You can now add your PayPal debit card to Apple Wallet and use it for Apple Pay
If you have a debit card for your PayPal balance, you can now add it to the Wallet app on your iPhone to use for contactless Apple Pay transactions.
PayPal said in a September 5 announcement that all PayPal users can now add their PayPal Debit Card to the iPhone’s Wallet app. This feature has been available to some people since last year, and today’s announcement makes it official.
Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, said, “We’re excited to work with PayPal to bring Apple Pay to PayPal Debit Card cardholders and help deliver a seamless shopping experience to even more users.” You can use your PayPal Debit Card anywhere Apple Pay is accepted, including in stores, online and in apps.
How to add your PayPal card to Apple Wallet
To add your PayPal Debit Card to the Wallet app on your iPhone, hit + (Add) in the top-right corner, then choose Add Card from the menu and follow the steps. Or, select your card in the PayPal app and choose Add to Apple Wallet in its settings.
You can enter details manually or scan your card for automatic entry. Once in Wallet, you can set the card as the default payment method for Apple Pay or choose it on the fly when you invoke Apple Pay by double-pressing the power button.
An expansion of PayPal’s reward program
PayPal also announced some new features in its reward program. For instance, you can set a monthly spending category, such as groceries or clothing, to receive five percent cash back when using your PayPal Debit Card. Offers from 100+ brands like Sephora, Domino’s, DoorDash, Instacart, and PetSmart are now available for you to discover and save in the app.
“For example, if a customer selects Restaurant as their monthly category, they’ll receive five percent cash back and another ten percent cash back for a total of fifteen percent) if they save a deal from DoorDash in the PayPal app, which will be automatically applied when checking out with PayPal online,” PayPal explains.
You have to choose a category (like Dining, Grocery, Clothing, Health and Beauty, Gas, etc) each month, or you won’t earn five percent cash back for that month.
What is PayPal Everywhere?
The app has gained another new feature, an auto-reload option that kicks in if your PayPal balance falls below your set threshold. This is all part of the PayPal Everywhere initiative, which includes the following:
- Simple Sign-up: Streamlined sign up for a PayPal Balance Account, Digital Debit Card, and Account and Routing Numbers for PayPal Direct Deposit. A physical debit card can be requested at no cost.
- Auto-reload: Customers will now have a personalized way to manage their spending, with the ability to automatically reload funds to keep their PayPal balance at a certain threshold.
- Tap-to-Pay: Add the PayPal Debit Card to their mobile wallet with just a few clicks to earn cash back when they tap-to-pay with PayPal Debit in stores.
- Five percent Cash Back In-Store and Online: Flexibility to choose a five percent PayPal Debit monthly cash back category from grocery, gas, restaurant, clothing, and health & beauty.
- Stackable Cash Back Rewards: Earn fivew percent cash back with PayPal Debit and even more by stacking additional offers in their monthly category at the brands customers love like Sephora, Domino’s, DoorDash, Instacart, PetSmart, and many more when they check out with PayPal online.
- Secure Transactions: As always expected, when they check out online with PayPal, all transactions are encrypted, and customers’ full financial information is not shared.
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