Card Brand

For credit card accounts, Method can retrieve the specific card product name, visual card art, and structured card details, including APRs, fees, rewards, and promotional offers. Instead of displaying a generic “Visa credit card” line item, your product can show “Chase Sapphire Reserve” with the actual card image and card details.

This seemingly small detail has an outsized impact on user trust and engagement. When users see their actual card names and artwork in your product, it signals accuracy and builds confidence that the data is real and current.

Card Brand is available only to partners processing payments using the PaymentInstrument endpoint. Contact your Method CSM for more information.

How It Works

Card Brand is available as a Product (on-demand) or Subscription (continuous updates). Create a Card Brand request for a credit card account, and Method returns a brands array containing:

name: The card product name (e.g., “Chase Sapphire Reserve”)
network: The card network (e.g., visa, mastercard)
network_tier: The network tier (e.g., infinite, signature)
url: A hosted URL for the card art image
type: Brand match quality: specific (exact match with card art), generic (general metadata, no specific FI offering), or in_review (undergoing verification)
details: Structured card details: card_category, purchase & cash-advance APRs, annual & late fees, rewards (type, program, and earn categories), and promotions (with the sign-up bonus). Available on version 2025-07-04 and later; see the Card Brand reference.

The source field on the response indicates where the data came from (method or network).

Quick Start

curl https://production.methodfi.com/accounts/acc_yVf3mkzbhz9tj/card_brands \
  -X POST \
  -H "Method-Version: 2026-03-30" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_WyZEWVfTcH7GqmPzUPk65Vjc"

const cardBrand = await method
  .accounts('acc_yVf3mkzbhz9tj')
  .cardBrands
  .create();

card_brand = (
    method
    .accounts('acc_yVf3mkzbhz9tj')
    .card_brands
    .create()
)

Supported Cards

Card Brand is generally available for Visa and Mastercard credit card accounts. Discover support is available to allowlisted teams. Requesting Card Brand for a non-card account or an unsupported network returns a PRODUCT_UNAVAILABLE error.

Error Handling

PRODUCT_UNAVAILABLE: Account isn’t a supported card, the network isn’t supported, or Discover access is not enabled for the team.
TEAM_CAPABILITY_RESTRICTED: Your team doesn’t have access to Card Brand.
CARD_BRANDS_NOT_FOUND: The card’s brand could not be found or doesn’t exist.

Card Brand API Reference

Full API documentation for Card Brand.

Getting Started

Entities

Identity Verification

Connect

Accounts

Updates

Payments

Additional Products

Use Cases: Commerce

Use Cases: Lending

Use Cases: PFM

How It Works

Quick Start

Supported Cards

Error Handling

Card Brand API Reference

​How It Works

​Quick Start

​Supported Cards

​Error Handling

Card Brand API Reference

How It Works

Quick Start

Supported Cards

Error Handling