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by tamirzb 24 days ago
This is already an issue for tourists in many countries that have their own payment system (e.g. Brazil, India, Singapore, Thailand). In some of them you have companies that came up with products for tourists that allow them to pay but they usually come with fees. From what I know the majority of tourists in these countries just travel with cash.
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I've never had a problem paying with cards in Singapore or Thailand, although it's been a few years since I've been to Thailand.
Cards are accepted everywhere in Brazil, including all foreign cards. For Thailand it used to be the same, and I doubt they have regressed.
anecdotally, a lot of argentina's apps that have a similar system "had" to develop an interop with brazil's PIX as a feature, ideally an endgame would be for these systems (wero, pix, other countries') to all standardize and integrate each other. would love something like that.
I had that issue in India and it was definitely annoying.