Your money stays yours and none of it is spent, but you cannot touch it for a while. From the moment you order a second card until that card is activated, the entire available balance you had at that moment is held — not the new card’s entry threshold, the whole thing. Your existing card has nothing to draw on for the length of that window, and that includes recurring charges you are not present for. The order itself deducts nothing: the second card costs 10 USDT and every card after the first costs the same, charged at issue rather than at order (fees). Blomo allows one open order at a time, and you cannot cancel your own once it is placed.
This article is about the window, because everything expensive about a second card happens inside it.
What the hold actually covers
The hold is not a flag on your request. It is a posting that moves your balance to a separate held account, which is why nothing can reach the money while it is there: after the hold, your available balance is what remains, and every charge — a subscription, a purchase, a future issue fee — reads that number and finds it empty. Nothing had to be taught about card orders for this to work, which is exactly why it works everywhere.
Three properties follow from the way it is built, and each one changes a decision.
It is your whole available balance, not the threshold. If you order the 100 USDT Estonia card while holding 4,000 USDT, all 4,000 are held. The entry threshold decides whether you are allowed to order; it does not decide how much is held.
It is a snapshot of the moment you ordered. The amount is fixed when the order goes in and never grows. A top-up that arrives after you place the order is not held and stays spendable. That is the one escape hatch in this whole mechanism, and it is deliberate: money that arrived after the decision has nothing to do with the decision.
You can always see it. The app reports the balance as three numbers — available, held and total — rather than one. A single figure with an unspendable part inside it would be a lie about money, so Blomo does not show one.
When the hold is released
On activation of the new card, and on an operator’s rejection of the request. Both release it in full and immediately, with no deduction: there is no charge for a declined request, and the issue fee is taken at issue, not held back out of your balance.
Two cases are worth spelling out because they are the ones that surprise people.
A failed issue attempt does not release anything. “It did not work” is a report of a problem, not a decision on your request. The request stays open and your balance stays held until an operator either retries the issue or declines the request outright. This is written into the code on purpose — the alternative is that you spend a balance that a second issue attempt is still counting on.
You cannot cancel the order yourself. Blomo has no cancel action for the person who placed the order: it was removed rather than hidden, because a hidden button is still an open door for anyone who opens a browser console. The consequence is stated here rather than buried: once you have ordered, the only ways out are activation and an operator’s rejection. If your order needs stopping, support is the route, and the operator does it by declining the request.
One open order at a time
Blomo accepts one open card order per account, and an order counts as open for as long as it holds money — while it is queued, while an operator is working on it, after the details have been issued but before activation, and after a failed attempt. Try to place a second one and the answer is that you already have a request in progress and should wait for a decision on it.
That is a database constraint, not a check in the application, and the reason is arithmetic: the same balance cannot be held twice. Two simultaneous orders would either freeze money that does not exist or leave one order unfunded.
There is no limit of this kind on cards you already have. An activated card no longer holds anything, so it does not stand in the way of your next order — only an order still in flight does.
What a second card costs
| First virtual card | Free, one per account |
| Every card after that | 10 USDT, charged at issue |
| Entry threshold | 100 USDT (Estonia) to 1,000 USDT (Netherlands) |
| Held while it is issued | Your whole available balance |
| Deducted when you order | Nothing |
Figures from the Blomo fees page and the card catalogue behind it; read the fees page for the per-card table rather than trusting a number in an article.
The entry threshold is checked once, against your available balance, at the moment you order. It is the new product’s own threshold, not the one you met for your first card: 100 USDT for Estonia, 200 for Indonesia, 250 for the United Kingdom, 300 for Poland, 500 for Spain and 1,000 for the Netherlands. Held money does not count towards it, which is one more reason only one order can be open at a time.
Nothing is taken from your balance when you place the order. Charging for a card before it exists would mean refunding by hand every time an issue fails, so the issue fee applies at issue. What the order does is hold, and a hold is not a charge.
What this costs you in practice
Say it plainly: while your second card is being issued, your first card cannot pay for anything. Not a checkout, not a top-up of some other service, and not a recurring charge that arrives without asking you first.
That last one is the expensive case. A subscription charge landing inside the window is declined, the merchant starts its own retry sequence on its own schedule, and enough failures end the subscription — none of which Blomo sets, sees or can intervene in. By the time your card is active and your balance is free again, the charge may already be marked past due. The mechanics of a recurring charge, and how much headroom one actually needs, are in can a subscription run on a Blomo prepaid card.
Blomo does not publish a guaranteed time for the window, and this article will not invent one. Cards are issued by hand today, so how long you wait depends on when an operator gets to the request — which is precisely why you should not plan the window around an optimistic guess.
How to time the order
- Order just after a renewal date, not just before one. The gap between charges is the cheapest place to put the window.
- If the timing is not yours, top up after placing the order. The hold is a snapshot; money arriving later stays spendable, so leave the renewal amount plus the card’s transaction fee — 0.5% to 1.5% depending on the card — sitting on the available balance. Note the floor: the minimum top-up is 50 USDT and the top-up fee is 1% on top of what you want credited, so ask for 100 and send 101 (fees).
- Order before you need the new card, not the day you need it. Issue is manual and you cannot cancel to get your money back in a hurry.
- Do not order a card to “park” a balance. It is not storage, it is an unspendable balance with no exit under your control.
Questions people actually ask
Can I have more than one Blomo card?
Yes. There is no limit on cards you already hold, and each one after the first costs 10 USDT. What is limited is orders in flight: one open card order per account at a time.
How much is held when I order a second card?
Your entire available balance as it stood in the second you placed the order — not just the new card’s entry threshold. The money is not spent and not taken, only held.
Is a top-up made after I order also held?
No. The hold is a snapshot of the balance at the moment of ordering, so anything credited afterwards stays spendable. That is the way to keep a subscription alive through the window.
When do I get my balance back?
When the new card is activated, or if an operator declines the request. Either way it is released in full and immediately, with no deduction for the attempt.
What if the issue attempt fails?
The hold stays. A failed attempt is not a decision on the request, so your balance remains held until an operator either retries the issue or declines the request.
Can I cancel a card order and unfreeze my money?
Not yourself — Blomo has no cancel action for the person who ordered. Support can ask an operator to decline the request, which releases the hold in full.
Can my existing card still pay while the new one is being issued?
No, and this is the real cost of the window. The held balance is unavailable to every charge, including recurring ones, so a renewal arriving before the new card is activated will be declined.
Does ordering a second card cost anything up front?
No. Nothing is deducted at the moment of ordering; the 10 USDT issue fee applies at issue. What ordering does is hold your available balance.
Read on
- Can a subscription run on a Blomo prepaid card — Why a renewal inside the hold window is the expensive failure.
- What happens when your Blomo card expires — The other reason people order a second card, and what the term actually ends.
- Fees, in full — Issue fee, entry thresholds and transaction fees for all six cards.
- Virtual cards — What the entry threshold buys, and why higher-threshold cards are declined less often.