Identifying Credit Cards: A Helpful Guide for Future Reference

[Addie4TLC]

Hi, I'm submitting a an agreement that was filled out. The person entered her credit card information for the kit but did not note what type of cc it is. Is there a way to identify it? I think I read somewhere that the first few numbers do that... Does anyone know of a cheat sheet? I can't reach her right now to get the information. Just curious if there is such a thing, it would be helpful if and when this happens again (although I will be more careful from now on to get the information.) Thank you in advance.

 

[dannyzmom]

4 = visa
5 = mc
6 = disc
less than 16 #s in the entire card # - amex

 

[chefann]

Sallie put this is the shoutbox for you.

Visa starts with 4
MC with 5
Discover with 6
AmEx with 3 (and some amex numbers have fewer digits, too)

 

[dannyzmom]

Oh - and congrats on the recruit!

 

[Addie4TLC]

Perfect!!! Thank you!!! I saw the times in the shout box and I thought maybe I wouldn't get a reply right away and I didn't want the agreement to "time out." It's been accepted and sent. She's my secound of 6 that are in the works before the 17th. WHOOOHOOO!!! Love promotions!! Everyone that needed that extra nudge are responding.

 

[cmdtrgd]

Congrats! Just curious, why did you need to know which kind of CC it was?

 

[BethCooks4U]

Congrats! Just curious, why did you need to know which kind of CC it was?

On the on-line agreement it asks which credit card you are paying with.

 

[cmdtrgd]

Heh....shows you how long it has been since I entered a CC for a new recruit!!!

 

[Addie4TLC]

Heh....shows you how long it has been since I entered a CC for a new recruit!!!

LOL I have dry spells too, but this month with the promotion it's been great!

As far as needing the credit card info I was hoping that if I left it blank it would pick out the right one automatically but no such luck. If you leave it blank it will give you an error message until you enter a card type.