In recent years, there are not a few friends who have gone to Germany to study, work or travel. So when buying things in Germany, what kind of card should you use in addition to cash payment? Let’s take a look with the editor.

What cards can be used to pay for things in Germany

VISA and MASTER are basically supported.

The best single-label chip credit card. Dual-label cards are definitely not chip-based, which means they cannot be used on automatic checkout machines and payment machines, and it takes a long time to find manual settlement.

UnionPay can only be used in some stores targeting Chinese group customers, such as outlets. It's basically impossible to move forward.

Most of the students’ party-run VISAMASTER have to go through the parents and ask the parents to apply for it, and then apply for a supplementary card for their children. There is no intermediary fee, but ordinary low-end credit cards will offer you gifts, points and other preferential measures to apply for the card. There is no need for high-end cards, and there is an annual fee at most.

In addition, do not use other people's cards to swipe. When you swipe a card in Europe, you will be randomly checked to see if your identity is consistent with the person who swiped the card.

1. Visa/Mastercard credit cards are more commonly used, and single-label chip cards are better. It is recommended to use single-label credit cards of VISA or MasterCard;

2. UnionPay can be used in few places, and mobile payment is rarely seen.

3. Apply for your parents’ credit card supplementary card. Don't listen to the intermediary fees for applying for a credit card. When applying for a credit card, you have to ask the bank for gifts, so there is no reason to discount them.

4. If you don’t have a credit card, you can withdraw cash in Germany with your UnionPay card.

5. Anyone with agency fees is a rogue agency, so don’t get involved.

Mobile payment is rare in foreign countries. Foreigners think wow with ApplePay on iPhone. It is not a technical problem, but mainly a problem of opening up various financial channels for settlement.

UnionPay, Alipay, and WeChat are not accepted. Please bring your own visa or master.