Giropay stopped functioning as a payment method back in 2024 and can't be used to fund an online casino account today. This page covers what the service was, how a Giropay deposit used to work at a casino cashier, and where to look instead now that it's gone.

No. New payments through Giropay stopped going through as of June 30, 2024, and from the next day onward the method dropped out of the standard merchant checkout systems that casinos rely on. If a cashier somewhere still shows Giropay as a choice, that's a sign the page hasn't been updated, not a sign the option actually works.

Giropay started life as a German online banking payment option, letting a customer pay straight out of a bank account instead of reaching for a card or e-wallet. It was built mainly around German shoppers, and confirming a payment meant logging into one's own online banking rather than typing card numbers at checkout.

Where a casino supported it, the flow ran roughly like this:

1. Pick Giropay at the cashier.
2. Type in the deposit amount.
3. Get sent to the bank's own online banking portal.
4. Select or log into the bank.
5. Authorize the payment.
6. Land back at the casino once confirmation comes through.

Deposits were the main use case here, not withdrawals. Since the payment ran directly off a bank account, it tended to process fast once the bank gave the green light, though the actual experience still hinged on the specific bank and whether that casino had bothered integrating the method at all.

Giropay was built as a deposit tool first and foremost. Whether any given casino tied a payout option to it came down to that operator's own integration, and plenty leaned on bank transfer or something else for sending money back. Saying it never supported withdrawals in any shape would overstate things, but payouts were never the point the way deposits were.

Stripe's account of events places the decision with Paydirekt, the company behind Giropay, which chose to wind the service down. Other payment processors, Stripe included, say they learned about the shutdown only shortly before it actually happened and had no say in it.

No. A Giropay logo or listing still turning up somewhere is almost certainly leftover from before the cutoff, not evidence the integration was kept current. Payment providers have been clear that trying to push a transaction through a stale Giropay option just throws an error instead of completing anything.

Anyone who used to rely on Giropay now has a handful of other routes, depending on the casino and the country involved: bank transfer, Visa, Mastercard, e-wallets like Skrill and Neteller, EPS where that's supported, and assorted regional online banking methods. No single one wins across the board; the right pick depends on the casino, the currency involved, and what the player's own bank actually offers.

Worth comparing directly, since the two get mixed up as similar online banking tools:

Calling Giropay a manual bank transfer undersells how it worked. It ran through its own online banking checkout, with the bank confirming payment right at the point of sale, rather than a player typing in recipient details by hand and sitting around for an ordinary transfer to clear.

Look at the casino's actual current cashier rather than trusting an old payment page. Giropay won't process anything at this point, so don't expect otherwise. Pick whatever method the casino genuinely supports now, and reach out to support if there's uncertainty. One more thing worth watching for: unofficial pages that imitate the old Giropay checkout and ask for bank details. A legitimate payment option runs through the casino's own cashier, never through some separate unfamiliar page.