There are two different kinds of spending limits, though the rules are the same for both
- Account level spending limits applied to all purchases on your account
- Virtual Card spending limits applied to just the purchases made with that virtual card
Spend limits are applied to accounts on a rolling basis
- Purchases count toward your spending limits for an allotted time period and "roll off" when that time expires.
- Daily: 24 hours (hard cutoff, no buffer)
- Monthly: 30 days (with 6 day buffer)
- Yearly: 365 days (with 36 hour buffer)
- For example: you have a $100 daily limit and spend $20 at 7:00 AM on Day 1. Your spend limit is now $80. If you don't buy anything else, your full daily limit of $100 will be available to use again at 7:00 AM on Day 2.
Buffer periods are also built into certain limits in order to prevent unnecessary declines in case a merchant attempts to authorize early.
- Example:
- You have a Netflix virtual card with a $15 monthly spending limit.
- Netflix authorizes $13 at 7:00 AM on May 25.
- If Netflix attempts to authorize $13 on June 21 it will decline, because it exceeds the virtual card's monthly spending limit and it is not within the 6-day buffer period.
- If Netflix attempts to authorize $13 on or after 7:00 AM on June 22, it will be approved because it is within the 30 days minus 6-day buffer time period.
Privacy Account spending limits are subject to increase or decrease at our discretion based on an algorithmic and/or manual review process. These limits cannot be reset during the month at any time.
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