Paysafecard at Ginga
Paysafecard is a prepaid voucher: you pay cash at a counter, you get a 16-digit PIN, and that PIN is the money. No bank account is involved, no card number is typed anywhere, and nothing about the transaction appears on a bank statement beyond a purchase at a shop. In Portugal the vouchers are sold at kiosks, newsagents, convenience stores and petrol station tills. It is the most private way to fund an account at Ginga — and, for one structural reason explained below, the only method in the cashier that cannot pay you back.
| Min deposit | Min withdrawal | Speed | Fees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 € | Not available — see below | Instant in; payout 1-3 days by bank or 1-2 hours by Skrill | None from Ginga; resellers may add a small margin |
Buying and using a voucher
Vouchers are sold in fixed denominations, typically 10 €, 25 €, 50 € and 100 €, so pick one at or above the 20 € cashier minimum. Ask at the till, pay in cash or by card, and keep the printed slip: the PIN on it is bearer money, and anyone who photographs it can spend it. There is also a per-voucher ceiling — a single PIN carries a limited value, and larger deposits mean combining several vouchers or, more sensibly, switching to another rail. The paysafecard app lets you group PINs into one balance, which saves typing four codes in a row.
Depositing at Ginga
In the cashier, select Paysafecard, enter an amount from 20 € and type the 16-digit PIN. The credit is instant, exactly like Trustly or a card, and Ginga takes no fee. Two things are worth planning for. A voucher spends in one go: if you enter 20 € from a 25 € PIN, the remaining 5 € stays on that PIN rather than on your casino balance, so buy the denomination that matches your intention. And the account currency should be euros, since a voucher bought in Portugal is a euro voucher and any mismatch would introduce a conversion you have no reason to pay.
Withdrawals: why Paysafecard cannot pay you
This is the part that surprises people, so we will state it plainly: Paysafecard does not support withdrawals at Ginga. The reason is structural rather than a casino policy. A voucher is a one-way instrument — a printed PIN has no account behind it and no owner registered to it, so there is nowhere for the operator to send money back to. Every prepaid voucher scheme works this way; no operator can change it.
What happens instead is a substitution. When you request a payout on an account funded with vouchers, the cashier asks you to nominate an alternative method, and in practice that means one of two things. A SEPA bank transfer to an IBAN held in your own name, which arrives in one to three business days after the operator's review. Or Skrill, if you hold a wallet in your own name, which was the fastest route in our tests at one to two hours after approval. Either way the minimum withdrawal is 20 €.
The practical consequence is that the privacy Paysafecard buys you on the way in ends at the payout. The alternative method must be verified before the money can move: citizen card or passport, a proof of address under three months old, and a document showing the IBAN or the wallet profile in your own name. Set that up while you are still playing rather than at the moment you want paying — the full sequence is in how to withdraw at Ginga. If being paid quickly matters more than depositing anonymously, choose a different rail from the start; the trade-offs are laid out on the payments hub.