{"id":1534,"date":"2020-12-06T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:52:07","slug":"quiet-sinterklaas-day-debit-card-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/news\/quiet-sinterklaas-day-debit-card-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"A quiet Sinterklaas Day for debit card payments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-intro-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">At Dutch retail checkouts, Sinterklaas Day in this COVID-19 year was no busier than an ordinary Saturday in September. The number of debit card payments in retail was less than 5% higher.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_512031775.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sinterklaas in traditional red miter and cloak looks intently at a tablet, as if he is ordering digitally or arranging his banking affairs.\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_512031775.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_512031775-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_512031775-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sinterklaas visited bookshops (+40%) and markets (+40%) particularly often. For fashion and clothing, he probably placed most of his orders online, as debit card payments at physical fashion and clothing shops were down 30%. The Friday before Sinterklaas Day was also no busier at debit card checkouts than a normal Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the shopping days around Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Sinterklaas were an estimated 10% busier than comparable ordinary weekdays. Compared with the same days in 2019, however, the number of debit card payments was 5% lower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-much-higher-online-spending-offers-little-consolation\">Much higher online spending offers little consolation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sinterklaas turned to online shops much more often. During the shopping days, he made an estimated 35% more iDEAL payments than on ordinary weekdays, for an amount around 65% higher. Compared with the previous year, Sinterklaas bought from online shops around 50% more often and spent 30% more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sinterklaas\u2019s total spending by debit card and iDEAL during all shopping days was an estimated 10% higher than a year earlier, but this offers little consolation to high-street retailers. The number of cash payments in Dutch shops has fallen by around one third since the previous year, and Sinterklaas buys around 30% of his gifts online from foreign retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinterklaas Day was no busier at Dutch retail checkouts than an ordinary September Saturday, while online spending rose sharply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"btv_subject_tax":[16,17],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","btv_subject_tax-card-payments","btv_subject_tax-online-payments"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin  - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pinbetalingen op Sinterklaasdag tijdens corona: cijfers - Dutch Payments Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ontdek de pinbetalingen op Sinterklaasdag tijdens corona. 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