Want to understand what’s the difference between Amazon Shopping Voucher vs Amazon Gift Card? You are at the right spot. While they may sound similar, both of them have different limits, use cases and benefits. In this article, we will help you cut the chase and understand differences between Amazon Shopping Voucher vs Amazon Pay Gift Card in as easy a way as possible. We will be comparing Amazon Shopping Voucher vs Gift Card limits, benefits and use cases (where you can use & cannot).
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What is an Amazon Gift Card or Amazon Pay Gift Card?
Amazon Gift Card also called Amazon Pay Gift Card is an e-gift card that can be used for shopping on Amazon or for bill payments and on any of the Amazon Pay partnered websites. The validity period for Amazon Pay Gift Cards is 1-year. You can redeem Amazon Gift Cards in your Amazon Pay Wallet.
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What is an Amazon Shopping Voucher?
An Amazon Shopping Voucher is an e-gift gift voucher that can be used for shopping products on Amazon website. Customers cannot use Amazon Shopping Voucher for bill payments or on Amazon Pay. Amazon Shopping voucher balance also cannot be used for flight bookings, train bookings, buying other gift cards or Prime subscription.
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Differences between Amazon Shopping Vouchers vs Gift Card
Below are the key differences between Amazon Shopping Vouchers vs Amazon Gift Cards:
| Amazon Shopping Voucher | Amazon Pay Gift Card | |
| Amazon Shopping | Yes✅ | Yes✅ |
| Bill Payments on Amazon Pay (Recharges, Mobile, DTH, FASTag, Gas, Electricity, etc) | No❌ | Yes✅ |
| Amazon Flights and Trains | No❌ | Yes✅ |
| Amazon Digital Products (Amazon Music, subscriptions, Kindle-eBooks, Alexa, AWS devices) | No❌ | Yes✅ |
| Buy Amazon Gift Cards and Vouchers | No❌ | No❌ |
| Buy other brand gift cards | No❌ | Yes✅ |
| Amazon Pay payment on partnered websites | No❌ | Yes✅ |
| Buy Amazon Prime Subscription | No❌ | Yes✅ |
| Purchase Limit per order on Amazon.in | Max denominations worth ₹10,000 | Max denominations worth ₹10,000 |
| Total add balance limit per month (from all sources) | Upto 30 Lakhs | ₹50,000 |
| Combined amount of Gift Cards + Amazon Vouchers that can be purchased using credit/debit card | ₹30,000 per 30 days, ₹40,000 for 60 days, ₹50,000 for 90 days, ₹3,60,000 for 365 days | |
| Note that Amazon Wallet balance (add money + gift cards) cannot be more than 1 Lakh in a calendar month | ||
As you can see in the above comparison table, you cannot use Amazon Shopping Vouchers for utilities bill payments, booking flight tickets, buying other gift cards, Prime subscription or other digital subscription. The Shopping Voucher balance is not added to your wallet and hence is not transferable.
On the other hand, Amazon Pay Gift Cards are more versatile as they can be used for shopping + bill payments. Note that paying insurance now has a limit of 25K in a month. Amazon Pay Gift Cards balance is added to your total wallet balance. Thus your total Amazon Pay wallet balance = Amazon Pay Gift Cards + funds added via Add Money. Here, only the funds you added via Add Money option are transferable to your bank account. The Gift Card part is non-transferable.
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Amazon Pay Gift Cards are not accepted for the following payments:
- Digital Books: Kindle-eBooks, Kindle Unlimited Subscriptions, Audible, digital test-prep
- Amazon Pay Gift Cards
- Add Money to Balance / Wallet
- Branded Gift Cards designated Semi-Closed Loop (SCLP) prepaid payment instruments / Closed system prepaid payment instruments
- Amazon Vouchers
- App Store Purchases
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Amazon Shopping Vouchers are not accepted for the following payments:
- Digital Subscriptions: Mobile Apps, video games, digital video subscriptions
- Digital Books: Kindle-eBooks, audibles, digital test-prep
- Digital Devices: Alexa, AWS devices
- Recharges: Mobile, DTH, Google Play, FastTag, Metro
- Bill Payments
- Ticket Bookings: Flight, Train, Movies, Bus
- Investments & Insurance
- Utilities: Gas Cylinders, Piped Gas, Subscriptions, Cable TV
- Donations
- Amazon Pay Gift Cards
- Add Money to Balance
- Branded Gift Cards designated Semi-Closed Loop (SCLP) Instruments
- Amazon Vouchers
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How to Redeem Amazon Pay Gift Cards?
To redeem Amazon Pay Gift Cards, follow the steps below:
- Open the Amazon Gift Card redeem page here – https://www.amazon.in/gp/aw/ya/gcb
- Enter you Amazon Gift Card claim code here (e.g. 8U95-Y3E8CQ-39MPQ)
- Click on “Add Gift Card to Balance” button
- Your gift card balance will be reflected instantly upon adding
How to Redeem Amazon Shopping Vouchers?
- Open the Amazon Shopping Vouchers redeem page here https://www.amazon.in/apay-products/apv/landing
- Enter your Amazon Shopping Voucher claim code here (e.g. SV94-MS143-AJ22)
- Click on add voucher button to redeem your Shopping Voucher balance
You can check your Amazon Pay transactions here – https://www.amazon.in/pay/history
Official Sources: Amazon Pay Gift Cards FAQ, Amazon Gift Cards T&C, Amazon Shopping Vouchers FAQ and Amazon Shopping Vouchers Limitations
