How Tracfone Pay as You Go Works

The Prepaid model that Tracfone uses is the Cost per Minute structure. You purchase minutes and at the same time you will get a service period to use those minutes.

You will start by buying a Phone and a Tracfone Minute Card. You can only use a Tracfone Phone for Tracfone service, you cannot use a Verizon, At&t, T-Mobile, Alltel, Net10 or any other phone with Tracfone Service. The Tracfone SIM card will not work in any other phone either.

Next you will Activate your phone. You can do this by going to the Tracfone website or by calling Tracfone on a different phone. This can take up to ten minutes.

You will have to key in some numbers into your phone and then it is active. It is really easy.

Adding a Tracfone Minute card is even easier. You can add Tracfone minutes directly from the phone or from the Tracfone website. You will add the 15 digit PIN code into your phone.

When adding a minute card if you use a five digit Bonus Code you might get more minutes. Check out the Tracfone Bonus Codes.

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Tracfone Service Time

Most Tracfone cards will put 90 service days onto your phone along with the minutes. If you do not have service time left on your phone it will not work even if you have minutes left.. The remaining Tracfone minutes always show on the display of your phone. The Service end date will also scroll onto your screen. It normally says “Add Airtime by 12/21/10 or service ends.” hwtracwrks and How Tracfone Pay as You Go Works.

Buying Tracfone Cards

Tracfone cards are available in multiple sizes. The different options are $20, $30, $40, $80, $100 and $200. The larger denomintation cards give you more minutes per dollar. With the first four cards you get 90 days of service time with the card. The twenty dollar card gives you three minutes per dollar while the eighty dollar card gives you 5.8 minutes per dollar. These numbers double with Dmfl installed. The $100 and $200 Tracfone cards give you a year of service time.

Tracfone DMFL Card

Be sure to check out what Tracfone DMFL is before you buy your Tracfone. Here is a great article on Tracfone DMFL. I would never add minutes to a phone without DMFL on it.

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Tracfone Service Time and Minutes Roll Over

Activation time and your Minute Balance will both be added to your current balance when you add a new card. Let’s say you have 60 days and 20 units left on your phone. Add a 120 minute card and you will end up with 150 days(60+90) and 140 minutes (20+120). With Double Minutes you would end up with 260 minutes (2+120+120) and 150 days of service.