Depending on your country of residence and the products or services you use, you can set up one or more backup payment methods. These backup payment methods are used if your primary payment method can’t be charged, which can help prevent interruptions to your subscriptions.
For some Google products, you can set up a backup payment method. It'll be used if the primary method fails for any reason such as an expired credit card or insufficient funds.
Backup payment methods can be useful for ongoing subscriptions to help avoid interruptions in service.
Before you start
Before you set up a backup payment method, please note the following:
- Not all payment methods can be used as a backup payment method.
- When certain payment methods are set as the primary payment method, you can't set a backup payment method.
- Bank accounts can't be used as an automatic payment method.
- Digital banks aren't supported to get payouts.
Set up a backup payment method
- Sign in to your payments profile.
- Click Subscriptions & services.
- Select the subscription, service, or product for which you’d like to set up a backup payment method.
- Click Manage.
- Depending on the product you select:
- If you find “Change payment method:”
- Click Change payment method
Update backup payment method.
- Select the desired backup payment method.
- Click Change payment method
- If you find “Manage payment method:”
- Click Manage payment methods.
- Your available payment methods appear as cards.
- Decide which payment method you'd like to set as your backup, or add a new payment method.
- From the ”Menu,” click Backup.
- Click Manage payment methods.
- If you find “Change payment method:”
Tip: For countries that use EFT for payments, before you get the payout, your bank account needs to be verified. Learn more about bank account verification.