Last updated on 28 October 2025
Last updated on 28 October 2025
This Agreement ("Agreement") constitutes a legal agreement between you and PayPal UK Ltd ("we" or "PayPal").
It governs the issuance and the use of your PayPal Consumer Debit Mastercard, which can be available in digital representation and/or physical form (the "Card" or “Cards”). The Agreement supplements the PayPal User Agreement that governs your use of PayPal’s services in general.
If there is any conflict between this Agreement and the PayPal User Agreement, this Agreement shall prevail.
To be eligible for the Card you need to have a UK personal PayPal account and a linked funding source to your personal PayPal account. We may reject applications for Cards at our sole discretion.
Upon successful application, the Card will be immediately available in your personal PayPal account. If you have requested it, a physical version of the Card will be subsequently posted to you. You must activate your Card before it can be used. You may activate the Card by calling our Customer Services team (call charges may apply) or by logging into your personal PayPal account and following the activation instructions provided to you and as outlined on our website.
Your Card can be used at merchants accepting Mastercard. You can use the Card to make purchases in-store, via the Internet and over the phone. The Card can be used for cash withdrawals at ATMs bearing the Mastercard Acceptance Mark.
Where supported by PayPal, you can also add your Card to a third party digital wallet to make transactions and you can use your mobile phone or other mobile device ("Device") which enables the use of digital cards, provided your Device has a supported operating system as published on our website.
When you make a payment online using a PayPal checkout solution, your Card may be displayed as an available payment method. If you select that option, the transaction will be processed directly by PayPal by debiting the purchase amount from your PayPal balance without processing the transaction as a Card transaction; such transactions will be governed by the terms of the PayPal User Agreement. Not all Mastercard debit card benefits may apply when you use this payment method for purchases you make using your PayPal balance in PayPal checkout.
In-store payments with your Card are not eligible for PayPal Buyer Protection. Only online payments with your Card, or with your PayPal balance through PayPal checkout (as described in the 'Online Payments Using PayPal Checkout' section above), are eligible for PayPal Buyer Protection subject to the conditions set out in the PayPal Buyer Protection Program.
You are required to use Your Card only within certain daily limits on usage. You can see the daily limits for payments and cash withdrawals when logging into your PayPal account.
When you use your Card for a transaction, i.e. give a payment order, you are obliged to reimburse the transaction amount to us. To this end, you authorise us to debit the respective amount from your PayPal account balance.
To the extent that there is insufficient balance available to fund the Card transaction, you authorise PayPal to debit the amount from your linked funding source (i.e. either your bank account via direct debit or your debit card), to credit this amount to your personal PayPal account and to use it to make the Card transaction. This means we will prioritise using your balance on the PayPal account to fund a payment made using your Card and only draw the amount from your bank account via direct debit or your debit card to the extent that the balance on your PayPal account is insufficient. You are obliged to reimburse us for any transaction amount even if you have exceeded your daily limits or have withdrawn your direct debit mandate or debit card.
The Card enables you to withdraw cash from the GBP balance on your personal PayPal account at:
You may withdraw cash in an amount up to your daily limit (see the "Limits on Usage" section of this Agreement).
Withdrawal at an ATM: You may carry out a Withdrawal at an ATM from your preexisting balance on your personal PayPal account only. Before making a Withdrawal at an ATM you must ensure you have sufficient funds available to cover both the withdrawal amount and any fees. If you do not have a pre-existing balance on your personal PayPal account, you will not be able to carry out a Withdrawal at an ATM until you have topped up your personal PayPal account.
It is possible to maintain balances in different currencies other than GBP in your personal PayPal account - see the PayPal User Agreement for more details. However, pre-existing balances in currencies other than GBP will not be used to fulfil your payment obligation pursuant to the "Your Payment Obligation" section. We will only use your GBP balance (see the "Your Payment Obligation" section for how we obtain sufficient GBP balance).
If you use your Card for a payment or cash withdrawal that involves a currency conversion (excluding purchases made online through PayPal checkout where your Card is selected, resulting in use of your PayPal balance), Mastercard’s foreign exchange rates will apply. The exchange rate that is applied will usually be the rate on the date that the transaction was authorised. However, in certain circumstances, the exchange rate that is applied may be the rate on the date when the transaction is processed by Mastercard’s systems, which may be different to the exchange rate on the date of the transaction. PayPal does not charge currency conversion fees. Please see the Mastercard Currency Conversion Calculator for Mastercard’s rates. If you make a purchase through PayPal checkout and select your Card (resulting in the use of your PayPal balance), and the transaction is in a currency different from the original currency of your PayPal account, PayPal will perform any currency conversion in accordance with the PayPal User Agreement.
We do not charge any fees for a cash withdrawal, whether a Withdrawal at an ATM or Cash at Checkout. The ATM provider may charge additional fees.
We do not charge any fees for payments made using your Card.
