Physical cards

Increase produces and mails Visa cards connected to Increase accounts. Use this API to create a card. You can provide two images to customize the card.

Increase Visa cards are white cards with black text and images. Cards support EMV and NFC contactless payments.

You can use this Figma template to design your card art and carrier images.

Card layout

The front of the card displays the card art image, Visa logo, EMV chip, and optionally one or two lines of custom text. The back of the card displays the cardholder name, card number, expiration date, CVV, and magstripe.

Front text

You can optionally print up to two lines of text on the front of the card using the front_text field when creating a Physical Card Profile. The first line of text is printed on the front of the card. Providing a second line moves the first line slightly higher and prints the second line in the spot where the first line would have otherwise been printed.

Card art image

The main card art is printed on the front of the card. The card is white plastic and the printing ink and magstripe are black.

PNG
2100 x 1344 px
600 DPI
No transparency
No images within 2.54mm of card edge
No images within 3mm of Visa logo
No images within 3mm of chip edge

Card Art Template

Carrier image

The card carrier is a tri-fold letter included with the card when it’s mailed to your user. The paper is white and the printing ink is black.

PNG
2550 x 3300 px
300 DPI
No transparency
Clear zone of 0.5mm of white bleed, evenly around the image

Carrier Template

Fulfillment speed

By default, cards ship out the day after the order is received by the card printer. The cut-off for physical card orders is 1am Pacific Time. If you create a physical card Monday evening, the card printer will receive the order Tuesday morning Pacific Time and ship it out on Wednesday.

To ship sooner, pass shipment.schedule: same_day when creating the card. With same_day, the example above would ship out on Tuesday instead.

Shipping speed

Increase supports the following shipping methods:

USPS
FedEx 2-day
FedEx Priority Overnight
DHL Worldwide Express (international only)

USPS does not provide a tracking number, but we surface tracking updates from USPS’s Informed Visibility system through shipment.tracking.updates on the Physical Card. For the other carriers we provide a tracking number, and we deliver tracking updates directly through the API as well so you don’t have to fetch them from the carrier.