Visa gift card is a popular gifts that people receive during holidays or on their birthday. Often those people want to link visa gift card to Cash App and transfer money to their balance. Is it even possible?

Cash App allows you to link regular debit cards and transfer money instantly to your Cash App balance. Visa gift cards have the same Debit label. Does it mean they can be used in the same way?

Link Vids gift card to Cash App

I’ve decided to check if and how Visa gift cards work with Cash App. I want to know it from my own experience. First I got a Visa Gift card from a nearby retail store to make a test. Here are the results of my experiment. The whole process is straight forward. Take your phone and open the Cash App.

When the app is loaded you can see main screen with your balance. At the bottom of the screen there are available menu options. Click on the profile icon in the top right corner.

Then on your account screen you can see list of options. Click on “Linked Banks”.

On the “Linked Banks” screen you can see list of your connected accounts. In my case there are no linked account. Click on “Link Debit Card”

When Cash App opens “Add a bank using your debit card” screen enter your Visa gift card number, expiration date, CVV and your ZIP code. Then click on “Add Card”.

After the card is linked you can try to add money to your Cash App balance. However, when I tried to add money to Cash App balance from gift card, it failed.

Cash App gives no explanations. It provides only generic message “Something went wrong”.

The bottom line is that while I can link Visa gift cards to Cash App, I cannot transfer money from the gift card.

Check this step-by-step video for more details.