Trustly at Powerbet
Trustly occupies an unusual position in the cashier: it is neither a card nor a wallet holding a balance. It is a service that initiates a payment straight from your bank account using the authentication your bank already gives you. Nothing new is opened, nothing is pre-funded, and no card number is left on the platform — you log in once and the payment departs from the account.
Open the Powerbet cashierWhat a payment looks like
- Select Trustly in the Powerbet cashier and enter the amount in lei.
- Pick your bank from the list and authenticate exactly as you would for ordinary online banking.
- Confirm the payment inside the bank's interface. The service passes the confirmation to the operator, not your credentials.
- The gaming balance updates, and the operation shows up in your bank statement as a normal payment.
The difference from a card is in the path rather than in perceived speed: a card authorises a transaction that settles afterwards, while Trustly starts a transfer from the account and confirms that it has begun. The difference from a wallet is that no intermediate balance exists, so money makes a single hop from bank to cashier.
What the operator sees
The service links to the bank, so the operator receives the payment confirmation and the minimum identifying data about the account holder, but not your password and not access to your account. Authentication takes place in the bank's own interface rather than in the cashier. For a player who pays attention to where credentials are typed, that is a reasonable trade: the bank stays the only place they are entered.
Payouts still depend on the bank
This is where the method shows its limits. Confirmation on the way in can be immediate, but money coming back still crosses the banking system with its business-day settlement. The speed at deposit does not transfer to the payout — a request approved on Friday evening catches the next working day exactly as an ordinary bank transfer would. The same-method rule applies here too, as set out on the withdrawals page.
Who it suits
Trustly is the natural pick for players who want simplicity without new components: no extra account to manage, no card data on the platform, no wallets or blockchain networks to learn. It also keeps a healthy amount of friction, since logging into the bank for each payment is a moment where you can still change your mind, unlike a saved card that funds an account in fifteen seconds.
It is the wrong pick for anyone who wants money out within minutes. There a wallet or crypto shortens the path, because both skip the banking step on the way back.