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The Offer
Discover has partnered with Google to offer virtual card numbers, “A virtual card number replaces your actual Discover Card number when checking out online from the Google Chrome browser or Android apps, where available.”
Our Verdict
Easy $10 savings since this can be used anywhere. I’m not sure if the offer is targeted or available for everyone.
Hat tip to bazingy-benedictus
ok this is easy to set up on an iphone once you know the steps, which took me a sec to figure out. chrome on desktop is prob the same.
download chrome app, log into your google account
in your google account (I just did this in a browser), add your discover card to your wallet. turn on the virtual wallet option
in the chrome app, go to settings > payment methods > toggle “Save and Fill Payments” to on
now, it will give you an option to autofill your virtual number in any online cc form. do NOT select google pay to pay – this is what was confusing me. i finally figured out it’ll just auto fill the virtual number in any cc form. some websites don’t seem to work properly (giftcards.com) but others worked seamlessly. i used it on best buy and already got my gift cards!
hope this helps others!
I got the email about virtual card number in chrome but no mention of the $10
Used it on an Amazon order for over $100 to take advantage of the %5 quarterly bonus too.
Hey
FRD
Using google chrome, sign into your google account and go to your Google Wallet payment methods – https://wallet.google.com/wallet/paymentmethods
If you add your Discover card, it will give you the option to use a Virtual card. Right now if I click my card it has a toggle button next to “Virtual card to pay online”
After your virtual card is set up in your wallet, any time you start typing in CC numbers to pay for something (in my case amazon) it will list your virtual card with all the other cards you have saved. Click on that and it will give you all the card details that you can type in if it does not autofill. Then just use that info to pay like normal.
Thanks FRD. For some reason I don’t have a toggle button.
Try this then. Go to chrome://settings/payments. If your card is listed there, click the three dots, and you should have an option to turn on the Virtual Card if it is eligible. If that option is not listed, your card might not be eligible for a virtual card.
I think I am going to figure this out. Now I at least get to choose a virtual card, but when I choose it the message is virtual card not available now. I am getting close. Thanks again.
FRD
I sympathize. They don’t make it easy to add. Some of my cards (AMEX) prompted me to add the virtual during payment on a website, but discover hasn’t done that for me, so I had to google a way to do it manually.
I didn’t get a “not available now” message, but if you are then likely your card is not eligible (mine is a discover IT for reference), or you can try again later and maybe it will go through. You could also contact Discover customer service I suppose.
Did anybody get this to work? What site did you use it on?
Received the $10 offer in email and used it to make an advance payment on water bill.
just received offer
Is this only for one purchase or can you have several purchases to add up to the $100? Thanks.
I got an email about this. But there was no spend offer attached
I have not tried it yet.
I got a physical mailer similar to other commenters that mentioned the $25 off $125,but my issue is I have two Discover Cards so I’m not sure which card this promotion is connected to since I cannot see any card number identification on the mailer.
If you scroll to the very bottom of the email there will be fine-print that has the last four digits of your Discover card number. It’s in the same line as your email address (“This email was sent to xxxx@xxx.com for Discover card account number ending in xxxx…”).
Edit: Nevermind, I just noticed you’re referring to a physical mailer and not an email. Sorry for the confusion.