Can't add card to search ads

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+1 still the same problem

Found the working solution.

Firstly, despite what everyone says here, debit cards are accepted. Also, if you get declined 3 times, you will have to wait 24 hours until you can try again, even if there is no message indicating that. (Apple messed up really bad here by not providing error details)

But, there is a better way of doing it, instead of just waiting.

1. In your dashboard (https://app.searchads.apple.com/), click your name on the top right corner.
2. Then, click your name again (DON'T click Settings next to your Account Id). Your name should be highlighted in blue.
3. You should see a page that has some categories: Apple Id, Email Preferences etc.
4. At the bottom, you will see My Accounts. Click the button Create Account.
5. From there you can restart the whole flow and you can enter your Debit card from the first try

So, whenever you know you have wasted 3 attempts validating your card, you can just create a new account and skip the waiting.

Note: The Create Account button might redirect you to an empty page. After 10-15 minutes it worked again.

Hope this helps

I found a solution for me:

I had to disable Pop-Up blocker and Content blocker in Safari for app.searchads.apple.com.

I has the same problem. I have tried everything *using both debet and credit cards *started a new account *using both windows and ios

still not succeeded and Apple is of no help in this issue

Had the same issue with my ING (Mastercard) credit card, in The Netherlands. I'm not sure what causes this problem and the final response from customer support was to try different cards.. which was not the best advice, but fortunately I found a card that worked for me, hopefully this is of help:

I opened a bankaccount at a bank called Wise, a bank specialised at doing payments with foreign currency's and you can have multiple bankcards from different countries, but only have to pay for one card. https://wise.com

Opening an account is free, but I had to put 20 euro's on the account to verify it and pay 7 euro's or pounds for a physical card (which could be payed from the 20 euro's in the account). When the payment for the physical card is done you get instant acces to the digital version, which can be used for your searchads account.

The setting up of all this took a bit of time, but I was quite happy to get the approval of Apple, after they got the info of the card.

I can't guarantee this will work for everyone, but it is at least an alternative to try. Maybe similar banks / cards are also worth the shot, like Revolut and N26.

Hope this is of help.