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Sell your Southwest Airlines gift card for cash

We buy Southwest Airlines gift cards at 74% of the balance, $10 to $1,500 per card, paid by PayPal or Cash App within 24 hours.

Airline credit is the least liquid store credit there is, and Southwest is a good illustration of why. The card only becomes value if a trip actually happens — on dates that work, at a fare you accept, on routes Southwest flies. Southwest's network is extensive but not universal, so if it does not serve your airport well, a card is close to unusable regardless of its face value.

There is also a naming confusion specific to Southwest that keeps balances stuck. Southwest gift cards, Southwest travel funds and LUV Vouchers are three different things with three different sets of rules. Travel funds come from cancelled bookings and behave quite differently from a purchased gift card. Only a genuine gift card is transferable and sellable.

The practical pattern we see is people holding airline credit through a change of circumstances — a new job with different leave, a move, a family situation — where the trip they bought the card for simply is not going to happen on any timescale they can predict.

Our rate on Southwest is 74% rather than 80%, and the per-card ceiling is $1,500. That is not arbitrary: travel credit is slower to verify, harder to resell, and carries more conditions than retail credit, so the economics are different. A $500 card pays $370.

Southwest gift cards do not expire, which distinguishes them from travel funds — the credit created when you cancel a booking, which historically has carried expiry rules. A gift card also transfers freely, where travel funds are tied to a passenger. If you are unsure which you hold, the giveaway is that a gift card has a card number and PIN and was bought as a card.

Southwest's model does help spending in one way: the fare structure and the baggage policy mean a card stretches further than the same amount at some carriers. If you fly at all, that argues for keeping it. Sell when your airport is not well served, when your travel has moved to a different carrier for work reasons, or when the trip the card was bought for is definitively not happening.

Check the balance at southwest.com/gift-card/check-balance/ with the card number and PIN before you submit. Airline cards are worth verifying carefully because part-redemption is common and the remaining figure is often not what the holder expects.

We verify by hand before paying. Travel balances sometimes carry conditions the number alone does not show, which is exactly why a person checks each one. If the confirmed figure differs from what you entered, you see the corrected offer before anything moves.

Your cash offer
$0.00
74% of the balance · $10–$1,500 per card

Nothing is final until you submit. You can still back out at review.

Southwest Airlines payout table

What we pay for a Southwest Airlines card at 74%
Card balanceYou get
$25.00$18.50
$50.00$37.00
$100.00$74.00
$250.00$185.00
$500.00$370.00

How to check your Southwest Airlines balance

Check it on Southwest Airlines's own site before you sell. You will need the full card number and the PIN — usually under a scratch-off strip on the back, or in the confirmation email for a digital card. Enter the balance here exactly as it reads.

Check your Southwest Airlines balance

When you get paid

Three ways out, no fees on any of them. There is no bank transfer option — we removed it deliberately.

  • PayPal Initiated within 24 hoursUsually the same afternoon once the balance is confirmed.
  • Cash App Initiated within 24 hoursSent to your $Cashtag. Same timing as PayPal.
  • Paper check 5–7 business daysPosted to you. Slower, because the mail is the mail.
  • Card data encrypted and admin-onlyThe full number and PIN are visible to the verification admin and nobody else — not other sellers, not support staff.
  • No fees, everNo listing fee, no commission, no payout fee. The number you accept is the number that arrives.
  • We buy it outrightThere is nothing to list and no buyer to wait on. Once we own the card, the resale risk is ours, not yours.

Selling a Southwest Airlines gift card: common questions

74% of the balance we verify with Southwest Airlines. A $100.00 card pays $74.00 and a $250.00 card pays $185.00. The rate is flat — it does not improve with larger balances and it does not drop for smaller ones.

$10.00. Below that the payment processing costs more than the trade is worth to either of us. The most we take on a single Southwest Airlines card is $1,500.00; if yours is larger, submit it as two cards.

PayPal and Cash App payments are initiated within 24 hours of you submitting the card, and often the same afternoon. A paper check takes 5 to 7 business days because it goes through the mail. The only thing standing between you and the money is the balance check.

We recalculate at the same 74% rate and show you the corrected offer before any money moves. If the new number does not work for you, say no and keep the card. People misremember balances constantly and it is not held against you.

Yes, and most of what we buy is partially used. A Southwest Airlines card with $37.18 left is worth the same per dollar as a full one. Enter the exact remaining balance, down to the cents, as long as it is at least $10.00.

Other airline cards we buy

Same process, same payout timing. See all airline brands.