Gift Cards at Five Below: The Complete List of Brands, Fees & Where to Buy (2026)

If you are standing in a Five Below aisle wondering whether the little card in your hand is actually going to work the way you hope, or you are trying to buy a last-minute eGift from your couch, this is the rundown we wish every shopper got before checkout. Five Below does sell gift cards, but the program is narrower than what you might expect from a big-box chain, and a few rules around redemption and returns are worth knowing before you hand one over as a gift.

What Gift Card Brands Does Five Below Actually Sell?

Here is the short answer: Five Below sells its own store gift cards, and that is the primary focus of everything official. There is no multi-brand gift card mall on fivebelow.com, and no published rack of third-party brand cards comparable to what you would find at a grocery store or a pharmacy chain. If you were hoping to grab an Amazon, Starbucks, or movie theater card while you were there, plan on sourcing that somewhere else.

Five Below's own cards come in two forms. Plastic Five Below gift cards are available for purchase in any Five Below store location, and they are reloadable, so a recipient can add value later at the register. Electronic gift cards (eGifts) are sold online exclusively through the Buyatab portal linked from Five Below's support pages. Both formats are issued by Five Below, Inc., and some physical cards reference InComm on the back.

What about third-party brand cards? The research here is clear about what we can confirm and what we cannot. Official Five Below support and site materials only address their own gift cards for sale. One secondary return-policy write-up suggested that third-party brands and prepaid gaming or financial cards might be sold in stores, but no primary Five Below source corroborates that with an actual brand list. Searches on Five Below's own catalog for gift-card terms return merchandise like toys and playing cards, not reloadable brand cards. So the reliable finding is this: no broad third-party program, and no official list to point you toward.

One related note that trips people up: Five Below does accept Visa, Mastercard, and American Express gift cards as a form of payment in stores and online, alongside cash, major credit and debit cards, and mobile wallets. That is a payment method, not a product they sell. It is an easy distinction to blur when you are in a hurry.

Denominations, Fees, and Purchase Limits

On the denomination front, a product label for Five Below's merchandising gift card lists a range of $5 to $250. That is the most concrete number we can point to. The exact selectable amounts for current eGifts, and any fixed plastic options beyond that range, were not fully detailed on accessible pages at the time of research, so treat the $5 to $250 band as the working range rather than a promise of specific denominations on the shelf.

Separately, physical blank or decorative gift card items, like a seasonal Valentine's Gift Card, appear to be sold in stores around low price points such as $1.50. Those function as the card carrier, and the value gets loaded at the register. So if you see a $1.50 card on a peg, it is not a $1.50 gift card; it is packaging with a loadable balance attached.

On fees, the news is good. Buyatab's terms, which govern the eGift side, state that unless required by law, the cards have no expiration date and no maintenance fees. No activation fees or dormancy fees appear on Five Below's official support pages or related terms for their own cards, which matches the common US retail practice of zero fees on proprietary store gift cards.

Purchase limits are less defined. No specific maximum purchase amount, daily limit, or quantity cap for buying Five Below gift cards was stated on official support pages. Some general merchandise product pages show per-customer order limits, but those were not confirmed to apply to gift cards. Practically speaking, if you are buying a large batch for a classroom or a team, calling ahead to your local store is the safer move.

One important caveat on online redemption: Five Below's checkout accepts only one gift card per transaction. If you need to stack more than one, you have to contact support to arrange it. The workaround is to reload a single card rather than juggle several.

In-Store vs. Online Availability

Plastic cards live in stores. You can walk into any Five Below location and buy one, and you can also reload an existing card at any store location. That reload option is genuinely useful if you have a teen or a young adult who shops there regularly and you want to top off the same card each birthday instead of starting fresh.

eGifts are online only, and the purchase path is specific: Five Below sells them exclusively through the Buyatab portal at buyatab.com, linked from Five Below's support pages. You will not find an eGift purchase flow on fivebelow.com itself, and the main eGift page returned an error at the time of research, so if it misbehaves when you try, that is not just you.

Redemption matters as much as purchase, and there are a couple of real gotchas. Five Below gift cards, plastic and electronic, work in physical stores and on the fivebelow.com website via a browser. They do not currently work in the Five Below mobile apps. If an app checkout is refusing your card, switch to a browser and try again before assuming the balance is gone.

Balance checks are easy enough. You can call 1-888-892-3813 and enter your card number plus the access code or PIN, or check online at cardbalance.net using either a 4- or 6-digit PIN or access code. You can also contact Five Below support directly. If you want a walkthrough of how balance checks generally work for store cards, our guide on how to check a Trader Joe's gift card balance covers the same phone-and-online mechanics and is a useful parallel.

Your FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use a Five Below gift card on the mobile app?

No, not currently. Five Below gift cards, both plastic and electronic, work in physical stores and on the fivebelow.com website through a browser, but they cannot be used in the Five Below mobile apps. If you are checking out on your phone, open a browser instead.

Are Five Below gift cards returnable or refundable?

No. Five Below's official return policy explicitly states that gift cards are not returnable, and Buyatab's eGift terms state that all sales are final with no returns, cancellations, or cash redemption except as required by law. This is a standard exclusion from the normal 90-day return window, so make sure you have the right card and amount before you pay.

Do Five Below gift cards expire or carry fees?

Per Buyatab's terms, the cards have no expiration date and no maintenance fees unless required by law. No activation or dormancy fees appear on Five Below's official support pages for their own cards. That matches typical practice for proprietary store gift cards in the US.

Can I use more than one gift card in a single online order?

Online checkout accepts only one gift card per transaction. If you need to use multiple cards, contact Five Below support and they can help arrange it. A simpler long-term fix is to reload a single card at a store so your balance stays consolidated.

Does Five Below sell other brands' gift cards, like Amazon or Starbucks?

Based on everything Five Below publishes officially, no. Support pages and site materials focus exclusively on Five Below's own gift cards, and there is no multi-brand gift card marketplace on fivebelow.com. If you want a specific brand, plan to source it elsewhere. If you are curious how these programs look at chains that do carry a branded assortment, our world market guide on gift cards at World Market shows what a broader rack looks like by comparison.