PayPay, a major QR code payment company using smartphones, announced on the 19th that it will charge a fee for payments for small and medium-sized merchants, which was free until now, from October.
PayPay is currently installed in more than 3.4 million locations including affiliated stores, and according to the announcement, from October, fees for small and medium-sized businesses with sales of less than 1 billion yen will be charged. ..
The commission is
1.98% for stores that only make payments
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1.6% of stores that use sales promotion services such as issuing discount coupons to users in addition to payments by paying a fixed fee.
Until now, we have rapidly expanded the number of affiliated stores with "zero commissions", but last year's operating loss was over 70 billion yen, and the company is strengthening its profitability by charging commissions. I want to plan.
At a press conference, President Ichiro Nakayama said, "It is a sustainable and transparent fee for both the member stores and our company. We will make efforts to understand and understand it." He showed a policy to put more effort into the measures in the future.
Among the same QR code payment companies, major LINE Pay and au PAY will also be charged for the same from October, and it seems that the focus will be on how each company will maintain its affiliated stores in the future.