In this day and age there is an app for just about anything. What if you had the ability to turn your card “off” when you weren’t using it? Well, there’s an app for that now, too. Astra Bank is pleased to introduce CardValet^®, a mobile card management application that helps reduce account fraud by allowing cardholders to monitor accounts with their smartphone and control how, when and where their debit card is used.

CardValet is free to download in the Apple^® App Store or Google^® Play Store. Once CardValet is set up, cardholders have the ability to “turn off” their card when not in use, establish transaction spending limits and decline a transaction when the amount exceeds a predefined threshold.

Real-time smartphone alerts can be customized based on the types of information each cardholder would like to receive. For example, a cardholder can set up an alert to be notified when a card is used, when a transaction is approved and exceeds any of the permitted use policies, or when a card transaction has been attempted but has been declined based on the parameters established. It’s easy for our cardholders to turn ‘off’ their debit card from their smartphone, and then turn it back ‘on’ when they want to use it.

You will also find additional resources for CardValet including a tutorial video, quick reference guide and answers to frequently asked questions. If you need any assistance getting started with CardValet or have additional questions, please be sure to contact us. We are very excited to offer this to our cardholders and hope you enjoy this innovative new product!

Download the CardValet Quick Reference Guide

Download the CardValet Customer FAQs