reach a chart can fly — 2,196 corridors priced →
Lounge access
0 of 793 tracked doors
No lounge access. This card opens exactly 0 of 793 tracked lounge doors — board with the crowd, or find a card that doesn't →
Can you get it?
the route in — no cutoffs published
The cutoffs and the actual route in — not the "apply now" button, the door that opens.
Direct application — no invite list, no banking relationship required.
HSBC publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.
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What's changed for this card
8 dated changes
Devaluations and buffs that touch this card directly, its issuer, or the points and programs it earns and transfers to. Every one is dated here; the tracker carries each one's before → after and the write-up.
- 1 Sept 2026HSBC Live+ switches on its international lounge visit, and adds a 1GB global eSIM2 complimentary domestic lounge visits a year (one every 6 calendar months) and nothing international — HSBC's own footnote read "1 international visit per year will be available from 1 September 2026" → The same 2 domestic visits plus 1 international visit per CALENDAR year, claimed through a separate HSBC platform powered by Thriwe, and 1 complimentary 1GB global eSIM a calendar year (7 days, 98 countries) with 20% off every top-up
A dated benefit arriving on time is not news; what HSBC did around it is. The w.e.f. date was published in advance in the Live+ Service Guide — this desk read it there on 16 August — and as it landed HSBC rewrote the product page's own footnote, the `airport-lounge-live-plus` anchor in its dpws-footnotes.json, to drop the future tense and, for the first time, say HOW you get the visit: "To access your benefits, visit the dedicated platform powered by Thriwe." That matters more than the wording suggests. This is not a lounge network and not a card tap; it is a claim you make on hsbcliveplus.thriwe.com, and a benefit you have to go and fetch is a benefit a fair share of cardholders will never fetch. HSBC still names no network for either quota, domestic or international, which is why our lounge map carries the counts and no scheme. Riding in on the same rewrite, undated by HSBC and therefore logged here rather than on a date of its own: "1 Complimentary 1GB valid Global eSIM per calendar year, plus a 20% discount on every top-up. The 1GB pack will be valid for 7 days across 98 countries." Read the numbers before you rate it — one gigabyte, seven days, once a year. That is a long-weekend's maps and messages, not a roaming plan, and the honest framing is a taster that sells top-ups at a discount. On a ₹999 card HSBC reverses at ₹2,00,000 of spend it is still free money; it is just much less money than "complimentary global eSIM" sounds. Nothing in this changes what the card earns: the 10% capped at ₹1,200 a month, the 1.5% uncapped, the zero on international spend since 26 July 2026 and the 1.99% markup are all untouched.
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- 31 Aug 2026HSBC's 0% forex window on the RuPay Cashback card closes
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Every HSBC change we've dated → 9 events since 1987, 6 of them nerfs — worst year 2026.
Verified against HSBC's own documents on
Not published , and we will not invent it: the earn rate and the currency it earns.
Every document behind this page — 2 of them, each with the day we read it
- official HSBC India's Corporate Purchasing Card page — the per-purchaser limits, the merchant-category controls and the 52-day float
- official HSBC India's Most Important Terms and Conditions for Corporate Cards — the per-card ₹2,000 tariff row, the 3.5% foreign-currency charge, and the clause naming the Purchase Card