Online Bingo With PayPal - The Welcome Bonus Catch Most Players Miss

Over 100 UK bingo sites accept PayPal, so finding one that takes it is easy. Finding a welcome offer that still works when you pay with it is another matter. When Bingotastic.com went through the terms of PayPal-friendly bingo sites, it could only find a small handful of welcome deals that didn't shut e-wallets out.

The catch

A large share of UK bingo, slots and casino sites exclude e-wallet deposits from their welcome bonus. The cashier accepts PayPal without complaint, the deposit goes through, and the bonus simply never arrives. There's no way to claim it afterwards.

So the place to look is the bonus terms, not the cashier.

A simple way round it

  1. Read the welcome offer's terms for an excluded payment methods line.
  2. If PayPal is on it, make the first deposit with a debit card and claim the bonus.
  3. Switch to PayPal for later deposits. Reload deposits rarely carry the same restriction.

It costs nothing and keeps the bonus intact, which matters more than which method you prefer for one transaction.

Withdrawals may not go back to PayPal

Paying in by PayPal doesn't guarantee winnings come out the same way. Some operators, the Jumpman Gaming network among them, accept PayPal deposits but pay withdrawals to a registered debit card. The money still arrives, by a different route. If keeping everything inside one wallet matters, the withdrawal section of the terms is the place to look.

Why people use PayPal for bingo anyway

Mainly privacy. Card details stay with PayPal rather than being handed to each bingo site. A couple of sites, Mirror Bingo and OK Bingo among them, also let new players register quickly through a PayPal account.

Checking before you deposit

Bingotastic keeps a PayPal bingo page that notes, site by site, whether the welcome offer excludes PayPal, along with any fee or payout quirk. It lists UK-licensed sites only. Bingotastic.com has been comparing UK bingo sites since 2013, and this is one of the more practical lists on it, because the exclusion is the detail most people find out about one deposit too late.