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I'm doing fairly well financially, and pay my credit cards off monthly, so to me they are less useful for financing and more useful as a matter of convenience. As such, I'd like to know more about the convenience angle, which often aren't disclosed as thoroughly as interest rates and rewards programs.

I'm looking for a place to find out more about these features, like

  • Which credit cards offer the "virtual credit card" numbers you can use online only with one vendor?
  • Which credit cards offer the contactless payment chips?
  • Which credit cards offer custom photo ons the front?
  • What set of warranty/car-rental-insurance/other guarantees (which I'll probably never use, except maybe the car rental insurance once) are provided?

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Billshrink offers some pretty neat analysis tools to help you pick a credit card. They focus more on rewards than the features you mention but it might be worth a look.

If you use Mint, they offer a similar service, too. If you're not already using Mint, though, I'd look at Billshrink as Mint requires some extensive setup.

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