Purchase Gold Membership With Account Money.

Hi. I was just mad when I noticed that I couldn't buy gold membership with my account money. Why aren't we able to buy it like that and cab you please look further into this to make is happen.

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Purchasing An Xbox Live Gold Membership

Have you purchased an Xbox Live Gold membership? If so, how much time did you pay for - a month, 3 months, or a year? Did you buy a family membership? I wish we would bought the family membership now, since we have 3 people who all want separate gold accounts and only 1 of them currently has one. It would have been so much cheaper than buying 3 separate accounts!!

 

How to Renew your Xbox LIVE Gold Membership

Overview of Xbox LIVE Renewal

When your current Xbox LIVE Gold Membership is about to run out, you will get a renewal message on your screen.

• Month-to-month membership- Notification comes 15 days in advance
• 3 or 12 month membership- Notification comes 30 days in advance

Xbox LIVE membership can be renewed using a credit card, a debit card, or a Prepaid Gold Membership Card.

If your automatic membership renewal (auto renewal) is set to off, you can purchase a new subscription or use a prepaid membership card to renew your Xbox LIVE Gold Membership.

Renew with a payment option by purchasing a new membership:

Steps to Follow

1) Use your Xbox LIVE gamertag to sign in.

2) Under Settings, select Account.

3) Proceed to Your Memberships, and select the membership that you currently have (for example Xbox LIVE Gold)

4) Select Modify Membership and you will be presented with a list of renewal options. If you are on an Xbox LIVE Free Membership, you can choose to upgrade to Gold Membership.

5) Select a membership option, then Confirm Purchase.

Once you have confirmed your purchase, the following will happen:

• The payment option you are using will be charged immediately.
• The time subscription plan you have just purchased will be added to your remaining subscription time.
• Your Xbox LIVE Gold Membership will be activated and auto renewal turned on.

Take note:

If you use a credit card as your payment option, you cannot remove it on file until your current membership expires.

There is a procedure you can follow to add or change your Xbox LIVE payment option.

Renew with a prepaid membership card

It is possible to renew your Xbox LIVE membership using a Prepaid Microsoft Gold Membership Card. This card is available at retail locations.

If you choose to redeem a prepaid Xbox LIVE membership code, you will be added time to your existing Xbox LIVE membership, while your renewal settings will remain unchanged.

How to turn on auto renewal (for existing membership):

If you are already on Xbox LIVE Gold of Family Pack membership and you want to turn on auto renewal without purchasing new membership, you should contact Xbox Support.

How to Troubleshoot Xbox LIVE renewal:

If there are issues with your Xbox LIVE account, you might receive the following messages. The solutions are provided below:

• Error: Your credit card has been declined several times by our billing service.

This means that your credit card has expired, or the information on it has been changed. To solve this problem, there is a procedure you can follow to change payment option for Xbox LIVE membership.

• Error: 8015d080

In case you receive this error message, you need to contact Xbox Support.

 

The reason why you can't use your currency is just because it's not available, the fine print on the codecard even says so.

You can however vote for the idea on the Uservoice website right here
xbox.uservoice.com/.../6028656-use-our-microsoft-money-to-buy-xbox-live

 

Also dashboard subscriptions require a renewal payment method

 

This has been a pretty hot issue. I have seen threads like this popping up for years. It just doesn't make sense. Why in the world is there a Microsoft product/service that can't be paid for using your Microsoft account. Xbox Music is the same way. It's
ridiculous.

 

it is because when you buy it on the dashboard it auto renews which is why you need a valid form of payment like a credit card or paypal. so the system has something to charge when the next amount is due.

 

I don't know if it was a glitch or not but I could have swore that I used MSP to pay for Gold once before. It may have been Xbox Music but it was one of those 2. Yet another thing that made MSP great

 

The only ways that you have ever been able to purchase a Gold subscription were with a credit card/paypal or with prepaid Gold subscription cards. That is it. MS point cards or currency cards have never been able to be used for subscriptions.

 

Hey, guys! Since this isn't a support issue, I'm going to go ahead and lock this thread down. Both Homegrown and Feared got you the answers to this particular issue. If you would like to see Xbox Live Gold purchased with currency, you will need to take this
to the Feedback site. Thanks for understanding!