Exchange campaigns – cash instead of cards
You have a payment card and need more cash? Let’s swap! There are various ways to exchange credit from your payment card for cash:
Tandem shopping
You can accompany a person without a payment card to the supermarket and pay for their purchase with your payment card. The person without a payment card will then return the amount of their purchase to you in cash.
Voucher exchange
You can buy shopping vouchers in supermarkets using your payment card. These vouchers can then be exchanged for cash by people without a payment card.
This is how it works:
- Buy a €50 shopping voucher in a supermarket. Take the receipt with you.
- Take the voucher and the receipt to an exchange location. You will then receive the value of the voucher in cash.
How to buy a voucher (video):
Exchange locations in Berlin and Brandenburg:
Orange symbol: Voucher exchange point for money and voucher transfer (people with payment cards can exchange their vouchers here and people in solidarity can receive vouchers)
Purple symbol: Voucher transfer only (Solidarity people can get vouchers here. Unfortunately no exchange point for people with a payment card)
Not all places want to be shown on the map or have an address, so please have a look at the table for Brandenburg or Berlin below.
Addresses/contact options for exchange locations
in Brandenburg
| Where? | When? | Who? | Current |
| August-Bebel-Sr. 20a, 15344 Strausberg | every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 16:00-18:00 | bezahlkarte-strausberg@gmx.de | Voucher exchange |
| “Welcome Café” in the church at Seelow | every 2nd Tuesday of the month 4-6 p.m. | tauschen@freenet.de | Voucher transfer only |
| Neuhardenberg | every 1st Tuesday of the month 10-12 a.m. 06.01., 03.02., 03.03., 07.04., 05.05.,… | tauschen@freenet.de | Voucher exchange |
| Müncheberg | tauschen-muencheberg@web.de | Voucher transfer only | |
| Schmatzkammer, Coppistr. 3, 16227 Eberswalde | every 2nd Thursday of the month from 17:00 | nein-zur-bezahlkarte-barnim@posteo.de | Voucher exchange https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb4LSD54CrfnKy1cfG0r |
| Perleberg | Information by e-mail to: prignitz-tauscht@gmx.de | Voucher exchange | |
| Wittenberge | Information by e-mail to: prignitz-tauscht@gmx.de | Voucher exchange | |
| Pritzwalk | Information by e-mail to: prignitz-tauscht@gmx.de | Voucher exchange | |
| Potsdamer Str. 74, 14513 Teltow | Every Wednesday 2-6 pm | Office of the Left Party Teltow | Voucher exchange |
| Zeppelinstrasse 25, 14471 Potsdam | every 1st and 2nd and 3rd Wednesday of the month 1-7 pm | Refugees Emancipation e.V. | Voucher exchange |
| Brück (Potsdam-Mittelmark) | Info to follow | brueck-solidarisch@riseup.net | Voucher exchange |
| Ostrower Strasse 3, 03046 Cottbus | from 2026: every first Tuesday of the month 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. First date: 06.01.2026 | Office of the Left Party of Lusatia | Voucher exchange |
in Berlin
| Where? | When? | Who? | Current |
| Kreuzberg: Reichenbergerstraße 73, 10999 Berlin | Monday to Thursday: 17-24 h, Friday to Saturday: 17-02 h | Bistro Spumante | Voucher transfer only |
| Kreuzberg: Lausitzerstrasse 21a, 10999 Berlin | every Friday: 6-8 pm | Solicafé and Küfa Regenbogenfabrik | Voucher exchange |
| Kreuzberg: Oranienstraße 21, 10999 Berlin | Monday to Friday: 12-18 h Saturday: 12-16 h | OH21 Bookstore | Voucher transfer only |
| Kreuzberg: Oranienstraße 32, 10999 Berlin | Mon – Fri 10.00 – 19.00 Sat 10.00 -19.00 | Kisch&Co | Voucher transfer only |
| Kreuzberg: Gneisenaustrasse 2a, 10961 Berlin | Monday to Friday: 10-19 h Saturday: 11-16 h | Bookshop Schwarze Risse | Voucher transfer only |
| Neukölln: Lenaustr. 5, 12047 Berlin | daily noon to midnight | L5 Späti | Voucher transfer only |
| Treptow: Bouchéstraße 79A, 12435 Berlin | Daily 12.30-22 h | Reger’s New Republic | Voucher transfer only |
| Friedrichshain: Rigaerstrasse 94, 10247 Berlin | Every Wednesday: from 8 pm | Küfa in the Kadterschmiede | Voucher exchange Information on the current money and voucher situation: http://rigaer94.squat.net/bezahlkartenborse |
| Wedding: Lindowerstrasse 20/22, House C, 13347 Berlin | Wednesday- Thursday: 19-00.00 Friday – Saturday: 17-00.00 Sunday 18-00.00 | Sinema Transtopia | Voucher transfer only |