Can You Use A Prepaid Card For Cash App

Can You Use a Visa Gift Card on Cash App? How to Link Gift Card on Cash App

November 18, 2021

No, you cannot directly add and use a Visa Gift Card on Cash App to transfer money from Gift Card to Cash App. Alternatively, add the VISA Gift card to your PayPal and transfer the balance to your Cash App account to use the gift card on Cash app indirectly.

Continue reading as we will show you a way to transfer your Gift Card funds over to your Cash account and alternative ways to convert your VISA gift Card to Cash.

Did you get a Visa Gift Card for your birthday as a present? Whatever the case may be, If you have a Visa gift card and looking to cash out via Cash App, you may struggle to figure out what to do with it since Cash App have no straightforward method to cash out and add to your account balance.

Note that currently, Cash App doesn't allow you to add a prepaid card on Cash App to add funds to your account.

However, most of the government-enabled prepaid cards are accepted and can only be used to send money to someone using a government-enabled prepaid card — and cannot deposit money from Cash App to your card.

The government-enabled prepaid cards are to be used for unemployment, economic, and other government-issued benefits payments. So, any of the prepaid cards that you buy online or in the mall are not supported and will not work with Cash App.

Can you Add a Prepaid Card to Cash App?

Can you Add a Prepaid Card to Cash App? No Prepaid cards can be added and can't be used to make Cash App payments. With Cash App, you're limited to a bank account and a standard debit/ credit card. Currently, only Venmo and PayPal are accepting prepaid cards.

If you are looking to transfer your Cash App funds to your bank, you can do so by free ACH transfers of your balance to a bank account using a routing and account number.

In this case, a prepaid card should work if it is entered as a bank account.

NOTE: Government Enabled Cards are Supported by Cash App.

What Prepaid Cards work with Cash App?

What prepaid cards work with cash app? Cash App works with most of the government-enabled prepaid cards along with the debit and credit cards as long as they're from Visa, American Express, Mastercard, or Discover — and registered in your name.

However, it is best suited to use a traditional bank-issued debit or credit card.

Do Visa Gift Cards Work on Cash App?

Cash App does not allow VISA gift cards as a payment option since Cash App does not accept Prepaid and Gift cards. Gift Card Credit can only be used to purchase items online – it can't be used in the Cash App directly but can be transferred indirectly.

When you try to add your gift card to your account, a message will pop up displaying that prepaid cards are not supported by Cash App and cannot be added as a payment method on Cash App.

>> Read: How do I Add Money to My Cash App Card?

So, if you have a $x visa gift card, you can still load the funds from the gift card to your Cash App but in an indirect and multi-step process kinda way.

How to convert Visa gift cards to cash?

There are different methods to convert your Visa gift card into your Cash App balance. The best option here is to add your Visa Gift Card to your PayPal wallet and move the funds to your Cash App from Paypal.

PayPal allows users to add prepaid cards, including the Via gift cards, to your PayPal wallet. So, basically, once you add the card to your Wallet, you can use the available balance from the gift card like cash and purchase things from any merchant accepting PayPal or even send it to other PayPal users.

>> Read: Can You Borrow Money From Cash App?

In this case, we are trying to add the gift card balance to your Cash App. So, Transfer the money to your linked Cash App account.

How to get money off of Visa gift card through PayPal?

Here are the steps to get the money off from a Visa gift card to your PayPal wallet.

Log in to your PayPal account.
Choose the "Wallet" option from the top of the page
Select "Link a card or bank".
Add your Visa gift card details. Then click on the "Link Card" tab.

If it shows an error when you add the Gift card, maybe you should have to first register the card with the issuer so an address is linked to the Visa gift card. After that, there should be no problem for PayPal to accept it.

How to Move money from PayPal wallet to Cash App?

Every cash app user has their own unique cash app Visa card number and routing number if you already have a Cash Card associated with your Cash App account.

Add your Visa card number to your PayPal account and instantly transfer the balance to it for a small fee and the funds will be immediately credited to your cash app account.

Login to the PayPal app
Click "Transfer money" and then "Transfer to your bank".
Link your Cash App debit card if you haven't already, and then press next.
Enter the amount to transfer, review the details and tap the "Transfer" option.

How to Convert Visa Gift Cards to Cash?

If you fail to load your Gift card to your Cash App wallet, there are still tons of other options to cash out.

Visit a Gift Card Exchange Kiosk and trade it in – They're usually yellow and can find them in supermarkets and shopping malls.
Sell your Visa gift card – Resell your Gift card and convert your Visa gift cards to cash. Note that there might be some fees or commissions for doing this.
Use Visa gift card to buy other merchants' gift cards – Use your Visa gift card to buy a gift card from other merchants and stores.
Add it to your Venmo account – Just like PayPal, add your Visa gift card balance to your Venmo account and transfer the money to your own account.

Can You Use a Visa Gift Card on Cash App

Can you put a Visa gift card on Cash app Bank Account?

Yes, you can deposit a gift card to your bank account, but indirectly.

Visa gift cards or gift cards, in general, are treated as credit cards, which means that the balance cannot be transferred to an account. However, from the above, you can still go roundabout ways to cash out.

Final Thoughts:

Visa Gift Cards are popular gift cards on the market. You can get them at pretty much most big retailers such as Walmart, Target, or CVS to name a few stores.

The Card can be used to purchase items anywhere Visa card is accepted. While Cash App provides many bank-like services, but it is not a full-fledged bank.

Did you find this article helpful to cash out your Visa Gift Card? Let us know below in the comments!

About The Author

I'm Laurens Yarpei. I have been using Cash App for the past 4 years. In this blog, I help Cash App Users with their Problems and Offer Troubleshoot solutions on everything Cash App-related Problems. Disclaimer: The intention of using trademarks, images, logos, and brand name is for information and referral only and not intended to act as Cash App representatives. We do not provide any service and are not Cash App representatives. This is just an educational blog run by a long-time Cash App user and a lover of the app and its service. Contact Cash App here for your queries: https://cash.app/help