Amazon is the largest store in the world and millions of people shop there every day. When it comes to paying for your purchases in it, you have different payment options. Many users want to pay for their purchases on Amazon using PayPal, the well-known payment method. Although being able to use this payment method in the well-known store is not something as simple or obvious as many would think.
The reality is that the situation is somewhat complex, because technically you will be able to use your PayPal account to pay your purchases on Amazon. Although this is something that is technically possible, we find a series of obstacles along the way that make it not so simple to pay with our account in this payment service.
Can we use PayPal on Amazon?
As we have mentioned, it is technically it is possible to use PayPal on Amazon to pay for your purchases. Although we find a series of obstacles that we have to jump to be able to make use of this option when we want to pay for purchases. The fact that there are these obstacles may be something that makes many not want to use this option, but luckily the process is not too complex, although it does require some patience.
The main problem is that Amazon does not support PayPal natively. That is, we cannot link our account in the well-known online payment service to our account in the store, so that we pay for purchases automatically in this way. This is a clear drawback, especially if we take into account that around the world there are hundreds of millions of users who use PayPal for their purchases.
Luckily there are ways to get that it is possible to pay for purchases on Amazon with this payment service. So if it is more convenient for you to use your PayPal account when you have to pay for purchases online, then you will want to know the steps you have to follow so that this link is possible or so that you can use your account.
Currently we find two main ways to use PayPal to pay for purchases on Amazon. One of them involves using a PayPal Cash Card, while the other requires us to buy a gift card. These two ways will allow us to use this method to pay, although they are simply a patch to cover that lack of integration between the two services, which is still a problem today.
PayPal CashCard
Possibly many of you are familiar with this concept. One of the best ways to take advantage of your PayPal account is to make use of the so-called PayPal Cash Card, which is a kind of Mastercard card that is associated with your account on this payment platform. This card is accepted in all those stores where Mastercard is accepted, among which we find Amazon, among many others. Thanks to this, we can use the card to pay for purchases and the money will be extracted from our PayPal balance, which is exactly what we want.
Any user will be able to request this PayPal Cash Card, in addition, this process is completely free, for everyone's convenience. If you are going to use this card in the future to withdraw money at an ATM, then you will find certain costs, but when it comes to using it for purchases in stores (both physical and online), you will not have additional costs , so it will work like a normal payment card in all cases.
The PayPal Cash Card is available in many countries, although not all users worldwide will be able to use it. In addition, it is possible that you are in one of the countries where this card is supported or available, as in Spain, but that there are a series of requirements associated with it, so it could be the case that you do not go to be able to request it. There are a series of essential requirements associated with applying for this card, they are the following:
- Have a phone number associated with the PayPal account.
- Have an address that has been confirmed / verified in your PayPal account.
- Confirm your date of birth and identity with the payment platform.
- Have no problems to solve within the account.
If you meet these requirements that the payment platform establishes and the card in question is available in your country, then you will be able to request it And so you can use it to pay for your purchases on platforms such as Amazon (in addition to many other online stores). It is also something that you can use in purchases in physical stores, if you wish or it is more comfortable, in addition to withdrawing money at ATMs.
Pay on Amazon with gift cards
The PayPal Cash Card is the first of the options to pay for purchases on Amazon, but it may not be something that is available to everyone, it will depend in part on where you live. As we have mentioned before, there is a second method that we can use in the popular online store. This second method is to buy Amazon gift cards, something that we can do by paying with PayPal. Thus, it will be possible to use these gift cards to pay for the purchases we make in the well-known online store at all times. It is something possible, although it is not as direct a method as the previous one.
Today we find many ways to be able to buy Amazon gift cards with our PayPal account. It is possible to buy these cards on platforms such as eBay, Dundle or many more. So we will simply have to go to that web page in question, buy the card with the desired value and then pay it using our PayPal account. If we want to make more purchases in the future, we will have to repeat this process each time we need to have more credit to buy.
When buying an Amazon gift card, we have to be careful and choose only sites that are reliable. If we search on Google we can see that there are a huge number of stores where these gift cards are sold, but not all of them are reliable. In addition, it is best to always buy cards for a reduced value. You do not have to buy a gift card that has a great value, such as 100 or 200 euros. Rather, we buy one for a reduced price, unless we want to buy something expensive.
When you have bought your gift card using your PayPal balance, this gift card can be added to your Amazon account in a matter of a few seconds. It is important that we add it to the account before we make a purchase, because these gift cards are not always shown when we are about to pay. Therefore, if we have added it to the account first, we make sure that it is always possible to pay for purchases using it.
Add the gift card to Amazon
Add this gift card that you paid with your PayPal account to your Amazon account is simple. We simply have to follow a few steps, so that we are going to make sure that this card has been registered and that we can use it to pay for a purchase that we want to make on the well-known website. The steps we have to follow to be able to add it to our account in the store are:
- Go to Amazon.
- Log into your account in the store.
- Click on your name at the top right of the screen.
- Enter the section of Your Account.
- Click on the option that says "Add a gift card to your account."
- Enter the code of this gift card that you have purchased.
- Click Add to your balance.
- Wait for this gift card to show up in your account.
- Make use of the card in any purchase in the store.
This is the process that we have to follow at all times when we want to add a gift card to our Amazon account. Therefore, if we are going to buy cards with a certain frequency, which we will pay using our PayPal account, we will have to repeat this process at all times. Having these cards registered in your account is something convenient, in addition to ensuring at all times that you can pay with them and that no one else will use them, so whenever you buy a card, register it in your Amazon account.
For now they are the only options we can appeal if we want to make payments on Amazon with our PayPal account. The lack of integration between the two platforms is a big problem and causes irritation among many users. It is not known if this will change in the future, as a possible integration, but for now we will have to resort to these methods. Although the first of them is somewhat limited, because it is not something that can be used throughout the world.