Editorial Note: Intuit Credit Karma receives compensation from third-party advertisers, but that doesn’t affect our editors’ opinions. Our third-party advertisers don’t review, approve or endorse our editorial content. Information about financial products not offered on Credit Karma is collected independently. Our content is accurate to the best of our knowledge when posted.
Advertiser Disclosure
Offers that appear on this site are from third-party advertisers from which Credit Karma typically receives compensation. Except for mortgage loan offers, this compensation is one of several factors that may impact how and where offers appear on Credit Karma (including, for example, the order in which they appear).
Other factors may include: your credit profile and what products we think you want. It is this compensation that enables Credit Karma to provide you with services like free access to your credit scores and free monitoring of your credit and financial accounts. Credit Karma strives to provide a wide array of offers for our members, but our offers do not represent all financial services, companies or products.
What you need to know about the Surge Mastercard®
The Surge Mastercard®, issued by Celtic Bank and serviced by Continental Finance, is designed to help people with bad credit or no credit at all start building their credit, and it can be used anywhere that Mastercard is accepted. There’s a lot of competition in this space, so let’s see how the Surge Mastercard® measures up.
Who is the Surge Mastercard® card good for?
The Surge Mastercard® should be considered only after you’ve reviewed other options on the market. Compare offers for cards for poor credit or secured credit cards on Credit Karma to start. If you’re not sold after researching your other options, the Surge Mastercard® could be an option to consider and could help you build credit in the short term.
If you’re able to build your credit, applying for a more user-friendly card down the road could give you opportunities to earn rewards at a lower interest rate.
