Bookmakers Revolut Pay

What is Revolut Pay?

Revolut Pay is the checkout button of Revolut, the London fintech with more than 80 million customers. You choose it in the bookmaker’s cashier, you are sent to the Revolut app, you approve the amount with your passcode or fingerprint and the money leaves your Revolut balance. The bookmaker receives the payment, not your details: Revolut says it never shares card or bank details with merchants or stores them on their sites, that most Revolut Pay transactions complete immediately and that it sets no limit on the number of payments. Someone without a Revolut account can still pay through the same button with any card and an e-mail address.

In bookmaker cashiers the word “Revolut” covers three different things. Revolut Pay is the button described above: a payment from the account, approved in the app, with nothing to type. A Revolut card is an ordinary card payment: you enter the card number in the card form and the bookmaker treats it like any other card. A bank transfer to Revolut is a payment to the IBAN or sort code of your Revolut account, the route most bookmakers use to send withdrawals. All three reach the same balance, but they differ in cost, in speed and in what can block them, and the sections below say where.

Revolut was launched in 2015 and now operates as a bank in more than thirty countries. UK customers hold their e-money account with Revolut Ltd, authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (reference 900562), beside Revolut Bank UK Ltd, authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority; customers in the European Economic Area are with Revolut Bank UAB in Vilnius, supervised by the Bank of Lithuania and the European Central Bank. Revolut Pay itself is more recent: it went live on 12 September 2022 for merchants in the UK and the EEA.

How to open a Revolut account

1. Download the Revolut app and sign up. You need a phone number, your name, address and date of birth. Accounts open for residents of the United Kingdom, the European Economic Area, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, the United States and Brazil; Mexico is on a waiting list until the 2026 launch.
2. Verify your identity. Revolut asks for an identity document and a selfie taken in the app; the documents it accepts are listed on the submission screen.
3. Hold the currency of your bookmaker. A Revolut account holds several currencies. Exchange into the bookmaker’s currency on a weekday: on the Standard plan the first £1,000 or €1,000 a month are exchanged without fee, 1% applies beyond that and 1% applies to any exchange at the weekend.
4. Top up the account. Bank transfer and a UK or EEA consumer card are free; a commercial or non-EEA card carries what Revolut calls “a small fee”, shown in the app before you confirm. Transfers from other Revolut users are free and instant.
5. Pay the bookmaker. Choose Revolut Pay in the cashier, type the amount and confirm in the Revolut app. The money is on your betting account at once.

What it costs

Paying a bookmaker with Revolut Pay costs you nothing: Revolut charges the merchant, a flat 1% plus €0.20 or £0.20 per transaction, and most bookmakers add no fee of their own on Revolut deposits or withdrawals. What you can pay is currency exchange, when your balance and your betting account are not in the same currency, and the fees of the Revolut account itself.

Revolut fees that matter to a bettor (Standard plan, UK and EEA)

Fees read on 19 October 2026 on the Standard plan fee schedules of revolut.com for the United Kingdom (updated 14 October 2026) and for Ireland and the EEA (version applying from 15 October 2026), and on the help centre page on exchange fees. Paid plans change the exchange figures: Plus pays 0.5% beyond £3,000 a month, while Premium, Metal and Ultra pay no exchange fee and no weekend fee. Australia, the United States, Japan, Singapore and Brazil have fee pages of their own.

Deposit and withdrawal times

Deposits are instant: you approve in the app and the bookmaker credits the betting account at once. Withdrawals wait first for the bookmaker’s approval, from minutes to a few days depending on the operator and on whether your betting account is verified. Once sent, the money follows the route the bookmaker uses. A payout sent back through Revolut Pay is processed as a refund of the deposit, and Revolut’s help centre says a refund may take up to five days from the moment the merchant initiates it. A bank transfer to your Revolut account arrives within a few minutes by SEPA Instant, within a few hours and at most one business day by UK Faster Payments, and within two business days by regular SEPA or SWIFT.

Not every bookmaker that takes Revolut Pay for deposits pays out through it. Many send withdrawals as a bank transfer to the IBAN or sort code of your Revolut account, or to your Revolut card, and the cashier tells you which. Whatever the route, the money is spendable as soon as it shows on the Revolut balance; there is no second transfer to a bank, as there is with Skrill or Neteller.

Where you can use it

Revolut Pay is offered to merchants in the United Kingdom and the thirty countries of the European Economic Area, so a bookmaker that shows the button is a company based there, Malta, Cyprus and Gibraltar included; Revolut says the button can serve customers worldwide and settle payments in 32 currencies, from pounds and euros to US and Australian dollars. On your side you need a personal Revolut account, which opens for residents of the UK, the EEA, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, the United States and Brazil. Four rules decide whether a payment to a bookmaker goes through.

• United Kingdom. Since April 2020 credit cards cannot be used for gambling, and the ban reaches money loaded into an e-money account with a credit card. Revolut Pay draws on the balance of your account, so it is allowed; what matters is how you topped that balance up.
• Licensed operators only, in some countries. In several European countries, Sweden among them, Revolut must block payments to and from gambling operators that the national regulator lists as unlicensed. A payment to a bookmaker without a local licence is declined, and Revolut asks you to contact support if you think a licensed operator was blocked by mistake.
• Gambling block. The app has a switch, off by default, under Profile › Security › Payments, that blocks every card payment coded as gambling. It works at once, takes up to 48 hours to lift and does not stop bank transfers.
• Outside the UK and the EEA. A Revolut customer in Australia, Singapore or the United States can pay a European bookmaker through the button only if that bookmaker accepts players from their country; Revolut Pay does not change the bookmaker’s licence or its list of accepted countries.

One point for anyone counting on a dispute: Revolut’s Buyer Protection Policy, which covers Revolut Pay purchases, excludes “gambling or games of chance”. A problem with a bookmaker goes through the bookmaker’s complaints procedure and its regulator, not through Revolut.

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