I received a BB&T Visa Gift card earlier this year and decided I would put it to good use on Amazon. I put my items in the card, added the card like a regular form of payment and checked out. Ten minutes later, I received an email that my payment had been declined and I needed to fix that. Half an hour and lots of googling later, I was no closer to ordering.

I remembered in one forum, however, someone mentioned registering their card. I assumed they were talking about activating the card by calling the number and setting a pin (which I had done). Apparently he wasn’t, and the rest of this post will be a quick how-to guide on using your BB&T Visa Gift Card on Amazon (so you don’t waste over an hour of your life!).

Call the number on the sticker on your card. If you removed it already, it’s 866-594-2076.

Go here. It’s the BB&T Gift Card main page.

Enter the card number

Enter the name you want the card registered to (as you’d enter it on bill-to sections on a vendor’s website) along with the last 4 of the number you registered the card with and the CVV

Next enter the security info: login name, password, and a security question (used to require 4 security questions–thank you for reducing that BB&T)

Click continue and your card is registered. You can now log in using the info you just entered.

Congratulations! You now wasted significantly less time setting up your BB&T card to use on Amazon than I did. You can now use the gift card on Amazon like a regular card.