What Prepaid Cards

Prepaid cards are a great way to manage your daily and monthly budgets. Many stores offer prepaid gift cards' in which case you may have already used a prepaid card. ou just don't know it yet.

But prepaid payment cards aren't just limited to gift cards. There are prepaid cards for everything, from sending money to family and friends, to managing travel funds, to shopping over the Internet. Read more about prepaid cards from MasterCard.

What are Prepaid Credit Cards?

In their simplest terms prepaid credit cards or prepaid cards as they are also known are simply cards that you preload with cash. It is your own money that you load onto the cards ? just as you would top up a pay as you go mobile phone or an Oyster card in London.

You don't need a credit check to get pre-paid cards and they are accepted at the same locations as a normal debit card or credit card, including the internet and abroad.

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The benefits of the bank account include the ability for anyone, no matter what their current or previous credit status is or if they are bankrupt, to open an account.

List of Top Prepaid Credit Cards UK

The UK's first complete list of prepaid credit card's available in the UK, Want to get a pay-as-you-go credit cards but not sure which one to get, see top 10 plus more information on all the prepaid credit cards available in the UK.

Anonymous pre-paid cards

This type of prepay card is non reloadable? this means that you can only spend the money loaded on to the card once. Once you have spent all the money on the card you will have to throw it away.

UK Prepaid Cards

With so much choice to choose from it can be difficult to find the right pre paid card for your specific needs. For example, some new prepaid cards are available to those under 18, while others are prepaid Visa or MasterCard prepaid cards.

At What Prepaid Card we compare the top prepay cards on the market so you can make the best choice possible.

Online Prepaid Credit Card Calculator

A good way to help decide whether or not a prepaid card is right for you is to use our online calculator. It really is simple to use ? all you have to do is add how much you would like to top-up each week. Our card calculator will then calculate and show you the fees associated with each product.

A guide to prepaid cards by MasterCard is also available from What-Prepaid-Card.co.uk which is free.