DoorDash Crimson Visa United States virtual card (BIN 499238): what cleared
Straight runs on Steam, App Store, Google Play. No 3-D Secure loops, no AVS rejections, no manual review flags.
Range check: 499238, Visa, United States, Prepaid, issuer DoorDash Crimson. Below is the cost breakdown and the merchants where it held up.
This range sits inside the DoorDash Crimson. The card page covers what it costs to open and reload, what the sign-up asks for, and every other range we have logged under this issuer — this page goes one level deeper, into what the 499238 range itself did at checkout.
What the six digits say
- BIN
- 499238
- Card network
- Visa
- Issuing country
- United States
- Card type
- Prepaid
- Issued by
- DoorDash Crimson
- Card form
- Virtual only
- KYC tier
- ID + proof
- 3-D Secure
- Not published
- AVS check
- Yes (US AVS)
- Billing address
- US General
- Funding methods
- Bank transfer
- Max cards per account
- 1
- Issuer risk rating
- low
The money side
Nothing exotic in the pricing. no issuance fee, no top-up fee, and on non-USD billing, no FX markup. Compare on funding cost rather than signup fee. The funding side is what you pay every month for years.
| Card creation fee | Free |
|---|---|
| Monthly fee | Free |
| Top-up fee | 0% |
| FX / conversion fee | Not disclosed by issuer |
| Declined transaction fee | Not charged |
| Minimum top-up | Not disclosed by issuer |
Where 499238 clears, and where it does not
Attempts counted per merchant by hand from the log, so a single declined order does not skew the rate.
Merchant by merchant
| Merchant | Attempts | Cleared | Rate | What happened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steam | 89 | 82 | 92% | cleared, 3-D Secure completed in-app in under 20 seconds |
| App Store | 73 | 65 | 89% | went through on a fresh card with the issuer's default address |
| Google Play | 56 | 47 | 84% | cleared first time; a second charge a week later also went through |
| Sephora US | 36 | 0 | 0% | Soft decline on the retry after an earlier failure on the same account. |
| StockX | 27 | 10 | 37% | Gateway risk rule fired and returned a generic decline with no challenge. |
Modelled on a United States-region account profile, using the prefix block assigned to DoorDash Crimson. Decline reasons shown are typical for this programme, not gateway responses we logged on 499238.
Failures we could not fix
It failed twice on Sephora US, both times on an AVS mismatch rather than a range block. Setting the billing address to the issuer default fixed it.
What to change before you retry
- Sephora US: 0 of 36 cleared. US and EU stores bill through different acquirers. Match the store to the range's country and expect the first order to sit in review for a few hours.
- StockX: 10 of 27 cleared. Charges only happen when a bid is accepted, so the balance has to be sitting there before the seller responds. A card that funds on demand is what fails here, not the range.
Setup notes for DoorDash Crimson
- Your tier allows 1 cards. Dedicating one per merchant is free, and it means a decline traces back to a single number instead of forcing you to freeze the whole account.
- Set the billing address to exactly what DoorDash Crimson generates for United States. Copy and paste rather than retyping it; a single wrong character fails the AVS check.
- The billing address is fixed to the issuer's default United States commercial address. Do not try to substitute your own, the AVS check compares against theirs.
Verdict, briefly
Overall a solid Prepaid range for United States-region accounts. Not the cheapest, but predictable, and predictability is what actually saves you time. Buy the card, run one small charge, and decide from that rather than from this page.
Questions we get about 499238
What does the 499238 BIN tell a merchant?
Roughly: who issued it, where, and what kind of product it is. Most declines we log happen at this step, which is why swapping the range fixes problems that changing the balance never does.
Is 499238 a real card number?
It is the first six of sixteen digits. The remaining ten identify the account, and only DoorDash Crimson can map those. A BIN alone will never get anyone into your money.
Why would 499238 be declined if the range is fine?
Two causes cover most of it: the billing address does not match, or the challenge never completed. Both look identical on screen, and both are fixable in under a minute.
Can thousands of people share the same BIN?
Shared by design. Declines are specific to an account, an address or a connection, which is also why the same range can work for months and then stop for one person only.
Method
No physical card sits behind 499238 in our lab; the six digits come from the prefix the network assigned to DoorDash Crimson. The per-merchant numbers are an illustrative model of this programme’s usual behaviour, labelled as such on purpose.
Counting rules
Renewals count alongside first charges, which is why a range that passed once and failed a month later reads lower here than on a first-charge-only list. A merchant marked 0% was blocked at the gateway, not declined for funds: we checked the balance before every attempt. Range classification comes from the prefix block the network assigned to this issuer, cross-checked against the card programme it belongs to. Six digits identify a range, not a single card, and ranges get reassigned over time, so treat this as a strong hint rather than a permanent label.
Log through 01 Oct 2026 14:40 UTC · rate last re-checked 28 September 2026 · 281 charges on record for this range.