 you buy a candy bar at the convenience store it counts as a micro purchase at that point in time using your travel card but there are a lot of small dollar value purchases that are made where the credit card itself and the purchase card acts as the contract vehicle as well not just the method of payment that the smart pay card can also be the just the method of payment for larger contracts and the government gets a good rebate on those purchases so it goes back to the agencies themselves and so it's an efficient way of managing government dollars