PostFinance Pay

Online payments made easy

Whether it’s buying a train ticket, paying for your favourite subscription or shopping spontaneously online: with PostFinance Pay, you can make your payments quickly and easily. All you need is your PostFinance App.

Download the PostFinance App

Scan the QR code with your smartphone and download the PostFinance App directly from the App Store or Google Play.

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Pay conveniently and securely with PostFinance Pay

  • Pay quickly and securely in Swiss online shops

  • Approve payments directly in the PostFinance App 

  • Keep your spending under control at all times thanks to individually defined limits

  • Manage subscriptions and recurring payments easily

  • Never have to enter card details again

  • Collect SmartPoints in the bonus programme with every purchase

What’s changing

PostFinance Pay makes online payment even easier. Instead of having to use different payment methods, in future you’ll be able to pay for and confirm your purchases conveniently in one place – directly in the PostFinance App.

This means you benefit from a simpler, consistent payment experience: payments can be approved quickly, recurring purchases and subscriptions can be conveniently managed and card details don’t have to be entered again for every purchase.

To make online payments, you’ll need a PostFinance account and the PostFinance App, where you can log in quickly and securely – also with Face ID or fingerprint.

Don’t have the PostFinance App yet?

Download the PostFinance App to your smartphone with just a few taps and keep making payments easily online in future. After a transitional period, it will only be possible to pay for online purchases using the PostFinance App.

With PostFinance Pay, you can pay for online purchases quickly and securely directly via the PostFinance App.

Pay with your smartphone

  1. Select PostFinance Pay as your payment method in the online shop.
  2. The PostFinance App opens automatically.
  3. Log in and check the payment details.
  4. Confirm the payment in the app.

Paying on your computer

  1. Select PostFinance Pay as your payment method in the online shop.
  2. Scan the displayed QR code with the PostFinance App.
  3. Log in and check the payment details.
  4. Confirm the payment in the app.

Set up PostFinance Pay

For new customers

To use PostFinance Pay, you need the PostFinance App.

  1. Download the PostFinance App.
  2. Log in with your e-finance login.
  3. When making your next online purchase, select PostFinance Pay and confirm the payment.
  4. PostFinance Pay is set up after the first successful payment.

For existing PostFinance Card users

  1. Select PostFinance Pay as your payment method in the online shop.
  2. Confirm the first payment in the PostFinance App.
  3. You can then approve future payments conveniently in the app.

Store PostFinance Pay for future purchases

  1. You can save PostFinance Pay for future purchases in selected online shops.
  2. Select PostFinance Pay when paying.
  3. Save PostFinance Pay for future purchases.
  4. PostFinance Pay will be recognized automatically the next time you make a purchase.
  5. Confirm the payment conveniently in the PostFinance App.

PostFinance Pay is free of charge. You need the PostFinance App to use it.

PostFinance Pay Subscriber Conditions (PDF) (PDF) The link will open in a new window

  • Online shops are being switched over to PostFinance Pay in coordination with those partners who are making the digital checkout solution available to retailers.

  • You use the PostFinance App to authenticate online payments.

  • During a parallel phase, all three payment methods will be available in the online shop. After that, the payment methods “PostFinance Card” and “PostFinance e-finance” will be deactivated in the online shop. From this point onwards, online payments will no longer be possible without the PostFinance App.

  • Yes, this is still possible providing the online shop offers this as an option.

  • To use PostFinance Pay, you need the PostFinance App and an active e-finance login.

  • PostFinance Pay is available as a payment method in participating Swiss online shops.

  • Payments are approved directly in the PostFinance App. Depending on the device, the app opens automatically or you scan a QR code.

  • No, use of PostFinance Pay is free of charge.

  • Yes, as long as the PostFinance App is set up on the device in question.

  • For payments on your computer, you need a device with the PostFinance App installed to scan the QR code and approve the payment.

  • Yes. You can store PostFinance Pay in selected online shops and pay even faster for future purchases.

  • Every payment is checked and confirmed via the PostFinance App. This means you can keep control of your payments at all times.

  • Yes, PostFinance Pay can be stored for recurring payments and subscriptions in online shops.

  • Existing users can gradually switch to PostFinance Pay and benefit from a simpler payment process and additional functions.

  • The standard limits are set at 10,000 francs a day and 15,000 francs a month. These limits can be modified in e-finance and increased to a maximum of 15,000 francs a day and 20,000 francs a month.