Quarterly adoption of mobile payments at POS in Italy 2018-2023
Between 2018 and 2023, the usage of mobiles at point of sale in Italy witnessed an increase of eight percentage points. In 2018, the share of respondents using mobile payments at POS stood at seven percent, which increased to 15 percent in the third quarter of 2023. This is according to a question asked throughout multiple surveys from Statista's Consumer Insights. The numbers shown here refer to a rolling 12-month share of respondents who indicated they used a mobile payment device — smartphones, but also smartwatches — in offline shopping areas, such as stores or restaurants.