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Digital Wallets
Tokenized cards are provisioned to digital wallets such as Apple Pay or Google Wallet.
Before a card product may be utilized with a digital wallet, you must work with Highnote to ensure all aspects of the program are in order, properly formatted, and approved to facilitate tokenization by the Partner Bank and payment network.
Card art must follow specific guidelines for approval by Highnote and Partner Banks. Refer to general and card network-specific guidelines when designing card art.
- Visa: Digital Card Art
- Mastercard: Card Design Snap Shot
- See slide 7: "What’s Important To Know?"
- See slide 9: "Things to Know"
When designing card art for tokenized cards, we recommend keeping designs simple. For network-specific cards, refer to the guidance from Visa and Mastercard linked to above. For all digital cards, refer to the following design tips:
Logo
- SVG (up to 1MB) or PNG (up to 3MB) file type
- Hex color format
- 1372 x 283 pixels
Icon
- PNG image
- Hex color format
- 100 x 100 pixels
Refer to the following general guidelines when designing tokenized cart art:
- Digital cards must have rounded corners.
- Only absolute pixels, not the image resolution (e.g., 72ppi), are relevant.
- Do not include shading or any three-dimensional elements in your tokenization assets.
- Card art must not include any of the following variable elements:
- Cardholder name
- PAN
- Expiration date
- Labels describing embossed/printed attributes
- Representations of magnetic stripe or EMV chip contacts
- Static pictures of dynamic elements such as holograms
Card design is subject to approval by Highnote and the Partner Bank as outlined in Marketing and Collateral. When you are ready to submit final artwork, send your card art files to collateral-review@highnote.com.
Following approval and authorization, Highnote will work alongside you to test your tokenized card before production. The testing process involves tokenizing allowed listed cards with each wallet provider you plan to support to ensure the tokenized cards and notifications appear as desired.