Press Release

PayPay Corporation(“PayPay Corp.”, “we”), a joint venture of SoftBank Group Corp., SoftBank Corp., and Yahoo Japan Corporation, announces that “PayPay Bill Payment” now supports bills of mail-order sales (payment slips) (*1). From January 17, 2020, “PayPay Bill Payment” supports mail-order sales of 27 companies including Q’SAI CO., LTD., Sakuranomori Co.,Ltd, Chojyunosato (translated company name), Yazuya.Co., Ltd., and WAKASA SEIKATSU Co., Ltd. Additionally, “PayPay Bill Payment” is scheduled to support mail-order sales of goods and services offered by approximately 80 private companies (* 2) in January 2020. If users use “PayPay Bill Payment”, they will be given a PayPay bonus equivalent to 0.5% (*3) of their payment amount (*4).

“PayPay Bill Payment” is a service that allows the users to read, with PayPay app, a barcode written on a bill (payment slip) such as utility bills such as electricity, gas and water charges, and bills for mail-order sales and pay the bill on the spot. The users can pay these bills at any convenient location and any time 24 hours a day. Therefore, this will help the users not only to save their time and effort of going out and withdrawing cash for a payment and to save a fee for withdrawing the cash, but also help them to prevent forgetting to pay.

At present, “PayPay Bill Payment” supports not only mail-order sales, which started being supported from today, but also bills (payment slips) of public utilities such as 307 local governments and business operators (192 municipal governments and 115 water bureaus) and 19 electricity and gas suppliers (*2). Additionally, “PayPay Bill Payment” is scheduled to support more bills in the future.

PayPay Corp. will continue to provide the convenience of smartphone payments to all retailers, service providers as well as users, while aiming to achieve a society where they can do cashless shopping anywhere in Japan, with a sense of security. In addition, we will upgrade the PayPay app from a “payment” app into a “super app” that helps to make users’ lives richer and more convenient and to foster a perspective “shop and pay anytime, anywhere with PayPay.”

*1 The use of the PayPay app requires version 1.34.0 or higher.

*2 Please see the link here for the local governments and the business operators and mail-order companies, bills of which can be paid with “PayPay” as of present and mail-order companies, bills of which will be able to be paid with “PayPay” in January.

*3 There is the following maximum grant cap per person.

*4 A PayPay bonus is granted 30 days after the day following the payment date. Depending on the user’s usage status and system circumstances, the grant time may be delayed. In addition, to make a payment, only PayPay balance can be used and credit cards cannot be used.

■ Flow of using “PayPay Bill Payment”