How to open a credit card online at Shinhan Finance

No need to go far, just stay at home and have a phone, tablet or laptop that you can open a credit card easily. If you do not know how to open a credit card online at Shinhan Finance, please refer to the article below to understand better!

1. Advantages when opening The First credit card – Shinhan Finance

Shinhan Finance launches The First card with many outstanding incentives and advantages for customers as follows:

• You can shop first and pay later. Payment period up to 45 days without interest.
• You can cash out up to 100% of your credit card limit.
• The card has an item to accumulate bonus points with a value of 0.5% of the amount you transact.
• Online transactions are fast and secure with Mastercard 3D Secure.
• Using Shinhan Finance credit card, customers also receive many attractive incentives at partners associated with this unit through Shinhan Zone program.
• When you need to shop or withdraw cash with The First credit card, it's easy to do, doesn't take much time. This is considered a great advantage of Shinhan Finance's credit card, while other banks' credit cards are difficult to withdraw cash, or if the interest is very high.
• Card management via iShinhan application so customers can track and manipulate all transactions easily on their phones.
• Customers can pay with many different methods. At the same time, you only need to pay 2% or more from the statement outstanding balance each month.

More specifically, Shinhan Finance currently has a promotion program for customers who open a card this year until December 31, 2023, which is 100% lifetime annual fee refund. Quickly register and use Shinhan Finance's credit card service.

2. How to open a credit card online at Shinhan Finance

To open a credit card online at Shinhan Finance, you need to follow the following process:

• Step 1: Visit the Shinhan Finance credit card registration link here
• Step 2: Click on “Open card now”
• Step 3: Provide personal information including: Phone number, full name, date of birth, identity card or citizen identification, province/city of residence, email, etc.
• Step 4: Complete the information and follow the registration instructions, you will successfully open the card.

However, after receiving the card, you still need to activate it to use it. The activation process will be guided below.

3. How to activate a credit card at Shinhan Finance

Once you register and receive your credit card, you can activate it in a variety of ways. As follows:

3.1 Activate via iShinhan application

In this way, you only need a phone and install the iShinhan application to be able to use it. The procedure is as follows:

• Step 1: Go to the iShinhan app
• Step 2: At the Card management screen, select “Activate card” and press “Agree” to confirm.

3.2 Activate via SMS

To activate your credit card via SMS, compose a message with the syntax below and send it to 6089 switchboard.

SVFC [space] KHT [Space] [last 4 digits of card] [Space] [ID number/CCCD]

3.3 Activation via call center

To activate your credit card via the call center, you need to call the customer care center of Shinhan Finance. Then the operator of the switchboard will guide you step by step, just follow you can activate the card successfully.

Depending on the conditions of each person, the method of activating the card is applied by the application, via SMS or via the switchboard. However, we recommend that you activate via the iShinhan application because of its modern, easy-to-use design, plus the integration of many features to help you easily get acquainted, manage cards effectively.

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