PayPal Key being discontinued

[UncleB]

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@kilroy8 wrote:

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Me too, @kilroy8.

[arunkumarmm]

😖😖

I was hoping to see a physical card for PPK oneday! 

[NRB525]

Sad. 
I need to keep an eye out on some of the websites where I added PPK as a payment method for the magical Q4 categories.  Delete the "closed account" card number there. 

[xenon3030]

PPK was making life much easier here, especially to pay bills and monthly payments. Before each bill payment, I was simply changing the linked card to PPK to use the best card. It gets missed heavily

Citi also provides virtual card for credit card holders. Is it credit or debit?

[notmyrealname23]

Womp, womp, sad trombones. Almost $30k of annual spend for points/miles/cashback generation by paying rent just evaporated for me (or to be proper, went from a flat fee of $10/month to 3% of the rent bill, basically nerfing it for anything other than a juicy SUB that's well over 3% return).

Well, I will say it was nice for the PayPal quarter on Disco and for getting a few hundred in SUB, mile and cashback value for well over a year, so I see why PayPal wasn't too keen on this; they were on the wrong end of the credit card/debit card transaction fees.

[Anonymous]

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@longtimelurker wrote:

So now I will actually have to calculate how to pay my FiOS bill!  PPK attached to MaxCash was ideal.

ETA:  OK, going with the very unexciting Paypal Business Debit, which may or may not pay 1% on the transaction.   My FiOS bill is small enough that the autopay discount is more than the 5% on MaxCash (so it doesn't matter whether I get the 1% or not).   For those with large wireless bills it might be different (although auto pay is per line), this may push more to consider the Verizon card.

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If your autopay discount wasn't more than 5%, you could use PayPal Bill Pay with your MaxCash as the funding source!  PayPal Bill Pay is different than PPK but should still give 5% as long as the payee is available.

https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/manage-money/pay-bills

[arunkumarmm]

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@Anonymous wrote:

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@longtimelurker wrote:

So now I will actually have to calculate how to pay my FiOS bill!  PPK attached to MaxCash was ideal.

ETA:  OK, going with the very unexciting Paypal Business Debit, which may or may not pay 1% on the transaction.   My FiOS bill is small enough that the autopay discount is more than the 5% on MaxCash (so it doesn't matter whether I get the 1% or not).   For those with large wireless bills it might be different (although auto pay is per line), this may push more to consider the Verizon card.

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If your autopay discount wasn't more than 5%, you could use PayPal Bill Pay with your MaxCash as the funding source!  PayPal Bill Pay is different than PPK but should still give 5% as long as the payee is available.

https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/manage-money/pay-bills

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Are uou saying that, if I use Paypal bill pay to pay my Verizon monthly bill using MCP, then I'll get 5% CB?

[arunkumarmm]

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@arunkumarmm wrote:

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Are uou saying that, if I use Paypal bill pay to pay my Verizon monthly bill using MCP, then I'll get 5% CB?

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well, I guess this would not give me the autopay discount 

[xenon3030]

Possibly no, but you may use a debit card that gives cashback on bill payments to get both autopay discount and ~1% (e.g. Discover debit card).

[longtimelurker]

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@arunkumarmm wrote:

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@arunkumarmm wrote:

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Are uou saying that, if I use Paypal bill pay to pay my Verizon monthly bill using MCP, then I'll get 5% CB?

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well, I guess this would not give me the autopay discount 

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Right, and no different, AFAIK, than just directly using the credit card, getting 5% and no discount.