Reports about Lidl plans: Customers in the discounter could possibly pay soon

Pay by card or cash, so far so good.

At Lidl, however, according to a report, there could soon be a third way to settle your bill.

Many like to pay by

card *

when shopping

, others with

cash.

This will not change in the future either.

According to a report, customers at

the

discounter Lidl

may soon be able to

settle their bills

with an

additional payment function

at the checkout: As the

food newspaper

(as of March 30) reported, the so-called

Lidl Pay is

“about to be introduced in Germany”.

In a

test branch in the Heilbronn area

, the payment function of the “loyalty app” has already been activated, such as

food newspaper.net

keep writing.

However, the function should only be advertised when it is available throughout Germany, the report also says, in which a specific schedule is not specified.

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This is how the payments with Lidl Pay should work

This is how the

payment option via app could

look like: “The account connection IBAN and the address are sufficient for registration”, is how

food newspaper.net

describes

the possible procedure.

"Unlike

Lidl Pay

in Spain and Poland, where a credit card is used for bills, the Neckarsulmer in Germany work with debiting the current account via

SEPA direct debit

." The portal also reports that the payment service provider is Lidl Digital Trading GmbH & Co. KG .

Payment by smartphone can already be tried out

in the “

first pilot branch

”: “After the function was previously only available in an in-house test version of the Lidl Plus app, it can now also be used in the regular app store version Find.

In the current rollout phase, however, the function is only displayed at branch level: where it can already be used at the cash register. "

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Pay via the app at the checkout?

This is how it should work

According to

the

food

newspaper report, a “test purchase” shows

“that

the app installation process

and

handling at the checkout are

uncomplicated

”.

The payment process does not run fully automatically, however, according to

food

magazine.net

: “Customers who

have installed

Lidl Pay

have to

actively confirm

the

payment function

at the checkout

.

Communication with the cash register is the same as when booking purchases and redeeming coupons via a

QR code

on the

mobile phone screen

, which the customer briefly scans. "

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The respective

limit for the direct debit procedure

for existing customers depends on the purchase history in the branches or when shopping online, according to

Chip.de

about the scenario described.

"

Customers without a history apparently have a fixed limit of 50 euros when they shop for the first time, which must not be exceeded," says the portal.

“With every purchase made via Lidl Pay, the limit is increased in a row.” Lidl is currently

testing

the new payment method at the checkout, it says on

Chip..de:

Customers can already use the new “Lidl Pay “to pay for their purchases;

further branches could, as the report says, “soon” follow.

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