How to activate International payment usage on SBI debit card from home quickly

Each and everyday people are stooping towards online buying and selling. In order to do so people need to have either a debit or credit card. After launching Jan Dhan Yojana it will be very hard to find a family which does not have a bank account with debit card. Getting a credit card is not easy for everyone so most people chose to have a international debit card instead of credit card.

Hope you know the basic difference between debit card and credit card. SBI which is a leading bank in India offer both debit and credit card. It is seen that SBI gives most people international debit card. With the global reach people now try to buy from international sites like Amazon.com Google Alibaba Itunes etc. but when Indian people having SBI debit card try to buy something from such international sites their payments are not accepted. When that happen they thought getting a SBI international debit card is nothing but a waste of money but believe me it is not. The main problem with your international debit card is that it is not pre activated for international payment usage. You need to activate it first for international usage then you can use it freely for international usage. This is a SBI quick facility. SWON/SWOFF ATM/POS/ECOM/INTL/DOM. Here from this post you will get to know how to activate International usage in your SBI international debit and shopping card. Guide is very simple and it can take approx 5 minutes to activate international usage in your SBI debit and shopping card.    

Things you need to get started

Make sure that you are ready with the following items before getting started with International usage activation on your SBI international debit card.

1. A mobile number which is registered with your account

2. SBI International debit and shopping card verified by VISA or Mastercard

How to activate International usage on SBI International debit card

As I already told you that it will take approx 5 minutes to activate international usage on SBI international debit card. Follow the instruction carefully and activate international payment usage on SBI international debit card.

Go to your SBI registered mobile number write message option and type SWON INTL ABCD (ABCD is last 4 digits of your SBI International debit card) and send it to 09223966666

Example: SWON INTL 9876 send it to 09223966666 to activate International usage

If you want to deactivate international usage on your SBI debit card then SWON with SWOFF and your international usage on debit card will be deactivate.

Example: SWOFF INTL 9876 send it to 09223966666 to deactivate International usage

After the successful activation of international usage you will be given a reference number. You have to do nothing with it just keep the SMS.  

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New launched by SBI

At the end of the year 2015 RBI implemented a new rule for the Indian banks to give their customers a CHIP based EMV card. According to SBI with card you can shop from more than 6 lakhs online shopping sites and more than 30 million worldwide. This is definitely a good news for the shoppers who like to use international products.

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