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Create consumer cards

Airwallex's consumer cards enable you pay out to consumers using the issued cards. Consumer use cases include: influencers, gig- economy workers, general payroll, etc. Airwallex has the licenses and infrastructure to support consumer card use cases across a number of jurisdictions worldwide.

Depending on your business requirements, you may also be required to integrate with Airwallex’s Banking as a Service offering and onboard your customers as an Individual (not a Business) to access consumer cards.

This tutorial guides you through the steps for creating personalized consumer cards.

Consumer cards can only be issued to Individual type cardholders and as personalized cards.

Create a consumer card

Submit Create a card API request by providing the following fields:

  • program.purpose: Set this to CONSUMER to indicate that you want the card issued to a customer onboarded to the platform as an Individual.
  • program.type: The type of card. If you do not provide a value, the default configuration on your account setting is used. Possible values: PREPAID, DEBIT, CREDIT or DEFERRED_DEBIT.
  • program.sub_type: Sub type of the program. This is used for specific products under the defined program types, e.g., B2B_TRAVEL which designates BINs for travel use cases such as OTAs.
  • is_personalized: You must set this field to true to issue a consumer card.
  • form_factor: The form of the card either VIRTUAL or PHYSICAL (if applicable for your region). For information on requirements for physical cards, see Physical cards.
  • cardholder_id: The ID of an INDIVIDUAL type cardholder to associate this consumer card with. Use the cardholder_id returned in Create a Cardholder API response.
  • created_by: Your full legal name.
  • request_id: Specify a unique request ID.
  • authorization_controls.allowed_transaction_count: Specify whether the card is a single (SINGLE) or multi-use (MULTIPLE) card. Single-use cards can only be used for one successful transaction.
  • authorization_controls.allowed_transaction_limits: Set limits on transactions such as transaction amount, intervals, etc. See Transaction limits.

The cardholder status must be READY for consumer cards to be issued.

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Example request (Consumer card)
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Example response (Consumer card)

Card API response

The response returns the card object with all the request fields, and the following card details:

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