Purchasing Card

Lesson 17: Your Journey through Professional Development
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The Penn State Purchasing Card (P Card) is a Visa charge card that enables authorized Penn State employees to purchase certain travel services and certain goods and services directly from a supplier. It eliminates the need for additional paperwork (such as purchase orders and invoices), and it can be used for transactions up to a predetermined limit, which varies by employee.

Your supervisor will remind you during your fifth month of employment to read the material about the P Card and to take the test associated with it. You will obtain your P Card during your sixth month of employment.  Purchasing cards are not required.

Central Finance requires employees to keep their Purchasing Card statements for two years. You are required to check your statements and sign and date them each month.

Go to the Penn State Travel site and click on Purchasing Cards and then Getting a Card for the Purchasing Card Online Tutorial.