VISA Gift Card Balance

To check the balance on your VISA Gift Card, use the options provided below (phone number, website, store locations). Before you check your balance, be sure to have your card number and pin code available. All questions regarding your gift card balance should be directed at the merchant that issued the gift card.

VISA Gift Card Balance Check Information

Company Overview

Visa Inc. is a multinational financial service company established in the year 1958 by the Bank of America. The company has its headquarters in Foster City, California.

The company is well known for its Debit card and Credit card services throughout the world. The company provides electronic fund transfer services to many banks and companies.

More than 33.8% of the credit card users and around 60.7% of the debit card users in the United States use VISA cards for transactions according to the Nilson survey conducted in the year 2008. In the year 2009, Visa made 62 billion transactions with a total amount of $4.4 trillion. Currently the revenue of the company is $10.421 billion and around 8500 employees work for it.

The company has operations all over the globe which includes the Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, North America, South America, Easter Europe and Africa etc.

Visa Gift Card Program

Visa gift card is a prepaid card which can be given as a gift to your friends, family or loved ones. The Visa gift cards can be obtained by person or through online. It is a prepaid card issued by the Bank merchant with Visa Brand.

The card is much similar to a debit card and can be used only within the prepaid limit. The price of the Visa gift card entirely depends upon the Bank from which you get the card.

The Visa gift card will be automatically activated on purchase from a Bank merchant. Each time the card is used, the corresponding amount will be automatically deducted from the Gift card account. Using the card is similar to that of a credit card and it can be used to make online shopping also.

To make online purchases, the card needs to be registered with Visa gateway. It is also possible to return the product purchased at a store and get back the amount in the card.

Checking the Balance

There are several ways to check the balance in your Visa gift card. Customers can check their balance via phone, store locations or online. Customers can call the toll free phone number of their respective banks and talk with customer care personnel or use the automated system to enter their card details.

Once the customer enters the details, they will be provided with their gift card Balance. The balances of the Visa gift card are updated frequently by the banks in their respective websites and customers who prefer the online method can check their balance by entering their Gift card number and the Pin number.

The number of the gift card is a unique 16 digit number, which will be on the front side of the gift card as well as in the first e-mail that was sent by the Visa gift card program. The pin number for the Visa gift card is a three digit number, which will be on the back side of the gift card as well as in the second e-mail that was sent by the Visa gift card program.

Customers can also go to the nearby outlets and swipe their card to check their gift card balance details.