{"id":269571,"date":"2025-12-25T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=269571"},"modified":"2025-12-25T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:52:23","slug":"universal-cashback-on-non-cash-payments-with-arca-cards-is-being-introduced-in-armenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2025\/12\/25\/269571\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal cashback on non-cash payments with ArCa cards is being introduced in Armenia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 25. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>At a meeting on Thursday, the Armenian government approved measures and procedures for providing cashback on non-cash payments made by individuals through the Armenian Card (ArCa) national payment system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to RA Finance Minister Vahe Hovhannisyan, the project provides for a 2% cashback on non-cash payments (for goods and services) made with ArCa cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This initiative is primarily aimed at stimulating non-cash transactions in Armenia and increasing consumer awareness of modern financial instruments and technologies,&#8221; Hovhannisyan noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, the project will be implemented in a pilot mode from January 1 until the end of 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister added that cashback will be transferred to consumers automatically on a monthly basis until the 25th of the following month. &#8220;The cashback will apply to transactions worth 1,000 drams or more, and will amount to no more than 6,000 drams per transaction, with a total monthly amount of no more than 60,000 drams. Fifty percent of the cashback amount will be paid from the state budget, and the remaining 50% through the ArCa payment system,&#8221; Hovhannisyan said. ($1 = 381.46 drams).-0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a meeting on Thursday, the Armenian government approved measures and procedures for providing cashback on non-cash payments made by individuals through the Armenian Card (ArCa) national payment system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":269567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12315,9214,9216],"tags":[15782,12688,15589],"class_list":{"0":"post-269571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announces","8":"category-banks-en-en","9":"category-news","10":"tag-arca-2","11":"tag-armenia-analyst-inflation","12":"tag-armenian-card-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}