Default to my credit card, not my bank account

WardC
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I recently added a back account to my PayPal account in order to easily witchdrawn money paid into my PayPal account.  That's working fine.

 

But now, when a make a purchase, PayPal wants to withdraw from my checking account.  On each purchase, I have to select my credit card as the payment method.

 

Is there a way to have PayPal default to my credit card?

 

— Ward

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kernowlass
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No, once you have added a bank account that is always the default funding source unless you have funds in your paypal account balance.


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mstowers62
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I have money in my paypal account that I would like to transfer to my credit /debit card account which is a different bank than my checking account.  Can I change where to transfer it ?  If so, how?   If not, can I delete my checking bank account to make my credit / debit bank account first and then add my deleted bank account to paypal again?  Will that make my credit / debit card account first?  Does this make sense?


@kernowlass wrote:

No, once you have added a bank account that is always the default funding source unless you have funds in your paypal account balance.



Thank you for your help.

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PayPal_Andy
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Hi mstowers62 -

 

Welcome to the Community, happy to help!

 

Within the US anyway, you would not be able to withdraw directly to a card (unless it's the PayPal debit card). However if there is a bank account associated with the card you could add that bank to your account and withdraw directly to it. You would not be able to add your card number as a bank account though, sorry. And there would be no need to have to delete your current bank; you can have more than one bank on an account to withdraw to. You'd just need to select the specific bank when you withdraw.

 

Hope that helps!

 

- Andy

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