Cash App discontinued its Gift Card feature and converted existing gift card balances to cash equivalents on April 5, 2026. The updated terms remove three provisions that previously described how gift cards functioned: account requirements, cash redemption rules, and merchant-specific usage restrictions. Users who held gift cards before this change now have their balances reflected as standard Cash App Balance rather than designated merchant credits.
The updated terms state that Cash App has discontinued the gift card feature as of April 5, 2026. Any existing gift card balances that users previously held have been automatically converted to their cash value equivalent and added to their Cash App Balance. This means gift card-specific account restrictions, redemption limits, and merchant-only usage rules no longer apply, as the underlying feature has been retired. Users do not need to take action; the conversion has been completed automatically.
The updated terms retire the gift card feature entirely and establish that existing balances are now treated as standard Cash App Balance. This eliminates merchant-specific restrictions and redemption conditions that previously governed how users could deploy those funds.
→ Users with existing gift cards will see their balances reflected as Cash App Balance rather than designated merchant credits as of April 5, 2026.
→ Gift card-specific usage restrictions and redemption rules will no longer apply; converted balances are now standard cash available for any Cash App transaction.
Cash App discontinued gift cards and converted existing balances to cash equivalents added to user Cash App Balance.
Removed provision requiring a Cash App Account to use gift cards, now moot due to feature discontinuation.
Removed state-specific redemption rules including $10/$15 thresholds for converting gift card value to cash.
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Gift cards no longer require account verification, because the feature itself has been discontinued.
The special rules about converting small gift card balances to cash are gone because gift cards no longer exist as a product.
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Track changes →Cash App removed its gift card feature and converted outstanding balances to cash equivalents. The change removes three operational provisions governing gift card mechanics (account requirements, redemption thresholds, merchant restrictions) and replaces them with a single statement that existing balances are now cash. This is a feature sunset with automatic customer remediation, not a rights removal. No regulatory frameworks are directly engaged by feature discontinuation, though customer notification and balance handling may be subject to state money transmission or consumer protection standards depending on jurisdiction. Compliance review is low priority unless your organization relied on gift card functionality or faces specific state balance escrow requirements.
State money transmission laws (balance conversion and customer notification), UDAP (Unfair or Deceptive Acts and Practices), state consumer protection statutes
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