I’ve a problem - I’ve added my Revolut card to PayPal and when I try to withdraw funds (USD in PayPal) to my Revolut, PP converts it to GBP (with awful exchange rate).
Is there a way to send money from PayPal to Revolut, but without any conversion (USD -> USD)?
As far as I know, there isn’t. If your Paypal account is a UK account
Paypayl does not allow payouts in USD
you need to connect the account, not the card
Beware that Revolut UK accounts can only be used for payouts with Paypal. Since UK accounts do not yet support direct debit, funding Paypal via the account does not work. But you can use the card for this.
You can search this forum for users that were able to transfer USD from Paypal to their Revolut card. I remember it being mentioned here before. They might have reported how long it took or you could get at least in contact with someone who managed to do it.
My guess is that it takes just longer than with other cards. Revolut’s platform connects all kinds of different services together, it’s not as straight as just sending funds to a card number that is then connected with one account. I can see that it takes time until a refund is processed by all service providers involved.
I asked paypal to change my revolut card to USD currency.
However they will not allow me to withdraw to the card (not a UK feature), only to a bank account.
My revolut bank account is down as a UK one, so paypal defaults to GBP conversion.
How did you guys manage to get PayPal to change Revolut currency??? I just spoke to them and they said it is impossible because Revolut is a virtual bank and the only way to have an account in USD is to connect an USA account. Moreover, they said that having Revolut on PayPal is a bit risky as PP can remove it anytime without previous warning as it is a virtual account. So, how did you get them to change the currecncy, I’m curious?
always make sure to disable PayPal’s DCC on your cards by following this link and selecting “conversion options” and then “Bill me in the currency listed on the seller’s invoice”.
Couldn‘t find such an option in Paypal as well. I think Paypal always converts to your local currency, i.e. UK Paypal user -> GBP, US -> USD, etc., or not?