Credit Card Activation

whambam

Hello,

Does anyone know if your credit card is activated if you scan the card in at a contactless payment machine? Or change the pin number at an ATM machine?

Also, if your card has a secondary cardholder will that person's card be automatically activated when the primary cardholder's card it activated at the same time? Or doing it separately is required?

Thanks.

[Deleted User]

You usually have to call up to activate the card.

And you can't make a contactless payment until you have made at least one payment with the chip and pin method.

Additional cards are the same - a separate call to activate, chip and pin payment first to activate contactless feature.

radoslaff

The credit (or debit card) usually arrives with a sticker on it with the instructions how to activate it. And you definitely can't activate it by tapping it on the contactless machine (I tried it several days ago).

whambam

i got both of them activated without calling up. I changed the pin number which automatically activated the cards.