Card Numbers

[beningreenjam (Ben Green)]

I’d hope to keep the same card number for convenience, but I’d also hope the virtual cards feature that Tom discusses here -

Idea to solve the problem of changing card number on loads of subscriptions

Yes, great idea - I’ve also had this problem before. A 16 digit card number (PAN) is actually just a pointer to an account. So you can have multiple PANs all pointing at the same account. You can even have PANs without a plastic card attached. So the solution is to let you generate a virtual card just used for online subscriptions. I believe the expiry date can even be set to decades in future. You could even generate a new virtual card for every new subscription service - letting you can easi…

… would be released by then. Even so, we’d probably still have to update those services with our virtual card numbers, but just for that initial release of that feature and should never need to again after that