One of the best presents you can ever receive is a Disney Gift Card to use on all kinds of food or merchandise in the parks or online!
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Well, if you’ve got a lot of Disney Gift Cards laying around or connected on the Disney Gift Card website, there are some important changes coming soon that you need to know about.
On January 20th, 2021, the Disney Gift Card website (DisneyGiftCard.com) will be upgraded. Once the updates is live, you’ll be able to use your existing Disney account to log in, using the same information you use to log in to multiple Disney websites including shopDisney, My Disney Experience, and more.
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Because of this upgrade, however, all existing DisneyGiftCard.com account details (logins and gift cards added) will no longer be available after January 19, 2021. Any Disney Gift Cards you have saved to the existing website will NOT transfer over to the new one. Instead, all current account information will be deleted and won’t be available. You’ll need access to your Disney Gift Cards, including the full 16-digit account number and EAN to add your cards to the updated website once the change occurs.
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While your gift card balance won’t change, any of the information about your gift cards that you had stored on the website will be deleted. The Disney Gift Card website specifically notes that your DisneyGiftCard.com account is not a mobile wallet and shouldn’t be considered or treated as one. You should ALWAYS keep your physical and digital Disney Gift Cards with you, as they are required to make a purchase.
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So, here’s what you should do to make sure you’re prepared for this change:
- Collect all of your Disney Gift Cards (both physical and digital), and make sure you have access to their FULL 16-digit account numbers and EANs so you can upload them to the new website;
- If you no longer have the card that you saved to the Disney Gift Card website, you’ll need to transfer the balance(s) to a Gift Card that you do have available. If you don’t have another card to transfer your balance to, you can contact Disney Gift Card Services and provide the original gift card proof of purchase;
- Once the new website launches on January 20th, log in to the updated site using your existing Disney account (the one that you use on shopDisney, My Disney Experience, etc.) or create a new account if needed; and
- Visit the My Cards section of the updated website to add or combine cards in your account.
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It’s definitely important to get all of your Disney Gift Card information now in advance of the website update. We’ll keep an eye out for more details about this change, and let you know what we find.
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Does this mean we will be able to store more than five cards in the new website?
Any idea how the Batuuan coin gift cards may be affected?
They should offer a savings account to add all your cards. Then if you use the balance for a Disney trip, ie, pay for balance in Disney.com,you get a discount of some kind.
Deboah, I don’t know the answer to that, but if you can combine balances, that might be a way to create more space in your account to add new gift cards.
This is great, now will be able to coordinate with the same login, for not tech people this is great, and thanks for the info
It is not letting me transfer my cards in to one. So now I have 9 cards with varying amounts. I find this annoying, and some restaurants will let you use only one card. Particularly mobile ordering.
If this site is not a digital wallet or any kind, why would anyone use it? What are the benefits?
Does this only relate to gift cards stored on the my Disney app? can we still use gift cards as they are given to us??
Karen, yes, you can still carry physical gift cards.
Anyone know what’s going on with this? I paid for a cruise in gift cards, they only gave me a partial refund and are saying once I spend they’ll add more money to the cards (seems SUPER sketchy to begin with…why not just give me brand new cards???) so I’ve been trying to transfer the balances to see if they actually follow through and give me the remainder of my refund when those card balances go to 0. The problem? The ONLY place to transfer gift cards is the disneygiftcard.com website. It hasn’t been working for weeks, and now here we are on January 20th and the website looks exactly the same and still nothing works?? So much for a relaunch. Sounds like they’ve just gotten rid of the website entirely, which then means I’m going to have to fight like crazy now to get the rest of my refund.
I didn’t know about the website update until today and have lost all of my gift cards. I’ve tried to reach out to Disneygiftcard.com but haven’t been able to reach anyone to help me. Did this happen to anyone else? If so, what happened?