Did you recently receive a Capital One credit card offer in the mail? If your answer to this question is ‘yes’, then you can take the Capital One credit card application process to the next stage, by responding to that offer. The letters and e-mails that Capital One uses to send credit card offers usually come with two sets of numbers: a 16-digit reservation number and a 6-digit access code. Your part then, as a person who recently received a Capital One credit card offer, is to go to the Capital One website, and enter those numbers/codes, in order to take the process of applying for a Capital One credit card to the next stage. Entering the reservation number and access code online is referred to as ‘responding to a Capital One credit card offer’.
What applying for a Capital One credit card entails, at a glance
Having received a Capital One credit card offer, the next stage mainly entails going to the Capital One Financial Corporation website, and entering the numbers found in the credit card offer letter/email. So you enter the reservation number and access code into the Capital One Financial Corporation’s website, in order to take the process to the next stage.
Things you need to have, to apply for a Capital One credit card
To apply for a Capital One credit card based on a mail/email offer, you need to have received a credit card offer from Capital One (in the form of a letter or an email). To respond online to the Capital One credit card offer, you need to have access to a computing device that is connected to the Internet.
The website you need to visit, to apply for a Capital One credit card
To apply for a Capital One credit card based on a mail/email offer, you need to visit the Capital One Financial Corporation website — specifically the ‘Respond to Credit Card Offer’ page on the Capital One Financial Services website. The address you can use to get to that page, where you can respond to a Capital One credit card offer is indicated below, in the ‘links to help you’ section.
Steps you need to follow, to apply for a Capital One credit card
- Get the browser application on your computing device up and running. Then enter the address for the Capital One Credit Cards application page (the ‘Respond to Credit Card Offer’ page) into the browser, for the browser to take you to that particular page. The address in question, for the Capital One Credit Cards Application page is indicated below, in the ‘links to help you’ section.
- When you get to the Capital One Credit Cards application page, you will encounter spaces provided for entry of the reservation number and access code respectively. Enter both (in the prescribed formats), then click on the green-colored ‘Get Started’ button.
- Provide the required information in the subsequent screens, to finish responding to your Capital One credit card offer/applying for a Capital One credit card.
Links to help you
- Capital One Credit Card application: http://application.capitalone.com