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Every Glide card has fine-grained controls. You set them once when you issue the card; you change them any time after.

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Spending limits

For each card, you can set:
  • Per-transaction limit — the maximum single charge.
  • Daily limit — rolling 24-hour spending cap.
  • Monthly limit — calendar-month cap.
  • Lifetime limit — total spending cap before the card auto-disables (useful for one-off vendor cards).
Limits apply across all currencies; charges convert to your default currency to evaluate against the limit.

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Freeze and unfreeze

From the dashboard, Cards → pick a card → Freeze disables the card in under one second. Freeze is reversible — tap Unfreeze to bring it back. Use freeze when:
  • You can’t find the card and want a precaution before reporting it lost.
  • You’re done with a free-trial subscription and want to make sure you can’t be re-billed.
  • A specific merchant keeps charging you incorrectly.

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Merchant category restrictions

You can restrict a card by merchant category code (MCC) — the standard taxonomy Visa uses to classify merchants. Common categories you can allow or block:
  • Travel (airlines, hotels, car rentals).
  • Restaurants and bars.
  • Streaming and digital services (Netflix, Spotify, etc.).
  • Online retail (Amazon, Shopify-stores, etc.).
  • Cash equivalents (ATMs, money transfer services).
  • Gambling.
  • Adult content.
A card with a single allowlisted MCC is the cleanest way to issue a vendor-specific card — e.g., issue a card that only works for AWS, then no other charge can ever land on it.

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Region restrictions

Restrict a card to spend only in specific countries or regions. Useful for travel cards (only the country you’re in) or company cards (only the country your team operates in).

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Real-time authorization stream

Every card transaction streams to your dashboard in real time. You see the merchant, the amount, the currency, and the MCC the moment Visa sends us the authorization — before the charge settles. If something looks wrong, freeze the card from the same screen and the next attempt is denied.

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Per-card controls for businesses

Business accounts can issue cards with per-employee controls:
  • Set spending limits and MCC restrictions when issuing the card.
  • Require a manager approval for charges above a threshold.
  • Auto-freeze cards when an employee leaves (one click from the team management screen).
See Corporate cards for the full team workflow.

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Push notifications

Get a push notification on every authorization, every settlement, every limit hit, every decline. From Settings → Notifications → Cards, choose:
  • Rich — the push includes merchant, amount, and currency.
  • Minimal — the push says “card activity” with no detail; tap to view.
Minimal is the default if you opt for stronger lock-screen privacy.

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