Despite a growth of forty percent compared to last year is iDeal, still less used than credit slip and Chip. Now are there per month to eight million payments made through the Dutch onlinebetaalsysteem.
The use of iDeal growing since the beginning steadily and in June, the milestone of eight million transactions for the first time, exceeded, according to figures from Currence. The number of transactions per month since two years about doubled. In June 2009, there were 3.7 million transactions carried out. The payment system iDeal is an initiative of the Dutch banks.
The system began in 2005 and is now used in 56 percent of payments in webshops. About 90 percent of the web stores offers iDeal as a payment method. The onlinebetaalsysteem is still used much less than the Chip card. With that Chip, mainly used at parking machines and canteens of enterprises and schools, to be fourteen million transactions per month performed. Also, the bill is still more used: 11.5 million times per month.