Darb launches the first Visa-certified payment device built for commercial vehicles
Today, Darb becomes the first company in the world to launch a Visa-certified wearable payment device built for commercial vehicles. The Medal clips onto the car keys, pays at every station, and ends the era of fuel cards.
Darb Medal
Today is a milestone for Darb, and for corporate finance across the region. We are launching The Darb Medal: the first Visa-certified wearable payment device in the world built specifically for commercial vehicles. We are proud to be the company pioneering it from Riyadh. The Medal is small, secure, and tied to a single vehicle. It clips onto the car keys, taps at any Visa terminal, and ends decades of fragile, fragmented fuel programs.
Why The Darb Medal changes everything
The vehicle is the cost center. Not the driver.
Traditional fuel cards follow the driver, making cost-per-kilometer pure guesswork when teams rotate. The Medal stays with the vehicle, ensuring you know exactly what each asset costs to run—regardless of who is behind the wheel. Before fueling, drivers unlock the Medal using their own credentials. This creates the market's only unified record that instantly binds the driver, the vehicle, and the transaction data into a single stamp.
Fuel at any station, anywhere in the Kingdom
Accepted at all major networks
Darb works at every fuel station across Saudi Arabia — from major highways in Riyadh to remote project sites like NEOM, Al-Ula, and Al Wajh. No network restrictions.
Every station. Every garage. Accepted.
Traditional fuel cards lock you into one network and force drivers to detour for kilometers just to find an approved station, burning fuel and time while finance chases receipts from the handful of stations that actually worked. The Medal is accepted everywhere: every fuel station, garage, and tire shop in the Kingdom. Drivers refuel at the closest pump, and you still see every riyal.
Connected to the odometer. Fraud stops here.
Drivers can overfill, tank-swap, or submit ghost receipts, and most companies quietly lose between 10 and 15 percent of their fuel budget to fraud they cannot even detect. Every Medal payment requires the live odometer reading, and Darb Intelligence cross-checks it against expected mileage, tank capacity, geofenced location, and merchant category, blocking the transaction in real time if anything looks off. Early customers report up to 10 percent fuel savings in the first month alone.
Plugs straight into your accounting software.
Fuel transactions usually arrive at the finance team as PDFs, photos, and end-of-month reports, and accountants spend days entering them line by line while month-end stretches into week two and VAT reclaim is delayed. With the Medal, every transaction flows automatically into Zoho, Odoo, Wafeq, SAP, or Oracle, fully coded by vehicle, category, and project, so the books close the same day, not the same month.
More than fuel. Spare parts, tolls, emergency spend.
Drivers always need a way to pay for a flat tire, an oil top-up, a toll, or any other small operational expense, and when that is handled in cash it disappears from finance's view, receipts go missing, and reconciliation becomes a monthly headache. The Medal is a real Visa payment device, so drivers can pay for spare parts, maintenance, tolls, or any emergency, all with the same per-vehicle controls and the same automatic reporting.
Configure a Medal like you would in Darb
Assign the vehicle, set the limits, pick the categories and hours. Every Medal is governed independently.