PayPal Offers $10 Cash Back on your First Eligible Panda Express In-Person Order of $10+ at Participating Panda Express Locations when you Scan QR Code.
Thanks community members scorpionguy & jonsback [Discuss] for sharing this deal
Offer is valid through 11:59:59 p.m. ET on December 31, 2021
Open only to residents of any one 50 United States or the District of Columbia who are holders of a U.S. personal, premier or business PayPal account in good standing are 18 years of age or older.
Eligible Purchases do not include
Any purchase made through PayPal checkout (the PayPal button), not using PayPal QR code functionality,
Send/receive money transactions (including those marked as a "Goods and Services" payments), not using PayPal QR code functionality
Charitable donations
Purchases made using PayPal.me, (5) PayPal Cash Mastercard, PayPal Cashback Mastercard, PayPal Prepaid Mastercard, PayPal Extras Mastercard, and PayPal Business Debit Mastercard, purchases directly and not through a QR code purchase using a Valid Account
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Since there are a lot of people (including me) who have been to locations where they have no idea how to scan the QR code (and made me pay by credit card instead), I wanted to share the locations here:
Cashier did not know how to get the QR code to work:
CA - Sacramento 1802 19th St.
Cashier was successful in scanning QR code:
please add your locations here (state first, then city)
Last Updated by dlinfiniti on 10-17-2021 at 07:37 PM
PayPal Offers $10 Cash Back on your First Eligible Panda Express In-Person Order of $10+ at Participating Panda Express Locations when you Scan QR Code.
Thanks community members scorpionguy & jonsback [Discuss] for sharing this deal
Offer is valid through 11:59:59 p.m. ET on December 31, 2021
Open only to residents of any one 50 United States or the District of Columbia who are holders of a U.S. personal, premier or business PayPal account in good standing are 18 years of age or older.
Eligible Purchases do not include
Any purchase made through PayPal checkout (the PayPal button), not using PayPal QR code functionality,
Send/receive money transactions (including those marked as a "Goods and Services" payments), not using PayPal QR code functionality
Charitable donations
Purchases made using PayPal.me, (5) PayPal Cash Mastercard, PayPal Cashback Mastercard, PayPal Prepaid Mastercard, PayPal Extras Mastercard, and PayPal Business Debit Mastercard, purchases directly and not through a QR code purchase using a Valid Account
Not sure anyone in the last thread ever found an employee that knew how to bring up the QR code for them to scan... I was going to wait until near the end, so hopefully by then, at least someone will know how to do it. Some of the fast food places here still don't seem to know how their own mobile app orders work.
Not sure what the last thread was about but in this deal you bring up the QR code on your PayPal app to pay with when paying in-store. All the employee has to do is scan the QR with their reader.
This was a disaster.
I ordered $14 food and flash through the machine to scan my PayPal code. I got the email receipt immediately but the cashier said it didn't go through so he will cancel the transaction and let me scan my code. I held the phone for 3seconds toward the scanner, and in fact i got deducted twice off my PayPal.
There's no reward either.
The cashier wrote down my phone number and the manager called back a hour later said i will see the refund by end of the day. He explained that paypal is not working well in their system.
Now there's still no refund yet.
It seems that this offer on Paypal might ONLY work on people who have NEVER used the QR code scan to Pay via Paypal.
I used it on the CVS deal previously ($10 back on $20). Hence the Panda Express deal did not show up for me in Paypal offers in app or desktop.
So this deal likely works for FIRST TIME Paypal QR code users and those who see the offer in the app or the desktop.
I have never used paypal app before so never scanned anything and paid with paypal. I also have money in paypal and i did not get it si this shoots down your theory
I got the $10 immediately after doing the pay by scan at Panda Express.
I have used Pay by Scan before. Definitely not first time. There was no offer showing up for me in the app. Just the scan worked.
First attempt payment did not go through. Then the cashier said 'Oh Paypal' and did something in his register and asked me to scan again. Then it went through fine.
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I just got back from Panda Express and Paypal gave me my cashback on the way home. I used the Paypal app and QR code. Employee immediately understood what I meant and paid very quickly.
There are little machines at the register for scanning QRs. The machines look like this
theres a sign now accept paypal or venmo at the door my location. even inside there are a few more signs. order, pull up QR code at checkout, scan, get a notification pymt, $10 hits paypal acct immediately, done...
