Is there a way to make an Automatic payment deduct only from credit card, not PayPal balance?

[devans00]

When my automatic payment goes through later this month, I don’t want anything deducted from my PayPal balance. I want 100% paid via attached credit card. The settings page says “Payment method. We’ll use your balance first. Then we'll use <credit card>”.  Is there any way to change this?  The service only accepts automated PayPal payments. 

[sharpiemarker · Accepted solution]

@devans00 

Withdrawing your entire PayPal balance or sending your balance to a different PayPal account temporarily before the automatic payment happens is the only options I can think of. 

[devans00]

The response from PayPal support was not very helpful.  They basically said maybe or maybe not but definitely your account balance will be used.

I believe you provided the best option. Thanks for taking the time to respond @sharpiemarker.