How to pay for purchases from a Qiwi account with an Android phone

After MasterCard and Visa left Russia, many of us have discovered the Qiwi payment service. Not only did it allow you to replenish your App Store and Google Play accounts at first, but it also gave – and still gives – the opportunity to pay purchases on Aliexpress in dollars at a favorable rate. True, over time, app stores disabled Qiwi, however, the habit of using the service for the majority has not disappeared. On the contrary, many even wanted to pay with Qiwi using their phone in stores. But if it wasn’t possible before, now it is. Albeit somewhat indirectly.

ПОДПИШИСЬ НА НАШ ЯНДЕКС.ДЗЕН, ЧТОБЫ ЧИТАТЬ ЭКСКЛЮЗИВНЫЕ СТАТЬИ, КОТОРЫЕ НЕ ПОПАДАЮТ НА САЙТ

Unfortunately, myself Qiwi service for contactless payment didn’t work anyway. That is, you can’t pay from his account by choosing it as the default payment method even on Android. However, the service began to issue its own cards of the Mir payment system, which can be linked to other services and pay for purchases already with their help, using only a smartphone for this.

How to get a Qiwi card

To bind map World from Qiwi, it needs to be released first. The service offers two types of cards. The first is the most common, physical, and the second is virtual, which is issued instantly. The most convenient, of course, will be a virtual machine, because it costs less, and you can get it immediately after payment. However, for your convenience, I will show you how to release both.

First, let’s figure out how issue a physical card. I deliberately call it physical, not plastic, because there is no plastic in the card. It’s made from recycled corn – eco-friendly and all that:

• Run qiwi app on Android;
• Open the “Maps” tab and select the corn physical map World;

A physical card costs more than a virtual one and a half times

• Fill in your full name, indicate the delivery address and choose delivery by Russian Post (it will be free, unlike courier);
• Pay for the issue of the card from your Qiwi account or from another linked card and wait for it to arrive.

ПОДКЛЮЧАЙСЯ К ТЕЛЕГРАМ-КАНАЛУ СУНДУК АЛИБАБЫ И ПОКУПАЙ ТОЛЬКО ЛУЧШИЕ ТОВАРЫ С АЛИЭКСПРЕСС

Release virtual map of the World from Qiwi even easier. Due to the fact that it is not named and is delivered immediately to the application, you do not have to specify any data:

• Launch the Qiwi application on your smartphone;
• Go to the “Maps” tab and select the virtual map World;

Virtual card is cheaper and more convenient

• Confirm the card issuance and go to the payment page;
• Pay for the issue of the Mir card, and at the same time you can start using it.

Pay Qiwi from your phone

Now you can add the issued card to any of the two payment services that you have on your smartphone: Samsung Pay or Mir Pay. You can read about how to do this in this article. It describes in detail the process of linking a card, regardless of the format of its release, as well as possible problems that you may encounter and how to fix them.

Add a Qiwi card to Mir Pay and pay by phone contactless

Pay purchases with a Mir card from the Qiwi service using a phone in Russia is possible without restrictions. Since the transactions are carried out by the National Payment System, your payments will be accepted in all stores where there is a contactless payment terminal. Therefore, there will be no problems with the reception of problems at home. Another thing is that abroad you may not even accept the card itself, not to mention paying by phone.

ПОДПИСЫВАЙСЯ НА НАШ ЧАТИК В ТЕЛЕГРАМЕ И ЗАДАВАЙ ЛЮБЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ ПО ТЕМЕ АНДРОИД

In general, other shortcomings in World maps from Qiwi no. Unless someone may be confused by the conditions, but I will not bring them here. In the end, the article is not about the card as such – you can read about it on the relevant resources – but about how to use contactless payment services. And since all the conditions are specified when registering in the Qiwi application, I no longer see the point in dwelling on this.