How to use a Google Play gift card
Whether you bought it yourself, received it from someone or found it in a drawer somewhere: it’s always nice to have a Google Play gift card. This allows you to buy apps and games in the Google Play Store, among other things. This is how you use your Google Play gift card.
Google Play gift card
Google Play makes it possible with its gift card to pay for subscriptions, but also to buy individual apps. In addition, children can use the cards as a means of payment, unless you as a parent or guardian choose to entrust your credit card to your child. In short, that gift card from Google isn’t that bad after all. This is how you use it:
- Open the Google Play app installed by default on your Android device o visit the Google Play website on a computer
- Tap your profile picture at the top right of your screen
- Go to ‘Payments and Subscriptions’
- Choose ‘Redeem Gift Code’
- Scan the physical gift card via ‘Scan the gift card’ or copy the code from your email
- Then tap on ‘Redeem credit’
- You can then confirm that it is indeed allowed on your account and that your credit has been topped up.
Buy a Google Play gift card
You can buy a Google Play gift card online, at the supermarket or at the newsstand. The nice thing about a physical variant is that it makes it a bit more fun to give as a gift, although a nice card with the code that you receive by e-mail (if you buy it online) can also be festive. You can usually choose an amount of between 15 and 75 euros. Sometimes a nice bonus comes with the purchase of a Google Play card, such as currently an in-game bonus of up to 45 euros in the game State of Survival: The Zombie Apocalypse.
With the Google Play gift card you can certainly not only buy apps and games, because you can also use it to purchase books (ebooks) or pay a subscription. It is also a nice gift for young children who, for example, play a game like Toca Boca and would like to buy extras without immediately emptying your entire credit card.
