Vanilla gift card is a type of gift card which you have to be loaded with some amount of money in the prior itself. These cards are popularly used as gifts which are offered to any special events like birthdays and anniversaries. To use this card, you have to register with the website that is given in the back side of your card, so that you can do purchase with this card.

When you are in dilemma of what to present your best buddy on his or her birthday, you do not need to worry about anything and without wasting your time, you can consider gifting them this gift card. Since this card has no expiration date, the amount in this card will never be wasted and can be used whenever you want.

Also you can this card just like the ordinary visa cards and can purchase anything from it. You can use this card to make a payment while you shop things online. Also it is card for paying bills n restaurants, gas stations and other brick and mortar shops. Before initiating a payment, make sure that you have enough balance to pay the bill amount.

Though various places allow you to do partial payment that is you can pay how much you have in your card with the card and additional money can be paid in other forms, using other cards too. But many places are not accepting this type of partial payment. Therefore,, knowing vanilla gift card balance is the best way to escape from bankrupting your money from the card.

Initially, these cards have no PIN and you can generate your own password, if you need, by using the “Manage PIN“ option from the website. A few type of vanilla card is reloadable, that is when the limit of money in your card exceeds certain limit, and you can reload money into it. But this option is not suitable for all vanilla cards.

Since using this type of card is simple, safe and secure, many people these days are considering using them for making their payment.