Advantages of our exclusive credit card
Features and benefits: Visa Card offering
- Global acceptance
- Digital banking: Use your Absa Banking App to stop and replace your card, report fraud, manage your daily card limits and more. Or you can logon to Absa Online Banking and bank wherever you are, 24/7
- Bidvest Airport Lounge: 24 complimentary visits. A similar allowance is available across all secondary cards in total. Spend criteria rules and T&Cs apply.
- Travel insurance: Automatic cover for a range of travel emergencies when you book your return ticket using your card
- Buyers Protection and Extended Warranty
- Free lost card protection: You are covered if your card is lost or stolen, subject to letting the bank know (please call us on 0800 111 155)
- Absa Rewards: Get cash back when you pay with your card locally and internationally
- Absa Advantage: Complete simple challenges on the Absa Banking App and get rewarded instantly
- Exclusive Visa benefits such as Visa Global Merchant offers, Visa Marketplace, Booking.com and Visa Luxury Hotel Collection
- Contactless payments: Tap to pay with your card, smartphone or wearable device at any point-of-sale machine worldwide
- NotifyMe: For added security, activate SMS notifications to get alerts of any activity in your account
Read more about Visa benefits and offers associated with your card.
*Underwritten by Bryte Insurance Company Limited.
Terms and conditions apply to pricing, services and benefits.
Features and Benefits: Visa Signature Credit Card
Features and benefits exclusive to our Visa Signature Credit Card in addition to the benefits listed above:
- Bidvest Airport Lounge: 24 complimentary visits plus 2 guest visits per year. A similar allowance is available across all secondary cards in total. Spend criteria rules and T&Cs apply.
- Visa Airport Companion (VAC) provided by DragonPass: Six complimentary international airport lounge visits per annum, including one guest per visit
- Travel insurance (travel accident insurance, travel medical benefits and trip inconvenience benefits)
- Collision damage waiver
Read more about Visa benefits and offers associated with your card.
*Underwritten by Chubb Insurance South Africa Limited.
Buy and pay with your credit card
- Credit limit: Up to R228 000
- Swipe limit: Up to R90 000
- Swipe, scan or tap to pay at any point-of-sale machine worldwide
- Shop securely online or in store
Rates and fees
- Interest rate: Get up to 57 days interest-free on qualifying transactions
- Transaction fee: No transaction fees on swipes
- Fixed monthly payments: You can pay extra on your monthly instalments if you need to
Qualifying criteria and requirements
- Monthly income required: R62 500
- Age: 18 years or older
- Documentation required: Valid South African ID book or smart card, proof of residence and the latest proof of income for three consecutive months
- Subject to affordability assessment
- Click on the Apply now button below
- On the Online Account Application page, enter the characters as displayed in the image
- Please complete the six-step assessment
- You may Save and continue later, or Continue at each stage of your assessment
- Click Apply when you have completed your assessment
Alternative application options
If you are not sure our Private Banking credit card is the right card for you, please compare our credit cards. If you need alternative application processes, find the one that suits you below:
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Telephonic application
Call us on: 0860 553 553
Weekdays 08:00 – 17:30
Saturday 08:00 – 13:00
