So I've been trying to avoid using Pay-Pal because I have a business account linked to it, and occasionally when I buy games here it gets charged to one of my business accounts rather than my personal account.
I've added my personal debit card onto my account, is there a way to make sure that when I buy a game from this site it goes onto my linked card rather than through Pay-Pal (and risk having it get charged to the wrong account).
Thanks. Please let me know.
Do not use your business paypal account for your non-business transactions.
Also, you should be able to chose for each and every transaction with paypal which connected payment account is used to send the money to paypal. I do not get how there can be accidentally be charged a business acount. You might accidentally have forgotten to select the correct debit card of course.
On the first answer. Yes I know, it was a mistake. I didn't do it intentionally.
On the second answer. So is there no alternative payment portal then? Does it ALWAYS have to use Pay-Pal? Even when you have a debit card linked to itch.io? In that case what's the point of having a card linked to the account if it's going to default to Pay-Pal anyway?
There are two issues. One is that each developer has the power to change the payment method for their games. It's a bit long to explain in detail now, but basically, some games can be purchased with credit cards and others only with PayPal, but this depends on the developer.
Recently, due to an issue between payment platforms and NSFW games, I believe credit cards cannot be used with games marked as NSFW.
Regarding your issue, one suggestion is to use a browser that supports different profiles, so you can't log into Itch from your business profile and thus avoid inadvertent errors (just a suggestion).
Ah ok. I didn't know that developers had different payment methods for their games.
I was reading about the payment platform issue, kinda sucks as most of the games I get on here are NSFW or borderline NSFW.
Thanks for the suggestion. I think I might just need to create a profile for Pay-Pal that only has my personal info and not any business info. Though they banned an account of mine a while back for no explanation, so I'm not sure it will work.
Much appreciated for giving me details Hechelion. Sounds like maybe it's something that can't be easily fixed.
I do not understand.
Itch itself accepts payment by paypal and by some credit cards. Paypal in turn accepts payments by whatever they support in your country - which might be the very same cards you might be able to use for card payment, making the current situation all the more ridiculous.
Some games have a direct payment option. Those work differently and there might be card payment disabled by the developer.
But yeah, there is only two ways for Itch to receive payments. Which is a concern for many reasons, not the least what is happening right now and which might impair ability to pay with card currently.
Additional options for payments to and from Itch are often wished for, and hopefully Itch will implement some.
Basically the games I was trying to buy were NSFW ones, and apparently direct payment via credit cards are disabled for those.
So I think I have my answer.
I'll probably just have to make an alternate Pay-Pal that only has my personal card on it and not any of the business stuff.
Regardless, the other guy more or less answered the question. I didn't know that some games had a direct card payment and others were Pay-Pal only.
