How to Pay for Your Cambodia eVisa: Accepted Cards for US Applicants

Debit cards and digital wallets

You do not need a credit card to pay for a Cambodia eVisa. A US debit card is accepted exactly like a credit card, and if you would rather not type any card number at all, the checkout takes PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. Each has one small thing worth knowing before you confirm.

How a debit card behaves

If your debit card carries a Visa or Mastercard logo and is switched on for international online purchases, it clears the same as a credit card. The one difference is timing: a debit charge draws the full $80 or $90 out of your linked account the moment you confirm, rather than against a credit line you settle later. So the practical rule for debit is simply that the money has to be there that day. If your balance is thin when you hit confirm, the payment fails even though the card itself is perfectly valid — and that failure is funds, not the card being rejected.

PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay

The three wallets route through whatever you already have linked, so an Apple Pay payment charges the card in your Wallet app, a Google Pay payment charges your linked card, and a PayPal payment draws on your PayPal balance or backup funding source. The quiet advantage for a cautious cardholder is tokenization: with a wallet, your raw card number never touches the checkout at all. If you would rather keep card details off a travel site entirely, a wallet is the clean way to pay.

For US applicants who want to compare every option side by side before they decide, our Cambodia eVisa payment methods guide for Americans lays out each card and wallet with the same level of detail. Whichever method you pick, the price is the same — there is no surcharge for paying one way over another.

What the charge looks like in US dollars

The Cambodia eVisa is priced and billed in US dollars. When you confirm an $80 Tourist eVisa, your card is charged $80 USD — there is no local-currency conversion happening at checkout, and no dynamic-currency-conversion prompt asking whether you want to "pay in your home currency" at a marked-up rate. For a US cardholder already paying in their own currency, that removes the single most common place travelers quietly lose a few dollars to a bad exchange rate.

On your statement the visa appears as one clean line for the amount you confirmed. There is no second "processing" or "service" line stacked on afterward — the all-in price is a single charge, and our guide to what is included in the Cambodia eVisa price for Americans breaks down everything that single figure covers. If you also pay for the e-Arrival Card, it shows as its own separate $5 line, because it is a separate filing rather than a hidden add-on to the visa. Two tidy lines — one for the visa, one for the e-Arrival Card — is exactly what you should expect to see, and it is the fastest way to confirm nothing extra was slipped in.

The one variable outside the quoted price is your own bank. Even though the charge is in US dollars, some US issuers treat a payment processed through an overseas merchant as an international transaction and add a foreign-transaction fee of roughly 1 to 3 percent. That is your bank charging you, not the visa price changing, and a card with no foreign-transaction fee skips it entirely. Our Cambodia eVisa foreign-transaction-fee guide for Americans explains when this fee shows up and which everyday US cards avoid it.

If a card gets stopped — and the separate e-Arrival payment

When a US card fails at the Cambodia eVisa checkout, the cause is almost never the visa site and almost always something on the card side that clears in seconds. Knowing the short list ahead of time means you fix it calmly instead of assuming the application is broken.

• Your bank flagged the charge as fraud. By far the most common cause. An unexpected international charge looks suspicious to US fraud systems, so the bank declines it to protect you. A quick call or an in-app travel notice to your card issuer before you pay clears it outright.
• International purchases are switched off. Many US debit cards and some credit cards ship with international online purchases disabled by default. Toggle "international transactions" on in your banking app, then retry.
• Not enough available funds on a debit card. The full $80 or $90 draws immediately on debit, so the linked account must hold that balance when you confirm.
• A typo in the card details. A mistyped number, an expired card, a wrong CVV, or a billing ZIP that does not match what your bank has on file will bounce the payment. Re-enter carefully and confirm the billing ZIP matches your statement address.
• A prepaid or gift card that blocks overseas or recurring authorizations. Some prepaid cards simply do not allow international charges. Use a standard card or a digital wallet instead.

The single most useful thing you can do is tell your bank you are about to make an international online purchase before you start — most US banking apps have a one-tap travel notice that does it in 30 seconds. If the payment still will not go through after that, our Cambodia visa credit-card-declined fixes for Americans walks through every cause and the exact retry order to follow.

Once your visa is paid and approved, there is one more small payment to plan for. Every air arrival in 2026 also files the Cambodia e-Arrival Card — a digital arrival declaration of 14 fields covering your passport, flight, and accommodation details, submitted within 7 days before you land. Verified through us, it is a separate $5 USD payment, and you can pay it on the same card or wallet you used for the visa with no extra surcharge. Budget the $5 per traveler alongside the visa so it is not a surprise.

For most American applicants the payment step takes under a minute: pick your card or wallet, confirm the USD total, and the approved eVisa is delivered as a printable PDF by email within 3 business days, with free resubmission if Immigration flags a correction. If you want the full breakdown of what that $80 or $90 covers before you pay, our Cambodia visa cost guide for Americans itemizes every dollar.

Next steps and related reading for Americans: apply for your Cambodia eVisa when you are ready to lodge, check our Cambodia eVisa foreign-transaction-fee guide for Americans to see whether your bank adds a markup, skim the FAQ on Cambodia visa payment for quick answers, and use our glossary of Cambodia visa terms to decode any acronym in this guide.