Create virtual credit cards instantly to pay for X Ads from anywhere in the world. The most reliable way to fund your promoted posts, follower campaigns, and video ads on X is Halocard.
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X Ads lists Visa among the credit and debit cards it takes, and runs its own check on each card before it shows as Active. Halocard is a US-issued Visa credit card, not a prepaid card.
Create dedicated cards for each X Ads campaign or client account. Isolate budgets and keep every client's billing completely separate.
Set per-transaction, daily, and monthly limits to control auction-based ad costs. Get real-time alerts when charges hit and freeze cards instantly to prevent overspend on your X campaigns.
Available to customers in the US and 120+ countries, with no US residency required. Run X Ads campaigns globally with a US-issued Visa credit card that works wherever X advertising is available.
When you add a card, X runs an internal check and places a $5 pre-authorization, a temporary hold it removes within 7 days. Campaigns start once the card is approved and shows as Active. X lists Visa among the credit and debit cards it takes, and Halocard is a US-issued Visa credit card.
Address verification (AVS) checks can fail when your billing address doesn't match a US ZIP code. With Halocard you can nominate a US billing address on any card, and you don't need to be a US resident to register.
X reviews every advertiser's payments, and halts ads accounts for inconsistent payment information or suspicious activity such as repeated failed payments or chargebacks. Enter your Halocard details and billing address exactly as your dashboard shows them.
X says self-serve advertisers pay for X Ads with credit and debit cards, charged automatically each time spend reaches a threshold. If you don't have a traditional credit card, create one with Halocard in under 5 minutes.
Every Halocard starts as a virtual card: a full Visa number, expiry and CVC, issued in seconds and ready to use online straight away.
They are reloadable and run on a credit BIN rather than a prepaid one, which is why they are accepted at merchants that routinely decline prepaid cards.
A single-use card works like any virtual card until its first successful charge, then cancels itself. The number is spent. It cannot be billed twice.
Use one for a trial you don't intend to keep, or for any merchant you'd rather not leave a live number with.
A real Visa card for spending in person, drawing on the same shared balance as your virtual cards.
It answers to the same controls. Lock it, limit it or cancel it from the dashboard like any other card.
Physical card, free with any annual plan or $100 on a monthly plan.
Top up with a debit or credit card, or through Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Funds land on your shared balance and are spendable by any of your cards immediately.
Read the full guideFund your balance with stablecoins (USDC, USDT) or with BTC, ETH and SOL, converted to your USD balance on arrival.
For a lot of members this is the point of Halocard: it turns crypto holdings into something spendable at ordinary Visa merchants.
Read the full guideSend CAD, EUR, GBP straight from your bank and it converts to USD when it lands on your balance, or send USD directly.
Read the full guideThe ceiling is $1M a day. Below that your limit is simply your balance: deposit more, spend more.
Prepaid cards typically cap you somewhere around $10,000 a month regardless of what you have loaded.
You fund the account, not the card. Every Halocard draws on one balance, so there is no moving money between cards to cover a charge.
A new card costs nothing to create and needs no top-up of its own.
Halocards are held in US Dollars. Pay in another currency and Visa converts at its rate on the day, with Halocard's conversion fee on top.
Being USD-denominated is part of why a Halocard behaves like a US card at checkout, which matters at merchants that restrict signups by card country.
Give a card a daily, weekly or monthly limit and it declines anything above it.
A $20 monthly cap on the card you use for one subscription means a surprise price rise gets declined rather than charged. Limits apply per card and are editable at any time.
Both act immediately from the dashboard. Locking is reversible. The card authorises nothing until you unlock it, and then the same number carries on working. Cancelling retires the number for good, whatever the merchant has stored.
Lock the card you have misplaced or the subscription you are deciding about; cancel when you are done with a merchant entirely. Cancelling never strands money you are owed: refunds are credited to your account balance, not to the card, so they reach you either way.
Single-use cards cancel themselves the moment one transaction is successfully charged. No reminder to come back and switch it off.
It is the strongest defence against a merchant that quietly re-bills: the number simply is not there the second time.
Add a Halocard to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet and tap to pay in person, including at ATMs that accept phone wallets.
Both wallets work in the other direction too, as ways to top up your balance.
When a merchant asks for 3D Secure verification, Halocard issues a one-time code, so the extra step at checkout completes rather than dead-ends.
Refunds are credited back to your Halocard account balance and can take up to 14 business days to arrive. A wrong, fraudulent or contested charge can be disputed with Visa directly. The first dispute in any 12 months is free.
Halocards decline at gambling, dating, cryptocurrency and other merchant categories classed as high-risk. That is deliberate, not a gap.
Those categories attract the chargebacks that get an issuer's card ranges restricted, so blocking them is part of what keeps acceptance high everywhere else.
Read the full guide
Create your account from a web browser. No need to download an app.
Add funds by debit/credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, bank transfer, stablecoins, or crypto.
That's it! Add your Halocard to X Ads and start running promoted posts, follower campaigns, and video ads immediately.
Sign up to Halocard with just a phone number and quick identity check.
Create a new virtual card labelled "X Ads." Set a spending limit that matches your advertising budget.
Go to ads.x.com, open the Billing tab and click Add card. Enter your Halocard number, expiry, CVV, the US billing address shown on your dashboard and your email address, then click Add payment method. X places a $5 hold to check the card and removes it within 7 days.
Your Halocard is now ready to fund your X Ads campaigns!
$15/mo
$180 billed yearly
Get Your HalocardMinimum $30 deposit to start
Spend up to $1M per day
Apple Pay & Google Pay
Limit, lock or cancel cards
Customizable billing address
0% fee on USD purchases
1.5% FX fee on non-USD purchases
US bank account with free ACH deposits
Send ACH & Wire transfers (SOON)
Send Stablecoin transfers (SOON)
Chat, Email & Phone Support
Every person who joins via your referral link earns you a commission of $5 - $25 every month. Refer as few as 3 people and the Essential+ plan pays for itself. Refer beyond that and Halocard starts becoming serious income.
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