How Do You Change the Card Tinder Charges?

You change it with whoever takes the money. If you bought through Apple, Google Play or PayPal, Tinder points you to Apple Support, the Google Play Store or PayPal to update the payment method there. If you bought on Tinder.com, you sign in on Tinder.com, open your settings, scroll to Manage Account and tap Change Card.

For most men, Tinder is not the company holding the card.

If you subscribed inside the iPhone app, Apple took the payment. If you subscribed through the Google Play Store, Google took it. If you paid with PayPal, the card sits in your PayPal account. In each case Tinder never had the card details to change, so the change has to happen with the company that does.

Only a purchase made on Tinder.com keeps the card with Tinder itself. That is the one case where you change it inside Tinder.

These are the steps Tinder gives.

1. Go to Tinder.com and sign in.
2. Tap the profile icon.
3. Tap the settings icon.
4. Scroll down to Manage Account.
5. Tap Change Card.

Enter the new card and save it. Check the details against the card itself before you do, because a single wrong digit will stop the next payment going through.

Here you leave Tinder alone and go to the company that bills you.

For an iPhone purchase, you update the payment method in your Apple account, and Tinder points you to Apple Support for the exact steps. For a Google Play purchase, you update it in the Google Play Store. For a PayPal payment, you change the card or bank linked to your PayPal account.

Once the new card is in place with that company, your Tinder plan carries on as before. There is nothing else to change inside the app.

Tinder uses the order number to tell you. An order number starting with MK means Apple bills you. GPA means Google Play. TNDR means Tinder.com, or a card entered inside the Android app. The order number is on the receipt from your purchase.

If you cannot find the receipt, look in the places a plan can live. Check the subscriptions list on your iPhone, the subscriptions page in Google Play, and the account page on Tinder.com. Whichever one shows Tinder is the one to update.

A Tinder plan renews automatically until you cancel it, so the card has to accept recurring payments.

Some gift cards, prepaid cards and select debit cards cannot handle recurring payments, Tinder says, so they are a poor fit for a plan. It also lists billing address mix-ups as a common cause of failed payments, so make sure the address and zip code you enter match what your bank has on file. Get those right once and you will not be fixing this again next month.

Sometimes a statement shows what looks like two Tinder payments around the time you changed cards. Tinder routes that complaint by where you bought.

For an iPhone purchase you contact Apple Support, since Apple manages the transaction. For an order number starting with GPA you contact Google Play Support. For a number starting with TNDR or COSU, or anything bought on Tinder.com, you report the billing issue to Tinder. Have the order numbers from both charges ready before you write.

Men usually change the card because an old one expired or a charge bounced. It is also a natural pause to ask whether the plan is doing its job.

a dating coach's approach to paid features is to try each one and cut it if the results do not move. He is equally clear that refusing to pay for anything on principle is a mistake, because the apps are businesses that look after the members who pay. So the question is not whether paying is right. It is whether this plan is getting you more dates.

Count your matches and your dates over the last few weeks. If they are steady, keep the plan and update the card. If they are close to zero, remember My other point. Paid features multiply what you already have, and zero multiplied is still zero. In that case the card is not the thing to change. The lead photo and your opening line are.