Why is PayPal asking me for a credit card to purchase my membership?

The PayPal form requests a credit card in order to generate a subscription, but ProZ.com won't charge your card.

The PayPal form requests that you add, update or confirm your debit or credit card because, if the funds already existing in your PayPal account do not match the amount to be charged, there needs to be a card attached to it in order for the system to charge the difference. This does not mean that ProZ.com will charge your card, the cost of the membership will be charged to your PayPal account, and the funds in your account will be used first, according to PayPal's usual criteria.

However, if you do not have a credit card that you can associate to your PayPal account, you can make a direct PayPal transfer to payments@proz.com and we will process your payment manually. After you have issued your payment, please submit a support request and provide your PayPal email address, transaction ID, date and amount paid so that we can locate your payment and manually process your purchase. Please, take into account that this may take a longer time than using the automatized form.