Cards

Issue Mastercard debit cards to your account members, in virtual, physical, and digital formats, whether you integrate the API or operate from the Dashboard.

Concepts

A card starts with a card product, the blueprint that carries the design, settings, and package. Every issued card begins as a virtual card, the card contract itself:

Card productsThe card blueprint: design, settings, and package.→Virtual cardsThe card contract every card is built on.

Card formats hang off the virtual card:

Virtual cardsThe default card, enabled instantly.→

Physical cardsPlastic, printing, PIN, and delivery.Digital cardsApple Pay and Google Pay.Card formatsThe three formats and how cards attach to members.Spending limitsRolling and calendar periods.

Find your path

Recommended reading order based on how you work with Cards. Each path goes from basics to deeper integration.

DevelopersIntegrate the API

1

Virtual cards

The default card and the card contract every card is built on.

2

Digital cards

Add cards to Apple Pay and Google Pay.

3

Add a virtual card

First card-issuance integration.

4

Print a physical card

Order plastic cards for your cardholders.

5

Spending limits

Limits Swan imposes and limits you can set.

OperatorsOperate from the Dashboard

1

Card products

How designs, settings, and packages fit together.

2

Card design

Standard and custom card designs.

3

Configure a card product

Set up a card product in the Dashboard.

4

Update card settings

Adjust card product settings from the Dashboard.

5

Export card data

Pull card data for audits and reporting.