What are you looking to offer?
What are you looking to build?
Disaster relief
Offer prepaid virtual or physical cards to get aid to those who need it, quickly.
Food assistance
Send benefits via reloadable prepaid cards with spending controls.
Stimulus funds
Offer payments seamlessly via vouchers or prepaid card.
Baby bonuses
Send funds to new parents on virtual or physical cards.
Local business grants
Deliver funds to businesses easily via prepaid card.
Welfare benefits
Load funds onto prepaid cards on any schedule, with any controls.
Deliver auditable benefits payments in the hands of eligible recipients—when and where they need them
Government disbursements demand control, compliance, and precision.
With Episode Six, you can guarantee safe and secure direct payments for any predetermined purpose, including meal assistance, healthcare, housing, cash and more. Prepaid cards provide financial inclusion for unbanked and underbanked citizens — without needing a traditional bank account.
Our configurable platform enables you to set any controls you need, from amount spent to type of vendor, geographic location and more. That means you have full control over spending, while mitigating benefit misuse.
With Episode Six, you can
- Access a consolidated view of data. You'll have full insight into how benefits are being spent, and the spending needs of users.
- Support multiple benefit streams in a single wallet — each with configurable controls. Attach multiple benefits in dynamic card offering, for food, healthcare and more.
- Gain full program oversight and real-time insights into benefit usage and spending trends.
Fully configurable payments, in any format
Create any type of card
Issue prepaid or debit, virtual or physical cards — with accessibility options for users without smartphones.
Apply detailed controls by user, card, or program — including:
geographic location, merchant type, age of user, spend amount, cash withdraw amount, spend per day, and more.
Access controls across departments
Controls are accessible across different departments to ensure data is secure.
Simple for recipients. A revenue opportunity for you.
In many card programs, the issuer (or program manager) can earn a portion of interchange revenue.
When a disbursement payout is delivered on a benefits card, and the customer uses that card to spend, interchange fees are generated on those transactions just like any debit or credit card purchase. Each transaction generates interchange revenue — providing a funding offset for your program.
Our government payments in action
A European payment services provider was tasked by their government to deliver auditable benefits payments for asylum seekers.
With Episode Six's prepaid card solution, the provider was able to implement strict merchant and geographic controls, tailored to the needs of each specific community. The cards were live in just two months, and each community effectively manages their desired controls to ensure funds are spent as intended. With Episode Six's platform, the provider is now planning to expand their product range to support additional government offerings.
Why Episode Six?
We enable fully customizable government-issued benefit cards with programmable controls, MCC blocking, and flexible configuration.
Our platform offers instant issuance of both virtual and physical cards, delivering support fast to those who need it most.
With a dual-entry ledger and ledger-level tracking, Episode Six ensures every transaction and balance is accurate and auditable—crucial for government accountability.
Real-time APIs allow governments to set or change rules—such as spend controls, velocity limits, program rules and turn controls—quickly and securely.
Our highly secure, bank-grade enterprise software empowers you to adhere to the highest standards of compliance and security.
Why now?
The payments world is evolving rapidly, and disbursing efficient payments is paramount to every institution.
The urgency to modernize benefit disbursements is growing — citizens expect faster, safer, and more transparent support. Fraud, inefficiency, and blind spots in benefit delivery cost taxpayers daily. It’s time for an upgrade. Streamline your disbursement processes, set the controls you want, and access all the data you need. Partner with a platform that will evolve with your needs and set you up for long-term success.