Adding a Credit Card to Cash App
In this article we will be talking about Cash App, the peer to peer money transferring app and more specifically, we will be walking through the steps on how to add a credit card to your Cash App.
Before starting, if you haven’t downloaded Cash App already, type Cash App into your App Store or Google Play search bar, look for the green icon with the dollar sign and click on download. You can also check out the link that the description of the video at the bottom of this article contains, as it has a referral code with which you can get $5 from Cash App after performing a transaction. Check out the Cash App Referral Code ($5 Promo Code) article to find out more about it.
What we will be doing is adding a credit card to our Cash App, by doing this we will have a different funding source to send money to someone. However, one thing that you can’t do by attaching your credit card to your Cash App is adding funds into your balance, to do this you’ll need to attach a debit card or your bank account.
Adding your Credit Card to Cash App
Let’s walk through the steps on adding a credit card to your Cash App:
1) Go to the Settings by clicking on the icon or your selected picture, located on the top left corner of the Home Screen.
Before starting, if you haven’t downloaded Cash App already, type Cash App into your App Store or Google Play search bar, look for the green icon with the dollar sign and click on download. You can also check out the link that the description of the video at the bottom of this article contains, as it has a referral code with which you can get $5 from Cash App after performing a transaction. Check out the Cash App Referral Code ($5 Promo Code) article to find out more about it.
What we will be doing is adding a credit card to our Cash App, by doing this we will have a different funding source to send money to someone. However, one thing that you can’t do by attaching your credit card to your Cash App is adding funds into your balance, to do this you’ll need to attach a debit card or your bank account.
Adding your Credit Card to Cash App
Let’s walk through the steps on adding a credit card to your Cash App:
1) Go to the Settings by clicking on the icon or your selected picture, located on the top left corner of the Home Screen.
2) Now, what you want to do is scrolling down until you find a section called Funds. Click the option that says Add Credit Card.
Important: by using your credit card with Cash App and doing transactions with it, they will charge you 3% of the transactions that you perform.
For example, if you are going to send someone $100 dollars through Cash App funded with your credit card, Cash App will charge you $103 dollars for this transaction.
Additionally, you may want to contact your credit card company just to make sure that they won’t charge you any kind of cash transaction fees or a higher interest rate with your credit card.
3) Next up, follow the prompts, you’ll have to type in your credit card number, the expiration date of your credit card, its security code and your billing ZIP code. Add all the requested information, after doing this, click Add Card.
For example, if you are going to send someone $100 dollars through Cash App funded with your credit card, Cash App will charge you $103 dollars for this transaction.
Additionally, you may want to contact your credit card company just to make sure that they won’t charge you any kind of cash transaction fees or a higher interest rate with your credit card.
3) Next up, follow the prompts, you’ll have to type in your credit card number, the expiration date of your credit card, its security code and your billing ZIP code. Add all the requested information, after doing this, click Add Card.
Now, you’re credit card has been added to your Cash App account. In the Funds section, instead of having an option saying Add Credit Card, now it will only say Credit Card.
Click Credit Card to verify that the correct credit card has been added, you’ll be able to see the last four digits of the card you just added. You’ll also find options to remove or replace your credit card.
Click Credit Card to verify that the correct credit card has been added, you’ll be able to see the last four digits of the card you just added. You’ll also find options to remove or replace your credit card.
Send Money to Someone Using your Attached Credit Card
These are the simple steps that you’ll need to go through in order to send money to someone through Cash App using your credit card:
1) Type the amount that you would like to send on the Cash App Home Screen and click Pay on the bottom right.
2) Look at the top portion of the payment screen, the one that shows the dollar amount that you’ll be sending and where those funds come from, click on the little arrow next to this. You can use your balance and your bank account to fund your payments too, but you’ll choose the option that says credit card.
Keep in mind that Cash App charges a 3% fee for the transactions funded by your credit card.
Keep in mind that Cash App charges a 3% fee for the transactions funded by your credit card.
3) Type in the $Cashtag, number, contact name or email of the person who you’ll be sending the payment to and click Pay.
Now you know how to add a credit card to your Cash App and how to send a payment funded with it. Remember that you can’t add money into your Cash App balance with a credit card.
If you really need to use your credit card to fund your Cash App balance, maybe you could do this, mind that this is only a suggestion and that it’s not a very convenient option:
Hopefully you found this article useful, keep posted up for more articles and be sure to watch the video if you would like to find more information about the Cash App:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wfa9AkNUQ&feature=youtu.be
If you really need to use your credit card to fund your Cash App balance, maybe you could do this, mind that this is only a suggestion and that it’s not a very convenient option:
- You could send money to a friend or family member using your credit card (keep in mind the 3% fee) and then you could ask that person to send you the money back, there’s no fee for making payments from Cash App to Cash App and the money will automatically hit your Cash App balance.
Hopefully you found this article useful, keep posted up for more articles and be sure to watch the video if you would like to find more information about the Cash App:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42wfa9AkNUQ&feature=youtu.be