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How to Change Payment Type
« on: January 23, 2017, 01:33:48 AM »
Hello,

I've used avast for years. I no longer have the credit card it is associated with, so I would like to change payment to PayPal, but I don't know where I can go to do it. The profile dashboard doesn't seem to have an area to do it. I would like to maintain my renewal discount, so is there a way to do this? 

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Re: How to Change Payment Type
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2017, 01:39:28 AM »
Check out this FAQ and see if there is anything there.
Sales - Orders and Renewals FAQ - https://www.avast.com/faq.php?article=AVKB24#artTitle.
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Re: How to Change Payment Type
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2017, 01:47:15 AM »
Thanks for the fast reply. That helped!

It seems that Digital River doesn't allow for Paypal and I don't have a credit card. I don't want to get a credit card. Does that mean I cannot use this service anymore?

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Re: How to Change Payment Type
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2017, 11:29:57 AM »
I honestly don't know if that is the case.

You could possibly delete that repayment method (and any auto payment setup) and when you get a renewal reminder in the avast UI start a new PayPal payment.
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Re: How to Change Payment Type
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2017, 01:41:19 AM »
Unfortunately, you can't just delete a payment method, especially, I guess, if that's the only one listed. I can't add a PayPal payment method because it only accepts credit cards as a form of payment. It's really too bad, I guess, but I could use that money in a different way.

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Re: How to Change Payment Type
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2017, 11:08:54 AM »
Unfortunately, you can't just delete a payment method, especially, I guess, if that's the only one listed. I can't add a PayPal payment method because it only accepts credit cards as a form of payment. It's really too bad, I guess, but I could use that money in a different way.

I don't use a paid avast version, so I'm not familiar with that area. But I would have thought that cancelling/stopping the auto payment renewal, thus effectively unlinking it from a payment method would then have allowed for it to be removed/deleted.

You could  try the support ticket system to try and resolve it.  Support Ticket - https://support.avast.com/support/tickets/new?form=2
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Re: How to Change Payment Type
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2017, 11:13:13 AM »
Afaik, you can't delete it because the payment method was used.
Deleting it would also mean deleting the payment information, but you can change it.