Desjardins Visa Business Advantage

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Desjardins · Visa

3.1out of 5, our rating

Business card

$25 with up to 1% cash back on a tier that runs to $750,000 of annual spending. Desjardins aims it at businesses spending far more than the fee suggests.

Annual fee$25
Purchase APRNot published
Minimum incomeNot published

Rates and features verified 2026-08-18Full terms and conditionsHow we research cards

What we like, and what we don’t

Worth having

  • Only $25 a year
  • A cash back ceiling of $7,380 per period, higher than the standard Visa Business
  • The tiered rate runs up to $750,000 of annual company purchases
  • No fee for additional cards

Watch out for

  • Desjardins markets it at businesses spending $500,000 to $750,000 a year, so a small business sits at the bottom of the tier
  • A small business will earn well under the advertised 1%
  • The rate is variable at prime plus 8.5%
  • It requires a Desjardins business relationship
  • A 2.5% foreign transaction fee

What this card earns

Everything else
1%
Bonus rates apply up to
$7,380 of annual spending after that, the base rate
Bonus categories at once
1 you choose which

The earning fine print

Up to 1% cash back, tiered on annual company purchases from $12,000 up to $750,000. Maximum cash back per period $7,380. Cash advances, cheques, interest, fees and enrolment costs excluded.

Fees and interest rates

Annual fee
$25
Employee card
Free
Foreign transaction fee
2.5%
Purchase APR
Not published by the issuer

Who can get this card

Existing account required
Yes
Personal guarantee required
No you are personally liable for the balance

Insurance and benefits

Mobile device
$1,000
Rental car damage waiver
Included
Purchase protection
Included
Extended warranty
Included

What the benefits really mean

Desjardins positions this as the card 'for small and medium-sized businesses' with estimated annual spending between $500,000 and $750,000, i.e. It is aimed at the upper end, not micro-business, despite the low $25 fee. Common carrier accident insurance up to $100,000 for the cardholder and $10,000 for spouse/children. Auto rental collision/loss damage insurance included. Mobile device insurance up to $1,000. Purchase protection 90 days; extended warranty doubles manufacturer's warranty up to 1 additional year. 21-day interest-free grace period on purchases, none on cash advances. 2.5% conversion fee on non-USD foreign transactions. MEMBERSHIP-BASED RESTRICTION: requires a Desjardins business relationship; the caisse network is effectively Quebec and Ontario only. No minimum revenue or years-in-business is published. Free employee cards: Additional cards carry no annual fee for Desjardins members. The issuer publishes a formula rather than a purchase rate: "Prime rate + 8.5%". We leave the rate field empty rather than publish arithmetic the issuer never published. The issuer publishes a formula rather than a cash advance rate: "Prime rate + 8.5%". We leave the rate field empty rather than publish arithmetic the issuer never published. Marketed at businesses spending $500,000-$750,000/year; a small business will sit at the bottom of the cash back tier and earn well under 1%. Variable prime-linked APR, not fixed. $25 fee is per card. Requires an existing Desjardins business relationship.

Our verdict

At $25 with no fee for extra cards this is the cheapest way into the Desjardins business line, and for a genuinely large business the $7,380 cash back ceiling is the highest here.

The mismatch is who it is for. Desjardins describes the target as businesses spending $500,000 to $750,000 a year, and the cash back rate is tiered on that basis, so a business turning over $80,000 on the card earns a fraction of 1% while a card at another bank would pay a flat 1% from the first dollar. Read the tier table before assuming the headline rate applies to you.

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Where this came from. desjardins.com/en/business/credit-cards/visa-business-advantage.html (fetched 18 Aug 2026). We take every figure from the issuer’s own pages, never from another comparison site, and we leave a field blank rather than guess at it.