Residents of the Volgograd region began to pay more often by QR code n
According to the Bank of Russia, the average check increased by 18% and reached 1.3 thousand rubles.
In the Volgograd region, the popularity of payment for purchases using QR codes is growing. From January to June 2026, residents of the region paid in this way for more than 33.5 billion rubles. - 17% more than a year earlier.
In general, residents of the region made more than 240 million payments for contactless technologies and services, a third more often than last year. The total amount of purchases increased by 7.5% and amounted to 2.5 trillion rubles.
At the same time, as in Russia as a whole, Volgograd residents began to pay less with bank cards. In the first half of 2026, more than 388 million transactions worth almost 300 billion rubles were carried out on the cards, which is 5.6% less than in the same period last year. Cash withdrawals, on the contrary, grew by almost 3%, exceeding 202 billion rubles.
In small settlements of the region, the service “cash at the checkout” is still in demand, allowing you to get money directly when paying for a purchase in a store or at a gas station.
According to Roman Rakhmatulin, head of the Volgograd branch of the Southern State Bank of Russia, in the first half of 2026, residents and guests of the region turned to this service more than 200 thousand times and received more than 390 million rubles.
To use the service, you need to inform the cashier of the required amount, pay for the purchase with a card - the cost of the goods will be written off from the account at the same time - and the requested cash. For one operation, you can withdraw no more than 5 thousand rubles, per month - no more than 30 thousand rubles.
Cash at the checkout service helps to increase the availability of financial services in the region. In the first half of 2026, this figure was 80% – it takes into account the development of the infrastructure of non-cash payments and the ability to receive financial services remotely.
Now in the Volgograd region there are 1781 ATMs and about 54.5 thousand electronic terminals for non-cash payment in retail outlets and the service sector. Over the year, the number of terminals grew by 1.2%, and the number of bank cards decreased by 4% compared to the first half of 2025.
