“Taking into account the extension until the end of the year of the program implemented on behalf of the President, SMEs will be able to save up to 1.3 billion rubles in 2022.
Based on the results of the meeting, the Government decided to allocate the funds necessary for the program,” the Ministry of Economic Development said.
Reshetnikov noted that over the course of the program, the number of SMEs registered in the fast payment system has grown almost fivefold, from 81,000 to 362,000.
The total amount of transactions through the SBP system also increased, as evidenced by the data on commission compensation received by SMEs.
Thus, during the year of the program implementation, 97 thousand companies received compensation for more than 430 million rubles, while compensation for the second half of 2021 amounted to 59 million rubles, for the first half of 2022 - 374 million rubles.
Earlier it was reported that among former Google Pay users, 63% switched to paying with a bank card, 35% - in cash, and 31% of respondents installed Mir Pay.