The Offer
- UberEATS is offering five months of free Uber One membership when you switch your default payment method to Paypal.
The Fine Print
- After 5 months you’ll get charged automatically $9.99 per month if you don’t cancel.
- Valid for new or returning Uber One customers, but not valid for existing Uber One customers.
Our Verdict
Seems like a lot of people are getting this offer when going into their UberEATS account > Wallet > scroll down until you see “Paypal Uber One offer”. I found this offer on my account, and it appears to be available for anyone who does not currently have Uber One.
Easy enough to sign up and get the freebie. Note: you must use Paypal as your payment method when completing a purchase in order to receive the Uber One benefits.
Even if you pay with your Uber balance you’ll still get the Uber One benefits and discounts provided you have Paypal as the backup/default payment. Note that you won’t be able to use the Gold and Platinum monthly credits with this as you’d set your payment method to an Amex card to use those and that negates the Uber One benefits. After using up those credits, switch back to Paypal and you’ll get the Uber One benefits on your next ride/meal.
The fine print states: “You can cancel your membership at any time in the Uber One section of the Uber app…If you cancel before the 5-month free trial ends, you will still receive the full 5 months free.” I cancelled mine immediately in the Uber app. It shows my Uber One membership as valid and ending on 1/3/26.
There’s also a free six month trial for Apple cardholders which shows there as well.
You are not eligible if you have already had an Uber One membership in the past.
not true. mines just ended and I was able to add this offer for 5 free months
I got an error message that UberEats could not connect to my PayPal account.
Try another payment method
A temporary authorization failed, we couldn’t verify PayPal – myemailaddress. Please try again or switch to another payment method.
However, I was able to obtain the offer using my AMEX Gold credit card as preferred payment.
I saw the offer in the paypal app, took it just in case, not that it is of any great value.
As someone who caught an UberOne membership like one hour too late due to a discrepancy in their fine print, which they then threatened to send all $6 to collections, bear in mind you can cancel renewal immediately lol
Got the offer simply by opening the UberEats app, no payment changes needed.
Have had several free 1-month trials of Uber One in the past, as recently as this year.
+1 with one caveat – when I tried to preemptively cancel the renewal I see the message stating “your benefits will end today” as others have reported.
Dam. This works. Thanks!
The 5 month offer popped up as soon as I opened the app just now but there was nothing about PayPal noted so I selected a different payment method and it worked. Sounds like two different offers are floating around. I cancelled Amex gold and plat in January and probably haven’t ordered on the app since then, the last time I had Uber One was in December.
somehow I signed up and then the offer disappeared. I don’t see it anywhere. When I login to uber it doesn’t show up as me having uber one benefits
As OP states, you can just cancel immediately and you will retain the free 5 months.
I did not get this option….I signed up, then a couple minutes later tried to cancel and it said the benefits would end immediately OR keep it for and get it for free for 3 months THEN renew at 90% off ($3) every month starting 3 months from now…..which honestly i’m taking. I can find the value in $3 since i’m already a non paid user
Yes, same. Signed up and cancelled immediately but was told “Your Uber One benefits will end today”. YMMV.
The problem with this offer is- you wouldn’t be able to use the Plat/Gold credits with this, since for those the AmEx card needs to be the payment method- and that’s the only reason I use UberEats at all to begin with.
On the plus side- I also got a straight-up 5 month offer without PayPal- though it’s on an Uber account that hasn’t been subscribed to Uber One in a while. The play might be to have 2 Uber accounts with one of them having UberOne and the other one waiting for a free offer for it, and then switch. I have found it easy to remove the AmEx card(s) as payment method from one account and add it to the other and the credits show up instantly.