Amazon is one of the most used online stores in our country that allows us to buy a vacuum cleaner, diapers or make a purchase in a market in your city. Fast and free shipping and a wide catalog, but not all are advantages: it does not allow all the payment methods that we would like, it does not allow paying with PayPal and we must renounce all its advantages. Or not. In the next few paragraphs we will explain all the options to pay with PayPal on Amazon.
There is no infallible trick that allows us to register it as a payment method but there are some options that will allow us to have it as an option to pay when we need it and we do not want to use our credit card.
Advantages of paying with PayPal
The main advantage that PayPal offers us compared to other payment methods is the improvement in security thanks to the fact that we do not give access to our bank card if we do not want nor to a bank account but we can only use our balance to carry out all kinds Shopping. In addition, PayPal stands out for a guarantee to the buyer that allows us to receive our money back if the order is not as promised: we receive our money in case it is not in good condition, in case of not having received it or that be something other than what we have asked for. We can open a dispute and it takes care to protect us and return our money in case there is any problem.
It is a very interesting and widespread payment method both for online purchases and for shipping to individuals or to organize a boat if you want to pay something together with friends. We can use it easily and on many different platforms or websites but, as we will see in the next few paragraphs, not all.
Accepted and not accepted payment methods
We can pay on Amazon with a credit card (Visa, Visa Electron 4B, Euro6000, Mastercard, American Express and Maestro Internacional) or we can pay with a bank account that we can add to our profile by registering the IBAN and the BIC. There are also installment payments with Cofidis or Credit Line, for example. But there are a number of methods that Amazon does not accept (at least for now) which are: PayPal, checks and money orders, cash payments, promissory notes or cash on delivery payments.
Of all of them, the most “problematic” is PayPal since it is a convenient, easy, and interesting payment method that offers us a series of guarantees when facing the return of an order or problems in the Shipping. But Amazon does not allow it. Why? PayPal belongs to eBay and this may be one of the reasons: eBay is Amazon’s direct rival in the area of online businesses worldwide and it is likely that it does not want to facilitate the payment method of its competitor. But in addition, Amazon has its own “PayPal” which is Amazon Pay and blocking the first one can encourage the use of its own method although it is not as well known or widespread. At least for now.
How to pay: gift card
The best option if we want to pay with PayPal on Amazon is to buy a PayPal gift card and register it as a payment method. We can buy gift cards directly from Amazon but, of course, we will not be able to pay for them with PayPal. Checks work the same regardless of the medium in which you buy them: they are physical or virtual cards that we fill in with an amount of between 20 or 1,000 euros and with a code that we can add to our profile to be discounted as we make purchases.
They are codes of 14 or 15 characters with letters and numbers that we add from My account> Choose “Your payments”> Scroll> Search “Redeem a gift voucher”
What happen? That, as we have said, we cannot buy an Amazon gift card with PayPal directly from the online store. But there are many other websites that allow us to do so. However, it is possible to buy Amazon gift cards on other online sites that do allow paying with PayPal, therefore, what we will have to do to be able to pay with PayPal on Amazon is to buy an Amazon gift card on a site that allow us to pay with PayPal and later use this gift card to buy on Amazon. Now, we must be careful as we must make sure that we buy the Amazon gift card in a trusted place.
There are specialized websites such as MyGiftCardSUPPLY that allow us to choose the Amazon card, the amount and buy it. But we must always take into account that it is reliable and that it is compatible in Spain and that this payment method allows us. For example, Recharge.com allows us to choose the country in which we want to use the Amazon gift voucher and allows us to choose the amount we want to recharge: ten euros, fifteen, twenty, forty … We choose the one that interests us, we pay and receive the code instantly through an email of our choice. You simply have to fill in the information and choose PayPal as the payment method to be able to have the card. You repeat the process as many times as you want and use these cards from your account as balance for your purchases on Amazon.
PayPal card
It is an interesting method but it is not available to all PayPal users in Spain, although it should be taken into account. It is PayPal Business Debit MasterCard. This card is like a normal debit card that allows us to make payments over the Internet but that is associated with our account on the platform and that will use the balance we have in addition to all the advantages that PayPal offers us if we use the service: claims , sale protection … The problem is that not everyone can have it: only PayPal Business accounts allow you to request this physical Mastercard.
Among the advantages it offers us is to buy where we want, directly in physical stores. Or, in this case, we can register the Mastercard to pay on Amazon with PayPal. We can access PayPal balance from ATMs around the world and there is no monthly fee or surcharge for making transactions online or at physical points of sale. We can make a withdrawal of 350 euros in cash at ATMs or spend a daily maximum of 6,000 euros for transactions.
The great advantage of this card is that we can request it to arrive and be able to register it as a payment method in Amazon to make accounts safely and with “extra” protection, but the problem is that we will need a PayPal Business account focused on companies and designed not only to pay but to manage payments received for sales on the Internet, etc.
Alternatives: Prepaid cards
If none of this seems right to us, one option is to use prepaid cards that allow us to recharge balance and then use it on Amazon. You do not necessarily have to use the Amazon card mentioned above, but you can use versions of other companies such as Correos Prepaid. This is not as such a way to pay with PayPal on Amazon because we would not pay with PayPal, but it is a “similar” version since we use a previously preloaded balance in that specific Mastercard that you can allocate exclusively to your purchases in this online store and without the risk of hacking your usual credit card, for example.
There are many virtual or prepaid cards not associated with a bank and that offer us this possibility: from Bnext or Revolut (some of the best known) to prepaid Post that we can request at any office for about six euros and with no maintenance cost. You just have to look for which one best suits your conditions or requirements and choose the one that best suits you.