Can I use Revolut for the personal OV-Chipkaart in Netherlands?

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The requirement for a Dutch bank account is not quite the case:

Ordering an personalised "OV chipkaart" requires:

  • a good quality photo in JPEG format
  • a shipping address in The Netherlands, Belgium Germany or Luxembourg
  • the ability to make an iDeal payment (when shipping the personalised OV chipcard to the Netherlands)
  • alternatively: PayPal payments are supported (for people with an address in Belgium, Germany or Luxembourg).

Now iDeal is an online payment solution that uses your own banks online banking platform to make payments (rather than a third party payment provider). It is the most popular online payment method in The Netherlands and is currently licensed to and supported by 12 different banks, nearly all of them from The Netherlands. See https://www.ideal.nl/en/partners/issuers/

Revolut is one of the iDeal licensed banks and supports making iDeal payments. The Dutch version of the support pages says that requires that your registered address is the Netherlands, but the english version says that a registered address must be in the EEA: https://www.revolut.com/en-NL/help/transfers/outbound-transfers/can-i-pay-with-ideal/how-can-i-pay-with-ideal .

So your mileage may vary.


Automated reloading, topping up the credit charged on your personal OV chipkaart, currently still also offers "When you don't have a Dutch bank account, please fill out this form" which allows you to set up a SEPA authorization (automatically debited from your account) when you don't have a Dutch bank account.


Most travellers don't apply for an personalised OV chipkaart and get an anonymous OV chipkaart instead.

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