Holds on Card Spending

Why Can’t I Spend on my Card?

The Bold card allows you to spend funds from your Available balance. All holds are dynamically set based on a risk assessment. If you have a hold on one of your deposits, you will need to wait for the hold to lapse before you can spend those funds with your Bold card.

How to Add Funds that Won't Have a Hold

Option
Hold Time
Price
Additional Information

Link a different bank account

Potentially instant

Free

Hold period will depend on the risk score of the new bank.

Send bitcoin into your account and sell the bitcoin

Instant

On-chain send fees + sell fees

The dollars will be instantly spendable on your card as soon as the bitcoin sell order settles.

Wire transfer

0 to 2 business days

Free to receive although external banks may charge fees

Once the wire is received, funds will be free to spend.

Receive money from friend or family

0 to 5 business days

Free to receive although external banks may charge fees

Friends, family, and associates can send an ACH or wire transfer to your Bold account.

Deposit more funds via ACH push into Bold account

3 to 10 business days

Free

Log into your external bank account and send an ACH transfer into your Bold account. You may first need to add your Bold account as a payee.

Resolve any issues with your currently linked bank account

5 to 10 business days

Free

Issues that increase transaction risk score include:

Having insufficient funds (NSF) transactions on your linked account, carrying a negative balance, reversed transactions on the account, account is too young, the account has atypical usage patterns. Once issues are resolved, the risk score will recalibrate in 5 to 10 days.

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