Lrg orange chicken w tax$: 11.31-$10 credit = $1.31 net.
May try with Venmo someone said different app/QR code unless they go by email if u sign up as same.
This deal did not show up in my app or in browser.
I just went and ordered a plate $9.70 before tax, scanned the app and received a $10 credit immediately to my PayPal account.
Thanks OP!
You should have done an about-face and headed for the door.
Don't let people pressure you into backing down...you were in the right; besides the food is
nothing special to begin with.
Exactly this. People walking and calling corporate to tell them about the experience is the only way this stops. Especially if employees are going to accuse people of 'hacking the system' for a promoted ad.
This deal did not show up in my app or in browser.
I just went and ordered a plate $9.70 before tax, scanned the app and received a $10 credit immediately to my PayPal account.
Thanks OP!
How did it work when order total is less than $10?
Unlike the venmo promo, with this paypal promo I received the $10 back almost instantly!
The best deal I could find for $10 is a 2 entre plate plus a small appetizer. Or just a large a la carte entre. Also, check out the back of your receipt - you go to panda's website and fill out a quick survey about your experience there and you'll be able to get a free small entre on your next visit if you buy a 2 entre plate. So essentially if you did this already, you can get a 2 entre plate, a small entre and a small appetizer for about a dollar once you factor in tax and receive your $10 from PayPal.
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I had the same issue in the app, but I was able to change my preferred payment method on the website (it's the "in-store purchases" method when you go into settings and then open the Payments section).
Also, my [android] PayPal app just updated today to a completely new interface, and now I'm able to change the in-store purchases method from within the app. Might want to see if you have an update available.
Good luck!
Thanks for the reply. I just checked and my app was just updated as well and now I see the setting. Thanks for the help.
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Might give this a try this weekend.
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I used it on the CVS deal previously ($10 back on $20). Hence the Panda Express deal did not show up for me in Paypal offers in app or desktop.
So this deal likely works for FIRST TIME Paypal QR code users and those who see the offer in the app or the desktop.
I ordered $14 food and flash through the machine to scan my PayPal code. I got the email receipt immediately but the cashier said it didn't go through so he will cancel the transaction and let me scan my code. I held the phone for 3seconds toward the scanner, and in fact i got deducted twice off my PayPal.
There's no reward either.
The cashier wrote down my phone number and the manager called back a hour later said i will see the refund by end of the day. He explained that paypal is not working well in their system.
Now there's still no refund yet.
I used it on the CVS deal previously ($10 back on $20). Hence the Panda Express deal did not show up for me in Paypal offers in app or desktop.
So this deal likely works for FIRST TIME Paypal QR code users and those who see the offer in the app or the desktop.
I have used Pay by Scan before. Definitely not first time. There was no offer showing up for me in the app. Just the scan worked.
First attempt payment did not go through. Then the cashier said 'Oh Paypal' and did something in his register and asked me to scan again. Then it went through fine.
$14 order came to $4.
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There are little machines at the register for scanning QRs. The machines look like this
https://i.imgur.com/75SptIr.jpg
right next to the credit card scanner. There are little signs at the registers advertising the venmo/paypal devices too.
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Lrg orange chicken w tax$: 11.31-$10 credit = $1.31 net.
May try with Venmo someone said different app/QR code unless they go by email if u sign up as same.
I just went and ordered a plate $9.70 before tax, scanned the app and received a $10 credit immediately to my PayPal account.
Thanks OP!
You should have done an about-face and headed for the door.
Don't let people pressure you into backing down...you were in the right; besides the food is
nothing special to begin with.
I just went and ordered a plate $9.70 before tax, scanned the app and received a $10 credit immediately to my PayPal account.
Thanks OP!
The best deal I could find for $10 is a 2 entre plate plus a small appetizer. Or just a large a la carte entre. Also, check out the back of your receipt - you go to panda's website and fill out a quick survey about your experience there and you'll be able to get a free small entre on your next visit if you buy a 2 entre plate. So essentially if you did this already, you can get a 2 entre plate, a small entre and a small appetizer for about a dollar once you factor in tax and receive your $10 from PayPal.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Also, my [android] PayPal app just updated today to a completely new interface, and now I'm able to change the in-store purchases method from within the app. Might want to see if you have an update available.
Good luck!
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