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Programmable Card Issuing Infrastructure for Africa

Programmable Card Issuing Infrastructure for African markets, starting with South Africa.

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Samsung Pay partner

Launching in South Africa, expanding across Africa

South AfricaLaunching
NigeriaComing soon
KenyaComing soon
TanzaniaComing soon
GhanaComing soon

Why Issuedeck

Build and scale your card programs, faster

Issuedeck offers a single API that takes minutes to integrate, enabling any business to launch modern card issuing programs and process transactions across African markets, starting with South Africa.

Always on

Issuedeck is designed for reliable card issuing and wallet operations, starting in South Africa.

Fast integration

A single API helps teams launch modern card issuing programs and move from sandbox to production faster.

Built-in controls

Real-time authorization controls and merchant restrictions are enforced at the network level.

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Card issuing

Virtual and physical cards, issued in milliseconds

Instant virtual cards

Issue cards programmatically. Tokenize for Samsung Pay and Google Pay. Set per-transaction limits.

Physical fulfillment

Your branding, your design. Manufactured and shipped from local fulfillment partners.

create-card.ts
import { Issuedeck } from "@issuedeck/sdk";

const client = new Issuedeck({
  apiKey: process.env.ISSUEDECK_API_KEY
});

const card = await client.cards.create({
  type: "virtual",
  currency: "ZAR",
  spending_limit: 50000,
  merchant_categories: ["retail", "travel"]
});

Spending controls

Granular controls for every transaction

Merchant restrictions

Control where cards can be used with merchant category codes and geographic limits.

Velocity controls

Set per-transaction, daily, and monthly spending limits. Enforced at authorization.

Webhook eventsLast 24h
card.created2msdelivered
transaction.authorized8msdelivered
transaction.settled12msdelivered
card.frozen3msdelivered

Real-time events

Every state change, delivered in milliseconds

Authorizations, settlements, declines, and card status updates delivered to your endpoint with automatic retries and exponential backoff.

Filter by event type. Verify signatures. Replay events from the dashboard.

Security & compliance

We believe your data should stay your data

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Security & Compliance

All communication is encrypted end-to-end. Sensitive data is stored using industry-standard encryption. Formal security audits are conducted regularly. We are pursuing PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance, with POPIA-aware data practices and support for controls such as 3DS built into the platform.

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Start building with Issuedeck today

Get instant access to our API sandbox and start issuing cards.

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