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Old Mar 23, 2014, 7:05 pm
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800-950-5114. Non-US agents are, as of at least August 15, 2015, able to do debit card payments. If they resist, ask for a US agent.
Please do not report that debit payments do not work over the phone, they do! Hang up and call again (HUCA) until you get someone capable.


The same thing can be done in a Citi branch, but you do not swipe the debit card or enter any PIN, so it seems likely that the same cards do/don't work in branch as over the phone.
The name on the debit card must match the name on the account. You can be an authorized card holder (they'll ask the name of the primary). You can also pay off Citi Business credit cards (only attempted as primary cardholder). Limit of one payment per debit card per account per day.

Debit cards that work for paying Citi cards over the phone.
All Mastercard & Visa debit cards attached to regular checking accounts:
  • Alaska - some have not gotten miles;
  • SunTrust - no miles;
  • UFB Direct - $2000 daily limit - no miles.
Coinbase (shutdowns have been reported)
Green Dot (permanent card)
H&R Block Emerald
JH Preferred
M1 Plus (no cb)
MVD (shutdowns have been reported)
Paypal Business Debit Mastercard (no 1% cb)
Pennywise Power "payday rewards" Visa cards (Bancorp, MB financial Bank N.A)
Simple Card - see post #347
Swagbucks virtual visa (issued by Prepaid Digital Solutions)
Swagbucks virtual mastercard (issued by MyPrepaidCenter)
Topcashback virtual visa (issued by Bancorp)
T-Mobile (temp and perm, shutdowns have been reported)
Wells Fargo


Debit cards that DO NOT work for paying Citi cards over the phone.
American Express Gift Card
American Express for Target
Bluebird
Serve
Chase Starbucks Prepaid (post)
Curve Commercial Debit
Google Wallet
Green Dot (temporary card registered with zip and pin)
MetaBank Visa/MC
US Bank/USB GC
Paypower (temporary card registered with zip and pin) - post 283
Sunrise Bank Visa
US Bank Mastercard/Visa prepaid
US Bank Visa Buxx
TD Go Card
Vanilla Visa/Mastercard (issued by Bancorp) (incl. OneVanilla, Vanilla Debit)


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Old Jun 6, 2018, 5:26 am
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DP: MCGC from gc.com worked.
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Old Jun 6, 2018, 6:28 am
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If you guys want to retract the comments from the last two days I'll give you some hints. Some things are better off written between the lines.
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Old Jun 6, 2018, 10:09 am
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The automated system is great. Once you make a payment with debit with a rep, the next time the automated system comes up.
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Old Jun 6, 2018, 8:00 pm
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If you guys want to retract the comments from the last two days I'll give you some hints. Some things are better off written between the lines.
OK. I'm waiting
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Old Jun 7, 2018, 12:56 pm
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Originally Posted by ShakuniMama
OK. I'm waiting
I was waiting also, but I was able to pay over the phone. I hear you can also pay other cc over the phone but I will have to test it out.
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Old Aug 4, 2018, 2:01 pm
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I just tried a Simon Gift card (issued by Metabank) bought at the mall.
Citi Rep said that the payment was rejected by the card issuer.
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Any recent DP's on OV gebits?
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Old Sep 2, 2018, 6:19 pm
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Is paying with 15 different gebits in 15 consecutive days a feasible thing to do without shutdown?
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Old Sep 19, 2018, 11:18 pm
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Many thanks, was able to clear some old GC
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Old Sep 21, 2018, 12:37 pm
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Via chat and secure form, I've had multiple reps tell me they couldn't process the payment but then the payment did process when reviewing afterwards (both on credit side freeing up limit and debit side reducing balance). Has anyone else experienced this? I get address verification error a lot too and have figured out how to overcome that, but this is a new one

There are certain limits to how many debit payments can be made to/from various cards and situations where a lot of quickly arriving/purchased cards being used could cause issues. Would love to hear other people's experiences with chat reps executing things poorly and how to mitigate it..
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