Virtual cards

Creating Virtual Card

The Bitnob virtual cards API allows you to offer Virtual Visa USD cards flexibly, with additional capabilities such as getting real-time card payment details, issuing cards on the fly, freezing/unfreezing cards and setting spending limits.

To create a card, a user has to be registered as a card user in our card section; this requires basic KYC details of your users.

We support all countries and have different IDType for certain countries; here is the list;

Also, note, bvnnumber is a required field for Nigerian users.

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Card Issuing

There are some onboarding steps that need to be completed before you can issue cards. Access to this API has to be pre-approved. Contact us at [email protected] requesting API access to cards if you need access to this API.

After successful registration of a card user, a card is created by sending the user's email and type of card (visa or mastercard) is sent to the create_card endpoint. In the case of a visa card

Top Up Card

Business wallets are not attached to users' cards. To attach or add money to a card, a top-up transaction will be made from the business USD wallet to the user card.

Withdrawal

Withdrawals is the only internal debit transaction on a card. When withdrawals are made on a card, the amount withdrawn is been sent to the business' USD wallet.

Freeze Card

Cards can be frozen(i.e. deactivated) to pause new transactions, primarily for security issues or financial purposes. Freezing of a card will pause all transactions except withdrawal.

Unfreeze Card

Unfreezing a card to resume transactions on a frozen card is also possible.

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Time Restriction

Freeze and Unfreeze actions have 24-hour time restrictions. That is they are only effective after 24 hours.

• Freezing and unfreezing a card can also be done on the dashboard.

Card Transactions

Card Transactions include top-up, withdrawal and debit actions performed with users' cards. Businesses can view transactions via the API or on the dashboard:

Webhook Events

A virtualcard.transaction.debit event for every debit transaction done on a card.
In the case of a reversal, a reverse event virtualcard.transaction.reversed is also sent to your Webhook URL.

Webhook events should be verified and tested before production. Bitnob's Webhook can be tested following this setup.

f## Visa vs MasterCard

We currently offer both MasterCard and Visa Cards. Our Visa Cards work almost everywhere. Here are the key differences between both cards to help you choose what service to offer if you don't want to offer both;