Malaysian travellers can now use their preferred mobile banking or eWallet app to scan the QR code for participating merchants in Indonesia, Singapore, or Thailand using the QRIS (Indonesia), NETS (Singapore), or PromptPay (Thailand) services, and vice versa, as announced by DuitNow on their official website.
By scanning the DuitNow QR code while in Malaysia, visitors from these nations can now purchase and make payments with their supported mobile banking and eWallet apps as well.
Many of us may not be aware that Malaysia and Indonesia just announced a cross border QR payment link.Malaysias @BNM_official and Bank Indonesia both announced the commercial launch today.Yesterday, I tried using our DuitNow to pay in Jakarta, it was seamless! Now I can pic.twitter.com/PuzNQ1JsGx
— Norman Goh (@imnormgoh) May 8, 2023
One Malaysian has tested it while shopping in Indonesia and it worked rather seamlessly, according to him. "Many of us may not be aware that Malaysia and Indonesia just announced a cross border QR payment link," he stated. "Yesterday, I tried using our DuitNow to pay in Jakarta, it was seamless! Now I can spend in Indonesia using Malaysian e-wallets."
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