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Originally Posted by tempest@de
No, no paypal option in India, but you can use a gift card.
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I ran into a problem trying to use a gift card on the India store on Monday. It may have been due to the change in the way they handle gift cards between the old store/checkout and the new.
When it appeared that the general use codes were disappearing, I went to my Kobo-India account because I was afraid of getting stuck with a gift card that I'd have to use on full-price books. I noticed that the India store had gone to the newer checkout where you enter your payment information on the first page and the discount code on the second page. On the old store, you registered a gift card and the balance was available for future purchases. With the new store, my gift card was converted to a store credit. This caused a problem where, although I had enough credit to buy a book after the discount, it wouldn't let me past the first page because my credit wouldn't cover the entire cost of the book before the discount.
I didn't want to enter a credit card, because I didn't want to trigger a fraud alert when an inquiry came from a foreign country. Finally I tried a pre-paid Visa debit card I got as a rebate on some software and was able to use that to purchase two books to almost use up my store credit.
How do gift cards work on the new store? I see that there's a place to enter them on the first page. What happens if your gift card won't cover the full non-discounted price of a book - do you have to enter a credit card?