PayPay Corporation, a joint venture established by SoftBank Corp. and Yahoo Japan Corporation will launch a time-limited campaign for users for its “PayPay” smartphone payment services to eat out at bargain prices on April 26, which marks the Premium ‘Cashless’ Friday. The ‘April 26 PayPay Premium Friday!’ campaign is a consecutive campaign following the previous one run last month and starts at 3:00 P.M. and ends 6:00 P.M. on April 26, 2019.
This campaign offers users a PayPay bonus (* 2) of up to 20% (* 1) of their spending by PayPay at membership restaurants during the period. The bonus cap is 10,000 yen.
In addition, PayPay Corporation will run the 2nd 10 Billion Yen campaign during the “Cashless Week” period from April 26 to May 6, 2019. In this campaign launched from February 12, two campaigns are conducted: a campaign that offers users a PayPay bonus of up to 20% (* 3) of their spending by “PayPay” and a campaign “Lottery with lots of Winning Chances (Yatara-to-ataru-kuji) ” that offers users a PayPay bonus of up to 1,000 yen (* 4) by a lottery. For the details of the “2nd 10 Billion Yen Campaign, please see the following link
(https://paypay.ne.jp/promo/10billion-campaign/).
The Premium “Cashless” Friday is the initiative led by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and member companies of the Commission for Promotion of Cashless Settlement in attempting to increase the recognition of cashless payments and expand the use of cashless payments. In support of the initiative, we. launch the “April 26 PayPay Premium Friday!” campaign for putting the Premium “Cashless” Friday in the limelight.
We continue to provide convenience of smartphone payments for all retailers, service providers and users, aiming to realize society where anyone can enjoy shopping without cash anywhere in Japan, while striving for our customers’ safe and secure use of PayPay.
* 1 The PayPay bonus rate differs depending on which payment instrument is used. The PayPay bonus cap per payment is 10.000 yen, which is also a total amount of PayPay bonuses that can be offered during this campaign.
*2 The PayPay bonus is subject to usage restrictions. For details, please see the link below (https://support.paypay.ne.jp/consumer/s/article/7002)
*3 The PayPay bonus rate differs depending on which payment instrument is used. The PayPay bonus cap per payment is 1,000 yen. The cap of total PayPay bonus during the campaign period is 50,000 yen.
*4 Payment methods subject to the campaign are only PayPay Balance, Yahoo! Money or Yahoo! JAPAN card. The PayPay bonus cap per payment is 1,000 yen. As for the cap of total PayPay bonus during the campaign period is 20,000 yen, the total of PayPay bonuses offered in the “Lottery with lots of Winning Chances (Yatara-to-ataru-kuji) ” campaign run by PayPay and the campaign jointly run by Yahoo! JAPAN and PayPay (that ended on March 8, 2019) combined is to 20,000 yen. The PayPay bonus per payment is up to 1,000 yen even if both campaigns, the “Lottery with lots of Winning Chances (Yatara-to-ataru-kuji) ” campaign and the campaign that gives users cashback of up to 20% of their spending by PayPay, are applied.
■ Details on the April 26 PayPay Premium Friday!’ Campaign
https://paypay.ne.jp/event/cashless-friday
Campaign Outline
Users, who pay bay PayPay at membership restaurants from 3:00 P.M. through 6:00 P.M on April 26, 2019 during the campaign period, will win a PayPay bonus up to 20% of the price per payment. The bonus-offering rates by payment instrument are as follows:
20% for payments by PayPay Balance, Yahoo! Money
19% for payments by Yahoo! JAPAN card
10% for payments by credit cards other than Yahoo! JAPAN Card
In this campaign, the PayPay bonus cap is a total of 10,000 yen for one person, which is also the upper limit on the bonus that can be offered per payment, regardless of payment instrument.
If two or more PayPay campaigns, including the 2nd 10 Billion Yen Giveaway campaign, are applicable to a payment during the period of this campaign, only one campaign, whichever gives a better offering for the payment, is applied. Note that two or more campaigns cannot be applied to the same payment.
Campaign Period
3:00 P.M. through 6:00 P.M. on April 26, 2019
Users Eligible for This Campaign
All users who pay by PayPay at any membership restaurants during the period of this campaign.
* Exclusions apply to payments by Alipay.
Supported Restaurants
All PayPay membership restaurants
* This campaign is available at chain and other PayPay membership restaurants in the Restaurant category on the in-app map of PayPay. For more information, please see the link below (https://paypay.ne.jp/event/cashless-friday)
* Even if the restaurant is a supported restaurant, it may be out of business hours. So, please check the business hours of the restaurant in advance.
Bonus Day
PayPay bonuses for this campaign will be added to PayPay balance around May 20. The bonus day may be delayed due in part to user payments or reasons on the system side.
* In the use of PayPay, any violation of PayPay Terms of Service and the Terms of Service for the “April 26 PayPay Premium Friday!” campaign results in no payment eligible for this campaign.
■ PayPay Merchants
Major PayPay merchants are introduced in the PayPay website. PayPay app enables you to find merchant stores nearby.
■ PayPay App can be downloaded from App Store and Google Play™.
※ Must be iOS 10.0 or later and Android 5 or later.
* “QR Code” is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED.
* App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc.
* Google Play is a trademark or registered trademark of Google LCC.
* Other company names, store names and product/service names contained in this press release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
