Which countries we sell gift cards for

A gift card isn't money. It's cut for one country's store, and it only opens that one.

So the question isn't which country you like the look of. It's which country your account was registered in. Get that right and the rest of this is easy.

The three we sell most

Most of what leaves this shop is for one of three countries.

South Africa is the nearest store region to us, and a lot of PlayStation accounts in Zimbabwe were made there. The United Kingdom has the widest shelf we carry, with all three consoles and most of a high street. The United States is the country a great many game and app accounts ended up with by default, and the only one where the face value and the price are the same currency.

The rest of the busy list

United Arab Emirates, Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Nigeria, India, Brazil, Türkiye and Saudi Arabia.

Each has a guide of its own, because what's actually on the shelf differs more than you'd expect. Ireland has no console wallet cards. Canada has no PlayStation cards. The Netherlands is almost entirely PC. Knowing that before you shop saves a wasted half hour.

And another forty-odd

Beyond those we sell cards for most of Europe, including Spain, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Portugal, Greece, Hungary and Czechia. In Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania and Gambia. In the Americas, Mexico, Colombia and Peru. In the Middle East, Bahrain and Cyprus.

Spain deserves a mention of its own. It quietly has the deepest catalogue of any region we sell, deeper than the UK, and almost nobody asks for it.

That list moves as stock moves, so the honest answer is always the live one. All regions shows every country we currently have cards for, and how many each has.

Zimbabwe isn't on it, and that's the point

Most platforms don't run a Zimbabwean store. There's no PlayStation Zimbabwe wallet, no Zimbabwean Steam currency, no local App Store billing worth speaking of.

That's the reason this shop exists. You buy for the country your account already uses, pay for it here, and redeem the code against that store. Nothing on your account has to change.

How to find your country

It takes two minutes:

• PlayStation: console settings, or your account on playstation.com.
• Steam: account details, under store and purchase history.
• Xbox and Microsoft: your info on account.microsoft.com.

Then set that country at the top of the page, and from then on you'll only see cards that will redeem. What is an account region is the longer version if you want it.

What's the same wherever you buy

The price is in US dollars, whatever currency is printed on the card. The code appears on screen within seconds and lands in your vault, and we never put codes in an email. If one doesn't work, the Loot Guarantee covers it.

What it can't cover is a code redeemed against the wrong country's store. That one is decided in the five minutes before you pay, which is what every guide here is really about.