4 Major Uses for QR Code Payments

QR code payments have a long way to go in the US. Their rise began with COVID-19, when global interest started shifting towards bringing contactless payment apps to customers. Since then, this payment solution has emerged as a much-needed lifeline in retail, home services, and other small businesses.

In today’s blog, we’ll take a closer look at some of these applications.

1. Toll Booths

Mobile payment apps that generate QR codes on the go have served as an appealing alternative to card payments. The best ones even support all of the most used payment options.

They may also not require the passing customers to stop, download a QR scanner, and risk traffic coming to a standstill. Instead, these apps let them make easy payments by scanning the code with their phone camera.

2. Street Vendors

Street vending in the United States isn’t easy. It comes with several policies that the vendors have to follow, starting with what sort of cart they can use to the way they can do business. However, the post-pandemic economy appears to be in their favor for the time being. Therefore, you’ll quite a few street vendors lining farmer’s markets, sidewalks, and whatnot.

QR code payments are the present and future of billing and invoicing. Learn who’s been using them since lockdown restrictions lifted.

Most of these vendors can’t afford a formal payment structure, and so they use these mobile apps to generate a code every time someone buys from them, letting them scan and pay for their products digitally.

3. Barbershop and Salons

Before the pandemic, salons and barbershops mostly accepted cash payments. It was rare to find an establishment that served its customers and let them pay by card or phone. The absence of contactless payment solutions has led to a tough time for these businesses.

However, the ones that have survived the lockdown have come out with a contactless solution that doesn’t require a card reader. They’ve started generating real-time QR codes for the customers to scan, pay, and be on their merry way, and that, too, from their cellular devices.

QR code payments are the present and future of billing and invoicing. Learn who’s been using them since lockdown restrictions lifted.

4. Handyman Services

Handymen like electricians, welders, plumbers, and carpenters, and other home service providers, such as cleaners and landscapers, were, for the most part, out of a job during the pandemic. Not only do they visit people’s homes, making follow-through on standard operating procedures impossible, but they also accept cash as a mode of payment.

QR codes have revived trade for these blue-collar workers, bringing them back into the business. By downloading our mobile payment service on their mobile phones, they can generate QR codes for the amount payable, have it scanned, and receive payments without coming into contact with anyone.

ScanPay: A Mobile Payment Solution for the Handyman

ScanPay is a mobile POS system that facilitates contactless payments without a card reader. Available for download on Apple and Android phones, our payment gateway lets you generate QR codes for sum totals and accept payments electronically at a 2.89% + 20 cents fee per transaction.