By Divya Shokeen
Updated On January 5, 2024

Canara Banks provides its customers a wide array of banking and financial products and services. On your credit card application approval, the bank sends you the credit card in a deactivated form to your address. You need to generate a PIN to activate your credit card and start using it to make transactions. Credit cards help in building a good credit score only if you make sensible choices and pay your credit card bill on time. Read below the methods provided by the Canara Bank to generate or change the credit card PIN.

Methods to Generate Canara Bank Credit Card PIN

Canara Bank has provided its customers two methods to generate the credit card 4-digit PIN.
Canara Bank Credit Card Pin Generation

ATM

Automated Teller Machine is available to you 24×7, you can visit the ATM anytime to generate or change your Credit Card PIN. Visit the Canara Bank nearest ATM and follow the below-given steps to generate your credit card PIN.

Step 1: Go to the Canara Bank ATM and insert your credit card into the ATM.
Step 2: Now click on the ‘Green PIN’ and press on ‘Generate OTP’.
Step 3: Enter your account number and registered mobile number to receive the OTP.
Step 4: On receiving the OTP on the registered mobile number, enter the OTP.
Step 5: Add your 4-digit PIN twice and click on Submit.

Phonebanking

Bank’s customer care services have been the most useful. You can get your credit card activated by calling on the customer care number 1800-425-0018 and requesting the customer care executive for the generation of the credit card pin.

Methods to Change Canara Bank Credit Card PIN

Customers can use Canara Bank ATMs and mobile banking app to change their credit card PIN. Hereunder is the procedure how you can change your credit card PIN.

ATM

You can visit the bank’s ATM to change your credit card PIN. In case you have shared your credit card details with someone then you change the PIN of your credit card. Follow these simple steps on visiting the Canara Bank to change your credit card PIN.

Step 1: Insert your credit card into the machine click on the Forgot PIN.
Step 2: Now enter the account number and registered mobile number to generate OTP.
Step 3: Enter the OTP received on your registered mobile number.
Step 4: Now enter a new 4-digit PIN twice and click on submit.

Mobile App

The customers can change their credit card PIN by using the bank’s mobile app. For this method, the customer needs to download the Canara Saathi app from the google play store or Apple App Store. After installing the app, follow the below-given steps to change your credit card PIN.

Step 1: Open Canara Saathi mobile app and log in to your account.
Step 2: Go to the menu section and click on service requests.
Step 3: Click on change PIN and select the credit card for which you wish to change the PIN.
Step 4: On selecting the credit card you will receive an OTP on the registered mobile number, enter that OTP in the required field.
Step 5: Enter the PIN twice and click on Submit.

FAQs:

On getting a credit card replaced, you get the card in a deactivated form, so to use the older PIN you need to activate the credit card by generating a PIN. While generating the PIN you can choose to keep the older PIN or you can select a new 4-digit PIN.
Yes, you can change the 4-digit PIN of your Canara Bank add-on credit cards through internet banking.
There is no set limit, you can change your Canara Bank Credit Card as many times as you like.
Yes, you can call on the 24x7 customer care number 1800 425 0018 and follow the IVR instructions to get connected with the customer care executive. After connecting with the executive you can request to know the reason why your credit card got blocked.