In particular, we do not charge a cross-border fee nor a currency conversion fee for payments with your Card.
We may inform you by email regarding your Card and payment transactions made with your Card. Your transaction history will also be updated and made available to you at any time by logging into your PayPal account. You can also access a downloadable report showing all your payment transactions including those made using your Card from your PayPal account.
Upon expiry of your Card, PayPal will usually automatically issue a new Card for you. Please contact the Customer Services team if upon expiry your Card has not been renewed and you wish to renew it.
You are obliged to comply with the following obligations:
In the event of an unauthorised payment with your Card where the payment has already been debited from your personal PayPal account, PayPal is required to refund the transaction amount to your personal PayPal account. If the amount has not yet been debited, PayPal will not charge your personal PayPal account.
We will not refund an authorised transaction under this section if you are liable pursuant to the "Your Liability in case of Unauthorised Transactions" section of this Agreement (see below).
You must inform PayPal about any unauthorised transaction within 13 months of the transaction taking place. We will not refund an authorised transaction under this section if you do not inform us within 13 months of the transaction taking place.
You are liable to PayPal for the reimbursement of all damages incurred by PayPal as a result of the unauthorised payments with your Card if:
This section does not apply and you will not be liable if you could not notify PayPal pursuant to the "PayPal’s Liability for Unauthorised Transactions" section because PayPal did not provide you with a way to notify us of such unauthorised use.
This section does not apply if there was a legal obligation to apply strong customer authentication (i.e. two-factor authentication) but no strong customer authentication was performed on the unauthorised transaction.
As soon as you have fulfilled your obligation pursuant to the "Notification Requirement in case of Unauthorised Use of your Card" section, you are not liable for damages incurred by PayPal after your notification. This does not apply if you acted fraudulently.
You are entitled to a refund from PayPal of an authorised Card payment which was initiated by or through a payee and which has already been executed if all of the following conditions are met:
You shall bear the burden of proving that such conditions are met. The refund will consist of the full amount of the executed Card payment.
You do not have a right to a refund where:
Within ten business days of receiving a request for a refund or of receiving any further information requested under this section, PayPal will either refund the full amount of the payment transaction or provide a justification for refusing the refund.
We may refuse to authorise a Card transaction at any time for any of the following reasons:
We are not responsible for any loss you incur as a result of us refusing to execute a Card transaction in any of the ways described above.
We may refuse to authorise a Card transaction or block, restrict the use of, suspend or terminate your Card at any time, and immediately without notice, for any of the following reasons:
We may also suspend or permanently suspend your use of your Card if:
We are not responsible for any loss you incur as a result of us stopping the use of your Card in any of the ways described above. Please see the sections relating to Restricted Activities and the actions which PayPal may take set out in the PayPal User Agreement as they also apply to transactions with your Card.
The Cards remain our property. We may ask you to return or destroy your Card (for example when this Agreement is terminated by you or us).
We may change this Agreement with two months’ prior notice subject to the conditions in the PayPal User Agreement. We may also issue you with a new Card from time to time or change the type of payment instrument or Card you can use.
You may terminate this Agreement, and thereby cancel your Card, at any time. You may contact our Customer Services team to cancel your Card (call charges may apply) or logging into your personal PayPal account.
In addition to any other rights we may have to restrict, suspend or terminate your Card under this Agreement, we may terminate this Agreement with two months’ prior notice at any time for any reason. We may terminate this Agreement immediately at any time according to our termination rights set out in the PayPal User Agreement.
PayPal’s Privacy Statement also applies to the use of your Card.
For any disputes or issues with PayPal or this service, please refer to the Resolving Problems section in the PayPal User Agreement.
In particular, if we fail to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction you may refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). The FOS is a free, independent service, which might be able to settle a complaint between you and us. You may obtain further information regarding the FOS and contact the FOS at https://www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk/.
You can also make a complaint to the Financial Conduct Authority. Information on contacting the Financial Conduct Authority can be found at https://www.fca.org.uk/contact.
In addition to this Agreement, your use of the Card is governed by the PayPal User Agreement (including the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy). You will for example find provisions and information about the applicable law, jurisdiction, arbitration, limitations of liability and language of the contract.
You will not receive interest or any other earnings on the money in your account. This is because the money in your account is electronic money and applicable laws forbid paying interest on electronic money. Your personal PayPal account is an electronic money account and is not a bank account. The electronic money in your personal PayPal account is not covered by the UK’s Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
PayPal UK Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an electronic money institution (firm reference number 994790); in relation to its regulated consumer credit activities (firm reference number 996405); and for the provision of cryptocurrency services (firm reference number 1000741). Some products and services, such as PayPal Pay in 3 and PayPal Working Capital, are not regulated by the FCA and may offer a lower level of protection. Please read product terms for further details. PayPal UK Ltd's company number is 14741686. Its registered office is 5 Fleet Place, London, United Kingdom, EC4M 7RD.