{"id":8806,"date":"2026-10-20T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/docs\/twint-payment-method\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T08:08:06","password":"","slug":"twint-payment-method","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/twint-payment-method\/","title":{"rendered":"TWINT and TWINT \u00abpay later\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWINT is the most widely used way to pay by smartphone in Switzerland. With 1pay.ch you activate it with one click, online and in person.<\/p>\n<h2>Activating TWINT<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <strong>Payment providers<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Configure<\/strong> next to <strong>Pay<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click the TWINT icon to activate it and save.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>From then on, TWINT appears on all your payment pages.<\/p>\n<h2>What you can do with TWINT<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>One-off payments, subscriptions, pre-authorisations and tokenisation.<\/li>\n<li>Full and partial refunds (the amount must be rounded to 5 centimes).<\/li>\n<li>Amounts from CHF 0.50 to CHF 20&#8217;000.- per payment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How the customer pays<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Online<\/strong>: they choose TWINT on the payment page, scan the QR code with the app (or open the app on their phone) and confirm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>At the counter<\/strong>: with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/qr-pay-code\/\">QR Pay<\/a> code that the TWINT app can scan directly, or with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/pos-terminals\/\">POS terminal<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs\/tap-to-pay-android\/\">Tap to Pay<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>TWINT \u00abpay later\u00bb<\/h2>\n<p>With this option the customer chooses in the TWINT app, when paying, whether to pay immediately or within 30 days. You receive the money as with a normal payment. It is available in all 1pay.ch plans.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The person must be at least 31 years old.<\/li>\n<li>Some sectors are excluded from this option: we will tell you when you apply.<\/li>\n<li>TWINT must already be active with the Pay provider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>To activate it:<\/strong> write to us at <a href=\"mailto:info@1pay.ch\">info@1pay.ch<\/a>. We forward the request, and after TWINT&#8217;s check you receive confirmation by e-mail. It usually takes 3 to 7 working days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWINT is the most widely used way to pay by smartphone in Switzerland. With 1pay.ch you activate it with one click, online and in person. Activating TWINT Go to Payment providers. Click Configure next to Pay. Click the TWINT icon to activate it and save. From then on, TWINT appears on all your payment pages. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[202],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-8806","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-payment-methods"],"acf":[],"year_month":"2026-11","word_count":239,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"1pay.ch","author_nicename":"1pay_admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/author\/1pay_admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Payment methods","term_url":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/docs-category\/payment-methods\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9652,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/8806\/revisions\/9652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1pay.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}