QR Code Offering

QR code offerings place QR codes next to offering boxes at shrines and temples, allowing worshippers to make cashless donations by scanning with their smartphones. Because the amount is entered in a QR code payment app, there is no need to prepare small change.

As fewer people carry cash, some shrines and temples provide a cashless route for offerings. Handling less cash lightens the work of storing and counting it. At the same time, some worshippers feel that an offering should be made in cash, so the cash offering box is kept in place and the two methods run side by side.

Before adopting it, settle the payment fees to be borne and how long it takes for the money to arrive, as well as which account receives it and how it is recorded in the books. Where the code is posted outdoors, rain and sunlight can fade it until it can no longer be read, so plan a routine of checking its condition and replacing it. When worshippers gather in large numbers, as at the start of the year, the network can be congested and a payment may not go through, so keep accepting cash alongside it.