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Sell your Starbucks gift card for cash

Sell an unused Starbucks card for 80% of the balance. $10 to $500 per card, paid by PayPal or Cash App within 24 hours.

Starbucks cards are the highest-volume small gift card in the country and they go unspent in a very specific way. They are the standard token gift — teachers, coworkers, thank-yous, secret santa — which means most people who hold one received it rather than bought it. And because the amounts are small, there is never any urgency about them.

The Starbucks system also creates a particular kind of stranded balance. Cards can be registered to a Starbucks Rewards account and reloaded, so heavy customers absorb their cards immediately and stop thinking about them. Anyone who is not a regular ends up with a physical card carrying $10 or $15 that they will use on the two occasions a year they happen to be in a Starbucks, leaving an awkward remainder each time.

There is a real argument for just spending a small Starbucks balance, and if you go there at all, do that. Selling makes sense when you do not drink coffee, you have accumulated several cards, or the nearest location is not somewhere you pass. Multiple small cards can be submitted together and paid in one payment, which is usually what people with a drawer full of them want.

We pay 80% of the verified balance. The per-card ceiling for Starbucks is $500 rather than $2,000, which reflects how these cards are actually issued — they are rarely loaded heavily, and low ceilings keep verification quick. The minimum is $10.

Starbucks cards can be registered to a Starbucks Rewards account, and once registered the balance is protected if the physical card is lost and can be reloaded. Registration also means the balance shows in the app, which is the quickest way to read it. Registering a card does not stop you selling it, but it does mean the card number is tied to an account, so unregistered cards are the cleanest ones to pass on.

For a single $10 card, spending it is almost always easier than selling it. Where selling earns its keep is volume: a teacher, a nurse or a manager who has collected eight or ten cards over a couple of years is holding real money in a form they will never get through. Submit them together, get one payment, and stop carrying a stack of plastic that each buys most of a coffee.

Check the balance at the Starbucks card page using the card number and the security code from the back. If the card is already registered to a Rewards account, the balance is visible in the app under card management, which is the fastest way to read it.

Submit the exact figure and we verify before paying. If the confirmed balance is lower, you see the corrected offer at the same 80% rate and choose whether to go ahead. Nothing is charged if you decline, and the card stays yours.

Your cash offer
$0.00
80% of the balance · $10–$500 per card

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

Starbucks payout table

What we pay for a Starbucks card at 80%
Card balanceYou get
$25.00$20.00
$50.00$40.00
$100.00$80.00
$250.00$200.00
$500.00$400.00

How to check your Starbucks balance

Check it on Starbucks'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 Starbucks 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 Starbucks gift card: common questions

80% of the balance we verify with Starbucks. A $100.00 card pays $80.00 and a $250.00 card pays $200.00. 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 Starbucks card is $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 80% 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 Starbucks 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 coffee and dessert cards we buy

Same process, same payout timing. See all coffee and dessert brands.