We accept many forms of payment—all major U.S. and Canada credit and debit cards, China UnionPay, Google Pay, Apple Pay, and PayPal.

For quick and convenient checkout, you can save your preferred payment method to your account.

At this time, we don’t accept prepaid credit cards, store gift cards, or international payments.

Add a payment method

You can add payment methods at any time—before, after, or while placing an order.

To add a payment on the Instacart website—

  1. At the top left, click the 3 horizontal lines
  2. Click Account settings
  3. Click Payment methods
  4. Click Add next to the payment method you want to add to your account
  5. Enter card information and billing address. Then click Continue

To add a payment in the Instacart app—

  1. When you log in, tap the three horizontal lines in the top left-hand corner
  2. Tap Your account settings
  3. Tap Payment methods
  4. Tap Add next to the payment method you would like to add to your account
  5. Enter card information and billing address. Then tap Save

If you need to update a previous payment method, you must remove it from your account and then add it again with the correct payment information.

Remove a payment method

To remove a payment method on the Instacart website—

  1. At the top left, click the 3 horizontal lines
  2. Click Account settings
  3. Click Payment methods
  4. Click Delete next to the payment method you want to remove

In the app—

  1. Tap the three horizontal lines in the top left-hand corner
  2. Tap Your account settings
  3. Tap Payment methods
  4. Remove a card by either—
    • Swiping your finger left over the card you want to remove. Then tap Delete or
    • Tap the pencil icon in the upper right-hand corner. Then tap the red circle on the left-hand side next to the card you want to remove. Then tap Delete

Paying with PayPal

To add PayPal as a form of payment to your Instacart account—

  1. Tap the 3 stacked horizontal lines in the upper left corner 
  2. Tap Your account settings
  3. Tap Payment methods
  4. Tap Add under the PayPal category 
  5. This redirects you to the PayPal login screen
  6. Follow the prompts to log into PayPal
  7. Tap Save 

PayPal restrictions—

  • At this time, prescriptions and alcohol can’t be purchased using PayPal. If you’d like to place an order containing these items, you will need to select an alternative payment method.
  • You can only add 1 PayPal account to your Instacart account. To use a different PayPal account, you need to delete the PayPal account you have on file and add a new one.

For help authenticating PayPal credentials, contact PayPal support—

Change payment for an order

Everyone makes mistakes. When you realize too late that you’ve picked the wrong form of payment, you can move the charges on orders you’ve already placed to a different payment method. Here’s how—

  1. First, you must wait until after the order is delivered.
  2. Make sure the card you’d like to use is already added to your account.
  3. Contact Instacart Customer Experience to give us the last 4 digits of the card you’d like to move the charges to.

Please note—we’ll need to issue a refund for the original form of payment before the new charges apply to the updated form of payment. This could take 5-10 business days to process.