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Doha, Qatar: The point of sale and e-commerce transactions in Qatar witnessed impressive growth in December last year. The total value of transactions registered in Qatar through point of sale (POS) terminals and e-commerce platforms saw a surge of around 7.4 percent in December 2025 compared to same month in 2024 reaching QR14.667bn, according to the latest card payment statistics.
In a post on its X platform recently, Qatar Central Bank (QCB) revealed that the value of e-commerce transactions amounted to QR4.744bn with a total volume of 11.770 million transactions. Meanwhile point of sale transactions recorded a total value of approximately QR9.923bn with a transaction volume of 50.709 million in December last year.
The point of sale solution provides innovative, secure, and highly efficient payment processing services as it supports contactless card transactions, eWallet, mobile PoS (mPOS), QR code scanner, and online billing and settlement.
According to Instant Transfer System Statistics for December 2025, the instant payment system – Fawran service saw 3.614 million total registered accounts with the total value of QR5.092bn and total volume of 3.187 million transactions.
The statistics also noted that in December last year the Qatar Mobile Payment registered a total of 1.270 million wallets. The total value amounted to QR329.963m with the volume of around 521,567 transactions.
The Qatar Mobile Payment is QCB’s instant national interoperable switch for mobile payment services, connecting all licensed mobile payment service providers in the country.
The solution provides a new and secure means for instant payment to allow payment services and instant money transfers through smartphones around the clock through digital wallets which are registered on the QMP system for the purpose of financial exchanges between electronic wallets through payment service providers licensed in the
country.
In the same context, Qatar Central Bank stated that the total value of transactions across various payment systems reached QR 20.089bn during December last year with a total volume of QR66.188 million transactions.
The post also highlighted the share of each payment channel including point of sale transactions which accounted for 49 percent, e-commerce for 24 percent, mobile payment systems accounted for 2 percent, and the ‘Fawran’ instant payment service for 25 percent.
Fawran is an innovative and advanced service aligned with the Third Financial Sector Strategic Plan. This service comes as part of QCB’s ongoing efforts to develop the payment systems infrastructure and keep pace with the latest developments in the field of electronic payment systems and money transfer.
