Organization	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2013
Organization [Abstract]
Organization	Organization Green Dot Corporation (“we,” “us” and “our” refer to Green Dot Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Next Estate Communications, Inc.; Green Dot Bank; and Loopt, LLC) is a bank holding company with a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses. Our prepaid products and services are available in more than 60,000 retail stores nationwide and online at Greendot.com. Our products include: Green Dot MasterCard and Visa-branded prepaid debit cards and several co-branded reloadable prepaid card programs, collectively referred to as our GPR cards; Visa-branded gift cards; our MoneyPak and swipe reload proprietary products, collectively referred to as our cash transfer products, which enable cash loading and transfer services through our Green Dot Network; and GoBank, an innovative checking account developed for distribution and use via mobile phones. GoBank is available online at GoBank.com and via the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Green Dot Network enables consumers to use cash to reload our prepaid debit cards or to transfer cash to any of our Green Dot Network acceptance members, including competing prepaid card programs and other online accounts. We market our products and services to banked, underbanked and unbanked consumers in the United States using distribution channels other than traditional bank branches, such as third-party retailer locations nationwide and the Internet. Our prepaid debit cards are issued by Green Dot Bank and third-party issuing banks including GE Capital Retail Bank, The Bancorp Bank, Sunrise Banks, N.A., and prior to November 2012, Columbus Bank and Trust Company, a division of Synovus Bank. We also have multi-year distribution arrangements with many large and medium-sized retailers, such as Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, 7-Eleven, Kroger, Kmart, and Radio Shack, and with various industry resellers, such as Blackhawk Network, Inc. and Incomm. We refer to participating retailers collectively as our “retail distributors.” Acquisitions In March 2012, we acquired Loopt, Inc., or Loopt, for approximately $33.6 million in cash in exchange for all of its outstanding shares. Loopt's results of operations are included in our consolidated results of operations following the acquisition date. We committed to pay $9.8 million in retention-based incentives for employees we hired in connection with the acquisition of Loopt. In December 2012, we converted Loopt from a corporation to a limited liability company.

Organization

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2013

Green Dot Corporation (“we,” “us” and “our” refer to Green Dot Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Next Estate Communications, Inc.; Green Dot Bank; and Loopt, LLC) is a bank holding company with a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses. Our prepaid products and services are available in more than 60,000 retail stores nationwide and online at Greendot.com. Our products include: Green Dot MasterCard and Visa-branded prepaid debit cards and several co-branded reloadable prepaid card programs, collectively referred to as our GPR cards; Visa-branded gift cards; our MoneyPak and swipe reload proprietary products, collectively referred to as our cash transfer products, which enable cash loading and transfer services through our Green Dot Network; and GoBank, an innovative checking account developed for distribution and use via mobile phones. GoBank is available online at GoBank.com and via the Apple App Store and Google Play. The Green Dot Network enables consumers to use cash to reload our prepaid debit cards or to transfer cash to any of our Green Dot Network acceptance members, including competing prepaid card programs and other online accounts.

We market our products and services to banked, underbanked and unbanked consumers in the United States using distribution channels other than traditional bank branches, such as third-party retailer locations nationwide and the Internet. Our prepaid debit cards are issued by Green Dot Bank and third-party issuing banks including GE Capital Retail Bank, The Bancorp Bank, Sunrise Banks, N.A., and prior to November 2012, Columbus Bank and Trust Company, a division of Synovus Bank. We also have multi-year distribution arrangements with many large and medium-sized retailers, such as Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, 7-Eleven, Kroger, Kmart, and Radio Shack, and with various industry resellers, such as Blackhawk Network, Inc. and Incomm. We refer to participating retailers collectively as our “retail distributors.”

Acquisitions

In March 2012, we acquired Loopt, Inc., or Loopt, for approximately $33.6 million in cash in exchange for all of its outstanding shares. Loopt's results of operations are included in our consolidated results of operations following the acquisition date. We committed to pay $9.8 million in retention-based incentives for employees we hired in connection with the acquisition of Loopt. In December 2012, we converted Loopt from a corporation to a limited liability company.