KARTAFON.com Phone Cards

In recent times phone cards are becoming widely used for long-distance and international calls. Advantages of the phone cards usage are obvious:

1. You can buy or/and recharge a phone card 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any computer connected to the Internet.
2. You can place calls from and to almost any country in the world.
3. Once you placed your order online - all information about a phone card you've purchase will be delivered to your email within several minutes.
4. If you fill you're running out of balance on your phone card - you can always refill it in a couple of clicks online at Kartafon.com, or give a call to our customer service at 1-800-219-6993.
5. Some phone cards allow you to place calls without entering PIN-number (PIN-less diaing).

How to find and purchase a better phone card?

1. As different phone cards offer calls from and to different countries for different prices - first thing you should do is to select a country of your geographical location and a country of your call destination.

   After you click on a search button - our website will offer you the phone cards with the best rates and quality we have for your request. Other websites just show the cheapest phone cards and never worry about their quality. But don't be caught into this trap as cheapest phone cards does not mean better quality. More than that - cheap phone cards always have hidden costs (like connection fees, maintenance fees and others). If you use your phone card for frequent and short calls - make sure that phone card you buy does not have these fees.

   Usefull information about phone card's rates and fees is usually placed next to the card's picture.
   A good example of a "clear" card without fees is Continental phone card.

2. After you have chosen a phone card for yourself, select an amount and click "Buy". If you are a first-time buyer - you will be prompted to fill out a short registration form.
   

   We make sure that all private information is securedly stored. We never share our clients personal information. All payment transaction are absolutely secured and proceeded by leading e-commerce payment transaction company VeriSign. Our site does not have access to your credit card number and your private information. Your credit card's data is transferred to VeriSign directly using security protocol for Internet payments - SSL, so the information remains confidential. Website receives confirmation from VeriSign that your payment transaction is completed.

   After you placed your order you wil receive a phone card PIN (Personal Identification Number) and dialing instructions instantly on your screen and to your email address.

How to place a call?

1. Dial access number
   Check your email for dialing instructions sent after you place your purchase order. If you can not find email message with dialing instructions in your email box - it is most probably in your "junk-mail" folder. Dialing instructions will include Toll-free or Local acces numbers. Placing a call through a local access number usually cheaper.
2. Enter phone card PIN
   You will be promped to enter you PIN number on your telephone keypad. Phone card PIN is a set of digits which you will find at the top part of your dialing Instructions email.
   You can set up a PIN-less dialing option in order to skip entering your PIN every time you use your phone card.
3. Enter your destination phone number
   If you are calling to outside of the USA - enter 011 [country code] [telephone number]
   If you are calling to or within the USA - enter 1 [area code] [telephone number]
   

Our web-site is strongly dedicated to providing you with the best possible phone cards for affordable price. If you have any issues with your phone card please contact our Customer Support at 1-800-219-6993 or fill out the contact form.

Glossary

• Phone card PIN (Personal Identification Number) - unique card identification number is usually represented as 10 or 12 digits number.
• Access Number - the number you dial to use your prepaid phone cards. The access number can be either a local access number or a tool-free number. It is usually cheaper to use Local Access Numbers for your prepaid phone card calls.
• Connection Fee - an optional phone card fee, which is charged against a balance of prepaid phone cards, when the customer makes a call. Connection fees take away the potential balance of prepaid phone cards and reduce the advertised minutes. Not all prepaid phone cards have connection fees. Please check phone card's details.
• Maintenance Fee - an optional phone card fee, which is assessed from card's balance on a monthly or weekly basis. Not all prepaid phone cards have connection fees. Please check phone card's details.
• Minute Rounding refers to the increments in which phone call are billed. For example, if minute rounding on the card is 3 minutes, your 5-minute call will be billed as 6 minute call.