Use Case: Card on/off

[eatplaysleep]

Looking into possible ways to turn a card "off" and then back "on". For simplicity sake let's say all transactions will be disabled.

One option is of course the Transaction Controls and setting...

globalControls.shouldDeclineAll = true

{
"globalControls": [
     {
        "shouldTargetSpecificCard": false,
        "userIdentifier": "0123456789"
        "shouldAlertOnDecline": true,
        "shouldDeclineAll": true,
        "isControlEnabled": true
     }
  ]
}

 The other thought I had was possibly using the Digital Card and Account Services Card Services POST API...

https://sandbox.api.visa.com/dcas/cardservices/v1/cards/{cardId}/cardstatus

{
"cardStatus": "Blocked"
}

Not sure what the various statuses are at this point so making that one up. 

Thoughts on the different approaches? 

[marty · Accepted solution]

Hello - thanks for your question. The Visa Transaction Control product is definitely the one that you would want to look at for your use case of freezing/unfreezing cards. The DCAS product does not have this functionality.

Visa Transaction Control documentation: https://developer.visa.com/capabilities/vctc/docs

Thank you

Marty

Visa Developer Team