{"id":462324,"date":"2026-08-13T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T09:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/08\/13\/eurozona-il-contante-resta-il-metodo-di-pagamento-principale\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T10:34:07","slug":"eurozone-cash-still-the-top-payment-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/08\/13\/eurozone-cash-still-the-top-payment-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone: cash still the top payment method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels \u2013 In the euro area, cash remains the most widely accepted payment method,&nbsp;according to the European Central Bank\u2019s survey on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/press\/use-of-cash\/html\/ecb.uccea202608.en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Use of coins and banknotes<\/a>.&nbsp; In 2026, 92 per cent of retail outlets, caf\u00e9s, restaurants, hotels, cinemas and museums reported receiving and accepting cash payments. This figure marks a slight increase compared with 2024 (90 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;The acceptance of card payments remained broadly stable at 88 per cent between 2024 and 2026, while over the same period the acceptance of mobile payments rose sharply from 36 per cent to 68 per cent of businesses. \u201cOverall,<strong> cash is the most widely accepted payment method in the euro area<\/strong>\u201d, the survey highlights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ECB also notes that \u201c25 per cent of companies in the euro area report having implemented measures to encourage the use of digital payments.\u201d These measures include investing in tills that accept cashless payments or reducing the number of tills that accept cash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ECB published the results of its survey on the use of coins and banknotes, which are accepted by 92 percent of retail businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":247030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,25774],"tags":[26112,26151,25828,29766],"class_list":["post-462324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-in-brief","tag-bce-en","tag-bank-central-en-en","tag-eurozone-en","tag-payments-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462325,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462324\/revisions\/462325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}