What is the difference between a Visa credit card or a debit card and a Titanium Plus Prepaid Visa card?
The Titanium Plus Prepaid Visa card looks similar to a Visa credit card – both have the Visa trademark and hologram and merchants will electronically accept Titanium like any other Visa card. The difference is that Titanium cardholders don’t have a line of credit. The Titanium card is only able to access the prepaid amount of money you put on the card. Remember, you load it, you control it! You will also notice that your Titanium card is “un-embossed” which means that the numbers are printed onto the surface of the card rather than as raised numbers (similar to a traditional credit card). We do this because a prepaid card cannot be used in old-fashioned imprint machines (i.e. those machines that take a carbon copy of your card number). A Visa card significantly increases your purchasing power over a traditional debit card. It makes purchases easy, convenient and secure wherever Visa cards are accepted – that’s in over 24 million locations worldwide. You can also withdraw cash at over 1
