We accept many forms of payment—all major U.S. and Canada credit and debit cards, EBT cards at participating stores in select states, China UnionPay, Google Pay, and Apple Pay. At this time, Instacart doesn’t offer an Instacart-specific credit card.

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

We're sorry for the inconvenience as we're currently not able to accept:

  • PayPal
  • Cash
  • Store gift cards
  • EBT cards at select retailers
  • International payments
  • Any other forms of payment not listed as accepted above

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. Select Payment methods
  4. Click Add next to the payment method you would like to add to your account
  5. Enter card information and billing address. Then click Continue

To add a payment in the Instacart app—

  1. Tap the Account icon.
  2. Tap Settings
  3. Select the payment method you want to add under Payment methods
  4. Tap the pencil icon in the upper right-hand corner
  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. Select Payment methods 
  4. Click Delete next to the payment method you want to remove

In the app—

  1. Tap the Account icon.
  2. Tap Settings
  3. Select the payment method you want to add under 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

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.