Campaign website: https://paypay.ne.jp/event/wakuwaku
PayPay Corporation (“PayPay Co.”, “we”, “our” or “us”), a joint venture owned by SoftBank Group Corp., SoftBank Corp. and Yahoo Japan Corporation, runs “Let’s Get Excited with PayPay – It Happens Always Somewhere” monthly campaigns (“Let’s Get Excited with PayPay Series”) — a series of campaigns, which always offer special gifts somewhere in Japan, for users of its PayPay smartphone payment services (“PayPay”).
In July, PayPay offers PayPay Bonus(*) of up to 20% for each payment made with PayPay during lunch hours (11 A.M – 2 P.M.) at membership restaurants and supermarkets. In addition, SoftBank smartphone users, Y! mobile smartphone users(*1) and Yahoo! premium membership users can get a better “PayPay Chance” of winning PayPay Bonus worth up to 1,000 yen for each purchase, with the likelihood going up to one in 10 payments at merchants covered by the July campaign, compared to one in 20 payments for other users. In July, we hope our users enjoy their lunch at bargain prices with PayPay.
The Let’s Get Excited with PayPay Series continue to put a monthly focus on specific merchants, categories of merchants, regions and other sources for PayPay users to enjoy making good purchases. Details on campaigns launching in August and beyond will be announced as soon as they are finalized.
* PayPay Bonus is acceptable for limited uses. For more information, please visit here.
＜July “Let’s Get Excited with PayPay – It Happens Always Somewhere” campaign details＞
Campaign website: https://paypay.ne.jp/event/wakuwaku
Campaign period:
July 1 ― July 31, 2019 Every day from 11 A.M. to 2 P.M.
Merchants featured:
PayPay membership merchants, which are registered in the category of restaurants and supermarkets, on the PayPay app
* Names of the merchants will be announced separately.
Campaign features:
Let’s get PayPay Bonus whenever you pay with PayPay during the campaign
The July campaign offers users PayPay Bonus of up to 10% of their spending per payment, which is made with PayPay at merchants covered by the campaign. Plus, SoftBank smartphone users, Y! mobile smartphone users(*1) and Yahoo! premium membership users can get PayPay Bonus of up to 20% of their spending.
Let’s get a better PayPay Chance of winning PayPay Bonus per payment
SoftBank smartphone users, Y! mobile smartphone users(*1) and Yahoo! premium membership users can get a better “PayPay Chance” every time they pay with PayPay during the campaign period, with the likelihood going up to one in 10 payments at merchants covered by the campaign, compared to one in 20 payments for other users.
*1 To sign up for the Let’s Get Excited with PayPay Series, SoftBank smartphone users need to use SoftBank’s Smartlogin service and configure the settings for their Yahoo! JAPAN IDs, which are linked to their PayPay User IDs. Meanwhile, Y! mobile smartphone users need to complete initial registration (to link their Y!mobile contract phone numbers to their Yahoo! JAPAN IDs) of Y!mobile services, and their Yahoo! JAPAN IDs need to be linked to their PayPay User IDs. Customers using smartphones under corporate contracts may not sign up for the Let’s Get Excited with PayPay Series. Some models and price plans of SoftBank and Y! mobile smartphones do not support the Let’s Get-Excited with PayPay Series.
*2 “Yahoo Card” is a nickname of “Yahoo! JAPAN Card”.
*3 The upper limit of offerings for PayPay Balance is 1,000 yen per payment for all users, respectively. Note that it also means a total amount of offerings, including the amount offered by campaign feature “(1) Let’s get PayPay Bonus whenever you pay with PayPay during the campaign”.
* The gifts offered to PayPay Balance is PayPay Bonus. PayPay Bonus has an expiration date. For more information, please visit here.
* Payments, which are made with the Alipay (支付宝) app by scanning PayPay’s QR Code, are not covered by the campaign.
Bonus cap:
For SoftBank smartphone users, Y! mobile smartphone users and Yahoo! premium membership users, the PayPay Bonus cap applied to campaign features (1) and (2) are as follows:
PayPay Bonus cap per payment: 2,000 yen for the campaign feature (1) and 1,000 yen for the campaign feature (2)
Total amount of PayPay Bonus that can be offered during the July campaign : 30,000 yen for the campaign feature (1) and 30,000 yen for the campaign feature (2)
* Even if both campaign features (1) and (2) are applicable, PayPay Bonus that can be offered per payment is up to 2,000 yen, which is not the total amount of PayPay Bonus offered by campaign features (1) and (2), respectively.
For users other than SoftBank smartphone users, Y! mobile smartphone users, and Yahoo! premium membership users, the PayPay Bonus cap applied to campaign features (1) and (2) are as follows:
Bonus cap per payment: PayPay Bonus worth 1,000 yen for campaign features (1) and (2), respectively
Total amount of PayPay Bonus that can be offered during the July campaign : 30,000 yen for campaign features (1) and (2), respectively
* Even if both campaign features (1) and (2) are applicable, PayPay Bonus that can be offered per payment is up to 1,000 yen, which is not the total amount of PayPay Bonus offered by campaign features (1) and (2), respectively.
Bonus day:
Around the 20th of the month after a payment is made
* The bonus day may be delayed due in part to customers’ payments or reasons on the system side.
* If two or more campaigns launched or co-launched by PayPay Co. are applicable to a payment during the campaign, only one campaign, whichever gives a better offering for the payment, is applied.
* Campaign details and terms and conditions are subject to change and cancellation without prior notice.
*Any campaigns and their offerings are not applicable to payments made by the Alipay (支付宝) app.
■ PayPay’s main features
PayPay provides two types of payment instruments: E-money (“PayPay Balance” or “Yahoo! Money”) and credit cards. Users can choose whichever instrument they want to use.
PayPay also provides merchants with flexibility in the choice of payment methods — User Scan (scan payment) and Store Scan (code payment). In the User Scan method, users hold their smartphones, with the PayPay app being activated, over QR codes available at PayPay membership merchants. The PayPay app scans the codes. In the Store Scan method, users show their smartphone displays with on-screen barcodes or QR codes, while PayPay membership merchants scan the codes.
■ About PayPay membership merchants
Major PayPay membership stores and restaurants are available for viewing on our webpage. You can find near-by stores and restaurants supporting PayPay on the in-app map of PayPay.
* “QR code” is a registered trademark of Denso Wave Incorporated.
* Company names, store names and product/service names contained in this press release are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
