As a Cashless system of making payment, Nepal Bank offers an alternative to the traditional systems, a payment via QR Code scanning through Mobile Banking QR payment systems have the advantage of enabling transactions to be processed quickly and more cheaply and also offer a much more convenient method of effecting settlement of transactions.
QR code (Quick Response) is a black and white dotted digital image which holds certain information on it and only smart phone's camera can scan the details. Nepal Bank has introduced QR payment technology through Mobile banking channel for the first time in Nepal. In this technology, simply customer makes payment through mobile by scanning QR code at the merchant.
QR Code Payment option is available in Nepal Bank Mobile banking apps and is accepted by more than 50k merchant outlets in Nepal.
Following are the steps for QR code scan and payment on Merchant Outlets:
Customer opens bank's Mobile Banking application. Without login into the application, Customer Scrolls on right side of the landing page. The "Scan to Pay on Merchant Outlets" screen appears which is used to scan the QR code displayed on the merchant side.
Also, by login into the Mobile banking application, Customer Needs to click on "Scan 2 Pay" option which leads to "Scan to Pay on Merchant Outlets" screen. The QR Code which customer scans comes into 2 ways; either through the physical QR code standee that is placed in the merchant side or through Merchant Mobile apps which merchant generates QR code in their mobile.