These are the options i have available in the states.
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Thanks for the listing. Interesting that PaySafe is not an option. Do you have PaySafe cards at all or is this not a payment method that is not available in the states at all? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaysafeCard it is available in 50 countries:
As of 2023 PaysafeCard is issued in approximately 50 countries—covering most of Europe and North America, Australia and New Zealand, and some countries in Western Asia and South America.[5]
Countries with PaysafeCard available include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro,[6] Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates,[7][8] the United Kingdom, the United States and Uruguay.[9]
Maybe Steam does not have it integrated in all regions where this is available.
This is what I got in Germany:
I've never heard of or seen PaySafe before.
I do not recall having seen pay safe cards, but I live in a rural area where we have a Walmart, and a local supermarket. The supermarket stopped carrying gift cards a year or two ago, and I rarely go to the Walmart.
That said, I feel we have fewer payment options in the states. I have been playing a French game for the last 20 some odd years, it has options to pay for in game services. There have always been a ton of options included that I have never heard. Even the option to pay by adding the cost to your phone bill.
Wero when?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero:
The service initially focused on person-to-person transfers, and from November 2025 expanded to e-commerce payments.[8] In-store payments started in September 2026 through the complete switch of the established Payconiq payment network to Wero in Luxembourg.[9]
So it started this months to be usable in stores. I assume it will be integrated into Steam then, I hope so. I didn't look into it in detail. Currently looking on the webpage https://wero-wallet.eu/ . I assume a bank account or identification is required.
In-store payments refers to physical store locations. Steam is e-commerce. Wero has been ready for this for almost a year now and if the merchant supports it, it works like a charm.
That said, note that Wero is essentially an instant SEPA transaction so you obviously need a bank account. And, which is maybe not so obvious, your bank needs to support it. Essentially most (or all?) Genossenschaftsbanken and Sparkassen in Germany do; private banks not so much as of yet.
You should be able to use multiple card codes to pay for a single transcation. So you don't need to work in whole numbers only.
And there are tools (or inspect element in a browser) that allow you to add arbitrary amount of many to steam. A great way to use rest of a card fund, if you bought something else with it
Oh so each card acts like a credit card then? Steam does not charge anything for using PaySafe, but some other shops do. So I get the full money from the card to Steam. I just learned that every month PaySafe** charges a little fee for having money on the card**. Just be warned about this. So I would not wait any longer than a month anyway.
Edit: Typo
every month PayPal charges a little fee for having money on the card.
PayPal or PaySafe?
Oh my, thanks. It's a typo, I was talking about PaySafe Cards having a monthly fee baked into it. I'll correct that. Good catch.