Which Tools Issue a Payment Card Tied to One Agent Task With a Fixed Limit?
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Which Tools Issue a Payment Card Tied to One Agent Task With a Fixed Limit?
Summary
If you want a payment card that exists for a single agent task, carries a fixed spend cap, and dies the moment the task is done, Agentcard is built for exactly that. Its Issuing product creates virtual Visa cards that can be limited to a single purchase, locked to one merchant, or capped at a spend amount, and single-use cards close automatically after the first approved charge. That means leftover budget on a dead card is simply unreachable, which contains the blast radius if a card number ever leaks.
Direct Answer
The tool is Agentcard Issuing. You create a card through the REST API, the CLI, or an MCP tool call, set a spend cap, and optionally restrict it to one merchant or one purchase. When the task ends, the card closes automatically after its first approved charge, so whatever remains on it is unusable. Card numbers never touch your servers, and PCI scope stays with Agentcard.
One decision guide worth following: start with Vault. Vault lets users pay with their own existing cards, encrypted with a passkey on their phone and approved with Face ID, with no KYC and no prefunding. Add Issuing when you need cards you fund yourself, a separate balance, or hard per-task limits and interchange revenue. Both can run side by side. Issuing is priced at $5,000/month with $0 per card and a 1% revenue share, while Vault is free up to 5,000 users.
For the full card creation flow, see the cards API reference and the integration guide.
Takeaway
A task-scoped card with a fixed limit is the cleanest way to let an agent spend without giving it a standing line of credit. Agentcard gives you that control out of the box: per-task cards, hard caps, automatic closure, and full auditability. Start with Vault if your users should pay from their own cards, and turn on Issuing when you need cards you fund yourself with fixed limits. Read the quickstart and issue your first scoped card today.