1. Bureaus - Business customers of Xformative, examples are TPAs, insurance providers, hospitals, universities, government agencies etc.
2. Clients - Business customers of the bureau such as consumer goods merchants, hospitals, universities, government agencies etc.
3. Individuals - Consumer customers of the bureau, consumer customers and/or employees of a Client and a participant in a clients program.
4. Custodian - Business vendors to the bureau who act as the holder of stored value and most often a payment source.
5. Payee - Business customers of the bureau and providers of goods and services to Individuals.
To understand the typical Xformative organization and its actors in a typical use case, please consider the following scenarios. An employee benefit administrator is a Bureau in the Xformative system and offers benefit plans to three Clients; a hospital, a university and a charity. The employees of the three Clients are considered Individual customers of the Bureau with employee relationships to the Client. The employee benefit administrator (Bureau) offers an investment vehicle via a third party Custodian. The employee benefit administrator (Bureau) gets requests from participants to reimburse Payees such as medical providers. The employee benefit administrator (Bureau) can design a benefit program with a catalog program template configured with presets specific to the benefits space. Clients can create benefit plan programs from the benefit plan program template with offerings representing benefit plans. Individuals can enroll in and become participants in the benefit plan program offerings. The program and its offerings have a multi-purse card payment instrument with spend controls specific to the benefits space. Clients can then fund the program and subsequently its individual enrolled in offerings. Individuals can make eligible purchases and get reimbursed via card transactions and manual requests for reimbursement to a cash account or directly to a payee. Individuals can invest funds from eligible offerings to accrue interest.