My Prepaid Center

Blackhawk Network

About this app

The MyPrepaid Center app allows specific Blackhawk Network produced cards to be tokenized into mobile wallets. Your chosen Mobile Wallet allows you to spend your virtual card anywhere that accepts contactless payments.

To get spending follow these four simple steps:
1. From the website where you activated the virtual card, select the Add to Wallet button.
2. Install the My Prepaid Center app.
3. Go through the guided tokenization flow for your chosen Wallet.
4. Use the digital Wallet for contactless payment in store.

Only cards produced by Blackhawk Network found at specific providers are available to be tokenized. This app cannot be used to tokenize all cards in the market from any retailers.

Ratings and reviews

Very weird app. As many have stated, it just opens to a landing page. However, settting it up is painless. Yes, the instructions leave a lot to be desired, but it wasn't hard to figure out. You'll have better success if you have a laptop or desktop handy. Go to the site on the other device and click "add to wallet". You'll get a QR code to scan. If you have the app installed already, it'll open a link to add to your device's wallet (in my case Samsung Wallet). You're set from there!

It can be made to work, just don't expect it to help you figure out how. My first few attempts to add my card to a wallet failed, and the error message gave no hint as to why. I felt immediate regret for not having heeded the horrendous reviews I had read only moments before. Despite being almost certain that I was screwed, I entertained the possibility that maybe the app needed my location for verification purposes. I enabled Locationv and tried one more time. *VIOLA!* It worked!

My experience with this app has been pretty horrible. In order to "use" the card in a store you've got to have apple pay...otherwise you're struck like me. After setting up an account, adding the cars to the account, adding a pin to the card and 2 phone calls to customer support, it STILL WON'T. The app is useless pointless AND stupid...not to mention that I'm out 125 bucks. Thanks for nothing.

What's new

This release focusses on updates to resolve issues with recent devices not being able to use the service. The latest Android versions are now supported.
Also includes an improved service for adding cards to Google Wallet and Samsung Wallet.