[Dries007]

In Belgium since last summer you have to accept at least 1 form of digital payment system. Some places try to bypass it by only accepting some obscure creditcards. Most places that didn't accept card now also accept payment via the app Payconiq, which has lower fees than card payments, but uses the same network.

It also became illegal to add fees for using cards or refusing cards for small amounts. It's also still legally mandated to accept cash btw, although you're not obliged to offer change.

Our terminals have slowly evolved to support NFC cards and payment systems such as Apple/Google Pay, but those are rarely used here in my experience. I think it's because those systems are generally blocked here by credit card providers, plus we tend to prefer to use debit cards instead.

Source: https://economie.fgov.be/en/themes/sales/payments/obligation...