Xbox Live Prepaid Card to pay Game Pass?

But... using a prepaid card to add money to the microsoft account and then pay with that? Not the prepaid cards of "12 Month Xbox Live Gold Membership", I want to use the ones that add money like "Xbox Live $50 Card"

If the Credit should be for Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass subscriptions I would recommend a prepaid Card for that. If you want to give him credit for buying games or dlc you could add the prepaid Xbox credit cards for it.

Hi Jose,

Thank you for posting on the Xbox forums. I'd be happy to answer that.

There are two kinds of pre-paid cards for Xbox: The first is a pre-paid Xbox Live Gold subscription card that once redeemed will subscribe you to Xbox Live Gold. The second is an Xbox Gift Card which once redeemed will add credits to your Microsoft Account
balance to spend on digital products or subscriptions from the Microsoft Store. The type of card will be labeled on the front and Xbox Gift cards will display the amount of currency you will be redeeming, while Xbox Live Gold pre-paid cards will display the
amount of time you will be subscribing to Xbox Live Gold.

If you want to use an Xbox Gift Card to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass for PC, you will need to have enough credits in your account balance to cover the initial charge plus the renewal charge, or you will need to add a backup payment option like a debit or
credit card.

For more information about Gift cards and codes, please read over our official support article, "Learn about gift cards and codes"

I hope this helps!

Currently I have Game Pass Ultimate subscription with recurring billing off and don't want this subscription service once it expires 10/22/22, so do I just activate my prepaid xbox live gold subscription card on 10/23/22, or do I actually have to cancel game pass ultimate subscription for my account on 10/23/22 manually before redeeming and activating my xbox live gold prepaid 12 month card on 10/23/22?

Also, if you select turn off recurring billing on your account for your current game pass ultimate subscription, does that automatically cancel your prepaid game pass ultimate subscription on its expiration date? or is it requirement that you still manually cancel Game Pass Ultimate on or after its prepaid expiration date if you wish to switch back to xbox live gold using a prepaid subscription card?

If, at a later date, I want to consider switching back to game pass ultimate service again after already activating up to 36 months of prepaid xbox live gold subscription cards, then the option to convert these 36 months of xbox live gold to game pass ultimate at a 1:1 monthly ratio conversion for a 2nd time all over again is still offered to me correct? the only difference this time around would be that I would have to pay $14.99 or whatever the current monthly game pass ultimate price rate is for one month to convert all prepaid live gold months at 1:1 ratio? since I can't qualify for the $1 per month ultimate promo price deal since I already used that 3 years prior?

if auto-renewal is turned off and you are paying with a prepaid card then you're credit card will not be charged...and your account cannot be suspened if you're paying with a prepaid card-- once your sub is up (with the prepaid card) then remove your credit
card-- your new credit card would not need to be on xbox live if you don't want it to be. i read these directions on the forum like a month ago.