{"id":2118,"date":"2016-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T23:49:13","slug":"more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/news\/more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas\/","title":{"rendered":"25% more debit card payments before Sinterklaas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-intro-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the run-up to Sinterklaas, shoppers made 23.4% more debit card payments than on normal days. On the final two Sundays before 5 December, they made almost 45% more debit card payments each day than on normal Sundays.<\/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\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_512031775.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sinterklaas in red miter and tabard looks seriously at a tablet and operates the screen against a white background.\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_512031775.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_512031775-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_512031775-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Sinterklaas shopping started three days earlier this year than last year, purchases were spread over a longer period. The daily record on Saturday 3 December, at almost 15 million debit card payments, was more than 7% higher than last year\u2019s daily record. At the busiest point on the record day, 463 debit card payments per second were processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-nederlanders-hebben-black-friday-ontdekt\">The Netherlands discovers Black Friday<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday 25 November, the American Black Friday, the number of debit card payments was already visibly higher at 16% above the previous week. Shopping gathered pace on Saturday 26 November, with transaction volumes more than 20% above those on a normal Saturday. Since Black Friday, almost 115 million debit card payments have been made, representing nearly \u20ac3.2 billion in turnover for retailers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-online-aankopen-met-ideal-stijgen-nog-harder\">Online purchases with iDEAL rise even faster<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After adjusting for the additional days, 27% more iDEAL payments were made during the two weeks before Sinterklaas this year than last year. The effect of Black Friday was also clearly visible in iDEAL payments: all records were broken on Friday 25 November, with almost 1.5 million transactions in a single day, more than 75% above a normal Friday. Since Monday 21 November, a total of 14.3 million iDEAL payments worth almost \u20ac1.1 billion have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debit card payments rose by almost a quarter in the run-up to Sinterklaas, while iDEAL payments increased by 27% compared with the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2122,"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-2118","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>25% more debit card payments before Sinterklaas - Dutch Payments Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lees over de spectaculaire stijging van pinbetalingen voor Sinterklaas, met bijna 15 miljoen transacties op een recorddag.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/news\/more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"25% more debit card payments before Sinterklaas\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lees over de spectaculaire stijging van pinbetalingen voor Sinterklaas, met bijna 15 miljoen transacties op een recorddag.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/news\/more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dutch Payments Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-12-05T23:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-06T23:49:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_512031775.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@NLbetalen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@NLbetalen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\\\/en\\\/news\\\/more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\\\/en\\\/news\\\/more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"25% more debit card payments before Sinterklaas\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-12-05T23:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-06T23:49:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\\\/en\\\/news\\\/more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":236,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\\\/en\\\/news\\\/more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\\\/en\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/4\\\/2016\\\/12\\\/shutterstock_512031775.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\\\/en\\\/news\\\/more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.betaalvereniging.nl\\\/en\\\/news\\\/more-debit-card-payments-before-sinterklaas\\\/\",\"name\":\"25% more debit card payments before Sinterklaas - 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