Ask HN: Is there a way to create prepaid credit cards via API?

2 pointsby skennedyover 12 years ago

Saw a startup launch today that displays on a phone temporary prepaid MasterCards that are valid. Is there an API to create these? Cannot find any major vendors that do this.

4 comments

kolinkoover 12 years ago

You can ask this guys perhaps: <a href="http://shop.bitcurex.com/" rel="nofollow">http://shop.bitcurex.com/</a><p>They managed to do the cards with Bitcoins.

canterburryover 12 years ago

Chase PaymenTech/Orbital has Gift Cards that are issued in the form of credit cards. A Gift card in this sense functions just like a prepaid credit card.<p>Would that work for you?

iamchmodover 12 years ago

They don't publish their api publicly but I believe they have capacity to do so - <a href="http://redwoodhfg.com" rel="nofollow">http://redwoodhfg.com</a>

AznHisokaover 12 years ago

Which startup is this? Paypal used to do this with a plugin but they stopped a few years ago and I've been trying to look for an alternative.