Does Any Sportsbook Still Take a Money Order?

• BetOnline is the only yes in the table below. Deposits run $300 to $9,000, and BetOnline adds no fee of its own on the way in.
• Bovada and MyBookie both took money orders once and dropped the method since. Mail one to either today and nothing gets credited.
• No state-licensed sportsbook accepts a money order on either side of an account, because a paper instrument doesn’t fit the instant digital rails a licensed cashier processes deposits through.
• The $80 BetOnline charges on the way out isn’t the whole cost. Add the price of the instrument, add days of mail in both directions, then set that against a crypto deposit that clears in minutes at the same book for less.

Every book in the table got checked against its own current cashier or help pages, not against an old comparison roundup.

That leaves BetOnline and nobody else. Deposits start at $300 and top out at $9,000, and BetOnline takes nothing off the top going in. Your only cost is whatever the post office, Walmart or Western Union charges to cut the money order itself.

The other six split into two groups.

• Bovada and MyBookie used to take money orders and don’t anymore. Bovada’s current deposit list runs to crypto, cards, a voucher option, Zelle and a direct bank transfer, with no money order among them. MyBookie’s own banking page shows cards, a person-to-person transfer, eCheck, ACH and ten cryptocurrencies. An envelope addressed to either book gets nowhere.
• BetNow, Everygame, GTBets and Bookmaker show no money order option and no sign one ever existed. It was never part of their sportsbook deposit methods to begin with.

Two books running the method and then killing it tells you which way this is heading. Somebody at the book has to open an envelope, read the handwriting on it and match it to an account by hand, all while a crypto deposit posts itself while you’re still on the confirmation screen. Paper loses that argument a little more every year.

All seven are offshore books, available to US players in most states. None of them is legal, licensed or regulated by any US state, whether or not a money order happens to work there.

DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Caesars, theScore Bet and the rest of the licensed roster take no money order deposit, and none of them pay a withdrawal out as one.

Nothing in state law bans the method. The plumbing simply never accommodated paper. A money order has to arrive by mail and get matched to an account by hand, while a licensed cashier runs on instant, verifiable digital rails, an e-check or ACH transfer, a debit card, a Play+ prepaid card, online banking. Those rails are what let legal sports betting run the identity checks state regulators demand on every single deposit, the same reason card and crypto verification stays tight everywhere else in a licensed cashier. Several states restrict credit card funding by rule. Nobody had to ban money orders, because they never fit in the first place.

Only BetOnline runs this path among the seven books above, so what follows is BetOnline’s process start to finish.

Step 1: Contact Support for Money Order Instructions

There’s no money order button in the cashier. A card or crypto deposit is self-serve; this one starts with a conversation, which comes as a jolt if you’re used to funding an account in ninety seconds. Reach support by live chat or through BetOnline’s help center and ask for the current mailing address plus the account reference to write on the instrument. BetOnline doesn’t post a permanent address for money orders, so there’s nothing to look up on your own.

Step 2: Buy the Money Order for the Exact Amount

Buy it for the exact amount you intend to deposit, somewhere between BetOnline’s $300 minimum and $9,000 maximum. A round figure is easier to match against your account later. Keep the purchase receipt until the money lands, because it’s the only proof you hold while the envelope is out of your hands.

Step 3: Write the Required Account Reference on It

Write the reference support gave you, usually a username, player ID or the email on the account, directly on the money order. An instrument that arrives with no way to tie it to an account is the most common cause of a delayed credit, separate from the outright rejections below.

Step 4: Mail It and Confirm Receipt

Mail it to the address support gave you, then follow up and confirm it arrived. Once BetOnline has it in hand, funds post within 5 to 15 business days. That clock starts on arrival, not on the day you drop the envelope in a box, so count the mail on top of it when you’re working out whether the game you wanted to bet will still be on the board.

Money Order Deposit Limits

A card fails in two seconds. A money order fails quietly, weeks later, once it’s already in the mail and out of your hands. Six causes account for nearly every one of those failures.

The Book Stopped Accepting Money Orders Since You Last Checked

This is the big one now. Six of the seven books here show no current money order option, and Bovada and MyBookie dropped the method outright rather than never offering it. Check a book’s own help pages before you buy anything, not an old roundup and not your memory of how the cashier used to work.

No Account Reference Was Written on It

A money order carrying no username, player ID or account email can’t be matched to anybody automatically. It sits until a support agent works out who sent it, which is the same delay the reference step exists to prevent. Write it every time, second deposit included.

