November 15, 2025, 3:41 pm | Read time: 4 minutes
Those who pay with the PayPal app can easily get money back while shopping, thanks to Deal Week, a cashback program from the payment service. The offer is available each day with a different retailer or theme. However, there’s an important detail to note. Learn all about PayPal’s Deal Week at TECHBOOK.
All About PayPal’s Cashback Program Deal Week
PayPal is especially popular for hassle-free money transfers when shopping online or settling debts with friends and acquaintances. But the payment system doesn’t just work online—you can also use it in stores or restaurants. To highlight this option, PayPal is currently ramping up its advertising. What does this have to do with the aforementioned Deal Week? Everything. Because this cashback program is exclusively for in-store purchases.
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Experienced users probably know that PayPal offers various ways to get money back when paying. These include PayPal Offers, where you can activate certain promotions online or in apps to save with participating retailers. Another example is the PayPal Cashback Mastercard, which gives users a fixed percentage back on every payment.
Additionally, there are always time-limited partner promotions where certain online shops or categories offer extra rebates. Deal Week complements these existing online or card cashback offers, but offline.
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More information about Deal Week can be found on the PayPal website. The promotion—a long-term, strategic partnership with various brands from Germany—includes daily changing partner and daily offers. The requirement is that customers pay contactlessly with the PayPal app in-store. The cashback amount varies by provider, typically between 5 and 10 percent. Customers usually receive the money automatically credited to their PayPal account once the purchase is completed and confirmed.
At the start of Cashback Week on Tuesday (Monday is excluded from the promotion, as is Friday), customers can save at two fashion houses: Peek & Cloppenburg—at least in Düsseldorf—and Anson’s. Wednesday is Deichmann’s turn, Thursday offers savings at Obi, and Saturday at the furniture store XXXLutz. But it’s not just shopping for goods that offers a rebate: Currently, Sunday is the CinemaxX movie day partner as part of Deal Week.
Pros and Cons PayPal Users Should Know
Overall, it’s a good offer—at least for consumers who already have a PayPal account and the technical means for contactless payment. Participation in Deal Week only requires using the PayPal app. So if you need something from one of the participating retailers, you can benefit from the offer by timing your (offline) purchase to the relevant promotion day. However, potential additional costs for deliveries of bulky or heavy items, such as from a hardware store, should be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Since the participating partners change regularly, the program remains dynamic, so eventually, there could be something suitable for every user. On the other hand, this also means that promotions are of limited duration, and you might miss one.
Those planning larger purchases should keep in mind that PayPal Deal Week has a daily maximum, meaning a cap on the amount a customer can receive as cashback per day. For example, at Deichmann on Wednesday, there’s 7 percent cashback with a daily maximum of 20 euros. This means that even if you spend 500 euros—7 percent of which would be 35 euros—you only receive 20 euros in cashback. This apparent limitation can also be seen as an advantage. Often, discount promotions and cashback programs lead to unnecessary spending, but this risk is more controlled with Deal Week.