Prepaid Card Balance Quill

I still remember the first time I bought a prepaid card for a relative who doesn't like carrying cash. I handed them a sleek gift card from a major coffee chain, thinking it was the easiest present ever. A week later they called me: the card was declined at the register. Neither of us had any idea what the prepaid card balance was, and the only way we knew to check was to call the number on the back and type in the long card number plus the security code. That felt wrong, an