If you did not use a gift card to get a gift or sell it on a platform with a favorable interest rate, so you can add a balance to your PayPal account, because there are credit card brands on the platform that are payment methods, and they also issue gift cards. Visa, Master Card, American Express, etc. are all brands that issue gift cards and are accepted as payment methods on the platform.

5 steps to Adding a gift card balance on PayPal

  1. Log into your PayPal wallet
  2. Click the Link Debit or credit Card option.
  3. You may be asked to choose between a manual link or a manual payment through your bank.
  4. Fill in the gift card code
  5. Click the link card.

If you encounter an error when trying to do this, it may be because the platform does not recognize the user. This may be because gift cards, unlike credit and debit cards, do not have a personal identifier. This means there is no customer name registered on the card, only the code number.

In this case, all you have to do is register your card. Reading the information on the card, you will see a link that will direct you to the website where you can register the card.