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Open Serve: Do 1 of the following:
1) Buy a temporary card. (free in cvs in NJ won’t take cc)($3.95 fee), or
2) Open online. They’ll send you a card. (free)
Note that you COULD have more than one of these: Bluebird (BB), Redcard and serve. 

Loading Serve: Serve does not have any fees to load money.
a) At CVS, 7-11, and Rite Aid ONLY CASH can be loaded.
b) At Walmart GCs …uh Debit Cards (besides Vanilla cards) can be loaded onto Serve just like onto BB. Load limit: $2500/day up to $5000/month
c) At Family Dollar max $499.99/Day, not hard coded, YMMV, Cash or Debit/Gift Card.
WARNING: There are reports of debit cards being drained at FD, and not loading onto Serve, so FD is not recommended.
d) An Amex CC of the serve cardholder can be linked and used to fund your Serve ONLINE. Load limit: $200 per day/$1000 per month
Amex cc loads are not considered cash advance. They DO NOT earn points, or count towards a spending threshold.
e) Debit Cards linked to Serve: $200/day up to 1000/month ONLINE.  But only a permanent DC with your name on it. (NOT GCs)

So your total loading limit per month, if using all 3 methods is $7K.

-Serve has a $1 monthly inactivity fee (waived in VA, NY and TX) that is waived if you use Direct Deposit OR add $500.
-If Serve has a bonus for using direct deposit, use AP.

Using the funds on Serve:
-Free ATM use/withdrawal at MoneyPass ATMs. $2 elsewhere.
-Serve has a Bill Pay feature – same as BB.  You tell them who to pay, and they send a check for you.  You can pay up to 5k of unregistered billers, but 10K of registered ones (registered= those on their bill pay list). Pay your Credit Cards bills as well as many other bills or any person!
WARNING: Do not use the bill pay feature to pay the Credit Card that is linked for online loads.
-money in your Serve account can be withdrawn directly to a linked bank account, which, if done too much, may be seen as risky by Serve, but in moderation should be fine.
Withdraw to your bank https://secure.serve.com/Actions/WithdrawMoney

Make sure the name, address and phone number on your profile match your credit card billing address, or you may get declined.  When linking your credit card at serve.com, the website will only show you the address on your profile, but not the phone number, so this is easy to overlook.  Go to profile, and check/update your phone number there.

Error likely with the Serve account:
When you create a new account and add a credit card, you will be allowed to do the first transaction. After that, your account will probably go into system lockdown until you verify some information. Likely error message for this case is "Risk declined operation" when you try to add money on to the account. You will need to send in (online, fax or mail) a photo ID and a copy of your credit card or statement. Upload your documents here -
https://secure.serve.com/User/SecureFileUpload. Then Call up AMEX Account Protection Services at 1-800-555-4318 and tell them you uploaded the documents and ask them to verify it for you.
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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5820 on: February 03, 2016, 12:32:54 PM »
Withdrawal via the app reversed again, going to have to pay the 5.50 fee from the ATM...

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5821 on: February 03, 2016, 04:43:37 PM »
No. I don't think there are any problems with the registers, I have successfully loaded vanillas dozens of times including last night. Is it possible I do need to activate these metabank cards after all? I will jic and tarb.
Worked after I activated them.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5822 on: February 03, 2016, 08:54:12 PM »
Just loaded 3 $500 OV GC. Any confirmed  safe ways to withdraw?
Is it better to use  pay bill in small increments  or in one large transaction? Any experience?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5823 on: February 04, 2016, 08:41:11 AM »
Worked after I activated them.

Sounds like there's some confusion here. There's a huge difference between activating a card and registering it. IINM, if a card has a sticker on it saying it must be activated (i.e. generally cards bought online), it will never work for anything without activating it.

Registering the card just means giving it a billing address and making it easier to manage the card online. It's never necessary

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5824 on: February 04, 2016, 08:45:05 AM »
That clears things up. I didn't have to register just activate. It had a sticker. Thanks!

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5825 on: February 04, 2016, 10:36:12 AM »
Anyone know if the rite aid on 306 in Monsey will give any issues to load a serve card? I've been turned down by a few other rite aids in the past
Sometimes it doesn't pay to save money.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5826 on: February 04, 2016, 02:57:20 PM »
Anyone know if the rite aid on 306 in Monsey will give any issues to load a serve card? I've been turned down by a few other rite aids in the past
you better believe it. You have less than 99.9% chance.let me know what happens :D

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5827 on: February 04, 2016, 08:08:35 PM »
Any bad experiences with FD on Sheridan and doughty Blvd or RA on peninsula recently on the five towns?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5828 on: February 04, 2016, 11:38:35 PM »
Have all RAs stop accepting Debit reloads to serve, as in it's hard coded? Or is it only the ones I try which refuse me

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5829 on: February 04, 2016, 11:42:27 PM »
Have all RAs stop accepting Debit reloads to serve, as in it's hard coded? Or is it only the ones I try which refuse me
That. I just loaded $2k today. No problem.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5830 on: February 05, 2016, 12:52:04 AM »
That. I just loaded $2k today. No problem.

Gonna have to take a roadtrip to redneck judenrein land tomorrow and try my luck

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5831 on: February 05, 2016, 01:05:21 AM »
Money pass ATM update: to my surprise one of the atms on the map actually worked!
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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5832 on: February 05, 2016, 01:13:26 AM »
Money pass ATM update: to my surprise one of the atms on thermally actually worked!
Thermally?
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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5833 on: February 05, 2016, 04:12:21 PM »
Apparently online cc loading does not work anymore with additional users cards.
As of today I tried to link an Amex credit card for online loading and when I entered an additional user card number it gave an error "Please enter a valid Credit Card Number". But with the primary card number it worked fine.

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5834 on: February 05, 2016, 04:13:33 PM »
Apparently online cc loading do not work anymore with additional users cards.
As of today I tried to link an Amex credit card for online loading and when I entered an additional user card number it gave an error "Please enter a valid Credit Card Number". But with the primary card number it worked fine.
Were the names on the card the same?

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5835 on: February 05, 2016, 04:14:32 PM »
Were the names on the card the same?

The name on the additional user card was the same as the serve account

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5836 on: February 05, 2016, 04:39:20 PM »
The name on the additional user card was the same as the serve account
Try calling serve

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5837 on: February 05, 2016, 04:47:08 PM »
Had a big scare today I loaded $200 from my citigold debit and I  got a suspended account email but at the end all they wanted was proof

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5838 on: February 07, 2016, 01:30:27 AM »
Has anyone who was shut down on 1/8 applied again for a serve card and it was approved?
Also was anyone shut down after the 1/8 mass slaughter?
TIA

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Re: Amexserve/Softcard
« Reply #5839 on: February 07, 2016, 06:37:03 AM »
Apparently online cc loading does not work anymore with additional users cards.
As of today I tried to link an Amex credit card for online loading and when I entered an additional user card number it gave an error "Please enter a valid Credit Card Number". But with the primary card number it worked fine.
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