Cannot activate my new PayPal Business Debit Card

[wubayou]

I have the card.  It says to go to paypal.com/activatecard.  When I do, I get taken to my account summary.  Then there's no way to find how to activate it within my account.

Am I missing something here?  How do I activate it?  I've been with PayPal over 10 years and this is the first time I've had this issue.

[onegemini]

Clicking on "Manage My Cards" refers to that URL indicated in red-which just goes to a non-existant part of the page I'm currently on.

[onegemini]

Thanks for the help, everyone, but I've been trying the web for two weeks now to make this work. I even emailed PayPal three days ago without a peep. I'm now going to go sit on the phone again and hope they pick up this time (last time was almost an hour and a half with no one taking my call). Didn't use to be this difficult or frustrating.

[Oregon11]

My page was and is different. It showed my current card and the new card waiting to be activated under manage my cards and there is a popup when you click on a card. I see that you do not even have your current card listed under manage my cards.

I'm using Opera browser on a PC but I doubt that has anything to do with it.

[wubayou]

After 3 hours of frustration online and with phone reps, I called PayPal again.  When the automated robot starts talking, I yelled "ACTIVATE CARD" and boom - it let me enter the number, etc. and it was activated.  That simple! LOL

[onegemini]

First time I called this evening, it said stuff about long wait times, and then I was listening to Muzak for about 15 minutes. I hung up. Called again - this time, for the first time, it got me in to a voice-activated menu. WHERE WAS THAT BEFORE?! Took a few minutes (saying activate card didn't work until it let me say it - I was frustrated), but I finally got through it. Yeeesh.

[Oregon11]

Kind of like how there was no activate my card option when I first logged in.

Glad you got it worked out. 

[DW8462]

Going to just cut this card up. Amazing how much time Paypal takes up rather than just admitting there’s a problem here and fixing it. Thanks for another huge waste of time Paypal.

[cela2travel]

Try paypal.com/activatecard I had a lot of problems too & got an email with a link that didn't work. But finally, I tried searching the link again in a different way & it worked. First time, I copied & pasted to my url to search on my phone, it brought me to my summary page. Second time, I highlighted the link then clicked search then chose Google option. Finally, manage my cards page with a red symbol next to my business debit card showed up. Not sure why that would work, but try different ways & different search engines with the link & see if it will work for you. Good luck!