Guides to PromptPay and paying by QR in Thailand
Thailand runs on QR codes. Each guide here answers one question about it: what PromptPay is, how to get a code of your own, what the slip in the group chat actually proves, and what to do when seven people had dinner and one person paid. Bank apps change their menus; what is written here is the part that does not.
PromptPay guides
- What PromptPay is, and why everything in Thailand is a QR code PromptPay is how Thailand transfers money: a phone number or an ID number instead of an account number, instant, and free between banks for ordinary transfers. What it is, what it is not, and what you need to use it.
- How to create your own PromptPay QR code Make a QR code people can scan to pay you: what goes into it, static versus with an amount, where to get one, and how to make it recognisable so nobody pays the wrong person.
- A PromptPay QR code with your face on it Ten QR codes in your gallery look identical. Put a face or a shop logo in the middle and anyone can see who they are paying before they pay. How it works and why the code still scans.
- Splitting a bill with PromptPay, without chasing anybody Seven people, one receipt, one person who paid. How to split it so everybody gets their own QR code with their own amount, without an app for the others and without doing the arithmetic twice.
- How to read a Thai payment slip The screenshot somebody sends to prove they paid: what each line on it means, which parts matter, and what a slip does and does not prove.
- How to check whether a payment slip is real Fake and reused slips are the most common small fraud in Thailand. How to tell, what to check first, and why your own account statement is the only answer that counts.
- PromptPay as a foreigner in Thailand Can you use PromptPay without a Thai ID card? What you can do with a tourist phone and what needs a bank account, and how to pay a Thai QR code from abroad.
- PromptPay limits and fees What you pay to transfer by PromptPay, where the limits come from, and why your daily limit is a setting in your own app rather than a rule of the system.
- Taking PromptPay payments in a small shop Taking QR payments in a shop: a printed code on the counter, how customers know it is yours, what to check before handing over the goods, and keeping the day's payments in order.
- PromptPay with Kasikornbank How PromptPay works with Kasikornbank: registering an identifier, where the QR code lives in K PLUS, what a KBank slip looks like, and how to use the code outside the app.
- PromptPay with SCB PromptPay at Siam Commercial Bank: registering an identifier, finding your QR in SCB EASY, reading a purple SCB slip, and using your code outside the app.
- PromptPay with Bangkok Bank PromptPay at Bangkok Bank: registering your identifier, your QR code in the Bualuang app, what a Bangkok Bank slip shows, and keeping the code where you can use it.
- PromptPay with Krungthai Bank PromptPay at Krungthai Bank: registering an identifier, your QR in Krungthai NEXT, how a KTB slip reads, and why so many state payments run through this bank.
- PromptPay with ttb PromptPay at TMBThanachart: registering an identifier after the merger, your QR in ttb touch, reading a ttb slip, and using the code outside the app.
- PromptPay with Krungsri PromptPay at Krungsri: registering an identifier, your QR code in the KMA app, reading a yellow Krungsri slip, and using the code wherever you need it.
- PromptPay with the Government Savings Bank PromptPay at GSB, ธนาคารออมสิน: registering an identifier, your QR in MyMo, reading a GSB slip, and why so many state and savings payments run through this account.
Make your own PromptPay QR
Your code with your photo on it, so friends can see who they are paying. Free, in the browser, and it works with every Thai bank.
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