It Was Sent for Less Than the Minimum or More Than the Maximum

BetOnline’s range runs $300 to $9,000. An instrument written for less or more falls outside what the book will process, so it gets returned or held instead of credited, and now you’re waiting on a refund rather than placing a bet. Buy inside the range.

It Was Mailed to an Old or Wrong Address

Support gives you the address that’s current the moment you ask, and that address changes. One pulled from an old review, a forum post or your last deposit won’t reach the right desk. Ask fresh every time.

It Wasn’t a Money Order the Book Will Take

Not every paper instrument sold as a money order is interchangeable at a sportsbook. A personal cashier’s check isn’t the same product, and an issuer BetOnline doesn’t currently name may not clear either. Ask support which issuers are acceptable before you hand over cash at the counter.

You’re Betting From a Country or State the Book Doesn’t Serve

BetOnline’s process works only if you’re mailing from a country or US state the book actually serves. Anything from outside that footprint gets held, the same way a deposit through any other method gets flagged from an unsupported region. Confirm the book still serves your location first.

The licensed books don’t pay out this way either, no surprise from a roster that won’t take one in.

BetOnline again, alone. Payouts leave in $500 increments, $80 comes straight off the amount paid, and a courier delivers inside 7 business days. Cash out $2,000 and $80 is gone before the envelope ships, with the mail still ahead of you. An amount that isn’t a clean multiple of $500 rounds to the nearest increment BetOnline allows, so plan the request around the increment instead of asking for an odd figure and wondering what came back.

The smallest payout the method allows is $500, and the fee takes $80 off that before the courier moves. Nobody wins a bet hoping to hand back that share of it.

That $80 is the priciest way BetOnline pays anybody, and it belongs in your decision up front, not buried in a table cell. Crypto costs nothing at the same book and lands the same day, which is why Bitcoin sportsbooks sit at the top of every fastest sportsbook payouts list going.

Mail in a money order and you still get the same welcome offer as everyone else, and it’s one of the plainer sportsbook bonuses in this corner of the market. BetOnline hands back 50% of a first deposit in Free Bets up to $250 with code FREE250, on a $50 minimum deposit. The Free Bet credit carries no rollover of its own. BetOnline’s site-wide rule still bites, though, since every dollar you deposit, money order included, has to be wagered once before it or its winnings can leave.

Timing is the catch. Stack mail transit on top of BetOnline’s 5-to-15-business-day processing window and the deposit can take close to three weeks to post, long enough for a first-deposit promo’s claim window to close while your envelope is still in transit.

There’s a case for it, and it isn’t nostalgia. No card issuer can decline a money order. You need no crypto wallet, no exchange account, no ID attached to either, nothing beyond cash and a trip to the post office or a retailer that sells them. If you’re genuinely unbanked, or you’d rather no gambling charge showed up on a card or bank statement, that combination doesn’t exist anywhere else in the cashier.

The case against runs longer.

• It works at BetOnline and nowhere else. The other six sportsbooks here offer no part of it.
• The withdrawal fee bites. $80 tops every other payout method BetOnline runs.
• The instrument costs money that never comes back, on top of whatever BetOnline charges on the way out.
• The round trip takes days in each direction, not minutes, once mail transit joins BetOnline’s own processing window.

Crypto clears in minutes to hours at all seven sportsbooks, BetOnline included, and comes back out for less than $80 there. If your goal is just getting money into an account, and a money order is only the means, Bitcoin sportsbooks and PayPal sportsbooks both get you there faster and cheaper.

Who should actually mail one? A bettor funding an account with cash, on purpose, who has already decided the wait is the price of doing it that way. Anyone else is choosing a slower, costlier version of a deposit they could make in two minutes.

Privacy is the exception, and it’s a legitimate one. Setting up a wallet or an exchange account still ties a purchase to an ID somewhere upstream, and a PayPal deposit points straight back at a bank account by design. A money order skips both steps, and that’s the single place it beats everything faster than it.

1. BetOnline still takes a money order, on the deposit side and the withdrawal side. Nothing else in the table does, so treat this as a BetOnline method and not a seven-way comparison.
2. No regulated sportsbook has ever taken one. It’s a structural mismatch with how a licensed cashier processes deposits, not a state law banning the method the way credit cards get restricted in some states.
3. Crypto is faster and cheaper than a money order at every book here, BetOnline included. Mail one only if you’ve got a specific reason to avoid a card and a crypto wallet.