In the second quarter of 2019, BLIK users completed almost 50 million transactions, and in the entire first half of this year, nearly 90 million transactions were made – i.e. as many as in the record-breaking 2018.
BLIK is becoming an increasingly popular payment tool. According to the declaration of this year’s Omni-commerce survey, BLIK mobile payments are considered by buyers to be the most convenient form of online payment.
BLIK closed the second quarter of 2019 with increases and transaction records in all channels. Nearly 35 million transactions made when shopping online, which is over 70 percent. all transactions. The second most popular way to use BLIK are withdrawals from ATMs – at that time there were 6 million of them (12% of all BLIK transactions). Payments in traditional terminals were as high as 5 million (almost twice as much as in the first quarter), users also made 3.6 million transfers to the BLIK telephone number.
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– Poles love BLIK and still – from quarter to quarter – use it more and more often. We closed the first half of the year with a transaction level comparable to that of the entire previous year. It is nearly 90 million transactions – says Dariusz Mazurkiewicz, president of the Polish Payment Standard, operator of the BLIK payment system – on the Internet BLIK is also regularly chosen by users more often than payment cards. This trend continues, which is confirmed by NBP data – he adds.
Quarter-to-quarter, the number of online BLIK payments increased by 16%. Year on year, the increase was as much as 168%. The second most popular channel for BLIK are withdrawals and deposits from ATMs. Their increase is 28 percent. compared to the first quarter and 73 percent. Every year. The number of payments in traditional payment terminals has also increased spectacularly. There were 79 percent of them. more than in the first three months of this year and by as much as 363 percent. more than in the same period last year. Transfers to a phone number were 38 percent. more quarter-on-quarter and 265 percent. more than in the same period last year.
In the second quarter, Poles performed an average of 545,000 jobs. daily BLIK transactions. On the best day of the quarter, there were 759 thousand. transaction – this is the best single day in BLIK’s history. The average amount of BLIK transactions in this period was PLN 131.
– BLIK is currently available to virtually all mobile banking users in Poland. We are glad that our solution was also delivered to the clients of cooperative banks from the SGB Group at the end of the quarter. It is important that cooperative banking reaches for the best payment innovations. Thanks to this, BLIK is available to customers even from the smallest towns – emphasizes Dariusz Mazurkiewicz. – We still see great potential in developing the possibilities offered by BLIK. We are working intensively to enable BLIK payments on foreign websites that Poles are eager to use – he sums up.
Thanks to BLIK, millions of Poles can safely and conveniently, using a smartphone, pay online and in traditional stores, withdraw cash from ATMs and transfer money immediately to other users without knowing their bank account. BLIK is one of the fastest, most convenient and safest payment methods in online and mobile stores.
source: press release of the Polish Payment Standard
